WAITKUS, an item pluspartner, uses a combination of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and low-cost intelligent automation (LCIA) to help ensure an efficient, ergonomic and transparent flow… Read more
In Herrieden, in the German region of Franconia, a whole day was dedicated to flexible and efficient automation. Industry is currently facing many different challenges, ranging… Read more
Fusing together Karakuri/LCA and robotics opens up new, urgently needed opportunities – as the CETPM is showing in its factory for the future. These are challenging… Read more
Constantly shrinking batch sizes and ever shorter product lifecycles mean greater attention is now b ... Read more
Each year, car manufacturer Toyota in Japan trains around 400 of its skilled workers in Karakuri/LCA ... Read more
Karakuri/LCA (LCA = Low Cost Automation) is a type of automation that doesn’t use drives, sensors, e ... Read more
A large-scale application demonstrates the effectiveness of Karakuri/LCA in automotive manufacturing ... Read more
Unlike many other methods of lean production that began taking the world by storm in the 1990s, Kara ... Read more
2017 proved a particularly eventful year for the CETPM, an institute at Ansbach University of Applie ... Read more
How material supply and picking for coolant pump assembly is benefiting from low-cost automation. W ... Read more
“You can never be ‘lean enough’.” An interview with our lean production expert Stefan Armbruster. W ... Read more
How to achieve automation effectively and cheaply with Karakuri Kaizen. In the era of Industry 4.0, ... Read more
