2022 webinars

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Getting to the Greater Good

Getting to the Greater Good

Getting to the Greater Good – Digital Transformation Drives Profitability and Sustainability

At the heart of digital transformation are complex solutions that bring together technologies across multiple companies.  But where is all of this leading?  Certainly individual companies expect to get to ROI from their multiple investments, greater operational flexibility, and the ability to respond more quickly to disruptions.  But there is also a greater good being served – Sustainability.  We will see the effective use of scarce resources, reduced energy consumption, cleaner water, increased reuse, and reduced carbon emissions

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Top 10 Questions to Ask Your Cobot Welding Vendor

Top 10 Questions to Ask Your Cobot Welding Vendor

Top 10 Questions to Ask Your Cobot Welding Vendor

In this webinar, Joe Campbell, Head of Strategic Marketing from Universal Robots, and Josh Pawley, Vice President of Business Development from Vectis Automation, will cover basic considerations when deploying cobots for welding applications, common product configurations and ROI scenarios, and share real case studies of metal fab shops utilizing cobots

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2023 Industrial Automation Trends

2023 Industrial Automation Trends

2023 Industrial Automation Trends

Automation is getting simpler and more complex at the same time. From operating systems, IoT and Industry 4.0 to AMRs, AGVs and other collaborative technologies, we are witnessing change at a very rapid pace. We are seeing more companies turn to automation to increase quality, reduce downtime, address labor challenges and become more flexible in high mix, medium and low volume manufacturing environments

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The Single-Camera Approach

The Single-Camera Approach

The Single-Camera Approach to Addressing Inspection Challenges in the Pharmaceutical and Beverage Industries

Because inspection takes place on features that are randomly located both on the inner and outer sides, along with the top and bottom surfaces, the most common approach is to use multiple cameras to account for all views. However, multiple camera setups are often too bulky to fit within demanding space constraints on the line, and depth- of- field issues arise when imaging at high magnification. Also, in multi-camera systems, many images need to be processed, which might take long elaboration times when dealing with high-end applications. This webinar will cover technological innovations that allow for a single camera to perform complex feature inspection tasks.

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Correcting the Fatal Flaws of Designing

Correcting the Fatal Flaws of Designing

Correcting the Fatal Flaws of Designing and Deploying Automation

We will walk through using software for addressing some of the biggest inefficiencies in designing and deploying industrial robotic cells, using several customer examples.

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Foundational Standards and Open Source

Foundational Standards and Open Source

Foundational Standards and Open Source to Realize the Promise of Industry 4.0

The vision and promise of Industry 4.0 continue to expand and include implementations of workload consolidation and artificial intelligence (AI), while at the same time reducing operating costs and increasing manufacturing flexibility & product quality

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Leveraging AI to Maximize Cobot Efficiency

Leveraging AI to Maximize Cobot Efficiency

Leveraging AI to Maximize Cobot Efficiency

In this webinar, Tim DeGrasse, Senior Channel Development Manager for Universal Robots, will provide examples of AI-powered solutions and discuss the benefits of open interfaces. He will also explore real-life AI applications that are helping cobot users be more competitive by increasing production, decreasing cost, and shortening cycle times.

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EOAT: The Democratization of Gripping

EOAT: The Democratization of Gripping

EOAT: The Democratization of Gripping

End of Arm Tools do the heavy lifting in industrial automation. Designing and choosing EOATs used to be hard and servo EOATs were expensive. All of that has changed. We are in a renaissance for innovative, smart end of arm tools, and robot accessories.

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Deploying Cobots to Fill Your Manufacturing Needs

Deploying Cobots to Fill Your Manufacturing Needs

Deploying Cobots to Fill Your Manufacturing Needs

Manufacturers are finding it difficult to find skilled and unskilled employees. As a result, productivity is constrained. Cobots can perform the tedious tasks, augment your staff, and free them up to perform meaningful, higher value work. Attend this webinar to learn how cobots can fill your labor gaps while freeing up your staff to do more meaningful, higher value work

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Unlock Value-Stream Productivity

Unlock Value-Stream Productivity

Unlock Value-Stream Productivity with Robotic Cutting

This webinar will provide an overview of the latest cutting market trends and look at some of the challenges fabricators face. We will showcase game-changing robotic cutting technology that enables fabricators to overcome these challenges and unlock value-stream productivity

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How New Innovations Remove Obstacles to Automation

How New Innovations Remove Obstacles to Automation

How New Innovations Remove Obstacles to Automation & Accelerate Adoption

Join Rapid Robotics CMO Kim Losey, VP of Product Juan Aparicio and VP of Business Alliances Mandy Dwight for a conversation about these challenges, why adopting automation right now is so critical, and how recent innovations enable SMB manufacturers to get started with automation quickly and without risk

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The Integration of AI & Vision Technologies

The Integration of AI & Vision Technologies

The Integration of AI & Vision Technologies

Machine vision, computer vision, and AI (specifically deep learning) are complementary technologies that can perform a wide variety of tasks in diverse automation processes.  This webinar will differentiate and compare these technologies and discuss how to successfully integrate the different tools as standalone or hybrid applications.  The discussion will focus on best practices in specifying components and technologies to suit the needs of the project.  It will include integration hints and tips to help you navigate the merging of AI and vision technologies.

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The Transition to Software-Defined Control Systems

The Transition to Software-Defined Control Systems

The Transition to Software-Defined Control Systems

The world of control systems is going through a major evolution with the transition to workload consolidated software-defined systems. This new approach will bring levels of flexibility, extensibility, and interoperability that have not existed before, making systems easier to manage and lower cost to run. To succeed, the world's OT and IT need to come together. In this discussion, Intel and leading end users will talk about the challenges they faced in making things happen and how they have worked to overcome them

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Use Case Solutions for Digital Transformation

Use Case Solutions for Digital Transformation

Use Case Solutions for Digital Transformation Using 5G and Edge Computing

Digital transformation is evolving at a faster pace with more devices, density and advanced use cases being adopted at an accelerated rate in production environments every day.  The speed of this transformation is creating network bottlenecks that are challenging existing network solutions (Wired, Wi-Fi, Public Cellular) to sustain these mission critical network services at this accelerated rate of technology adoption.  This session will discuss how adding a supplement Local Area Network (LAN) with Private Cellular LAN (4G/5G) can unlock this legacy networking constraint and enable these advanced operational use cases such as Artificial Intelligence, Robotics/AMR, Machine Learning, AR/VR/XR and Connected Worker applications.

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Additive Manufacturing for Robotics & Automation

Additive Manufacturing for Robotics & Automation

Additive Manufacturing for Robotics & Automation 101

Every day, more and more robotics & automation machine builders, component suppliers, and system integrators are turning to additive manufacturing to solve some of their toughest design challenges. Industrial 3D printing technologies have advanced greatly over the past 5 years and have become a go-to manufacturing solution for many companies. 3D printed components have gotten stronger, cheaper, and can hold tight tolerances suitable for many industrial applications. In this 1-hour webinar, we will cover all the basics including: how to identify components that are a good fit for additive manufacturing, how to approach the design of a 3D printed part, how to select the right material, how to optimize the printing process & minimize part cost, options for post-processing and secondary operations, and the supply chain and sustainability benefits.

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Reducing the Cost of Quality

Reducing the Cost of Quality

Reducing the Cost of Quality: Creating a Paradigm Shift in Automotive Metrology

Metrology is a necessity in today’s manufacturing processes to achieve high quality products. This webinar will discuss current metrology technology in automotive manufacturing and examine what this may actually cost before presenting an alternative to traditional metrology. By implementing a laser radar at various stages of production, we will show how cost and time can be saved through a series of theoretical and practical case studies

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Downtime: A Manufacturer’s Biggest Challenge

Downtime: A Manufacturer’s Biggest Challenge

Downtime: A Manufacturer’s Biggest Challenge

Unplanned downtime is a manufacturer's worst nightmare especially in a multi-shift environment. But didn’t industry 4.0 solve this with machines self-determining possible motor failures, belt failures and the like? We will bring in the experts to talk about what’s happening, what should be happening and the things that designers and builders should be thinking about for the future.

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How Automation is Advancing Healthcare

How Automation is Advancing Healthcare

How Automation is Advancing Healthcare

As the healthcare industry continues to improve on all fronts: surgery tactics, research findings, faster diagnoses and prognoses, there is one leading factor that’s helping contribute to this success: automation. Robots and related technologies are helping the healthcare industry by providing additional help, both in and out of the operating room

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Convergence of Connectivity and Compute

Convergence of Connectivity and Compute

Convergence of Connectivity and Compute Unleashes Intelligence at the Industrial Edge

With the convergence of AI, Edge compute architectures, and high-performance wireless networks, the industrial edge is becoming intelligent and connected. Join us for this webinar to learn how connectivity and AI will unleash intelligent edge to derive exponential value from data created by billions of connected things through real-life industrial use cases and how you can be part of the exciting journey

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Robots and Beyond Roundtable

Robots and Beyond Roundtable

Robots and Beyond Roundtable: How Women in Robotics and Automation are Changing Manufacturing

This roundtable will explore the professional experiences of leading women in manufacturing while discussing the technological advancements of automation.  We know that robots have improved human working conditions and the speed of manufacturing, but how has the automation of other business processes given product companies more efficiency and competitive advantage? Join our panel to find out and hear from professionals who walk the walk.

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Using Git for PLC Workflows: New Approaches

Using Git for PLC Workflows: New Approaches

Using Git for PLC Workflows: New Approaches

Until now, code development for industrial automation has not been able to take advantage of modern DevOps processes that have transformed traditional software development, due to the visual nature of PLC programming and the variety of development environments. New solutions are aiming to change this, with tools tailor-built for controls and automation engineers. Applying Git capabilities directly to PLC workflows brings several benefits that lead to increased ROI in operational uptime, by delivering proven version control, simultaneous collaboration with branching and merging, and streamlined code review and approval processes

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Robotic Surfacing: A Transition to Automation

Robotic Surfacing: A Transition to Automation

Robotic Surfacing: A Transition to Automation

This webinar will provide an overview of surface technologies for robotic material removal and surfacing applications. We will discuss the benefits of robotic grinding and polishing, robotic programming considerations, and the benefits of offline robot programming software

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The Importance of Motion Control in Automation

The Importance of Motion Control in Automation

The Importance of Motion Control in Automation

We take motion control for granted. Speed, position, torque, and system functionality just would not be possible without proper control of motion. We invite industry experts to our panel discussion on the status, the hardware and the software of motion.

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From Prototype to Production

From Prototype to Production

From Prototype to Production: 5 Critical Focus Areas for Robotics OEMs

In this webinar, Celestica’s Director of Robotics, Matthew Wicks, will discuss 5 critical areas ranging from product design through long-term lifecycle support that Robotics companies should focus on to mitigate challenges with bringing their solutions to market

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision: Moving from Operation to Automation

The world is moving from operation to automation and not only in factories. AI is here to revolutionize the way the world around us acts and responds to our actions. AI at the edge is about bringing the intelligence where the action is. This session will talk about why AI at the edge is so important. But also we will talk about how to scale AI at the edge and move it from the lab into real full-scale deployment. At the end of the day, it is all about software (intelligence) and data. To combine Software and Data in ways that can support multiple use cases, we need to think of modularity, and this is where microservices are important.

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Embedded Vision App Development for Everyone

Embedded Vision App Development for Everyone

Embedded Vision App Development for Everyone

This webinar will demonstrate how every user can design bespoke embedded vision applications with artificial intelligence and run them on an edge device. Equipped with the right tools, embedded vision development has never been easier or faster.

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Cobots without Compromises

Cobots without Compromises

Cobots without Compromises: Applications for Next Generation Cobots

The next generation of collaborative robots features increased payloads and higher speeds, increasing the range of applications across all industries. Join Joe Campbell, Head of Strategic Marketing for Universal Robots, as he shares more about this new generation of cobots, what hardware and software features have been upgraded, and how UR is powering robust automation solutions throughout the industry.

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Architecture that Supports Smart Solutions

Architecture that Supports Smart Solutions

Creating an Architecture that Supports Smart Solutions from the Edge to the Cloud

AI solutions in modern production operations rely on integrated data and compute from the asset level to the cloud.  Yet most legacy industrial solutions are built on fragmented, proprietary, and inflexible systems that make this integration difficult.  Manufacturers face a daunting challenge – how to collect and merge data from these disparate factory systems.  The answer lies in a common architecture that appreciates the storage limitations at the edge, the different types of data that must come together and that also realizes the power of the cloud to scale rapidly.

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Robot Safety Update 2022

Robot Safety Update 2022

Robot Safety Update 2022

In this webinar, Director of Standards Development at A3 Robotics, Carole Franklin will share key updates on robot safety standards and technical reports. Receive a clear understanding of current robot standards and what is on the horizon for future robot standards by attending this free, one-hour webinar.

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Motors: Why Bigger Isn’t Always Better

Motors: Why Bigger Isn’t Always Better

Motors: Why Bigger Isn’t Always Better

Is bigger better when it comes to electric motors? Does bigger mean less energy consumption, less heat or longer life? The answer is that innovative approaches and smarter motor design are more important

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People-Robot Collaboration: Working in Harmony

People-Robot Collaboration: Working in Harmony

People-Robot Collaboration: Working in Harmony

Join Lior Elazary, CEO and Co-Founder of inVia Robotics, for an educational session on how human-robot collaboration solutions create harmony between people and robots, allowing robots to work robotically and people to work in a way that’s more natural to them.

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Industrial Cybersecurity: Is Your Facility Protect

Industrial Cybersecurity: Is Your Facility Protect

Automate Preview Series | Industrial Cybersecurity: Is Your Facility Protected

Just this year, cybercriminals attempted to poison the water supply in Florida by hacking into a city’s system. An airplane manufacturer’s confidential customer data files were breached and leaked on the Internet. A major gas pipeline was shut down by a ransomware attack. A major meat producer was forced to close down all its plants. Hackers are now targeting industrial and infrastructure. At the same time, more and more facilities are going to connected operations to empower new efficiencies. How do we keep our facilities protected amid these growing dangers and opportunities?

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Getting Started with Automation

Getting Started with Automation

Automate Preview Series | Getting Started with Automation

Automation has never been easier, more cost-effective, or more powerful than it is today. But as with any journey, you need to take the first steps to arrive at your destination. You need the right plan and the right partners to be successful. Get advice from industry leaders on what questions to ask yourself as you plan automation projects. How do you avoid the pitfalls? How do you calculate the ROI, taking into account hard costs and soft costs? Discover how to find the right partners and expertise to advance you down the road.

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Advances in Robot Picking, Grasping & Manipulation

Advances in Robot Picking, Grasping & Manipulation

Automate Preview Series: Advances in Robot Picking, Grasping & Manipulation

Human-like picking and grasping is often viewed as the Holy Grail of robotic automation. Humans can sort quickly and precisely between a variety of parts or products, selecting only the desired pieces. For a robotic system, it’s not always as easy. But innovations in gripping, software, and robotics are leading to rapidly improving capabilities -- while increasing the number of possible applications. It’s now simpler, quicker, and cheaper to automate sophisticated solutions in manufacturing, assembly, logistics, warehousing, packaging, and surface finishing. Hear from industry experts on the latest trends, solutions, and technology.

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Smart Automation: How AI is Changing Industry Toda

Smart Automation: How AI is Changing Industry Toda

Automate Preview Series: Smart Automation: How AI is Changing Industry Today

Artificial intelligence is layering atop robotics, vision, motion control, and other automation technologies – to create new solutions, great flexibility, and expanding opportunities. Big tech companies – once focused more on your phone than the factory floor – now view manufacturing, robotics, and industrial automation as key segments of their business. This transformation will touch every aspect of the automation ecosystem, from product design to manufacturing processes to the delivery at a customer’s door. Learn from industry leaders about the opportunities and challenges in deploying AI across your operations.

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Developments in 3D Imaging Technologies

Developments in 3D Imaging Technologies

Developments in 3D Imaging Technologies

One of the fastest growing technologies in vision is 3D imaging.  With very broad use cases in industrial, commercial, and consumer imaging, 3D components are in high demand and vendors continue to advance capabilities.  This webinar will discuss the most recent applications being enabled with 3D, covering various vertical markets and including 3D as an enabling technology for robotics and other automation purposes.&nb

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The Potential for Robot Autonomy Platforms

The Potential for Robot Autonomy Platforms

The Potential for Robot Autonomy Platforms

Autonomous Robots and Automatic Machine Control systems have been seen as the wave of the future for some time, but with labor shortages and supply chain challenges now taking on a life of their own, they are absolutely essential to the future of industrial production. This webinar will guide users through the evolution of autonomous systems out of automatic machine control, the performance and expectations that autonomous ro

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Automation in a Post-Pandemic World

Automation in a Post-Pandemic World

Automation in a Post-Pandemic World

The end of 2019 will be remembered as the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic. Like the rest of the world, those of us in the automation industry didn’t really have an idea of what lay ahead. Factory slowdowns, shutdowns, possibly the collapse of certain sectors. While the pandemic was difficult for many industries, the automation industry swiftly innovated, pivoted, and adapted and even thrived. 

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Transition Your Manual and Labor-Intensive Process

Transition Your Manual and Labor-Intensive Process

Transition Your Manual and Labor-Intensive Processes to Automation

Most organizations are looking at transitioning manual processes to automation in 2022 to increase their productivity, expand their capabilities, and counterbalance the shortage of labor. However, getting started can be intimidating. If automation is on your roadmap for 2022 and you are curious to understand how manual, labor-intensive processes can be easily automated -

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How AI is Changing Industry Today

How AI is Changing Industry Today

Smart Automation: How AI is Changing Industry Today

Artificial intelligence is layering atop robotics, vision, motion control, and other automation technologies — to create new solutions, great flexibility, and expanding opportunities. Big tech companies — once focused more on your phone than the factory floor — now view manufacturing, robotics, and industrial automation as key segments of their business. This transform

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Okay Boomer

Okay Boomer

Okay Boomer: Closing the Generation Gap in Manufacturing

Baby Boomers vs. Millennials is a conflict usually waged over memes and TV shows. But in manufacturing, where retiring Boomers are not being replaced by younger generations, different expectations about work, culture, and career pathways in manufacturing come to a head. How does the generational conflict between Boomers and Millennials impact manufacturing businesses?

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Defect Detection

Defect Detection

Defect Detection: How Easy It Has Become to Use Powerful AI Techniques to Automate Inspection

Detecting defects on products before they go to the next process or before they are released to customers has always been important.  Expensive, labor-intensive human visual inspection has been the standard method for many years, with automated vision inspection often requiring a large investment to develop a custom machine vision solution.  Powerful object recognit

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Manufacturing Considerations in Today’s New Normal

Manufacturing Considerations in Today’s New Normal

Why Automate – Manufacturing Considerations in Today’s New Normal

As the world begins to emerge from the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing is certain: manufacturing will never be the same. Companies from traditional and non-traditional automation environments are looking to the future and re-imagining how to advance their manufacturing operations in our new “post-pandemic” normal.

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Industrial Cybersecurity

Industrial Cybersecurity

Industrial Cybersecurity: Is Your Facility Protected?

Just last year, cybercriminals attempted to poison the water supply in Florida by hacking into a city’s system. An airplane manufacturer’s confidential customer data files were breached and leaked on the Internet. A major gas pipeline was shut down by a ransomware attack. A major meat producer was forced to close down all its plants. Hackers are now targeting industrial an

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A Full Guide to Automating Your Factory

A Full Guide to Automating Your Factory

A Full Guide to Automating Your Factory: Why 3D Machine Vision is So Successful and How You Can Be Too

The need for automation is growing faster than ever with labor shortage issues being one of its largest driving factors. Because of this, robots and the technologies surrounding them have become more sophisticated than ever before and are able to recognize and pick a variety of part types and pile types all on their own.

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The UI and UX of Automation

The UI and UX of Automation

The UI and UX of Automation

We don’t talk much about the “user experience” in industrial automation but we do talk about and plan user interfaces, especially error messages and error recovery.  How do you go about it? What are the processes? What languages do we pick? Do we use graphics, icons or text? In this first panel discussion of 2022, the experts will discuss the best methods for success in designing user interfaces that engage, inform, a

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Collaborative Robot Tasks

Collaborative Robot Tasks

Collaborative Robot Tasks: Light Years Beyond Pick & Place

When collaborative robots exploded onto the industrial manufacturing scene nearly 15 years ago, they were mainly used for simple pick and place operations. But with collaborative robots being so flexible and easy to program, cobots are now automating dull, dirty and dangerous tasks in nearly every area of manufacturing, from welding to palletizing to polishing.

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APS: Getting Started with Automation

APS: Getting Started with Automation

Automate Preview Series: Getting Started with Automation

Get advice from industry leaders on what questions to ask yourself as you plan automation projects.

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British Invasion: Successful Cobot Deployment

British Invasion: Successful Cobot Deployment

British Invasion: Successful Cobot Deployment Strategies in the UK and US

Attendees will join a master class on collaborative automation deployments from both the United States and the United Kingdom. You are not going to want to miss this one! 

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From the Edge to the Cloud

From the Edge to the Cloud

From the Edge to the Cloud, Smart Technologies Create Competitive Advantage

In this webinar, hear from three Intel leaders in the industrial space and get their take on exciting opportunities and market trends.  Learn how the Industrial Intelligent Edge (the connectivity, the compute, and the control) can yield deeper insights faster to transform your business.

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There is a World Between Frames

There is a World Between Frames

There is a World Between Frames: Event Cameras Come of Age for Machine Vision in Industrial Automation

This webinar will show how event cameras are bringing new levels of performance and efficiency to safety, reliability efficiency and user experiences across a broad range of applications, such as high-speed counting, smart detection and tracking, vibration monitoring, Spatter Monitoring, Machine Learning, ultra-slow motion, optical flow, kinematic monitoring and many

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Top 5 Engineering Process Improvements

Top 5 Engineering Process Improvements

Top 5 Engineering Process Improvements Teams are Making Now

Tune into this webinar, to hear the “Top Five” critical steps that machine builders and system integrators are taking now to review their current tools, workflows, and data management capabilities. 

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