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CynLr raises Series A funding to realize robot vision for ‘universal factory’

Robotics Business Review

Gokul NA and Nikhil Ramaswamy founded CynLr in 2019. “CynLr’s concept of a universal factory will simplify and eliminate the minimum order quantity bottleneck for manufacturing,” said Sridhar Rampalli, managing partner at Pavestone Capital. ” From left, Gokul NA and Nikhil Ramaswamy, co-founders of CynLr.

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Keys to the efficiency of job shop manufacturing businesses

Manufacturer's Monthly

According to a 2019 study by Cloud Elements , 55 per cent of respondents believe API integrations are “critical” to their operations. Addressing production bottlenecks Bottlenecks can severely disrupt production flow and impact overall efficiency in Australian manufacturing. This might involve cross-training workers.

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Shipping ports feeling the affects of supply chain delays across Canada

Canadian Manufacturing

But containers sat on its docks for nearly six days on average, almost twice as long as in 2019 and a 41 per cent increase from 2021. ” In Montreal, Canada’s second-largest port, containers wait four times longer than the 2019 average, and vessel turnaround is similarly well above both 2019 levels and those from a year ago.

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Alta. predicts a $2.4B budget surplus due to oil

Canadian Manufacturing

Many major spending initiatives were revealed in recent weeks, including $158 million to recruit and retain health workers and $243 million over three years to augment primary care to reduce emergency room bottlenecks. The budget promises a cap on post-secondary tuition increases starting in 2024. Toews said there would be $1.8

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Automating food production, one serving at a time

Robotics Business Review

He completed a market research study, dissecting the market to better understand where the bottlenecks are in food production and to identify the opportunities. But cooking isn’t the labor bottleneck in food production, the most labor-intensive is plating, assembly, and portioning. billion in 2023 to $3.35 Chef has raised $22.5

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Welding skills shortage requires a multi-pronged solution

Manufacturer's Monthly

Even before the global pandemic, the number of welding trade workers in Australia was in steady decline falling by 8 per cent in five years, from 75,800 in 2014 to 69,600 in 2019. Completion rates of welding apprenticeships are also dropping, as much as 23 per cent each year.

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A productivity game-changer

Manufacturer's Monthly

Up until June 2019, Watkins was operating out of one facility in Banyo, Brisbane, and the difficulty at the time was the bottleneck caused by the unloading and loading of trailers. “We Out with the old, in with the new.