Craig Tomita

With more than 30 years of experience in almost all aspects of automation sales, Craig Tomita is a client advisor at California Manufacturing Technology Consulting (CMTC).

Tue, 11/17/2020 - 12:02
Rundown on Manufacturing Robotics, Part 3Can my small business benefit from automation?
Wed, 12/16/2020 - 12:02
Industrial robots have been in existence and commercially available for more than 65 years. Factory automation, a more all-encompassing term, has been in existence in one form or another for considerably longer than that. Humans have continually…
Rundown on Manufacturing Robotics, Part 2Considerations for implementing an industrial robot system
Wed, 12/02/2020 - 12:03
Are the days of standard industrial robots numbered? Absolutely not. In part one of this series, we looked at the unique attribute of cobots. In this article, we’ll see how industrial robots do what they’re designed to do extremely well—high speed,…
Rundown on Manufacturing Robotics, Part 1A third hand: Cobots are specifically designed to be safely used around people
Tue, 11/17/2020 - 12:02
One of the most significant developments of potential interest to small and medium-sized manufacturers in the area of industrial robots is the introduction about 10 years or so ago of a subset of industrial robots called collaborative robots or “…