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A German company that manufactures mobile manipulators has chosen ATS to implement a new static version for training purposes. The manipulators are used in places and situations that are too dangerous for people. This includes carrying out bomb disposal and entering contaminated areas. Currently the customer only has mobile manipulators controlled via remote control. ATS, [...]

This reporting template contains two graphs as used in the European car industry and some other process based industries.The “X with MR” graph shows an X-Mr graph with both individual and moving range graphs. The control limits and engineering tolerances are shown and the trend highlights the standard control chart errors of “out of control”, [...]

This reporting template contains a useful management level graph, which shows the overall quality of all features in a part or assembly using the four most widely used measures of repeatability.The usual target value for any company working towards 6S quality standards is to have Pp/Ppk above 1.66. Typically Pp/Ppk will be used during development phases [...]

ATS has received a substantial order for ATS CM4D software at two plants in the USA and Mexico. This is the second phase of an ongoing ATS ADOS implementation at the customer which currently uses Inspect at three of its plants. Two of the plants will now deploy ATS CM4D within the warehouse to analyze [...]

A beverage manufacturer sought to upgrade their Allen-Bradley SLC500 DH+ installation to ethernet to provide benefits such increased network bandwidth, reliability and ability to readily integrated with planned future new machinery. Further, a legacy RSView 32 SCADA installation was to be upgraded to CitectSCADA v7.2. This upgrade mainly provided the advantages of flexible & user [...]

In April 2013 at Hannover Messe, a consortium of universities, research institutions and industrial companies in Germany presented a report which called for investment, awareness, ideas and further research to help realise ­Industry 4.0 – a term used to describe a wide variety of innovations in IT, manufacturing technology and materials that will lead to [...]

"Manufacturing companies can take some simple steps to help prepare their business for change and the fourth industrial revolution". Image: DaveBleasdale, Learning Zone; flickr.com (CC BY 2.0) This article was first published in the Spring 2015 issue of OnWindows. In the last issue of OnWindows I outlined the technologies and thinking behind the fourth industrial [...]

In the third of this series of articles, discover the steps required to make the fourth industrial revolution a reality. Image: Chillicom, FANUC_R-2000iB_series_robot_127; flickr.com (CC BY 2.0) This article was first published in the Summer 2015 issue of OnWindows. Technology hypes are often followed by the trough of disillusionment. But it is sometimes only during [...]

This article explores the success story at KMWE who are globalising at a rapid tempo. We are focussing on their global support group, the pitfalls and successes as their journey develops.KMME describes themselves as a reliable supplier and partner to the high tech equipment industry and aerospace. They have manufacturing locations and partnerships in The [...]

Customer's Engine and Powertrain Plant in Turkey manufactures engines which are sent to their other facilities internationally. A project was recently completed to make ATS Inspect the standard visualisation platform of their door to door processes allowing them to see the full details of all their production and pin point the root cause of problems [...]