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Dress rehearsal for robots: collaboration makes its IMTS debut with model of air-cooled engine.

Publication: Tooling & Production
Publication Date: 01-OCT-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Dress rehearsal for robots: collaboration makes its IMTS debut with model of air-cooled engine.(partnerships)

Article Excerpt
When the curtain lifted last month at IMTS 2008, it was a debut like none other for Partners in THINC.

While its roots go back 10 years, the partnership has only been "in business" since 2007. The partners decided the booth at IMTS would be a reproduction of a full manufacturing floor in 4,800sqft of space that produced a model air-cooled engine assembled by robots.

The concept of Partners in THINC is built upon the Okuma THINC control (The Intelligent Numeric Control), an open architecture, Microsoft Windows-based platform, and how more than 30 partners collaborate through Okuma's Charlotte, NC, facility to bring out the best of the control's capabilities for their advanced manufacturing customers.

Not only did the IMTS cell demonstrate a number of equipment capabilities from Okuma and more than 20 participating partners, it showcased process flow--complete from order entry to shipment invoicing--all through the THINC control.

In a nutshell, six different cells produced a total of 10 parts in a cycle time of about 33 minutes. Though a manufacturing engineer collected the parts from each machine to take to robots for assembly (due to...

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