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Today's manufacturer Today's Manufacturer IEN / OCTOBER '16 33 www.ien.com A Recap: IMTS 2016 Showcases Technology Pioneers by Anna Wells T he International Manufacturing Technology Show is one of the largest industrial trade shows in the world, featuring more than 2,000 exhibiting companies and 114,147 registrants. The event is held every two years in September at McCormick Place, Chi- cago, and this year's event, held September 12-17, brought everyone from 3D printing and robotics companies to machine tools and automation technologies. Thought it's a challenge to identify the most exciting products from such a crowded house, we've assembled some highlights highlights to give you a taste of what you missed. to give highlights to give you a taste of what you missed. you highlights to give you a taste of what you missed. a taste of what you missed. Compressor-giant Sullair has expanded its oil free portfolio with the OFS Series, a new line of oil free rotary screw compressors. The OFS Series consists of models in two frame sizes, 100-200 HP and 250-250 HP, and features multiple customer-influenced improvements in a smaller footprint. Igus presented a range of products for use in the manufacturing and repair of machine tools, including an industrial robot, operating with an igus Triflex robotic retraction system guiding and protecting cables and hoses along the 6-axes of motion. FANUC America Corporation introduced the new CR-4iA and CR-7iA table-top size col- laborative robots, and demonstrated its CR-35iA heavy-payload collaborative robot. A new FANUC CR-4iA collaborative robot mounted to a pedestal and equipped with a Rockwell Safety Area Scanner demonstrated the robot's high-speed mode and contact-stop mode, which underscored the safety benefits that allow humans to work with the robots without the need for expensive industrial safety barriers. OTTO Motors launched in April 2016 with a line of self-driving vehicles designed exclusively for material transport. Due to rapid adoption by customers like GE and John Deere, the company says it will have more self-driving vehicles (SDVs) inside manufacturing and distribution facilities by the end of the year than Google will have on outdoor roads. Rockwell Automation featured a pre-engineered, automation solution for powertrain ap- plications using FANUC CNCs and robots integrated with its cell controllers over an Eth- erNet/IP network. Based on the Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture system, this solution allows manufacturers to control and collect data from a wide variety of devices over a single network. The automation solution can easily transfer the data to enterprise IT sys- tems, enabling better decision-making and cost savings. MotoSight 3D CanonVision is Yaskawa Motoman's new hardware/software solution that utilizes a single 3D machine vision head to quickly and easily recognize and pick parts that are randomly placed in bins. 3D CAD matching provides simplified, accurate part registra- tion, allowing even complicated parts to be identified. MotoSight 3D CanonVision utilizes a high-performance Canon camera, which uses projected light patterns to locate the parts, and single-step recognition reduces the need for multiple cameras. Mahr was showcasing its broad "MarSolutions" portfolio of products, aiming to provide the most accurate dimensional metrology on the market. The solution provides three levels of customization, including standard gage customization, standard elements custom as- sembly, and a complete custom design. Rethink Robotics featured collaborative robots, Baxter and Saw- yer, who can be trained to perform a task in a matter of minutes. With a true train by demonstration method, Baxter and Sawyer learn new tasks when a worker takes Baxter or Sawyer's "wrist" and shows the robot how to perform a task. This allows employees with little to no technical background to deploy and redeploy the robot on different tasks quickly and effectively. Designed for use in general purpose metrology, the Cyber- Gage360 from CyberOptics has a range of potential industrial applications from automotive to aerospace, where high accuracy and high speed throughput are important. 3D scans are as simple as opening the door, placing the part inside and pressing a but- ton. The results are a full 360° automated scan with accuracy NIST traceable to +/- 25µm.