Automation

Hahn Plastics Automation Inc., based in Avon, CT, is the newly established U.S. division of Hahn Group (Rheinbollen, Germany), representing injection molding machine (IMM) automation specialists Waldorf Technik and Geku of Germany and Wemo of Sweden.

Toshiba Machine (Elk Grove Village, IL) will conduct live demos of an automated medical molding cell at the heart of which is the EC110SXIII, a 110-ton, all-electric injection molding machine equipped with the new Injectvisor V70, the company's...

A historic unemployment rate has a downside that will spill into 2019: Companies continue to have challenges finding skilled employees, as the economic expansion steams ahead and baby boomers retire en masse.

The automated system reduces waste, rework and recalls when poorly prepared substrate surfaces lead to bonding, coating, sealing, painting or printing failure.

The association’s Machinery Safety Technical Committee is seeking experts for four standards working groups related to extrusion, robotics, blowmolding and safety signs.

A panel discussion about collaborative robotics at Expoplast in Montréal last week took what I thought was an unexpected turn. An anecdote from panelist Yarek Niedbala from Kuka Robotics Canada set the tone.

The six-axis robots with embedded controller have the smallest footprint in the industry, according to Mecademic Inc. (Montréal).

The fewer people you have on the floor to set up the machines and other things you haven't automated yet, the greater the risk that one of them will mess something up and kill your profits. Each person on the floor has a much higher value to your...

The company will bring 22 robots to the show, including eight operating at its own stand.

While technological innovations have been prevalent in most aspects of our daily life, packaging industry enterprise activities—including molders, fillers and packers—have been less data driven.