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Four Industry 4.0 Tech Adoption Insights from Indiana Plastics Manufacturers

Mold Making Technology

In Indiana, successful Industry 4.0 implementation strategies have been revealed through more than 50 interviews with early adopters, many of which are in the plastics industry. Nationally, Indiana ranks seventh in plastics industry employment, according to the Plastics Industry Association. job functions.

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Additive manufacturing, material market could surpass $183b by 2032 – report says

AU Manufacturing

The market for additive manufacturing (AM) and materials could reach USD 183 billion (AUD 275 billion) by 2032, a 21.2 In terms of absolute value, the market for additive manufacturing and materials in the US is projected to generate USD 47.7 Aside from that, the adoption of Industry 4.0 billion (AUD 71.8

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How Additive Manufacturing Can Help Fix the Supply Chain

Fastener News Desk

There is a potential solution, however: additive manufacturing. Industry 4.0 and the cloud are enabling a vast digital manufacturing network in which a print job can be initiated in one part of the world and finished in another, exactly where the part is needed.

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New UK Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence and Spin Out Launched by the University of Wolverhampton with Support from EOS and AMCM

i4.0 today

The University of Wolverhampton (UK) and 3D printing global leaders EOS , and AMCM , have today announced they will join forces to launch a new UK Centre of Excellence for Additive Manufacturing (AM). Nathan Rawlings, Sales Manager at EOS UK , said: “The UK manufacturing sector has always pushed forward and embraced innovation.

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Providing Industry 4.0, STEM opportunities to students

Control Engineering

The studio offers tutorials on many manufacturing topics such as robotics, coding and additive manufacturing, which have a growing role in manufacturing. is equipped with Industry 4.0 There had been a few of them already in the state with automotive manufacturers,” she said.

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Hexagon partners with additive manufacturing R&D centre

MEM

Hexagon has partnered with Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), a national research and development (R&D) centre, to provide software that will help meet a Swedish initiative to advance the use of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies and accelerate the adoption of innovative and sustainable processes in European industry.

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HP Supply chain and additive manufacturing opportunities in Spain

SMMT

We are facing a global supply crisis, strongly affecting the automotive sector, hindering its production chains and, therefore, its sales. Thus, we have learned that we must evolve towards more diversified supply chains, where components manufacturing sites are closer to assembly lines and consumer markets. in Southern Europe.