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Alienation from Our Work

Gary Mintchell

As factories multiplied and grew, most of humanity was no longer involved in this combination of skill and creativity in the production of something useful or beautiful for someone else. Karl Marx observed workers at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the early 1800s. He theorized something he called alienation.

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Setting Up the Building Blocks for a Digital Factory

Modern Machine Shop

Reeves says that MiConnect has simplified the act of connecting machines to Woodward’s overall digital factory. When recently asked to connect one Colorado facility’s Okuma machines to the digital factory, two of Reeves team members had the machines connected and running within four hours. Images courtesy of Woodward, Inc.

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Harnessing the power of IoT in manufacturing—4 critical components

Cisco Industrial Automation

That is how many companies are capturing value at scale from their Industry 4.0 How will work processes change? How will you measure success? 3 – Collaboration between IT, OT, and factory workers. IT teams know how to connect those systems for high performance and security. Who will benefit?

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Siemens Has Had a Busy Month

Gary Mintchell

Combining Siemens’ domain know-how across industries with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, the Copilot further improves handling of rigorous requirements in manufacturing and automation. These four are from Siemens. The company announced expanded collaboration with Service Now.

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AMGC appointed industry partner in Australian Government Growth Program

Manufacturer's Monthly

Industrial worker turner machining metal shaft on lathe machine at manufacturing factory The Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre (AMGC) has been appointed as an Industry Partner Organisation (IPO) as part of the Australian Government Industry Growth Program ( IGP ), aimed at growing Australian manufacturing activity. Awarded $1.9 Awarded $1.9

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Flexxbotics updates FlexxCORE to help robotic companies scale production

Robotics Business Review

These new system ‘s capabilities enable manufacturers to scale robotic production across the smart factory in a standardized way for greater plant capacity, quality, and EBITDA margins, the company claimed. FlexxCORE has been updated for longer unattended production, increased capacity, and improved product quality.

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Engineering Air, Empowering the World: ELGi’s Ascent to Global Leadership

Dinesh Mishra

How do you assess progress towards that goal today? The reason we’re still calling it CK2, and not CK3 (since there is no CK3), is because internally, everyone knows what CK2 stands for. You talk to anyone in the company—they know what CK2 means. How do we reduce that? The first one is building our own machines.