ATS

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Supplier information: Details of where MRO items are purchased, plus contractual terms such as holding/placing of consignment inventory. The same data can guide implementation of predictive maintenance technologies like machine health monitoring sensors. Low-inventory risks: Extended machine downtime and expedited shipping costs.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 Opening Keynote: Welcome to the Era of Physical Intelligence Speaker: Daniela Rus, Director, MIT CSAIL 9-9:45 AM Physical Intelligence is achieved when AIs power to understand text, images, signals, and other information is used to make physical machines such as robots intelligent.

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ATS

MARCH 25, 2025

Its also about ensuring products meet quality standards, that workers stay safe and that the business maximizes its ROI from the machine. They do repetitive, messy and hazardous jobs such as welding, painting, material handling, machine tending and assembly. Many manufacturers handle this by contracting with a specialist.

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Robotics Business Review

JULY 8, 2024

The addition of the roundtables allowed attendees to discuss even more specific, deep-dive topics in robotics. Instead, they all focused on topics pertinent to the 2024 robotics climate. And I can’t forget to mention one of the most exciting topics of the event: humanoids. Register now. ” remain to be answered.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Read on to learn more about this continuous improvement process and how to implement it. Broadly defined, a manufacturing bottleneck is any process, machine or resource that slows down the flow of product through a production line, leading to a reduction in manufacturing capacity. What is bottleneck analysis?

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ATS

MAY 14, 2025

Effective manufacturing planning is essential during this period, ensuring that each process aligns with the leveled schedule and long-term capacity goals. By linking machines, systems, and data streams, manufacturers can respond faster to changes and maintain smoother production flow.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 3, 2025

While at the show, I was a witness to the passion and fire within this community as industry professionals from all walks of life networked, learned and shared their valuable knowledge during the three-day event. To learn more about the mold builders featured at PTXPO 2025, click here. Another hot topic among moldmakers?

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In order to best serve the moldmaking community, Alliance learns and adapts to what moldmakers need. Starting from scratch with this machine, the company looked into every aspect of what the industry was asking for and found a way to incorporate it. To accomplish this, Beaumont offers education and training.

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Dinesh Mishra

MARCH 20, 2023

The show was supported by Axis Bank, partnered by Machine Maker and it brought together Italian and Indian companies to explore potential collaborations and partnerships. The exhibition provided an ideal platform for networking, learning, and exploring new business opportunities.

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Dinesh Mishra

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Enduring Relationships: Its focus on partner delight goes beyond short-term gains. By fostering mutual respect and reliability, it lays the foundation for long-term, sustainable partnerships. These articles delve into key topics such as technological trends, market insights, and the future of machine tools and other industries.

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E&T

APRIL 13, 2023

It may come as a surprise to learn that there was a body of such rights long before digital tools, technologies and online spaces ever existed. Since completing ‘Beyond Data’, Renieris has observed the widespread release of AI tools such as ChatGPT that use machine learning to generate content with natural language inputs.

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 10, 2023

If you follow this column, you know I wrote about that topic last month. Additive manufacturing is part of the reason for the move and other related changes, so I am taking up the topic one more time. With the start of this new year, I have stepped out of the editor-in-chief role on Modern Machine Shop. Until then.

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This blog explains what the term means and introduces the technology involved. Remote” in this context refers to the person acquiring or using data from a machine not being physically present at the machine. After covering some of the many applications, it wraps up by detailing the biggest benefits of remote monitoring systems.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

These include: Machine maintenance: AI can make a major impact on maintenance processes throughout the organization, and AI in predictive maintenance is likely the area that can yield the greatest benefit. To learn how we can help apply our results-focused strategy to your operations, contact us today.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Hot topics in Control Engineering, for November 2022, for stories posted in the last three months included PLC programming, System Integrator of the Year winners, sustainable 5G and more. How AI and machine learning can drive sustainable 5G. Machine learning facilitates turbulence tracking in fusion reactors.

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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. Read on to learn more about what causes machines to malfunction and what can be done to prevent downtime.

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ATS

JANUARY 5, 2024

Defining terms: understanding condition-based maintenance and predictive maintenance When trying to preserve the longevity and efficiency of your machinery, knowing the best maintenance plan for your specific application(s) is critical. This approach can ensure that any work carried out is on an “as-needed” basis.

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ATS

JUNE 18, 2024

In broad terms, five types of industrial sensors are used on manufacturing equipment. Corrosion monitoring sensors use different physical principles to gather data for long-term trend tracking. As a leader in industrial maintenance, ATS has extensive experience with helping manufacturers implement machine health monitoring systems.

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Canadian Metalworking Magazine

APRIL 4, 2022

Leo reads millions of articles, reports, and social media posts to determine if they are relevant to the topics you want to track. These Leo Concepts are machine learning models that encapsulate a broader understanding of each concept. Crypto’ is a Technology Leo Concept that recognizes numerous terms for Crypto.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Employing zoning strategies : Grouping parts based on their function or machine usage streamlines picking processes. Regular audits prevent unnecessary clutter, maintain standard storage procedures, and support long-term parts room organization. Ready to transform your MRO storeroom into a well-oiled machine?

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ATS

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Whether it’s short-term catch up or long-term maintenance relief, the key issue AI addresses is downtime. Through advanced AI and machine learning algorithms potential equipment failures can be forecasted before they occur. Predictive Maintenance One of the key roles of AI today is predictive maintenance.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

IIoT needs AI, digital twin, trustworthiness, machine learning (ML), connected supply chains and more. Trustworthiness is the combination of cybersecurity, privacy and confidentiality, in their terms). All this information provides a map of the topic area and turns a headwind into a tailwind. IIoT is now an adult.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

If you’re unfamiliar with what these terms represent, you might be led to believe you have to choose one over the other. Read on to learn how these two concepts intersect and mesh to provide you with an optimized approach to maintaining your systems. They may sound like competing ideas, but in many cases they’re complementary.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 23, 2025

Investing in EDM operator training boosts cost savings, productivity and quality by enhancing machine knowledge and understanding consumable material interactions. Source (all images) | Entegris Poco Materials Technological advancements are only one axis of improvement in electrical discharge machining (EDM).

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Preventive maintenance aims to drive down unplanned downtime, although predictive maintenance, when sensors report on machine health, promises a bigger impact on OEE. Material shortages will halt production while substandard materials, resulting from supplier issues or poor handling or storage, will cause problems with how machines run.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Enhancing Robot Navigation with LLM Agent ReMEmbR ReMEmbR supports long-term memory, reasoning, and action Robots are increasingly expected to perceive and interact with their environments over extended periods. The WhisperTRT ROS node directly accesses the microphone using PyAudio and publishes recognized speech on the speech topic.

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Control Engineering

JULY 12, 2023

Learning Objectives Identify how to determine if your company is moving quickly enough with Industry 4.0 This term was famously announced in 2011 at Hannover Fair as part of the German High-Tech Strategy, and since then it has taken hold across the world. Winter: The term “Industry 5.0” initiatives. Understand Industry 4.0

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 13, 2023

Learning Objectives. Understand how Control Engineering hot topics for 2022 were selected. These automation and control topics help Control Engineering subscribers do their jobs better. VFDs from the inside out, February 1: Variable frequency drive (VFD) vocabulary words: These 50 terms can help properly apply VFDs.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Our editorial advisory board members share valuable insights on key trends and hot topics shaping the community this year. Members recognized the need to bridge the gap between academic learning and practical skills, with some institutions offering specialized certificate programs and technology electives in areas such as mold design.

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Share The ability of a machine, line or system to perform at the required level throughout its life is largely “baked-in” when it’s designed. Reliability vs. availability These two components of RAM overlap: if a machine is unreliable availability is likely low. It is derived from the inverse of MTBF.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

OCTOBER 13, 2024

By integrating disruptive technologies, like artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning (ML), ACW is speeding up onboarding, enhancing workforce flexibility, and preserving critical knowledge. To learn more about these and other growth opportunities in the global ACW domain, click here.

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ATS

MARCH 31, 2023

Share You’ve probably heard the term “gigafactory” more and more frequently over the past decade, especially as these facilities have moved from the realm of possibility into reality. The origins of the term ‘gigafactory’ What does the word “gigafactory” mean? There may be several different interpretations.

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E&T

AUGUST 10, 2022

The development, procurement and deployment of AI and its associated machine learning (ML) is happening at a scale and pace “we’ve not seen before, and it is only going to increase over the next few years.” But there are plenty more to go with them, as Blackman’s ‘Ethical Machines’ explains. Ethical Machines.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 17, 2025

Being this is a column for machine shop manufacturing parts, we have dedicated many topics to learning how surface finish works, the need for its measurement and the various standards and parameters available for proper surface texture analysis, either with contact or optical tools.

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Control Engineering

JULY 17, 2023

Learning Objectives Understand data from an Augury survey that explains how artificial intelligence can identify and improve manufacturing production goals. The resulting study also covers manufacturing production topics include challenges, roadblocks, sustainability, workforce, technology among others.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Learning Objectives Jan. Some answers on topics included artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), integration of new technologies and cybersecurity and more that were not answered during the live webcast. Question: What are in-use applications of deep learning/AI? Courtesy: Eosys, George T.

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ATS

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Thinking maintenance and repair are equal in terms of the value they provide can lead to big problems in the long run. Read on to learn more about the difference between maintenance and repair and why this distinction is critical to your operations.

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