AUTOMATION specialist OMRON has revealed plans to showcase the ‘smarter, faster, more efficient’ future of manufacturing at this year’s PPMA Show.
OMRON revealed it has arranged a packed schedule of events and demonstrations to run over the three days of the show at the NEC Birmingham from September 24-26. All will highlight how data, traceability, and robotics can be utilised to build 21st century manufacturing practices and processes.
Sam Tilley, regional general manager (UK, Ireland & Nordics) at Omron Industrial Automation Europe, said, “Flexible manufacturing is ushering in the industry’s biggest shift since Henry Ford imagined the assembly line, making this an extremely exciting time for our industry. Automation, robotics, and data analytics are all playing a crucial role in this transformation, and it is imperative that we understand how these technologies can work synergistically to build the agile, customer need-focused future.
“PPMA is the UK’s largest event for the processing equipment, packaging machinery, industrial robots, and machine vision system sector, and we are proud to be part of it.”
OMRON will explain how robotic-driven flexible manufacturing can enable ‘rapid’ format changes with high levels of quality control and traceability. The business also plans to highlight how artificial intelligence (AI) visual inspection can detect defects in uniform background objects, enabling automatic, human eye-like quality control without complicated set up.
Visitors will also be able to learn how AI visual inspection can work in lockstep with Digimarc digital watermarking to prevent mismatched components and mislabelled products while increasing production speed and efficiency.
Product demonstrations will include OMRON’s high-speed DELTA robot showcasing the firm’s conveyor tracking functionality, for ‘faster and more flexible’ picking and packaging applications.
There will be a schedule of talks and lectures from experts, with main topic areas being flexible manufacturing and AI in manufacturing.
