Labour and skills shortages are among the most pressing challenges that manufacturers face today. Access to a large, high-quality workforce is critical for manufacturing to be successful. In this article, Greg James, Regional Sales Manager – Festo Didactic Ltd. shines some light onto what is being done in Canada to help ensure there are enough skilled workers available to keep the factory of the future running.
Together with its partners and customers, Siemens is driving the digital transformation of economies through its open digital business platform Siemens Xcelerator, launched on June 29, 2022. The platform consists of a comprehensive, curated portfolio; a powerful ecosystem of partners and a marketplace for customers, partners and developers and strives to make digitalization easier, faster and at scale. Today, Siemens announced two new partnerships related to the Siemens Xcelerator platform.
Recently, the official launch of the Smartflower Microgrid (MG) marked another milestone for the future of green technology in Saskatchewan. The Saskatoon Industry Education Council (SIEC) and Siemens Canada welcomed dignitaries and guests to a launch event at Bishop James Mahoney High School in Saskatoon. The Smartflower MG is now powering classrooms and providing real-time data on electricity production and energy absorption.
Omron has an exciting product offering for predictive maintenance solutions that allow the user to monitor the health of various types of equipment. This equipment condition monitoring allows for prediction of equipment failure, such that the necessary service can be performed and unplanned downtime avoided. Watch this video to learn more about Omron’s Predictive Maintenance Product offerings.
The new MX7 ULTRA can manufacture large volumes of endmills and other cutting tools of the highest accuracy and quality. The minute size of a micron is beyond the human eye, but in becoming even more precise and moving from micrometers to nanometers, ANCA will offer the highest accuracy and quality in a cutting tool in the market.
The MS TVO15 (Donkey) is MAXOLUTION’s Canadian assembled and configured UL/CSA certified Autonomous Guided Vehicle (AGV). It has an impressive load capacity of 500 to 2000 Kg and draws its primary and continuous source of power from an inductive charging line (MOVITRANS®) concealed beneath the floor, which also serves as a navigation route in both dirty and wet environments.
Live Registration Is Open to German Technology Day. If you have pre-registered or are registering, please click here for the Oct 20 event in Toronto, and click here to register for the Nov 3 Montreal event! Fifteen prominent companies in automation and advanced manufacturing, based in Canada with their headquarters in Germany, are hosting Canada’s fourth series of German Technology Days.
Bosch Rexroth is delighted to announce their plans to expand their operations in Charlotte, NC and move their linear motion and assembly technology customizing facility into a new, build-to-suit location. The 227,000 square foot facility will centralize both the operations and the logistics in Charlotte to improve efficiencies, production, and service levels with positive outcomes for their associates and their customers
By overcoming global supply chain issues through its approach to component sourcing and manufacturing, Universal Robots is currently able to ship orders in just two weeks. One of the shortest lead times in the market. But why is delivery time important for customers and partners? We asked some UR country managers for their perspectives.
Fifteen prominent companies with expertise in automation and advanced manufacturing host this year’s fourth series of German Technology Days on October 20th at Humber College’s Barrett Centre in Etobicoke. A unique showcase of products from the various organizations will be displayed. SEW-EURODRIVE will be there! Enjoy connecting and collaborating with them. Visit them at Booth # 5 on October 20, 2022.
MDA Ltd., a leading provider of advanced technology and services to the rapidly expanding global space industry, recently announced the second commercial sale of its products derived from Canadarm3 technology to Axiom Space.
German Technology Day is expected to be even bigger and better this year. Fifteen prominent companies with expertise in automation and advanced manufacturing will host Canada’s fourth series of German Technology Days on October 20, 2022 at Humber College, Toronto, and on November 3, 2022 at Plaza Centre-Ville in Montreal. These companies are located in Canada with headquarters in Germany.
Festo Didactic, Siemens, and SICK Safety are teaming up at this year’s International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in Chicago. The trio is building awareness around the exciting advancements taking place in industry and technical education. They are hosting a special learning competition at the Smartforce Student Summit to inform and excite young people about the future of manufacturing.
MOVI-C ® is the all-in-one solution for automation tasks. Whether you want to implement standards-based single-axis or multi-axis applications, particularly complex motion control applications or customized automation solutions, MOVI-C ® can help you do all that and give you the scope to achieve optimum automation for new projects.
As technological advancements become common-place and affordable, more industries look to implement motion control and machine vision systems to automate tasks that may be menial and time consuming. Many industries can benefit from automated systems but, the question is, how do they get started? Often, they know what they want to mechanize, but do not have automation experts on staff to make it happen. Mechatronics Canada had the opportunity to talk with Eric Rice, Product Market Manager – Electric Automation at Festo, to discuss a case study where a customer recently chose Festo to help them implement machine vision with a motion control system to automate their industrial application.
Augmenta made headlines recently with an announcement that they have raised US $4.1 million in seed funding to automate building design for the construction industry. Their platform, the Augmenta Construction Platform (ACP), enables contractors and engineers to design fully detailed, code-complaint and constructible designs in hours rather than weeks or months. Mechatronics Canada had an opportunity to speak with Francesco Iorio, CEO and co-founder of Augmenta.