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July 2020
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WELCOME
7 Editor’s comment
Putting the case for plastic
NEWS
9 News
A round-up of the latest news from Irish
manufacturing and engineering
12 Technology Briefs
The latest engineering product and
application stories
FEATURES
14 Robotics
The advent of collaborative robots (or
‘cobots’) has had the effect of bringing
the costs of robotics down into the price
range of far more manufacturing
concerns.
19 Agri-Tech
The use of advanced technologies is
transforming the architecture of agriculture
and is leading to increased efficiency and
product quality across the board. Martin
Leahy, maxon Sales Engineer for Ireland,
looks at how.
22 Medical
In the global fight against Covid-19, Mullingarbased
Irish Manufacturing Research in
collaboration with European and US
organisations has helped in the research of two
initiatives to develop new ventilator designs.
25 Design
The development of an ‘electronic
apple’ device to sense, inform and assist
development of its award-winning UniPAKer
robotic crate packer has proved to be an
ingenious method for preventing damage to
soft fruits during agricultural pick-and-place
operations.
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