Did you know you could access and program all of your fluid dispenser SmartDispensers® using a single Apple iPad or other tablet device? Simply connect your fluid dispensing SmartDispensers™ to the local server or the local Wi-Fi network. Using your iPad, access your fluid dispensers LogMeIn professional account. Every SmartDispenser® is provided with a lifetime subscription to LogMeIn Professional. LogMeIn provides a password secure list of all your SmartDispensers™. Simply click the fluid dispenser you wish to access and program or, pull production data or use the web cam provided with the SmartDispenser® to start a video feed from your SmartDispenser® to the iPad. Sign up for a Skype account; add a Bluetooth headset and you can communicate to the production worker via the iPad and SmartDispenser®. Fast programming, fast response from anywhere in your facility or anywhere in the world. Fishman®‘s fluid dispensing products combine the AirFree® volumetric fluid dispensing process with today’s M2M technology. Like so many assembly machines used in manufacturing, fluid dispensing has evolved from the 1970’s pneumatic analog world of time and pressure to the SmartDispenser®…….
A report published by IDC research predicts that approximately 1.2 billion workers will be using mobilized devices in their enterprises by 2013. Add this trend to the announcement today from the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the $18.5 million grant to U of Texas for developing nano manufacturing systems for mobile computing and it does paint a picture; the use of technology and mobile devices will continue to infiltrate the assembly of manufactured products such as automobiles, medical devices, electronics, solar cells and trains, planes and buses….Manufacturing partners such as Texas Instruments, 3M, Lockheed Martin, Applied Materials and Corning Inc., among others, will participate to develop innovative nanomanufacturing, nanosculpting and nanometrology systems that could lead to versatile mobile computing devices such as wearable sensors, foldable (like in your pocket?) laptops and rollable batteries.