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- How to Automate
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- Certified Motion Control Professional (CMCP)
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Founder, CEO Ten Years of Collaboration Erik Nieves will provide an overview of the now ten year history of collaborative robots including where the industry started, where we are today, and what we see in the future. He'll talk about why collaborative robots have become so popular and the opportunities and challenges faced when incorporating these robots into the industry. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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Co-founder, CEO The Growing Importance of Software in Manufacturing While Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and modern networking infrastructure are setting the stage for a revolution in industrial manufacturing, engineers today cannot take full advantage of these technologies because robotics and sensor platforms are dependent on vendor specific proprietary software. Our presentation will provide basic definitions and context to advanced technologies, and show how their application on the factory floor will increase robot capabilities and enable flexible workcells. |
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Account Manager Getting Started with Robots This is an introduction to the Industrial Robotics or Flexible Automation Industry. We will explore Robot Based Automation Systems to include how the industry functions, why to choose robot based automation, principles of system integration, general principles of robot technology, the business case for automating and calculating ROI plus the common mistakes made in Robot Integration. The attendee will learn through discussion and evaluating system photos and videos illustrating various robotic based flexible automation systems. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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Senior Engineer, Motion Control Specialist Performance Optimization Using Slotless Motors and PWM Drives Smooth motion, meaning very low position and current loop error while at speed, is critical to system performance in many precision motion applications, including surgical and industrial robotics, optical scanning and inspection and semiconductor equipment. Slotless motors provide smooth motion due to their inherent zero cogging design. These motors, however, have very low inductance due to their lack of iron in the magnetic field. Low inductance can create unwanted side-effects such as coil heating from PWM current ripple. This paper discusses how to configure a low inductance motor system to reduce current ripple and minimize position error while under motion. Configurations include PWM rate adjustment, adding inductors to each motor phase, and tuning the current loops. Some background regarding motors and driving inductive loads with a PWM drive will be discussed to set the stage for a thorough discussion of how to optimize a slotless motor system. |
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Engineering Supervisor Integrated Servo Actuators vs. Traditional Electric Actuators Traditional electric actuators involve adding a servo motor of choice to a mechanical actuator, while integrated servo actuators build the servo motor into the mechanical actuator. This presentation will explore factors in contrasting and comparing the two actuator technologies including: Cost, footprint, positioning performance, force performance, maintenance, and others. This presentation will highlight the differences between integrated and non-integrated linear actuators. |
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CEO Replacing Optical Encoders with Magnetic Encoders - the Journey to High Accuracy The times when magnetic measuring technology could be brushed off as too inaccurate for industrial measurements are finally over. In recent years great progress has been made in system accuracy of magnetic measurement solutions. Today magnetic systems can compete with many optical systems which are used in motion control applications. In his lecture Dr. Torsten Becker -- managing director of the German magnet specialist BOGEN Electronic -- starts with the presentation of the system accuracies of optical and magnetic measuring systems and compares them with each other. Interfaces are shown and it is discussed which system accuracies are actually needed in industrial applications for motion control. Afterwards the factors which influence the accuracy of magnetic measuring systems are pointed out. First of all the focus will be on the basics of magnet technology and the terms trueness, resolution and accuracy -- which are often used synonymously -- are defined scientifically. Thereafter various magnetic patterns and pole pitches are introduced and their optimal use in the field of motion control is explained. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Advanced
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Sr. Technical Director CVP Advanced Certification Course - Advanced Optics for Machine Vision Designed for the engineering professional, this course concentrates on real world techniques for putting together optic systems that work. You'll learn how to select proper lens components, optomechanical layout, including system bends, and mounting techniques. Prior attendance at a Basic Optics course is encouraged, but not required. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Basic
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Principal Vision Systems Architect CVP Basic Certification Course - The Fundamentals of Machine Vision You'll learn all the basics, including how images are captured and transferred to the computer, the principles of lighting, and the common processing algorithms used by machine vision systems. Discover how to successfully implement machine vision and how to avoid common pitfalls during the implementation, launch and production phases. This is an ideal training course for people new to machine vision as well as a great refresher course for anyone with machine vision responsibilities. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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CEO Automating Warehousing & Logistics with Cloud Robotics Cloud robotics has the potential to revolutionize automation similar to what cloud computing did for IT. The combination of robotic hardware, software and applications managed in the cloud is proving to be a winning one for companies that want to adopt an on-demand automation strategy and immediately reap productivity benefits and ROI. Cloud robotics removes many of the traditional technical barriers of operation, and eliminates the fixed nature of warehouse infrastructure to provide flexibility for optimizing operations. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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CEO Transforming Your Business with Best Practices for Cloud Integration Integration of cloud technology is becoming a critical component for many companies, as it can help transform business models through real-time usage and consumable tracking, greatly reduce ongoing product development and support costs, and enables continuous improvement through integration of device data with analytics and machine learning. This presentation will share information about some of the real-world examples for adopting cloud technology into connected applications, along with the challenges that will exist, and best practices. |
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Engineering Group Leader - Industrial Automation Group Automation 101 Do you know the difference between I/O and IIOT or the difference between Vision and VFDs? Are you new to the field or to implementation of automation? This session is for you. We will define the automation industry jargon, discuss the automation journey from design to production, and common pitfalls to avoid along the way |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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CEO Motion Planning for Robotic Bin Picking A key component of effective bin picking is motion planning. Many systems overlook the motion planning aspect, thinking that a system that can perfectly identify a part type and 3D location within a bin, can be successful. Motion planning for bin picking will be described, including new methods of automated path planning that enable wide scale bin picking. New technologies, such as natural tasking -- a unique approach to picking that optimizes the constraint space (how a part can be picked) given the end effector and the part being picked, will be discussed. The difference between global planning and local planning, and how both should be used for effective bin picking will also be discussed. Real world bin picking examples showing this type of motion planning will be shown and described. Advanced control and perception, if employed properly, not only improves performance but also simplifies the interface to programming a bin picking solution. In fact, it is only by providing this layer of intelligence in the controller that clean, intuitive, easy to use UIs can be created. Simple programming interfaces are what’s lacking in many earlier bin picking solutions, and are a necessity for Cobot solutions, where customers are often low lot-size, short-run manufacturers. The number of knobs that need to be tuned must be minimized. Advanced perception and path planning are tools that reduce the number of knobs to tune, thus opening up bin picking to a new class of user. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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CEO Designing and Deploying Collaborative Robots Collaborative robot volume is forecast to grow at 60% annually and reach 30% of all robot sales by 2027. (Interact Analysis). However, the understanding of collaborative robot’s capabilities and limitations is still emerging, and a consensus on safety testing has not yet been reached. Both the mechanical design approach and the control system can have a dramatic effect on collision forces and hence safety for this new technology. In addition to robot design, a corporate business strategy to plan the introduction and the workcell design for collaborative robots will speed implementation and reduce cost and risk. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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General Manager, Industrial Solutions Bridging the Ambition to Execution Gap Companies seeking to deploy AI in increasingly digitized factory operations are finding technology challenges. But they are also encountering organizational, talent, and process barriers to adoption. This presentation highlights Intel research around the adoption of intelligent manufacturing solutions. We will also share some practical examples of what companies are doing to accelerate their path to digital transformation, AI and autonomous operations. |
Track: How to Automate
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Vice President of Sales & Marketing The ROI of Robotic Automation: Your Path to Survival Maintaining the status quo is not an option for manufacturers who struggle to secure quality labor. Join us to learn how robotic systems enable manufacturers to deliver higher quality parts and maximize throughput, all while keeping their workforce numbers consistent and employees safe. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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Director RCC Safety Safety Validation in Robotic Cells and Systems The key to a proper safety system for a robot cell or system is to conduct a risk assessment where all the hazardous conditions and personnel tasks in and around robot movements are documented and implementing a risk reduction strategy to safely separate man and machine by space and/or time. Once completed the implementation of the solution needs to be checked to ensure proper application and functioning. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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Senior Director, Technical Sales & Business Development Design Challenges for Collaborative Robots Robotics and additive manufacturing markets have entered into a new phase of growth. This growth is being driven by new levels of controls that allow robots to come out of the cage? and reside next to humans. Making robots more collaborative involves a unique combination of software controls and sensing. Uncover the mechanical attributes of the robot joint that limit collaborative abilities and introduce an alternative design that will enable the controls group to better control these joints. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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VP of Application Engineering & Motion Control Digital Rotary Encoders Enabling IIoT Rotary encoders, used to measure position, speed, and direction in motion control systems, has remained in the analog realm for decades. Now a new breed of ASIC-based rotary encoders are set to deliver the benefits of digital for IIoT applications. Learn how the platform's advantages, including programmability, diagnostic capabilities, and improved immunity to environmental contaminants can benefit your motion control system. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Advanced
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Global Product Manager CVP Advanced Certification Course - Advanced Vision Lighting Designed for the engineering professional, this course concentrates on real world techniques for successful illumination. You'll learn how to select proper illumination wavelengths and how to deal with complex part surface geometries. Other topics include illumination integration, and controlling back reflections. Prior attendance at a Basic Lighting course is encouraged, but not required. |
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Manager, Sales & Marketing Choosing a System Integrator or OEM Session description coming soon. |
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Robotiq Lean Robotics Cell Design With Lean Robotics, manufacturers take control of their robot cell deployment projects. They learn how to design, integrate, and operate robotic cells as efficiently as possible on their factory floor. Inspired in some ways by Lean manufacturing, Lean Robotics enables the manufacturer to focus on the output of the robotic cell, minimizing waste along the way. Lean Robotics also puts people before robots, because we believe that robot cells must be safe for humans and usable by all. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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Global Technical Compliance Officer Safety Implications of Collaborative Applications Session description coming soon. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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Head Advanced Manufacturing Automation Autonomy: Bringing Automation to the Next Level Manufacturing is changing. There is a need for more flexible automation and intelligent machines, as a response to the transition from mass production to mass customization in manufacturing. Autonomy, understood as the evolution of automation with AI and Digitalization ingredients, is presented as a solution. The latest results in autonomous robotics and limits of AI solutions will be presented. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Basic
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Senior Vision Solutions Engineer CVP Basic Certification Course - Beginning Optics for Machine Vision This course focuses on the basics of illumination optics. Learn how to define the fundamental parameters of optical layout. Get a real world understanding of how to balance your system's field of view, resolution working distance, and depth of field. |
Where to Start, How To Measure and What to Expect
Track: How to Automate
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Regional Sales and Engineering Manager Sizing Motion Control Components and Drive Trains: Where to Start, How To Measure and What to Expect Gearboxes, linear systems, motors and actuators all have considerations in torque, speed and inertia. Learn how to find the optimal sizing path and methodology for your application. This presentation will discuss the various sizing philosophies, helpful sizing tools, and sizing considerations specific to robotics and automation applications. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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CEO Making Industrial Robots Truly Collaborative This talk will examine this workforce gap between humans and (collaborative) robots, not from just a training perspective, but from the perspective of how we can think about the use of new technology to make robots more accessible to more people. Much like what Windows and the mouse did for PCs, and what iOS did for smart phones, we need technology that makes robots easier to understand and use by a larger portion of our workforce population. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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President & Co-Founder Cloud Robotics and Automation CloudMinds' mission is to build and operate a cloud brain for robots, IoT devices. With the cloud brain called HARI (Human Augmented Robot Intelligence) we can make automation of machines and devices much more intelligent. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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Technical Director 3D Vision Techniques, Trade-offs, and Tips for Practical Industrial Applications Advances in the last few years have made use of 3D Vision practical in solving real world problems. Laser triangulation, structured light, photometric stereo, depth from focus, binocular stereo, and time of flight are commonly used techniques to infer 3D data. The main goals of this presentation are to provide an overview of these techniques, problems that can be realistically solved, and guidelines for 3D vision system selection. |
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VP of Sales & Marketing, Americas How to succeed in robot automation using human-like 3D vision with excellent Quality of Data (QoD) Because our world is three-dimensional, robots and tools need to relate to their surroundings in 3D and cannot be limited by the traditional, flat 2D images regularly used in machine vision setups. The ability to generate true 3D representations of real-life objects as well as understanding how real-life parameters affect the system is an important success factor when designing robust machine vision systems.
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Strategic Account Manager Overcome Industry 4.0 Inspection Challenges: Automatic 3D Quality Control As more companies embrace Industry 4.0 initiatives, just-in-time production demands have increased. Manufacturers are being forced to complete quality control activities within the production cycle. That means taking metrology out of the lab and onto the production floor -- or even inline.
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Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Advanced
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Principal Vision Systems Architect CVP Advanced Certification Course - Advanced Vision System Integration This course will detail proper techniques for implementing a vision system including application analysis, project specification and implementation of components. It will also address integration of a machine vision system into a full automation system including network communications. Attendees should possess a basic understanding of machine vision, optics and lighting. |
Track: How to Automate
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Manager – Medical Robotics, North America Collaborative vs. Industrial Robotics: The Blurring Line Many users are trying to push for collaborative robots. But the robot decision should be based on application requirements. With new technologies and a better understanding of where collaborative robots add value, it is possible to increase productivity via new automation options. The goal of the presentation will be to educate attendees on how and where to use collaborative robots, as well as the huge impact that technology has when implementing industrial robots in collaborative applications |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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Engineer - Collaborative Robot Team Collaborative Robots for High Mix Low Volume The presentation will go over the different types of collaborative robot operation and what each are (safety rated monitored stop, hand guiding, speed and separation monitoring, and power and force limiting robots). Then go into why collaborative robots can be used well in high mix low volume types of applications. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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President and Executive Director OPC Field Level Initiative extends OPC UA including TSN Down to Field Level This session includes an overview and status field level communications initiative, and OPC UA safety, plus OPC UA motion. |
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Principal Vision Systems Architect Choosing the Right Vision Solution One of the fundamental challenges in implementing machine vision technologies in automation applications is the selection of the right solution. Whether the task is to identify and apply the machine vision components, or to specify and purchase an entire machine vision based automation cell, there are some basic steps and processes to follow that can help ensure the success of your project. In this presentation we will discuss machine vision application analysis and system specification related to key machine vision technologies. The presentation will also outline typical machine vision components and software along with the applications they enable and the potential limitations to be aware of. The presentation will be valuable for all attendees who use, specify or plan to implement machine vision in their automation environment. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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Application Specialist Robots & Abrasives: Avoiding the Pitfalls Investing in robotics for abrasive automation can be a great move, but there are key factors that make the difference between a successful project and a moth-balled line. This session covers the specific technical factors that contribute to a project's success or failure. The session will be illuminated with examples from actual implementations, seen by 3M's application engineers in customer locations around the world. |
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Material Removal Product Manager Understanding Automated Material Removal This session illustrates the benefits of automated material removal. Within this market, many opportunities exist to elevate processes -- such as grinding and polishing, with automation technology. Explore the fundamental aspects of material removal applications and the challenges associated with automating these types of applications. Due to the high variability of material removal processes, flexibility is vital. In this session, attendees learn how robotic deburring streamlines operations, enhances product quality, and improves safety. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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CTO Increasing Capital Efficiency using Mobile Manipulation Learn to take advantage of the emerging class of smart grippers that are able to perform a large variety of bin picking, kitting and assembly tasks using the same end-effector, thereby allowing users to use the same robot for multiple tasks. Here, mobility can dramatically extend the reach of a single manipulator. In particular, we demonstrate the abilities of the latest Intel Realsense perception devices, that make picking items as small as M3 screws feasible, and show how perception can be used in autonomous assembly tasks ranging from typical peg-in-hole problems to mounting flexible rubber bands onto pulleys using off-the-shelf force-torque sensors. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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Industry Lead, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Managing Complexity with Distributed Systems The talk will discuss ways to manage complexity of autonomous systems through integration with middleware and distributed computing and IoT devices. Leveraging my experience in working with global customers adopting autonomy for industrial automation and IoT, this talk will share insights on the factors determining success in autonomous industrial robotics and building safety critical systems. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Advanced
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Robert Tait Partner CVP Advanced Certification Course - Reliable Vision Application Development Producing a reliable vision system is no accident. It begins with creating a strong specification that carries through to component selection to system development and finally deployment. This course will help the end user and the integrator walk through the steps needed to enhance their projects success. Individuals of all experience levels will benefit from the techniques that will be conveyed during this course. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Basic
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Technical Sales and Product Specialist CVP Basic Certification Course - Beginning Lighting for Machine Vision This course focuses on basic lighting geometry. Learn how and where light fits into the energy spectrum, review components of the machine vision front end to understand how they impact the images acquired by the system. |
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General Manager - Automation Systems Group Automation: Off-the-Shelf vs. Custom? Standard, off-the-shelf automation may work for some applications. However, as Abraham Maslow said, "If you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail." We have all witnessed that a hammer does not always work -- even for every type of nail. Right Sizing the automation solution and selling the right size is critical to achieving long-term value results. This session will outline methods to Right Size and Value Justify custom automation solutions with and without Collaborative Technologies. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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Vice President, Product Development Robots in the warehouse - a confluence of technology "In the warehouse, the environment is chaotic generally not ""pre-defined"". The items to be handled in the warehouse have a wide amount of variability (weights, shapes, sizes, material, stacking patterns etc...). For a robot to function in this environment, it needs to be much smarter and utilize a host of technologies to have it function in the warehouse environment. In this presentation, we'll review the various technologies such as machine vision, advanced motion controls, AI and simulation and show how all of these come together to enable robotic solutions for the warehouse as well as discuss some of the current and ongoing challenges with implementing robotic solutions within the warehouse environment." |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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VP, Product Lights-Out, Greenfield and Other Myths: How to Build a Business Case for Automation in the Real World When thinking about automation, companies are often overwhelmed by the seemingly heavy capital investment and logistics of changing their existing systems and processes. In this session, we'll focus on the critical core components of the business case for automation: worker safety, savings, and compliance. By breaking down these steps into an iterative approach, you'll learn how to prove that a smaller scale rollout can equal exponential results. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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General Manager, AWS Robotics The Role of the Cloud in the Future of Automation In this presentation we discuss the role that cloud services will play in the future of robotics, allowing developers to partition functionality between their physical robot and the cloud, in particular compute intensive functionality such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. We describe through example how artificial Intelligence can enhance collaborative, consumer and personal assistant robot capabilities, with examples including face and object recognition, as well as voice command and response. |
Track: Certified Motion Control Professional (CMCP)
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Marissa Tucker Product Marketing Manager CMCP Course - Basic Machine Design and the Physics of Motion Introduction to basic machine design concepts and physics behind electro-mechanical motion control. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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VP - Robotics Center of Excellence How Robotic Automation Technologies are Enabling the Migration to Lights Out Distribution Robots and AGVs are already solving critical picking and sorting challenges in the warehouse today. This presentation will give a glimpse of what's happening now and will happen in the future. From machines that can "see"? and "grip"? items to the kind meant to work side-by-side with humans, to AGVs automatically loading and unloading trailers and creating a "lights out" distribution environment, robots and automation are helping companies gain efficiencies and tackle labor shortages like never before in the fast-paced distribution environment. |
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John Clark Dematic How Robotic Automation Technologies are Enabling the Migration to Lights Out Distribution Robots and AGVs are already solving critical picking and sorting challenges in the warehouse today. This presentation will give a glimpse of what's happening now and will happen in the future. From machines that can "see"? and "grip"? items to the kind meant to work side-by-side with humans, to AGVs automatically loading and unloading trailers and creating a "lights out" distribution environment, robots and automation are helping companies gain efficiencies and tackle labor shortages like never before in the fast-paced distribution environment. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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Sales and Technical Support Manager Improving the Accuracy of Your Industrial Robot My university lab has been working in the field of precision robotics (mainly robot calibration and visual guiding) for the last eight years. We have developed and implemented several ways for improving the accuracy of industrial robots. In this presentation, we'll examine in-depth explanations of robot repeatability and robot accuracy, present the different ways of improving the accuracy of a robot, then present different methods for robot calibration and for visual guiding. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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CEO How to Develop Human Skills in Machines
With advancements in vision and sensing, combined with robust AI algorithms and machine learning, the next generation of robots will pick items with the grace of a human and the consistency of a machine. The discussion will focus on the hardware and software that is required to deliver dexterous manipulation in applications such as stocking, arranging, retrieving, inventory QA, counting and packing.
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Track: Certified Motion Control Professional (CMCP)
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Keith Knight Manager, New Product Innovation CMCP Course - Mechanical Motion Control Components and Subsystems Introduction to what a typical motion control system consists of and the typical mechanical components and subsystems it contains. |
Track: How to Automate
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Robotics Innovation Leader Using Multiple Modes of Safety to Create a Safe Collaborative Application Collaborative robots, and specifically Power and Force Limited collaborative robots, are one of the hottest topics in robotics today. They are touted as being simple and safe to use, which they can be, but the devil is in the details. Often, multiple modes of safety mitigation is needed to make collaborative applications safe. This presentation will share 2 use cases of simple robotic applications where PFL was not enough to reduce the hazards to an acceptable level. By using a combination of PFL, safety-rated software limiting, safety scanners and traditional guarding we have been able to reduce the hazards to an acceptable level while still maintaining the collaborative workspace where people and robots can work together. |
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Machine Vision Engineer 3 Case Studies: Examples of Successful Automation Solutions General Motors, Global Propulsion Systems, has approximately fifteen hundred cameras in various phases of launch. This presentation will review the process GM uses to manage that workload, from design phase through the production ramps. Key areas of discussion include: making the applications easy with great images, teamwork, managing all aspects of machine vision with GM’s process documentation tools, following checklists of key attributes, using archived images to tune cameras and validate success. |
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Senior Automation Vision Technician 3 Case Studies: Examples of Successful Automation Solutions General Motors, Global Propulsion Systems, has approximately fifteen hundred cameras in various phases of launch. This presentation will review the process GM uses to manage that workload, from design phase through the production ramps. Key areas of discussion include: making the applications easy with great images, teamwork, managing all aspects of machine vision with GM’s process documentation tools, following checklists of key attributes, using archived images to tune cameras and validate success. |
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Director of Business Development 3 Case Studies: Examples of Successful Automation Solutions My presentation will focus on how the proliferation, marketing, and demonstration of automation products had contributed to false expectations for realistic performance, affordability, and ease of use. I will discuss how this dynamic is affecting professionals and their businesses, and how we can inform ourselves to realign unrealistic expectations. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Advanced Courses
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Sales Manager - Western Region CVP Advanced Certification Course - Advanced Camera & Image Sensor Technology Explore the different levels of image quality at the sensor level. Details relating to quantum efficiency, dark noise, signal to noise ratio will be discussed in detail. In addition to topics related to area scan cameras, the proper usage of line scan and TDI cameras will be reviewed. Sensor size Courseification and new camera mounting standardization will be covered. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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Chairman, CTO, and Co-Founder Cleaner Floors, Happier Janitors: The Rise of Self-Driving Floor-Scrubbing Robots Commercial floor-cleaning robots are one of the fastest-growing automation sectors today. In use in industrial and commercial settings such as malls, airports, factories, convention centers, and universities, these robots make fast, efficient work of a tedious task few humans relish: keeping large floor areas clean. Few janitors want to push around a heavy floor-cleaning machine each night, leading to high turnover for this job. That's why robotic floor-scrubbers are in such hot demand: they free human co-workers from the endless, back-breaking work of cleaning floors so they can instead focus on higher-value tasks such as cleaning bathrooms and tidying common areas. They allow facilities managers to get valuable insight into their cleaning operations, providing video feeds and historical and real-time reports through cloud-based dashboards. They provide long-term ROI for cleaning contractors and building owners. The most advanced floor-scrubbing robots use LIDARs, cameras, and AI to get better at their jobs every day, learning from their environments to adapt cleaning paths and programs on the fly. They receive regular software updates via the cloud, gaining new functionality over time. While human night janitors burn out quickly, quitting every three months on average, AI-based floor-scrubbing robots get more effective and efficient over time. Come hear about the latest advances in robotic floor cleaning and dive into the technical specs behind one the world's leading floor-scrubbing robot, Avidbots Neo. Find out how floor-scrubbing robots can deliver more effective cleaning, higher visibility into maintenance operations, happier janitorial staff, and proven ROI. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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CEO An Apple a Second: Automating Bin Picking for Difficult to Grasp Items While manufacturers, retailers and distributors have increased efficiency in sourcing, production and logistics through advanced automation, the same is not true for fulfillment. The critical step of prepping a customer's order represents a final frontier in exploiting the opportunities found in increasing automation. Robotic innovation and advances in end-of-arm-tools (EOATs) that can perform tasks with human hand-like dexterity are making it possible to bring automation to the fulfillment stage of the supply chain -- specifically bin picking. New technologies such as soft robotics can grasp and pick items of varying weight and size, including those that are delicate or fragile. Industries that haven't been able to automate such functions as pick and place and packaging are now able to because of advances in grippers that can autonomously retrieve, sort and fulfill orders at the rate of 600 picks per hour in some instances. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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OPC/UA Foundation VDMA Robotics Companion Specification: Standardized information to reduce engineering efforts In this session we will cover: the robotics information model, harmonized with China efforts, plus the harmonization of information models across industries. |
Track: Certified Motion Control Professional (CMCP)
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Keith Knight Manager, New Product Innovation CMCP Course - Understanding Inertia and Reflected Inertia The importance of inertia in electro-mechanical motion control systems and how the inertia of the components in a motion control system affect its performance. |
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General Manager The Business Case for Flexible Automation Flexible automated solutions is a way to handle a changing world. Consumer behavior is evolving, raising the demand for flexibility in logistics. Technology break-throughs in fields like AI leads to more intelligence and is expanding the scope of what automation can do. As robot costs have gone down the cost for labor has risen. The business case for automation has never been more attractive. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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Product Manager Empowering Cobots and Traditional Automation with Vacuum This presentation will discuss the various advantages of employing vacuum technology in automation. Beginning with fundamentals, we'll explain how vacuum technology works, focusing for example on the relationship between cup sizes and vacuum level (the amount of air removed from a confined space) or vacuum flow (the amount of ambient air that flows through the vacuum port of a system). With these foundations in place we can move on to specific recommendations for developing vacuum tools for automation.
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Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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Product Engineer The Use of Machine Learning in Automation Safety Systems The methodology to produce a safe environment changes as manufacturing becomes more dynamic, increases mobility and requires more flexibility. Current safety systems are designed to monitor known functions and conditions. It is reactive since it uses a predefined set of criteria available at the time of the installation to determine if the output will turn on or off the source of the hazardous situation. The machine learning system uses information from experts and sensors to continually evaluate and learn as the system changes. It provides feedback and alternative solutions. Machine capabilities are then altered as it learns about the environment, effects due to changes and situations leading to anomalies. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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Technical Sales Engineer Overcoming Challenges of High Speed Precision Metrology Manufacturers are increasingly facing the challenge of measuring complex parts and assemblies with tight tolerances. . This presentation discusses the engineering solutions to tackle these requirements and enable high throughput without sacrificing precision or accuracy. The goal is to deliver methodologies to advance Metrology Science and to establish a platform of best practices and methods to meet future challenges. |
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Key Account Manager - BIW How Optical Metrology Sensors Enhance Robot Automation Arming robots with the latest and most-innovative 2D and 3D image processing systems - including high-speed line scanners and multi-spectral structured light sensors -- takes the benefits of manufacturing automation a step further by enabling inspection and guidance. The concept of metrology-optimized manufacturing (MOM) takes the powerful accuracy and precision of Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs) and moves it to the shop floor using robust optical sensor solutions on robots. |
Track: Certified Motion Control Professional (CMCP)
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Senior Engineer, Motion Control Specialist CMCP Course - Introduction to Magnetism and Motor Basics Basics of magnetics and the types of magnets found in motors. Overview of the basic function and styles of electric motors commonly used in industrial automation, including the operating difference between brushed, brushless, step, AC induction, and direct drive motors. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Basic
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Sales Manager - Western Region CVP Basic Certification Course - The Fundamentals of Camera & Image Sensor Technologyn Gain a basic understanding of camera design, from analog to digital cameras. Find out about different camera types and their capabilities. Learn about capabilities of different camera outputs from analog to USB to Camera Link. Other topics include CCD and CMOS sensors, the capabilities of monochrome versus color sensors, area scan and line scan arrays, and which cameras are best suited for specific vision applications. |
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Industry Manager, Americas Changing The Paradigm: Safety & Productivity In the past, the machine guarding philosophy was to completely separate the human from the machine or robot. Unfortunately, this resulted in the paradigm of safety vs. productivity, you either had safety or productivity, but you couldn't have both. This paradigm is now shifting to "Safety & Productivity", driven by a combination of new/updated standards and new technologies which allow closer human-machine interaction and new modes of collaborative operation. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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Chief Technology Officer User Driven Automation - Empowering End-Users and Developers in an Accelerating Automation Landscape This talk will discuss efforts in the industry to empower both the users who implement automation technology, and developers who create new automation technology amid this growing landscape. We will discuss 'capability' based automation software, where the underlying complexity of the software is abstracted away, leaving the user with simple building blocks that can be tied together with very little learning curve. This enables the user to create powerful solutions easily with minimal cost. We will also discuss how this more flexible, easy to use software can be combined with smart automation hardware and standardized mechanical interfaces to drastically decrease the cost and effort of system integration. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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CEO Neural Vision – Machine Vision’s Move to AI Attendees will learn about AI and how it can be applied to Machine Vision. It has been around for a long time, but it is now breaking into areas that will allow it to be used more effectively in a wide array of industry settings. This presentation will also touch and where deep learning can/should be used and how it can be deployed. |
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Vision and Automation Sales Manager Using Deep Learning to Solve Challenging Applications in All Industries The use of Deep Learning has allowed significantly more vision applications to be successfully deployed than in the past. Its real strength comes from its ability to handle more variability from part to part that is common in manufacturing but has been an issue for traditional machine vision's ability to not only identify defects much more reliably but just as important, the ability to reduce false rejects caused by slight part variation. This presentation will show a real-world application that helped solved a challenging application for cylinder inspection as well as an additional application from various industries to see defects that were virtually impossible to identify previously. |
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Vice President of Business Development Deep Learning Vision Solutions in the Age of Industry 4.0 This presentation will provide an introduction to deep learning vision soultions and a discussion of the complexity of the issues and the tools that are available to solve these problems. |
Track: Certified Motion Control Professional (CMCP)
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Jim Wiley Product Manager CMCP Course - Positioner Selection and Motor Sizing How to select an appropriate single axis positioner for specific application requirements based on loading, environment, motion profile, and positioning performance. Overview on determining the required torque, speed and inertia of the motor/drive system that is needed for your application. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Advanced
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Expert, 3D Vision CVP Advanced Certification Course - 3D Vision System Development Learn how advancements in 3-D camera technology are enabling new solutions for more applications than ever before. Review the many vision-based 3-D measurement techniques and which achieve the best results. This session will provide real application techniques you can use in electronics, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, aerospace, automotive and many other industries. |
Track: How to Automate
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Vice President of Intralogistics Automation Successfully Deploying Industrial Robots in Warehouses, Distribution and Fulfillment Centers This is an introduction to robotics and automation for the warehousing/intralogistics industry. We will explore the history of robotics within the automotive industry, looking at the evolution of automation over time, and how it relates to the intralogistics world. We will also discuss how to apply the lessons learned by the automotive industry to help improve the safety, efficiency, and ROI of robotics and automation for all warehousing/intralogistics applications. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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Global Product Manager How Linear Transport Technology Adds Flexibility and IIoT Compatibility to System Design Session description coming soon. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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Stuart Shepherd Universal Robots Innovating the Workplace with Collaborative Robots A manufacturing user and robotic supply share how they worked together to solve automation challenges with collaborative robots. |
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President Innovating the Workplace with Collaborative Robots A manufacturing user and robotic supply share how they worked together to solve automation challenges with collaborative robots. |
Track: How to Automate
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Sr. Advanced Manufacturing Engineer Balancing Your True Objectives for Automation when Optimizing Your Process When considering automation, there are key factors that support successful implementation. To ensure automation makes a positive impact on your manufacturing environment, it helps to understand your True objectives while balancing technical and business challenges along your journey. Take advantage of understanding the prospective of both an automation consultant and end user to help you along your automation journey |
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Plant Engineering Manager, Phoenix Balancing Your True Objectives for Automation when Optimizing Your Process When considering automation, there are key factors that support successful implementation. To ensure automation makes a positive impact on your manufacturing environment, it helps to understand your True objectives while balancing technical and business challenges along your journey. Take advantage of understanding the prospective of both an automation consultant and end user to help you along your automation journey |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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Applications Process Specialist Real Time Robotic Path Correction for Manufacturing and Assembly
In situations where general-purpose robots can not perform accurately enough to achieve the required results, do manufacturers have to settle for the enormous cost of specialized machines? Would there be substantial savings if general-purpose robotics with real time correction could achieve the same results? This session explores application segments where the manufacturing industry is moving away from large-scale specialized machining and assembly tools toward general-purpose robotics instead. Attendees will learn what is currently possible in this emerging realm of metrology-augmented robotics and where future development may lead.
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Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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Research Director PANEL: Autonomous Mobile Robots Support a Lean Approach to Business Operations As manufacturers embrace a lean approach to operations, executives are evaluating their opportunities to continually optimize productivity. Even in highly automated facilities, material handling is often still a manual, inefficient process, but automating material transportation to reduce production bottlenecks and deploy valuable human workers more effectively has been a challenge. This presentation will show how manufacturers like Katerra and Cabka North America can use automation, specifically autonomous mobile robots, to easily and cost-effectively optimize their internal transport, with examples of how they are using automation to maximize flexibility and agility. |
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Sr. Vice President PANEL: Autonomous Mobile Robots Support a Lean Approach to Business Operations As manufacturers embrace a lean approach to operations, executives are evaluating their opportunities to continually optimize productivity. Even in highly automated facilities, material handling is often still a manual, inefficient process, but automating material transportation to reduce production bottlenecks and deploy valuable human workers more effectively has been a challenge. This presentation will show how manufacturers like Katerra and Cabka North America can use automation, specifically autonomous mobile robots, to easily and cost-effectively optimize their internal transport, with examples of how they are using automation to maximize flexibility and agility. |
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Vice President of Sales - Americas PANEL: Autonomous Mobile Robots Support a Lean Approach to Business Operations As manufacturers embrace a lean approach to operations, executives are evaluating their opportunities to continually optimize productivity. Even in highly automated facilities, material handling is often still a manual, inefficient process, but automating material transportation to reduce production bottlenecks and deploy valuable human workers more effectively has been a challenge. This presentation will show how manufacturers like Katerra and Cabka North America can use automation, specifically autonomous mobile robots, to easily and cost-effectively optimize their internal transport, with examples of how they are using automation to maximize flexibility and agility. |
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Sr Research & Development Engineer PANEL: Autonomous Mobile Robots Support a Lean Approach to Business Operations As manufacturers embrace a lean approach to operations, executives are evaluating their opportunities to continually optimize productivity. Even in highly automated facilities, material handling is often still a manual, inefficient process, but automating material transportation to reduce production bottlenecks and deploy valuable human workers more effectively has been a challenge. This presentation will show how manufacturers like Katerra and Cabka North America can use automation, specifically autonomous mobile robots, to easily and cost-effectively optimize their internal transport, with examples of how they are using automation to maximize flexibility and agility. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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Product Market Manager Higher & Faster -- New Vision Architectures to Solve Complex Challenges There is an ongoing trend for higher resolution and faster framerates to steadily increase performance in vision systems. Let's divide the challenges into the parts of the sensor, camera interface and data processing. The timing is good to think about. Now! Technologies have ripened to cover those needs and give answers to these challenges. The presentation will cover all of these points, make it clear to the audience how the needs lead to challenges. Moreover, how they can be addressed with solutions. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Basic
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Principal Vision Systems Architect CVP Basic Certification Course - Image Processing Fundamentals In this Course you'll gain an understanding of how machine vision and imaging algorithms work. These fundamentals will be used to show a variety of ways to solve real world industry application challenges. Attendees will be exposed to the strength and capabilities that software can provide while gaining an understanding of complete imaging system requirements needed to optimize their application needs. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Advanced
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V.P. Business Development CVP Advanced Certification Course - Advanced Color Machine Vision & Applications Color is important for a growing number of machine vision applications in food, pharmaceutical, automotive and many other markets. This course will start with how color images are formed and then review aspects of human color vision that are important in designing a color machine vision system. Then we concentrate on how to build and apply color machine vision systems to tasks such as automated inspection, tracking, identification and color matching. |
Track: How to Automate
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Business Solutions Intro to Automation & Robotics on the Factory Floor The presentation serves as an introduction to manufacturers who have little-to-intermediate knowledge of how automation and robotics are used in manufacturing settings. This includes a brief overview of the history of automation, how we've arrived at the current state of manufacturing (industry 4.0) and what types of technology we are seeing emerge. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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Vice President, Imaging Advanced Optics: Big Pixels vs. Small Pixels, Ruggedization, Their Effects on Performance and Accuracy Session description coming soon. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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Senior Director of Technology Innnovation Smart Industrial Robots -- Before and After AI Collaborative robots have delivered commercial success through their promise of deployment flexibility and ease of setup and programming. Traditional industrial robots have excelled in delivering optimized cycle time with expert engineering required to achieve these cycle times. Overall, an industrial robot has cost and capability advantages over a comparable collaborative robot. These advantages can be translated to customer benefit by delivering flexibility and ease of use across all aspects of the customers journey that covers Knowing, Ordering, Learning, Deploying, Operating, and Maintaining. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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Chief Software Engineer Using Mobile Picking Robots to Help Retail Distribution Session description coming soon. |
Track: Certified Motion Control Professional (CMCP)
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Matt Pelletier Product Training Engineer CMCP Course - Digital Servo Amplifier Basics Basic operation of a digital servo amplifier, including servo control loops, tuning a servo system, defining system bandwidth and how to select the proper amplifier for applications. Basics of the major networks/field busses and advantages/disadvantages of each. |
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Vice President Making Sense of IIoT in Automation Smart manufacturing is positioned as plug-and-play. So why isn't everyone playing? We have definition problems. We have profitability problems. We have integration problems. We have silo problems. And we have, of course, security problems. Is 2019 the year these problems get solved? This strategic session will provide the tactical information to maximize POCs and position to scale, while taking an intimate look at what is needed to "plug", what is needed to "play", and how that can come together with speed and precision. |
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Director of Product Development Smart Tools for Assembly What if your assembly tool knew how to make your part? What if it could tell you about every part it ever made? In this session I talk about a new approach to assembly tools where tools themselves are "smart" and share the intelligence within the system. Attendees will walk away with new ideas on how to approach assembly processes using the latest thinking in edge computing, sensing, distributed intelligence, and system architecture. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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CEO The Future of Automation: Robots that can Adapt to New Environments Session description coming soon. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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President The Human Touch Revolution: Welcome to Industry 5.0 While there is a movement globally to create smart factories and make things communicate digitally, a new trend is appearing on the horizon aiming to bring back the human touch in production. The trend is dubbed Industry 5.0 -- or collaborative industries. |
Track: Certified Motion Control Professional (CMCP)
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Marissa Tucker Product Marketing Manager CMCP Course - Motion Controllers, Programming, and System Design Basics Overview of the software and hardware elements necessary to build a motion system, and how to integrate motion with other systems when designing a machine. Basic motion control software and programming languages. |
Track: How to Automate
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Technical Sales - Vision Solutions for LEONI Key Aspects of Machine Vision Integration When it comes to simple or complex machine vision system integration, there are many key aspects to consider. Some of the most important aspects include the approach to feasibility studies, the importance of an in-depth project specifications, and result data and communications requirements. These aspects build the foundation for a successful machine vision system by ensuring usability for the end user and validating the system buy-off. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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Siemens Improving Machine Design with Virtual Commissioning (the digital twin) The competition in the manufacturing industry is fierce and customer requirements are becoming more and more individualized, resulting in increasing complexity of machine design and longer and more expensive commissioning time. To be able to respond appropriately, plant operators have to shorten their time-to-market and become more efficient and flexible, while maintaining or even improving their quality. The solution is Digitalization and the intelligent use of data generated from a common base to form a Digital Twin, the virtual representation of the machine which can be used to evaluate different automation concepts in the early phase of a project, reduce the commissioning time and accidents on site, and even assist with advanced training for machine operators. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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Founder and Publisher Selecting a Mobile Robot In this session, we'll explore each commercial mobile robot application in detail. We'll learn what makes an AMR different from an AGV . These different applications areas are all currently being served by one or more autonomous mobile robot (AMR) manufacturers. In this session you'll learn about the various applications for AMR's and we'll explore the range of solutions available today. We'll compare all of the vendors who are offering an AMR solution and educate the participants so that they can make an informed purchasing decision. |
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Research Director The Future of Mobile Robots Whilst the entire robotics industry is in a period of high growth, one of the most dynamic and promising areas is mobile automation. The proliferation of AGVs and AMRs in both manufacturing and logistics environments is clear and strong. This presentation will provide interesting analysis and data on exactly how mobile robots are being employed, what the supplier base looks like and how the industry will develop over the next five years. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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Sr. Business Development Manager Industrial Network Infrastructure: Your Smart Manufacturing Business Foundation A robust, well-executed industrial network infrastructure is foundational in creating your smart manufacturing roadmap. Investments in legacy industrial networks require a clear migration path to optimize return on assets while not missing out on performance enhancements from new technologies. This session focuses on learning more about smart manufacturing technology advances and suggests resources and tools to assist in assessing, designing, deploying and maintaining your physical industrial network infrastructure. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Basic
Track: How to Automate
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Project Manager Creating a Dream Team: Partnering with Systems Integrators to Achieve Project Success Working with a system integrator can help ensure project success by bringing in outside perspectives and valuable experience with the technologies used in your system. Whether you are using them for a short period of time or long-term, the success of the Systems Integrator relationship correlates with the success of your project. Partnering with a Systems Integrator with your internal staff can become a cohesive team that creates better solutions than either one could create alone. By using the best practices in this talk you can get both the system you want, and more importantly, the solution you need to accomplish your goals. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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CEO and Co-Founder How Ease of Use Will Enable Workforce Adoption and Unleash Company Growth Many automation solutions available today are cost prohibitive to small manufactures and other companies -- and often require expensive additions or modifications to existing facilities, new technical staff, and outside experts to get the robot working in the first place. By giving workers advanced tools they can use, accessible robots empower the workforce instead of replacing them. Companies get the advantages of automation while expanding the capabilities of their valued employees. The company, the workforce, and the economy all benefit together. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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Sr. Director Engineering How 5G Technology Will Drive Smart Manufacturing Session description coming soon. |
Track: Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Updates
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Chief Technology Officer Progress Update: Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) was formed 2 years ago to accelerate the use of robotics in manufacturing. Since its formation, the non-profit organization, one of 14 Manufacturing USA® Institutes, has awarded 29 projects in technology and workforce development, working with 180 organizations across the United States. Learn about the focus areas of these projects, and how they will impact the future of manufacturing. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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Business Development Manager Combating Glare with Polarized Sensors & LED Lighting Solutions We will discuss different applications that be solved using a combination of a polarized imager/sensor and polarized lighting. We will show side by side comparisons of the benefits of a polarized image vs a non-polarized image. We will application that show how polarization can help eliminate glare on a reflective surface such as automotive parts. We can show polarization can minimize the spectral refection on package goods for verification and OCR. How polarization can help bring defects such as stress cracks in optically clear plastic and glass. |
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Brendan Lelieveld-Amiro Sales Engineer Multispectral Imaging: More Than Just a Picture Multispectral imaging (MSI) is a technology that combines visible and near infrared (NIR) imaging to extract information beyond what the human eye can see. Advances in sensors and filters are transforming the implementation of multispectral imaging solutions from expensive military and defense systems to affordable commercial systems. In automation applications, MSI can be used for food sorting, textile surface mapping, and printed circuit board inspection. |
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President Short Wave Infrared Imaging for Industrial and Robotic Applications Shortwave infrared (SWIR) imaging with InGaAs detectors enables detection of phenomenology that may not be easily detectable using visible imaging methods. The SWIR wavelength band enables simple detection of water allowing users to easily find spills, leaks or fill levels. This also enables detection of contaminants in food sorting and chemical processing. This talk will demonstrate industrial, agricultural and robotic applications for the SWIR band as well as the available technologies in the marketplace. |
Track: Certified Motion Control Professional (CMCP)
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CMCP Course Review and Exam Prep Session description coming soon. |
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Group Product Manager, Global Account Manager, Epson Robots A Beginner's Tour of Robotic Automation From assembly and pick-and-place to material handling and packaging, the use of robots is on the rise in factory` automation. Extremely customizable in even the most complex applications, automation systems are beneficial for a wide variety of reasons. Taking the plunge into automation, however, can be confusing and daunting. With so many factors to consider, you may be wondering, "Where do I start?" |
Track: AI, digitalization & smart manufacturing
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Global Product Manager Drive Productivity with Integrated Network Safety for Drives and Motion
Discover the advantage of adding safety over EtherNet/IP for your motion control applications. See how safety over EtherNet/IP for drives applies Safe Torque-Off and advanced safety functions to your application to meet required safety ratings. The ability to integrate the safety functions provides the opportunity to minimize equipment redundancies and improve productivity.
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Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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Sales Applications Engineer: Medical Applications Collaborative Robots in Diverse Work Settings One of the most exciting developments in the automation field, collaborative robots are moving beyond their original manufacturing roles to handle a wider range of uses across different industries. From utilization in medical settings to autonomous ground vehicles (AGV), these so-called “cobots” are performing a number of increasingly complicated tasks alongside their human counterparts. This session will explore some of these new applications and provide attendees with the working definitions, requirements and actionable advice to safely adopt collaborative robots into their working environments. |
Track: Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Updates
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Associate Professor of Robotics Solving Labor Shortages and Import Challenges Through Robotic Seafood Manipulation There is a severe shortage of available workers for the U.S. seafood industry. Because of this shortage, seafood is caught off of the U.S. coast, shipped overseas for processing, and imported back into the U.S. In 2017 alone, the U.S. “imported” over $21.5 billion in seafood, much of which originated here. Through funding and support from Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM), Northeastern University, along with partners Ascend Robotics, Harmonic Drive, Moog and MassRobotics, is developing a collaborative robotic system that can reliably grasp, place, flip and maneuver seafood, using existing robotic arm technology. Learn how Professor Taskin Padir from Northeastern University and his team are working through challenges and opportunities to allow the U.S to cost-effectively process the seafood it catches on its shores. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Advanced
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Principal Vision Systems Architect CVP Advanced Certification Course - Advanced Vision Guided Robotics Vision guidance is common in robot applications. This course will detail proper techniques for implementing a vision guidance system and will include the latest technology advances. Attendees should possess basic robotic and system integration knowledge. |
Track: How to Automate
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Executive Director - Global Accounts Productivity: Numbers Don't Lie (Facing the Skills Gap) An overview of the skill gap and the need to automate. This presentation will look into the challenges that face today manufacturers and the ways that robots and automation can save your bottom line. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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Frameless/Robotics Product Specialist Integrating Frameless Motors into Advanced Robotic and Automation Systems Collaborative and advanced robot design engineers rely on frameless motors due to the need for a compact form factor, improved performance or environmental requirements. A properly planned, specified and installed frameless motor can open the door to innovative solutions. We will seek to eliminate barriers to choosing frameless motors, as well as help robotic engineers build out their specifications so that when it's time to start talking to motion companies, the conversation can move along efficiently. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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Director and Head - Boston R&D Labs Intelligent Robotics for Flexible Supply Chain Automation We present important economic and structural trends that are driving changes in the field of supply change automation. In particular, these trends will require increased flexibility and intelligent autonomy in solutions. We present our vision for flexible warehouse automation, and then supporting technologies that support this vision. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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Co-Chair, Robotics, AI & Automation Practice Group What Employers Need to Know - The Opportunities and Pitfalls of Robotics and AI AI and robotics are transforming the workplace and redefining work. The disruptive impact on employers, human labor, and the workplace cannot be overstated. As the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds, companies are seeking to harness new technologies to reach higher levels of efficiency and compete on a global scale for innovation, customers, and talent. Some of the most relevant and timely questions created by advancing technology will be covered in this presentation by Natalie Pierce. Natalie is co-chair of the Robotics, AI & Automation Practice Group at Littler, the largest employment and labor law firm in the world representing 30,000 employers, including 70 percent of the Fortune 500. Join this session to learn more how AI will revolutionize the enterprise of tomorrow, and you can best leverage applied AI solutions to manage, attract, and engage your employees and customers. |
Track: Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Updates
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CEO PANEL: Addressing Challenges to Increase Robotics Usage in Manufacturing While much progress has been made, most manufacturers in the United States are not using robots as part of their automation strategy. Hear from this diverse panel of experts as they discuss the current barriers in robotics adoption and the steps that they are taking at their organization and collectively to advance the state of robotics in manufacturing. |
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ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas PANEL: Addressing Challenges to Increase Robotics Usage in Manufacturing While much progress has been made, most manufacturers in the United States are not using robots as part of their automation strategy. Hear from this diverse panel of experts as they discuss the current barriers in robotics adoption and the steps that they are taking at their organization and collectively to advance the state of robotics in manufacturing. |
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Technical Fellow PANEL: Addressing Challenges to Increase Robotics Usage in Manufacturing While much progress has been made, most manufacturers in the United States are not using robots as part of their automation strategy. Hear from this diverse panel of experts as they discuss the current barriers in robotics adoption and the steps that they are taking at their organization and collectively to advance the state of robotics in manufacturing. |
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Senior Director of Technology Innovation PANEL: Addressing Challenges to Increase Robotics Usage in Manufacturing While much progress has been made, most manufacturers in the United States are not using robots as part of their automation strategy. Hear from this diverse panel of experts as they discuss the current barriers in robotics adoption and the steps that they are taking at their organization and collectively to advance the state of robotics in manufacturing. |
Track: Certified Motion Control Professional (CMCP)
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Sales Manager Getting Started with Robots This is an introduction to the Industrial Robotics or Flexible Automation Industry. We will explore Robot Based Automation Systems to include how the industry functions, why to choose robot based automation, principles of system integration, general principles of robot technology, the business case for automating and calculating ROI plus the common mistakes made in Robot Integration. The attendee will learn through discussion and evaluating system photos and videos illustrating various robotic based flexible automation systems. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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Colin McCarthy Director of Business Development Training Data for Robotics & AI Computer vision teams around the world working on autonomous vehicle perception have collected terabytes of raw sensor data that must be organized and labeled to train their models. Finding ways to efficiently sort and label that data is critical for time and cost savings when generating training data sets. Ground-truth is critical for developing and validating autonomous systems. The accuracy of the annotations in these datasets and greatly affect the performance of CV and AI models utilized by autonomous vehicles. My presentation would address the source of these errors and how to mitigate them. While crowdsourcing can allow teams to quickly build a large training data set, it can greatly affect the overall quality of the dataset. I will share best practices and learnings from utilizing crowd-sourcing to help autonomous vehicle developers annotate millions of images. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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Director of Standards Development, Robotics Collaborative Robot Safety Overview & Risk Assessment Collaborative robot systems are a new robotics technology that allows for robots and humans to work together in ways that were previously impossible. However, with this new capability comes new hazards and risks that must be evaluated for every application. This session will introduce key concepts in collaborative robot system safety, including introduction to relevant safety standards, and how to evaluate and mitigate these new hazards related to collaborative robot applications. Ms. Franklin will open the session with an introduction to robot safety standards and concepts, and how collaborative robotics has changed the safety paradigm. Ms. Dominguez will discuss the collaborative robot Risk Assessment process in detail, and will give a worked example. |
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Safety Consultant Collaborative Robot Safety Overview & Risk Assessment Session description coming soon. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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Senior Vision Solutions Engineer Advanced Lens Selection Using Modulation Transfer Function Curves Lens selection is a complicated process that is often rushed through, leading to an under-optimized solution. This talk will discuss how to choose the best lens for a machine vision application, focusing on explaining and using one of the most important metrics for a lens's performance: the modulation transfer function. |
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Technical Training Manager Choosing the Best Optical Filter for Your Application Optical filters are critical components of machine vision systems. They're used to maximize contrast, improve color, enhance subject recognition and control the light that's reflected from the object being inspected. Learn more about the different filter types, what applications they're best used for and the most important design features to look for in each. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Advanced
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Director of Core Vision Tool Development CVP Advanced Certification Course - Metrology & 2D Calibration Techniques Participants will gain an understanding of techniques for creating systems that yield reliable and repeatable measurement results. Practices for proper calibration of imaging systems ranging from appropriate usage of targets to accurate algorithm deployment will be discussed. How to manage images correctly to create repeatable results will be reviewed. Anyone who is developing metrology systems or having and need for accurate measurements will benefit from this curriculum. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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R&D Manager ROS: Developments in Open Source
ROS-Industrial is an open-source project, now celebrating 7 years of progress and international growth, that seeks to leverage ROS, the Robot Operating System, to bring advanced capability to Industrial use cases. Over the years, ROS and open-source software, has led to a rapid acceleration of innovation and realization of benefits for end-users and manufacturing solution providers. In this presentation ROS-Industrial case-studies and examples will be highlighted, including the innovation, as well as the value proposition.
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Product Manager - Welding Robotics Building a Robotics Cell Champion In all of my customer visits, there is one clear defining variable of successful automation implementation: whether or not the company has invested in a robotics champion. This person will own the implemention, development, and success metrics (KPIs) of the robot cell... whether it's the company's first foray into robots, or it's their 100th cell. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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Regional Sales Manager Complete Motion Control System in the Palm of Your Hand Advanced technology combined with creative design resulted in a highly integrated, miniature, and powerful complete motion-control module that fits in the palm of your hand. The revolutionary module is challenging common system design practices by combining the simplicity and high power of centralized control with size and flexibility of decentralized servo architecture. The module can precisely coordinate the complex multi-axis motion of systems and robotics, with integrated 4x5kW high power miniature servo drives. The multi-axis, high-power, safety integrated solution is operated by simple programming, and can simplify system design, cut costs, create space-saving, and reduce time-to-market.
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Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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Robotics Architect Applying AI in Collaborative Robotics During the last decade, we have witnessed increasing deployment of AI in enterprises, but very few AI enhanced Robots are known in the domain of physical task automation like that is needed by the manufacturing industry. We will learn about the three areas where AI enhancement has helped Robotics systems like autonomous cars: perception, motion planning and execution, and safety. With the adoption of AI methods, we can expect higher adoption of Robots in complex manufacturing processes. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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Lead Engineer, Technology Development Robot Automation in an Unstructured World As a new wave of robotics startups bring the latest ML and vision technologies into production environments, they are quickly coming to grips with the realities and challenges of our unstructured world. Taking a page out of the boom in the autonomous car industry, the next generation of picking robots will need to be able to adapt to their environments in real-time, with little or no integration required. Doing this successfully will require synthesizing a range of technologies, from vision to general purpose grasping to real-time cloud teleoperation. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Advanced
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President CVP Advanced Certification Course - Non-Visible Imaging Theory & Techniques Non-visible imaging methods offer unique benefits for a variety of vision tasks. In this session, you'll learn more about infrared and thermal techniques and better understand if non-visible imaging solutions are right for your specific needs. |
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Vice President Automated Vs. Conventional Solutions: Can Square Footage Savings Pay for Technology? This presentation will demonstrate that the reduction of square footage derived from automation driven building design can in fact PAY for the technology within the building. We will walk through a case study that demonstrates the above. We strongly feel that Case handling automation in a new construction scenario does not need to be justified based upon labor savings. Labor Savings is a Bi-product of wholistic automated building design. We will present an actual comparative analysis and outline the technologies and the costs of the reccomended solution. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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Roy Fraser Global Product Manager - Picking, Packing and Palletizing The Competitive Advantage of Robotics in Packaging & Logistics An introduction into robotic picking and packing applications with high speed conveyor tracking and vision guidance -- focusing on ease of use for the OEM and reduced total cost of ownership for the End User. Covering advances in intelligent picking software and the rise of ""digital twin"" simulation tools and software. Detailed overview of the latest packaging and logistics robots and their benefits explaining which type of robot to use for which packaging/Logistics application and why. We will explore standard applications and machine layouts and visit the topic of ROI calculation - with a free excel ROI tool.
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Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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General Manager - Americas Intelligent End-of-Arm Tooling and Accessories for Collaborative Applications Light industrial robots will become a commodity, and focus will shift towards end-of-arm tools such as intelligent grippers and sensors OnRobot’s suite of intelligent accessories make automation accessible – one-stop shop for all tools, easy deployment and intelligent operations. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer The Collective Workflow: The Benefits of Human, Robot and AI Integration Introducing new intelligent automation systems seems like a radical concept, but it gives you a long-term advantage. Smart systems coordinate tasks between all resources (humans, robots, automation ) based on past and present data, harnessing the individual strengths of robots and humans and becoming smarter and more efficient over time resulting in:
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Advanced Manufacturing Sytems Engineer Flexible Vision Inspection System Flexible Vision Inspection System (FVIS) is an emerging vision application Ford Motor Company is currently replicating globally. FVIS utilizes a combination of a collaborative robot, a vision system, and a PLC. FVIS eliminates the need of multiple fixed cameras and reduces the necessary hardware required to handle increasing model complexity. |
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Director of Robot Vision Bin Picking - From Programming to CAD Modeling The presentation will be focused on major challenges in the transformation of bin picking applications from being programmed by software engineers to being configured by robot programmers or automation technicians. The presenter will share the company's extensive experience, from integrating robot handling applications to developing an enterprise solution for the biggest automotive customers and automation integrators. |
Track: How to Automate
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Business Unit Manager, cyber motor Motion Control Trends: Servo Systems in Robotics The market of servo motors and drive systems has grown in parallel with robotics, resulting in a sea of choices that can make it difficult to find the optimal solution. This presentation will cover the range of servo motor options and the latest trends, along with examples of how servo motors and systems are being used in unique ways to optimize robotics and automation applications. |
Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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Sr Product Manager The New Rules of Engagement Between Robots & Humans and Their Impact on Manufacturing The next frontier in manufacturing is Human Robot Collaboration (HRC). Optimizing the socializing and labor dynamics between humans and robots will play a key role in the transformation of industry as we know it. HRC can help provide some of the productivity needed to meet variable demand, short product cycles, and increasing product customization. This session will discuss the role of collaborative robotics in the creation of the new paradigms for manufacturing and supply chain, particularly for the transition from centralized to distributed manufacturing. |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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Director of Engineering Are You Ready to Get Digital? It has been acknowledged that tomorrow’s automation manufacturing process includes Smart Factories, Smart machines, Smart materials and smart products, as well as Brilliant robots that use Vision, as well as Machine learning to make critical analytical decisions that have the ability to communicate with each other Harmoniously driving production, being interconnected and traceable at all times due to Digitalization. As we prepare to develop the talent needed to embrace and dilute the Pesky skills gap that irritates us in North America, It is essential to interrogate and define what types of skills will be needed to support the game changing technology of tomorrow. During this presentation we will dive deep into the classroom of a few Universities and Community colleges to discuss the types of competencies as well as software communication platforms that will be needed to shape a strong Advanced Automation Manufacturing and Mechatronics program with the intention of developing the best talent that will enable the sought after topic of Industry 4.0 to rise to fruition! |
Track: How to Automate
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Tim Finerty Shareholder Cash is King! Tax Strategies for Automation Companies Join Clayton & McKervey Shareholder Tim Finerty, CPA to learn about the key impacts of tax reform, including:
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Track: Collaborative & Mobile Robotics
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Manager – Medical Robotics, North America Collaborative vs. Industrial Robotics: The Blurring Line Many users are trying to push for collaborative robots. But the robot decision should be based on application requirements. With new technologies and a better understanding of where collaborative robots add value, it is possible to increase productivity via new automation options. The goal of the presentation will be to educate attendees on how and where to use collaborative robots, as well as the huge impact that technology has when implementing industrial robots in collaborative applications |
Track: AI, Digitalization & Smart Manufacturing
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President/CEO Use of Robotics and Smart Automation in Motor Manufacturing In the challenging and niche environment of motor manufacturing, dynamic and flexible solutions are required to face its major difficulties. Manufacturing dilemmas such as automating an incomplete motor design, managing low-volume/high-mix production lines, steep ramp-up requirements, producing in multiple locations and high-volume/high-speed production requirements are faced in today's fast-paced sprint to electrification. Nevertheless, automation must still yield a high Overall Equipment Effectivenss (OEE) and thereby necessitates a re-thinking of automation. The talk will present a variety of flexible automation methodologies to manage these various challenges, including the use of robotics and an innovative Smart Pallet transport system. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP)
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Principal Vision Systems Architect CVP Advanced Certification Course - Particle Analysis & Classification Techniques The ability to correctly analyze and classify details and particles in an image can be critical to the success of an imaging application. Strategies around thresholding, advanced morphology and the correct usage of particle filters will be covered. Additional topics include training strategies, images transforms, and image filtering. |
Track: Automation Solutions & Innovations
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Product Marketing Manager Advanced Material Handling with Sony DepthSense ToF Technology Material handling automation is a growing application area for both industrial and logistic markets. Automating the pick and place task helps to increase efficiency and reduce labor cost. Many existing solutions use expensive structured light to capture a 3D point cloud in order to get an accurate representation of the object. Sony’s new DepthSense Time of Flight sensor is designed to work indoors in local, high accuracy or coarse, high speed inspection applications. This makes the camera a lower cost and less complex alternative to structured light scanners while providing similar level of 3D accuracy. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Advanced
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Dale Deering Director and Business Line Leader, Scanning Products CVP Advanced Certification Course - Designing High-Speed and Linescan Vision Systems In this course you learn how latency and determinism relates to high-speed and to real-time performance and how the different types of vision system components affect the latency of the vision system. Topics cover components for image acquisition as well as different approaches to image processing, including processing architecture/hardware, operating system, application software, and resynchronization. You’ll learn about the performance parameters you must know to quantify speed and real-time performance and a methodology for guiding the design of a vision system. Example designs illustrate how you use these parameters and techniques to achieve design performance goals. |
Track: Certified Vision Professional (CVP) Advanced
