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What is a Microfactory?

ATS

As manufacturing continues to evolve and adapt, microfactories are one of the most promising concepts among the smart manufacturing trends driving the industry forward. A microfactory is a highly automated facility, built to provide a focused, vertically integrated set of start-to-finish manufacturing services.

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Utilizing virtual twins to improve manufacturing operations

Control Engineering

Virtual twin insights Manufacturers face many challenges including evolving technology, rising costs, shrinking profit margins with sustainability concerns and persistent supply chain instability. Benefits include discovering layout problems sooner, detecting interference during simulation and improving manufacturing agility.

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Hexagon Startup Accelerator Picks Eight Metaverse Startups

Gary Mintchell

These start-ups have been identified by Sixth Sense as the next big thing for digital reality solutions in the manufacturing sector (digital reality, AR, VR Metaverse). Software is designed to efficiently schedule and track manufacturing processes – from the initial order to the finished part.

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Keep Ahead of the Competition with TSN

i4.0 today

In a world of global markets where everything is moving faster and competition is fierce, companies need to have agile manufacturing operations to introduce products faster to market than other industry players.

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Eight ‘Digital Reality’ Start-ups Win Opportunity to Advance Manufacturing

MEM

Eight of the most innovative manufacturing start-ups from across the globe have been announced by manufacturing leader Hexagon as the second cohort of the Sixth Sense open innovation platform. Software is designed to efficiently schedule and track manufacturing processes – from the initial order to the finished part. .

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Canadian start-up JITbase among Hexagon’s second Sixth Sense cohort

Automation Mag

Eight innovative manufacturing start-ups from across the globe are part of Hexagon’s second cohort of the Sixth Sense open innovation platform. Earlier this year, Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division launched its second Sixth Sense challenge for start-ups in the advanced manufacturing space.