Design World

APRIL 25, 2024

The LEAP Awards (Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program) celebrates the most innovative and forward-thinking products serving the design engineering space. This dynamic competition honors the most innovative engineered products/components across several of our flagship brands: Design World, Fluid Power World, EE World, and Engineering.com. Submissions for the 2024 LEAP Awards program are being accepted starting today,… The post 2024 LEAP Awards now open for nominations appeared firs

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Gary Mintchell

APRIL 25, 2024

Emerson continues on the software development path. In brief: DeltaV Workflow Management delivers scalable recipe authoring and execution technologies for life sciences companies. Global automation technology and software leader Emerson on April 16, 2024 introduced DeltaV Workflow Management, a next-generation software designed for life sciences companies in early-stage development.

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Automation World

APRIL 25, 2024

Automating your quality control efforts using vision-based inspection systems, especially in heavily regulated industries, can dramatically improve your operations and reduce the chance of recalls.

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SMMT

APRIL 19, 2024

Number of vehicles on UK roads reaches record 41.4 million in 2023, with car ownership up 1.6% to 35,694,845 units. The average car in use saw CO2 emissions decline by -2.1%, notably thanks to incentivised investment by business fleets into EVs. One in 40 of all vehicles on roads now zero emission, including 960,896 cars, 61,161 vans, 2,383 HGVs and 1,922 buses.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 23, 2024

Source: Getty Images Ten years ago, Google created a pair of glasses that got me very excited about the future of machining. Most people related it to gaming and artificial reality, but the far-reaching implications and promising advancements this technology could bring to our industries and machine shops was never fully realized. Google stopped its glasses project suddenly, which was a great disappointment for me.

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Design World

APRIL 25, 2024

The Power Transmission Distributors Association (PTDA) held the first Industry Immersion Conference in Hollywood Florida on February 29. This one-day intensive program — developed and led by power transmission/motion control (PT/MC) practitioners — aimed to advance the professional perspectives, experience, and confidence employees and emerging leaders need to cultivate successful relationships within the industry.

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Automation World

APRIL 25, 2024

Sick USA's Aaron Rothmeyer explains LiDAR sensors, how they differ from other sensors commonly used in the manufacturing industries and how they can be applied in quality control operations.

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The Guardian Manufacturing

APRIL 24, 2024

The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the globe’s largest industrial co-operative, with workers paying for the right to share in its profits – and its losses. In return for giving more to their employer, they expect more back When Marisa Fernández lost her husband to cancer a few years ago, her employers at the Eroski hypermarket went, she says, “above and beyond to help me through the dark days afterwards, rejigging my timetable and giving me time off when I couldn’t face coming in.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 23, 2024

New offerings include the igusGO AI-driven app and more low-cost automation. Source: igus At its annual press conference last week, igus GmbH previewed numerous new products in advance of the Hannover Messe trade show. The Cologne, Germany-based company announced 247 new products, including lubrication-free drives using motion plastics and new robots for educational, service, and industrial applications. “We’re offering a mobile manipulator for small companies,” said Alexander

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Design World

APRIL 24, 2024

Battery storage systems and electric vehicle charging units are rapidly being woven into the infrastructure of today’s world. EV charging stations are being installed in many locations, including parking lots and garages, and renewable wind and solar power systems are driving the growth of industrial-sized grid battery storage systems to capture excess energy and make… The post Southco securing EV charging and grid battery storage infrastructure appeared first on Design World.

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As engineers push the boundaries of innovation with groundbreaking hardware products, their success depends largely on the speed and efficiency of production. The challenge? Manual processes and disparate systems lead to multiple versions of documents, incomplete records, and duplicated work, creating a chaotic system of records that is difficult to manage.

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Gary Mintchell

APRIL 24, 2024

I went to the Aras customer conference for the first time this year. Interesting company, good products, innovative customers. But, sorry, I’m hardly shocked that a survey of 835 “executive level experts” say their companies are not prepared to use Artificial Intelligence. We are all still feeling our way along the path toward discovering if there is a use or not.

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Automation World

APRIL 24, 2024

The integration of artificial intelligence and immersive environments is expected to shape the future of HMIs, emphasizing the flexibility and mobility afforded by remote access technologies.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 21, 2024

Image: Victoria University The Victorian state government has announced a $1.5 million investment for Victoria University’s (VU) Sunshine campus as part of the TAFE Technology Fund. The money will be used to provide cutting-edge machines to support the establishment of the Western Melbourne Precinct for Advanced Manufacturing Training. In the announcement delivered by minister for skills and training, the Hon Brendon O’Connor, he stated technology is vital to support skills training for advanced

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Control.com

APRIL 23, 2024

Baumer has recently announced the release of the Baumer Sensor Suite (BSS) that facilitates faster engineering timeframes for Baumer encoders equipped with IO-Link and CANopen protocols.

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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

Design World

APRIL 22, 2024

Hannover Messe is taking place in Hannover, Germany, from April 22 to 26. At the event, Schneider Electric is presenting its vision for automation and showcasing its latest innovations, including industrial software, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital twin technology. These solutions will be demonstrated through the lens of a digital and sustainable life science campus.… The post Schneider Electric highlights software, automation, electrification and Hannover Messe appeared first on

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Gary Mintchell

APRIL 24, 2024

A personal development speaker I often listen to delivers a set of talks on developing personal guardrails designed to prevent us from going off the deep end emotionally and relationally. Similarly as we explore this new age of artificial intelligence (AI) people are recognizing that we could use a set of guardrails to help guide our collective decisions using this new technology.

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i4.0 today

APRIL 22, 2024

Mitsubishi Electric has launched the MELFA RV-12CRL vertical articulated robot, which offers 1,504 mm reach and 12 kg payload capacity. The robot’s wide effective working area makes it suitable for a variety of processes and industries, including food & beverage, automotive, lithium-ion battery manufacturing, logistics and warehousing. Users will also be able to take advantage of built-in functions that streamline implementation, enhance safety and reduce downtime.

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E&T

APRIL 21, 2024

On Earth Day, Net Zero Tracker (NZT) has released its latest analysis that reveals how far private firms are lagging behind their public counterparts in setting climate targets and, as a result, their readiness for incoming climate regulation.

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70% of digital transformation projects fail (BCG, 2020). In an industry where most large software implementations falter, we recognize the importance of planning, optimization, and execution. With over 25 years of industry experience and countless successful implementations, MASS Group is opening the vault of tips and tricks to provide a complimentary step-by-step guide in implementing a Work-In-Progress (WIP) tracking software.

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Control.com

APRIL 23, 2024

Join us as we check out the latest in today's industrial control system technology when we visit Chicago in early May, enjoying the sights and sounds of Automate 2024.

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Design World

APRIL 24, 2024

The new UT grommets from icotek are an innovative solution for the simple and efficient routing of cables into housings with and without plugs. The grommet is U-shaped with slots on one side that allow individual cable with a variable clamping range of 2 mm to be routed safely and tool-less. The diameter range is… The post Icotek‘s slotted U-shaped cable grommet for frameless installation up to IP54 appeared first on Design World.

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Gary Mintchell

APRIL 24, 2024

More and more companies are developing partnerships to serve customers rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. Hexagon had acquired PAS and its Cyber Integrity solution some years ago. This partnership announced with cybersecurity solution provider Dragos aims to do no less than “revolutionize OT cybersecurity at industrial facilities.” The technical partnership focuses on integrating the complementary OT cybersecurity capabilities of the Dragos Platform and Hexagon’s PAS Cyber Integrity to pr

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Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 22, 2024

Image: Combilift Why is it important to know the temperature of a forklift’s electric motor? This kind of valuable information can prevent failures, reduce maintenance costs, and improve the longevity of a machine. It’s also just one way in which Combilift’s new telemetry solution – Combi Connect – brings value to a business. To illustrate how Combi Connect can benefit users, Combilift’s Mechanical Software Development Technician, Antonio Patacho, provides an example of temperature monitoring on

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

We’ve all heard the buzzwords to describe new supply chain trends: resiliency, sustainability, AI, machine learning. But what do these really mean today? Over the past few years, manufacturing has had to adapt to and overcome a wide variety of supply chain trends and disruptions to stay as stable as possible. Stability has become key in this post-COVID world, and will remain key moving forward.

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Cisco Smart Manufacturing

APRIL 22, 2024

When we introduced our first compute platform in 2009 with Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers , there was a fair amount of snickering from industry watchers and established server vendors.

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Control.com

APRIL 22, 2024

Parameters control the operation and command sources for VFDs. The PowerFlex series from Rockwell Automation is no exception. Learn how to adjust the parameters for networking and IP configuration.

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Design World

APRIL 23, 2024

Contributed by Frances Richards As with many things in life and engineering, it depends whether you should use shielded servomotor cables. However, in most industrial environments, the answer is a definite yes. Later in this entry, the few instances where unshielded servomotor cables may be appropriate will be discussed. For now, let’s consider some of […] The post Should servomotor cables be shielded, and if so, why?

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 20, 2024

MDA Space’s Canadarm2 onboard the ISS in 2021. | Source: MDA Space MDA Space this week announced that it has received a $250 million contract extension from the Canadian Space Agency. The contract will allow the company to continue supporting robotics operations on the International Space Station, or ISS, from 2025 to 2030. Brampton, Ontario-based MDA Space specializes in satellites, Earth and space observation, and space exploration and infrastructure.

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This guidebook discusses how small/medium manufacturers have implemented Smart Manufacturing initiatives and realized benefits such as increased productivity as well as higher levels of coordination and speed within the enterprise and supply chain.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 21, 2024

Image: Boeing Boeing and Wagner Sustainable Fuels have announced they will collaborate on growing the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry to help meet Australia’s airline demand for jet fuel. In a recent announcement Boing state Australia’s airline demand for jet fuel is expected to increase by 75 per cent over the next 25 years. “Wagner’s sustainability goals align with Boeing’s work to advance aviation decarbonization and energy security through renewable energy including SAF, advanced te

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SMMT

APRIL 24, 2024

British car production falls -27.1% in March, as manufacturers gear up to make new models, rounding off first quarter with volumes still up 1.1%. 59,467 cars leave factories in the month – with volumes for home and overseas markets declining -0.3% and -35.9% respectively. Latest independent outlook expects UK car and light van production to be around 940,000 in 2024, reflecting multiple model changeovers this year.

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Control.com

APRIL 19, 2024

SMC has announced several new products for pneumatic control and robot assembly systems, including longer life pneumatic air cylinders, a new air flow controller, and a multi-hand robot adapter.

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Design World

APRIL 24, 2024

Bolometers based on superconducting Josephson junctions (JJs) can be used for several types of sensors, including transition edge sensors, Josephson escape sensors, and radiation threshold detectors. This articddle first presents the structure of a basic bolometer and then looks at how that structure can be varied to produce different types of sensors.

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Next-gen manufacturers are redesigning factories to enable agility at every stage of production. From more timely communication between engineers and technicians to technologies that empower real-time collaboration, they’re getting ahead by making iterations and improvements during a build, across the production line at scale. This level of flexibility means they can develop more quickly than their legacy counterparts.

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