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Robot machines bath ware
Automating the routing operations results at Carefree Bathing has resulted in monthly savings of GBP 10,000 when the line is working to full capacity.
News from Engineeringtalk, 21 February 2007
Window manufacturer expands robotic welding
Aluminium window frames for off-road vehicles are being welded faster and to the same high quality following the installation of a Motoman ArcSystem 6000 robotic welding cell
News from Engineeringtalk, 27 July 2006
Six-axis robots evolve into snakes
Snake robots incorporate an additional degree of freedom, endowing the individual arm model with seven axes and two dual-arm versions with 13 axes each.
News from Engineeringtalk, 7 June 2006
Robot to serve drinks at Mach 2006
People attending Mach 2006 will be able to quench their thirst thanks to the appearance for the first time in the UK of 13-axis, dual-arm robot demonstrating its flexibility as a barman.
News from Engineeringtalk, 8 March 2006
Robots race through concrete moulding process
Aerated concrete block manufacture at two of Tarmac Concrete Products' factories has been dramatically improved using robots to apply "release" oil accurately to the inside of moulds.
News from Engineeringtalk, 17 November 2005
High-profile appointment in robotics
Dave Walsh has been appointed Sales and Marketing Director of Motoman Robotics (UK), the Banbury-based subsidiary of Motoman AB, Sweden.
News from Engineeringtalk, 4 November 2005
Robots save costs on propshaft line
For the manufacture of propshafts for the latest Land Rover Discovery 3 and Range Rover Sport, GKN Driveline in Walsall has installed two turning cells featuring articulated arm robots.
News from Engineeringtalk, 19 October 2005
Robots beat manual welders - hands down
West Bromwich Tool and Engineering maintains a competitive edge through continual investment in new processes, such as robotic welding equipment.
News from Engineeringtalk, 5 April 2005
Six-axis robot helps make a spectacle of itself
Norville was the originator of machinery for grinding glass lenses automatically; now it has gone one step further by adding a robotic system for loading and unloading its machines.
News from Engineeringtalk, 4 March 2005
Upgrade for general-purpose robots and controller
A new range of six-axis, all-electric, articulated-arm robots offers significant improvements over the mainstream Motoman UP-series.
News from Engineeringtalk, 13 October 2004
Leerink joins robot welding team
Henk Leerink has joined Banbury-based Motoman Robotics (UK) as part of the team selling robotic arc welding systems.
News from Engineeringtalk, 23 December 2003
Robot show celebrates 20 years of trading
To celebrate its 20th anniversary in the UK, Motoman Robotics will hold an in-house exhibition at its headqurters and showroom at Banbury from 10th to 12th June.
News from Engineeringtalk, 31 March 2003
Typhoo cuts tea blending costs by a quarter
Premier International Foods has reduced by more than 26 per cent the cost of converting a tonne of tea into tea bags at its Typhoo production plant on the Wirral, near Liverpool.
News from Engineeringtalk, 16 September 2002
Robots enter body-in-white welding sector at Honda
Around 130 additional Motoman robots have recently been installed by Honda in its two Swindon production plants, increasing the number of this supplier's robots on site to 200.
News from Engineeringtalk, 29 July 2002
Robot welders for Caterpillar
Motoman Robotics has received an order worth in excess of Eur 1.5 million for the supply of three robotic arc welding cells to the Bulwell, Nottinghamshire works of Caterpillar.
News from Engineeringtalk, 25 June 2002
Motoman makes Micromech a systems integrator
Specialist motion control system builder Micromech has been appointed a systems integrator by articulated-arm robot supplier Motoman Robotics (UK).
News from Engineeringtalk, 11 March 2002
Robots on show in Oxon
Motoman Robotics (UK) is to hold an Open House from 9th to 12th April 2002 at its new headquarters in Oxfordshire.
News from Engineeringtalk, 7 February 2002
Robotics integral to steel polishing automation
One of Europe's leading stainless steel catering and sanitary ware equipment manufacturers, W and G Sissons, has embarked on a programme to automate polishing using Motoman robots
News from Engineeringtalk, 9 August 2001
Robotics for end-of-line packaging machinery
A co-operation agreement between Endoline Machinery and articulated-arm robot supplier, Motoman Robotics, will provide end-of-line packaging machinery with robotic palletising systems
News from Engineeringtalk, 23 July 2001
68 more welding robots for automotive supplier
The latest £1.6 million order for 68 robots and manipulators by TKA Chassis Tallent brings the total number of Motoman welding robots on site to more than 360
News from Engineeringtalk, 2 May 2001
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