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Why companies need to stop postponing their Industry 4.0 transformation

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand threats and lost opportunities associated with not embracing Industry 4.0 Implement three key Industry 4.0 technologies and hear about examples of the benefits of software (or digital) transformation, additive manufacturing and distributed manufacturing. Industry 4.0

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AI meets plastics: igus accelerates transformation to sustainable Industry 4.0

Dinesh Mishra

Smart maintenance, low-cost robotics, AI-based online tools: igus is showcasing pioneering solutions for the lubrication-free and CO 2 -neutral industry and automation of tomorrow at the Hannover Messe Cologne/Hanover, 21st February 2024 – To support industrial companies with the challenges of our time, such as the transformation to Industry 4.0

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Scape Technologies, Danish Technological Institute, and AMT join in a new EUROSTARS Project: Just in Time 3D Printing Production

i4.0 today

3D printing is a digital manufacturing technology, meaning that a large part of the production process is managed online. However, finishing the printed components still has some manual process steps. As its name implies, additive manufacturing adds material to create an object.

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igus to show affordable automation at Hannover Messe, Robotics Summit

Robotics Business Review

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. “ReBeL on Wheels” combines a collaborative robot arm with an autonomous mobile robot for €17,999 ($19,202 U.S.). .

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10 Houses 3D Printed in 10 Weeks on the Largest 3D Printing Project Site to Date

i4.0 today

For a long time, 3D construction printing has been seen as a possible solution to the escalating affordable housing crisis. Proponents of the technology claim, that when 3D printing projects in construction are carried out at scale, the advantages of the technology become clear.

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Realizing Industry 4.0

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

Written by Carlos Rojas, Global Industry Solutions Leader, Cisco Systems, Inc. What is Industry 4.0? As such, the world of manufacturing is betting on new technologies and data analytics to obtain “maximum optimization”; and these things neatly fall under the business strategy known as Industry 4.0.

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How to: Embrace Industry 4.0 in Your Factory

Cisco Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the core driver of economic growth in many countries across the world, including the Asia-Pacific region. The consensus is that the sector needs to embrace the Fourth Industrial Revolution (a.k.a. 4IR or Industry 4.0) The Journey to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. 3D Printing.