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Autonomous Manufacturing: AMFG Receives $8.5 Million in Funding Led by Intel Capital

Additive Manufacturing

With this new funding, AMFG will continue to help companies scale their additive manufacturing processes, further solidifying AMFG’s position at the forefront of the autonomous manufacturing revolution. The post Autonomous Manufacturing: AMFG Receives $8.5 We’re excited to be part of Keyvan Karimi and his team’s journey.”

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Rapid Manufacturing Providers Merge to Create Uptive Brand 

Mold Making Technology

The Uptive brand provides production-grade parts across numerous end markets including medical, electronics, consumer, automotive, aerospace and defense, automation and industrial, among others. Uptive also announces the launch of its new branding and an enhanced online presence, available at uptivemfg.com.

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8 Ways the Plastics Industry Is Using 3D Printing

Mold Making Technology

Once relegated to rapid prototyping, 3D printing technology has now advanced far beyond the design studio. At NPE 2024: The Plastics Show , 3D printing and additive manufacturing (AM) suppliers will be highlighted in the Advanced Manufacturing Zone , while AM users will take to the stage for Wednesday’s 3D Printing Workshop.

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How industry can realise the benefits of advanced technology

Manufacturer's Monthly

Author: Geoff Crittenden, CEO, Weld Australia But, with the advent of automation, robots, cobots and a range of other advanced welding technologies and techniques, this perception is becoming more and more outdated. robots and cobots Automation, Industry 4.0, Welding is a far less dangerous and arduous job than ever before. Industry 4.0

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Innovation on a Larger Scale

Fabricating & Metal Work

Those tools are making large-scale mold production, part machining, and process automation accessible to the broader aerospace, marine, and other industry sectors. Robotic Fiber Placement A longtime player in automated fiber placement (AFP) for aerospace, the Ingersoll venture into high-end robotics seems a natural progression.

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Manufacturing In the Middle: Growth, Opportunity and New Challenges

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

Source: Middle Market Manufacturing: How to Thrive in a Transforming Environment (2018). Robotics/advanced automation. Additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping. National Center for the Middle Market. These included: Cybersecurity. New materials/composites. Advanced process control.

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Realizing Industry 4.0

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

or what many call the 4 th Industrial Revolution follows the Mechanization in the Steam powered era, the “Henry Ford Mass Assembly” era supported by the use of electricity, and the Computer Assisted and Automation era. Additive Manufacturing (or 3D Printing) to perform rapid prototyping, complex part manufacturing, and spare part creation.