Gary Mintchell

JANUARY 10, 2023

Video as a sensor has been a topic for several posts here at The Manufacturing Connection. Guys were performing a process, dragging a crate of parts to the next operation across the department, where the next operation took place, and that operator dragged the crate across the facility to the next operation.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

To help, here are a few MRO storeroom best practices, covering storeroom design, organization, inventory control and reporting. Placing frequently used parts near the entrance minimizes retrieval time while maintaining adequate aisle widths for smooth traffic flow. Surplus items may be returned to vendors, repurposed or liquidated.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MAY 24, 2023

Manufacturers’ Monthly investigates how the initiative is helping businesses increase work efficiency and uphold the highest safety standards. KITO PWB’s KITO Academy is a place where customers are trained in the safe use of lifting hoists as well as how to best service & maintain the equipment in accordance with Australian Standards.

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 22, 2025

Here then are five reasons to consider sharing your expertise as TASC 2025 , which takes place August 12-13 in downtown Indianapolis. The best presentations at TASC are not built around theoretical concepts. They shape best-practices that will be emulated by others. Plus, you have a team to help prepare your presentation, right?

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Manufacturer's Monthly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Industry, government and statutory bodies are working together to ensure that appropriate strategies are in place to reduce welder exposure to fumes and prevent long-term health effects. Education is the key to ensuring a safe and productive working environment for everyone.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Today, the industrial internet covers multiple verticals from manufacturing (whose products are placed into every vertical) to retail (which is normally considered to be merely point-of-sale, but can be connected to global supply chains, changing the business requirements significantly). That’s 244 pages.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 7, 2022

It’s been a best practice for years to collect all the data you can. However, collecting data isn’t always enough to allow for all of the newer solutions out there to work at their best and deliver the results you want. As a result of the data now being in one place the performance will exceed a linked server at every turn.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In it, the robot does eight pushups as a quick “warm-up” before work. Rapid Robotics this year announced Rapid iD, which it said uses generative AI, computer vision, and machine learning to enable robot arms to pick, inspect, and place items “with 100% certainty in end-of-line and logistics scenarios.” Read More 6. or DJI, in the U.S.

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Gary Mintchell

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

AI tools are at their best when they share workflows with human experts. working alongside human experts to provide support on the plant floor. This uncertainty also places emphasis on maintaining, rather than replacing machinery. providing support to plant managers, especially those tasked with managing multiple worksites.

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Dinesh Mishra

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

That’s how it creates a thriving ecosystem and organizational ethos that places great value on relationships. Industry Outreach It collaborates with various industry associations and academic institutions both in India and globally to deliberate on a wide range of relevant topics for the industry and society.

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Robotics Business Review

JUNE 17, 2024

NVIDIA noted that its announcement coincided with its first-place win at the Autonomous Grand Challenge for End-to-End Driving at Scale at CVPR. Two of NVIDIA’s papers — one on the training dynamics of diffusion models and another on high-definition maps for autonomous vehicles — are finalists for the Best Paper Awards at CVPR.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

AUGUST 16, 2022

One in five Australian’s ( 21 per cent ) have taken time off work in the past 12 months because they felt stressed, anxious, depressed or mentally unhealthy. The Workplace Health & Safety Show Sydney will take place on Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 September 2022. Mental health first aider, Carli Phillips, will present at the event.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2024

This allows a robot to know when it’s touching an object and how to get into position to best pick that object. “For high picking and placing operations, we don’t need to be exact. It wasn’t easy for the company’s team to create something that can work in so many scenarios. “We

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Manufacturer's Monthly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Five tech adoption tips for OHS professionals Do your homework: “Learn about emerging technology trends such AI, immersive technologies and connected work, as well as the disciplines surrounding these, including data science, ethics and human-centred design,” Cameron said. sydney/program.

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Because prevention is often the best cure, it’s necessary for operators to understand what causes machine failures in the first place so they can take steps to keep them from happening. A machine that operates at diminished capacity can be as damaging to a manufacturing operation as one that doesn’t work at all.

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Mold Making Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2023

But, as with many things, “automation” is a broad topic, and there are multiple forms of automation to consider. Once your capabilities assessment is complete, you must make an investment plan for the required equipment and technology and work to standardize your tooling operations.

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Canadian Metalworking Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Today, we are excited to launch the result of that work. We also added more layout and density options so that user can pick the reading experience that best fits their preferences. There are millions of sources across thousands of topics, and we all have a different appetite when it comes to feeding our minds. Power Search.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

If well targeted, this can help grow our ‘sovereign’ capability and capacity, drive sustainable economic growth and deliver stable, well-paid jobs – a topic I explored in my comment last month. What else works well? It’s also important that no barriers are placed in the way of commercialising.

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Fastener News Desk

AUGUST 3, 2022

It’s a great opportunity, a great company to work for, and as you saw last week, we had a chance to host Bettina Würth and Sebastian Würth, and my colleague Rainer Bürkert. I work for Rainer directly, so anytime we have an opportunity to have his type of leadership and experiences inside the United States, we welcome that!

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Additive Manufacturing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Workforce development is a vital topic in today’s additive manufacturing industry – as in every industry around the globe. As additive takes its place alongside traditional manufacturing, that more hybrid approach can impact many more businesses than those that already have “Hybrid” in their name. Diversity and Inclusion.

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ATS

JUNE 18, 2024

These provide information about whether conditions are right for corrosion to take place. Coupons: These are small samples of alloy, weighed to a high precision, and placed in the corrosive environment. Its major disadvantage is that it only works in aqueous solutions.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Attendees will gain insights into the latest enabling technologies, engineering best practices, and emerging trends. Our seasoned panelists will share real-world strategies, insights, and best practices for turning innovative ideas into successful products.

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ATS

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Because your MRO inventory is so vital to your success, it’s important to know how it works and what the best practices are for ensuring a smooth and efficient process. This may require detailed analysis that may be best handled by a third party.

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MEM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Retrofit will play a huge role in securing our buildings in future, whether that’s remedial work on RAAC, removal of asbestos, and the mission to reach Net Zero, and this will also be look at in detail on the Sustainability Hub with multiple sessions, as well as on the Main Stage as we look into the £1.48bn retrofit framework announce this spring.

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ATS

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Reliable, consistent operation requires a fixed and predictable work environment, and that limits how and where they can be used. This addresses one of the biggest limitations of conventional robots: the complex systems needed to ensure the safety of people working nearby or simply passing by the robot. Here’s how.

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Quantis

JUNE 5, 2024

The procurement of hardware as well as customs regulations made our work more difficult and travel activities were partly prohibited. If the customer places particular emphasis on cyber security, there is the option of a protocol switch that converts the machine data into the correct format and encrypts it.

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Dinesh Mishra

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Srinivasan, from MSSPL, a manufacturing company, shared, “Upanal CNC Solutions have done a good preventive maintenance work and reported as per the norms of Preventive maintenance.” These workshops cover a wide range of topics, from machine operation and programming to advanced manufacturing techniques.

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This ensures consistent adherence to best practices. Imbuing your company with the spirit of professionalism and pride is a great place to start. Keeping existing machinery in good working order is cheaper than replacing neglected equipment. Standardization: Establish clear maintenance procedures and protocols.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Brady will discuss how Amazon has worked internally and with partners to develop and deploy technologies including mobile robots, automated storage, AI, and humanoid robots. Founded in 2022, Apparel Robotics is working to change how clothing is manufactured. Makeev and co-founder and CTO Mark Schnittman met while working at iRobot.

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ATS

MAY 13, 2024

Share The usefulness of industrial robots has always been limited by the size of their work envelope. This blog explores the benefits manufacturers are seeing from putting AMRs to work as an additional preventive maintenance services tool in the factory. That paradigm changed when autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) emerged.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While corrective maintenance should not be an organizational strategy, it is almost always necessary at some point in the course of operations, even with one of the more effective equipment maintenance strategies in place. Contact us to learn more about our industrial maintenance services. View all resources Blog What is Green Manufacturing?

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Dinesh Mishra

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Ceramics: These tools are best for machining hard materials and can withstand high temperatures. Work holding Techniques Proper work holding is critical for ensuring accuracy and safety during turning operations. Four-Jaw Chucks: Allow for holding irregularly shaped components and provide greater flexibility in work holding.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 1, 2022

The end goal is to reach a zero trust posture, which is considered the best program because it demands the most attention and awareness from everyone in a company. Using modern devices, protocols, and software, while configuring security settings, makes it simple to employ best practices and truly achieve a zero-trust architecture.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Source: NVIDIA Building a smarter memory ReMEmbR’s memory-building phase is all about making memory work for robots. Our use of these different tools for the LLM agent enables the robot to go beyond answering questions about how to go to specific places and enables reasoning spatially and temporally. The full ReMEmbR system.

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Mold Making Technology

JUNE 1, 2023

This statement guided the development of the program for this year’s MoldMaking Conference and revealed some hot topics — automation, data, 3D printing and training. Best Tool & Engineering The Mold Builder’s Role in Defining Injection Molds to Support and Progress NPD | Dynamic Tool Corp.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 2, 2022

Managing your OT systems, maintaining ICS asset inventory, updating software, enforcing multi-factor authentication and leveraging OT monitoring systems are among the recommendations and best practices suggested to deter various security threats from infiltrating ICS devices and critical infrastructure. Key challenges (e.g.,

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 17, 2023

To further explore the automation workforce development topic after the show, AWS followed up with these companies and two more of their experts, Vectis founding partner Josh Pawley, and Acieta Regional Automation Manager Nick Cowell. The topic came up during the automation panel because when the U.S. Automation Frees Skilled Labor.

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