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Mitsubishi Electric Automation creates Packaging Website

May 9th, 2012 · Comments Off · Controls & Visualization, Motion Control, News

The Mitsubishi Packaging Solution site identifies common packaging challenges and how Mitsubishi Electric solutions are designed to overcome them. Go to the Packaging Website >>>  

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IAI Ultra-compact Motorized Cylinders

April 26th, 2012 · Comments Off · Motion Control, News

RCD Cylinders with a 12mm Cross-section New Ultra-Compact Motorized Cylinder with 12mm Cross-Section and a body length as short as 60mm. Its high-speed performance with maximum acceleration/deceleration of 1 G and maximum speed of 300 mm/s is highly effective in reducing cycle time in a variety of systems.  The Mini Cylinder RCD is small enough [...]

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Mitsubishi Solutions in Motion coming in May

April 26th, 2012 · Comments Off · Controls & Visualization, Motion Control, News, Robotics

Coming to a parking lot near you. Gibson Engineering will be touring New England May 7th – 10th   Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. has rolled out a mobile showroom that brings its full array of motion control solutions directly to customers. The 53-foot long Solutions in Motion showroom allows us to bring a showroom to our [...]

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Video-of-the-week: Vision Guided Robot plays Scrabble

December 7th, 2011 · Comments Off · Controls & Visualization, Machine Vision, Motion Control, Robotics, Videos

Video-of-the-week: Episode 1  features a Mitsubishi Robot playing Scrabble with a random pile of letters.  Guided by a Cognex In-Sight Micro Vision System the robot spells out the names of our Vendor partners on its own Scrabble Board. watch the video >>>

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Cognex ID & IAI Seminars on December 7th

November 30th, 2011 · Comments Off · Machine Vision, Motion Control, News, Training

Gibson will be presenting the latest developments in ID Reading and Motion Control Technologies at our Cognex ID & IAI Seminars on Wednesday, December 7th in Colchester, VT.  – Register to attend

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Mitsubishi Robot video

November 9th, 2011 · Comments Off · Motion Control, News, Robotics, Videos

This new video highlights a variety of scenarios where Mitsubishi robots are deployed to perform diverse flexible automation applications. New ultra-light high-speed ceiling-mounted RH-3 SCARA robot Cognex vision integrates easily with Mitsubishi robots Conveyor tracking allows the robots to dynamically handle parts that are in motion. watch the video

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Mitsubishi RV-3S robot with compliance control

September 21st, 2011 · Comments Off · Motion Control, News, Robotics

The compact but powerful Mitsubishi RV-3S robot is considered to be one of the fastest in small robots. The RV-S3 compliance control offers user defined path forgiveness which makes it ideal for applications such as machine loading, material handling, debburing, and pick and place. Video demonstration of compliance control

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IAI ROBO Gripper application example

August 25th, 2011 · Comments Off · Motion Control

This application example illustrates an operation which was previously performed using two air cylinders to heat seal the neck of the container. By replacing with the electric actuator gripper, the approaching speed was increased, reducing the cycle time by 25%, increasing production from 2,000 to 2,500 containers.

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ROBO Cylinder IK Series Multi-Axes Catalog

July 19th, 2011 · Comments Off · Motion Control, News, Robotics

IAI offers a newly updated IK Series catalog including major updates and specification table. Catalog>>>

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Festo EGSL Electric Slide

July 6th, 2011 · Comments Off · Motion Control, News, Pneumatic & Vacuum

The EGSL Electric Slide from Festo provides efficient positioning with strokes of up to 300 mm.  Excellent for vertical applications and for short-stroke slide functions with variable positioning.  With linearity and parallelism in the 1/100mm range the EGSL is great for high-precision shifting, picking and inserting, even under high mechanical loads.  more >>>

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