Labor Day celebrates the American worker. Much has changed since Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, especially when it comes to factory machines and industrial automation. While regulations and safety standards are the main reason that factories are much safer today, modern industrial robots — such as Indramat industrial motion control systems –… Read more »
Do you ever wish that you could go back in time and share a bit of knowledge and wisdom with your former self? Just take Doc Brown’s DeLorean for a spin around the block? This is the next best thing for Indramat owners; don’t learn these things the hard way. Call Indramat professionals whenever your… Read more »
People are persuaded by past experiences, upbringing, opinion, circumstance, mood, and pretty much everything around us. We might make a decision because of a scent that reminds us of a memory, or choose to treat someone a certain way because of a completely unrelated event that occurred in our life. Our understanding of a situation… Read more »
We still don’t have autonomous vehicles roaring down highways and roaming free along interstates. The technology is almost there, but there are still too many variables to make self-driving vehicles completely safe: humans being one of the biggest variables. The software isn’t perfect, either, but we’re getting closer and closer to seeing autonomous vehicles on… Read more »
Chapman University’s Survey of American Fears found that Americans fear technology more than they fear death. Don’t worry about killer machines and sentient AI turning on the malevolent humans that enslave them, though. Robot uprisings are science fiction. There’s an artificial intelligence technology that’s much scarier than rogue robots and cognizant AI. It’s scarier because… Read more »
Most factories installed Indramat legacy systems three plus decades ago; many of those motion control systems still run strong to this day. Most people don’t put much thought into their machinery unless something goes wrong, and all machines — no matter how well made — will need some attention at some point in time. Here’s… Read more »
You can buy some surprising things on the internet: dinosaur bones, private islands, mummies, Napoleon’s desk from his exile on St. Helena, and used dentures. If you can think of it, you can probably purchase it online. But just because you can buy something online doesn’t mean that you should. That private island could be… Read more »
We currently have the technology to automate officiating in baseball, and machines can do it better than humans. So why don’t fans and players want robot umpires officiating baseball games? If it can be automated, it should be automated, right? Testing the waters Major League Baseball uses the Atlantic League as its guinea pig for… Read more »
Humans are great at adjusting and rolling with the punches. If someone tells us “Blue is red”, we just say “No it isn’t” and go about our day. If our hands are full and we need to open a door, we put something in a pocket, figure out a fancy new way to hold something… Read more »
Is it possible to cut down a tree with a pocket knife? Sure, it’s possible, but it’s not practical. It requires a lot of work, there’s going to be a lot of trial and error, it’s entirely inefficient, and there’s a much easier way to go about it. There’s also the risk that you could… Read more »