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How to optimize industrial motor communications, Part 3, smart manufacturing

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand how motor-drive communications help enable smart manufacturing. Motor communication insights Motor-drive communications using industrial Ethernet protocols can help enable smart manufacturing. We’ve been doing this in the automotive industry for many years.

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Hexagon Invests $100 Million in Divergent Technologies Inc.

Fabricating & Metal Work

a pioneer of green manufacturing technologies with the first modular digital factory for the automotive industry. Divergent has developed an alternative production process to traditional vehicle manufacturing called DAPSĀ® (Divergent Adaptive Production System) that addresses economic and environmental challenges head-on.

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Hexagon Invests $100 M in Autonomous and Sustainable Manufacturing through Divergent

Additive Manufacturing

The patented process combines AI-optimised generative design software, additive manufacturing (3D printing) and automated assembly to build lightweight automotive parts and frames. Parts are 3D printed and assembled autonomously, reducing manufacturing time and human intervention.