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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 industry can realise the benefits of advanced technology

Manufacturer's Monthly

Weld Australia—the peak body representing the welding industry in Australia—can help welders and fabricators realise the benefits of these advanced welding technologies. The power of Industry 4.0, robots and cobots Automation, Industry 4.0, Industry 4.0

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Innovation on a Larger Scale

Fabricating & Metal Work

The advantages promised by Industry 4.0 Those tools are making large-scale mold production, part machining, and process automation accessible to the broader aerospace, marine, and other industry sectors. The disruption promised by Industry 4.0 are being realized at Ingersoll Machine Tools in Rockford, Ill.

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How digital twins speed up the manufacturing process

Control Engineering

3D printing and scanning technologies. Digital twins are being improved because of new innovations in 3D printing and scanning. 3D printing, called additive manufacturing, is essentially building parts layer by layer using a laser. In fact, 3D printing is getting a lot of usage in the aerospace industry.

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Tiny and Perfect for Embedded and Volume Projects

i4.0 today

With the low-cost portfolio from IDS, companies can now benefit from the advantages of industrial cameras even with a limited budget. The range of applications extends from rapid prototyping and the automation of previously unprofitable small series to image processing projects with a large number of cameras. Today Magazine.

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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. Precisely the finishing of the printed parts is something that primarily requires manual handling.

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Additive vs. Traditional Manufacturing

i4.0 today

3D printing has revolutionised manufacturing. Where traditional subtractive technologies relied on removing material from a billet or block to obtain the desired shape, 3D printing now offers high throughput and high-levels of surface finishing. million by 2030. Today Magazine.