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Manufacturing Tomorrow
JUNE 12, 2025
As the worlds most advanced manufacturing countries have shown, robots are the key to integrating automation into a factory: China has more than doubled the ratio of robots to factory workers in four years (2018-2022), and now ranks third in the world. Never forget to order parts on time or fail to notice a late delivery from your vendor.
Modern Machine Shop
APRIL 1, 2025
With tariffs and trade wars again making headlines, a few numbers from the recent past are worth revisiting: The 2018 tariffs, including the Section 301 duties on Chinese goods, raised $233 billion in U.S. No new Asian-sourced machines are planned — an outcome that aligns with goals of the initial 2018 tariffs on Chinese goods.
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Manufacturer's Monthly
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Emerging entrepreneurs need to run a lot leaner in the early days considering the long lead time to get to market. Dielenberg first used the term ‘Applied Technology’ in a 2018 Melbourne Knowledge Week presentation. The term is now being used more commonly to describe Australia’s modern design and manufacturing landscape.
Fastener News Desk
OCTOBER 13, 2023
FND: With Norm Fasteners 15 logistics and sales centers located in 9 countries, how did this infrastructure help your clients keep production lines up and running during supply chain constraints during the pandemic? NF: Our journey on US has started with a distribution center on 2018-2019 in Lansing, Michigan.
Donlouco
APRIL 29, 2021
There is no doubt that there has been an upward trend on metal prices for some time now initially for copper and aluminium driven by the demand for EV’s globally, but this trend has accelerated hugely in recent times and migrated into the steel industry also. Fig 2: Source : Financial Times. Increasing Sea Freight Costs.
Fabricating & Metal Work
OCTOBER 2, 2023
With the facility, ABB will expand production capacity by 50 percent and strengthen its capabilities to supply the European market, which is expected to grow at seven percent CAGR through 2027 1. This is a great time to invest in robotics and automation.
Additive Manufacturing
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Another goal is to develop a strong and globally competitive aeronautical industry and supply chain in Europe. Having this single-piece design solution to produce this kind of large format engine hardware with reduced cost, weight and manufacturing lead time gives a competitive business advantage. “We
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