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42 robots create 50 jobs
Over the last two and a half years Trelleborg has installed 38 UR5 and 4 UR10 robots. First there were swift productivity and product uniformity gains. Then orders rose sharply and 50 new employees were needed at the factory in Helsingør, Denmark
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S6. The key to performance B&R Industrial Automation take a look at how modern automation technology is helping UK manufacturing to optimise performance One such system is the B&R ACOPOSmulti drive system
which offers energy savings through energy regeneration, true power factor correction, an intelligent cooling concept and a shared DC bus for all inverters
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S9. A modular gentleman The Care-O-bot 4, dubbed the butler of the future, was developed by the Frauenhofer IPA in Stuttgart, and will celebrate its world premiere at the SCHUNK Expert Days on Service Robotics on 25th-26th February. The modular design of Care-O-bot 4 allows diverse configurations and application scenarios
S10. Tackling the great outdoors The John Deere European Technology Innovation Centre, is utilising a Stäubli robot on the roof of its European ETIC. Due to the location, the robot is truly out in all weathers All John Deere development centres around the
world have access to the system and can use it to conduct their own tests. It is programmed offline on the Stäubli Robotics Suite which is integrated into the higher level software architecture
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