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Plasma reactor could create oxygen on Mars

E&T

Since then, scientists have been looking for ways to produce more breathing air in the Red Planet, whose atmosphere is made from 95 per cent carbon dioxide. . MOXIE uses high pressures and temperatures to separate carbon dioxide, and then a membrane made from stabilised zirconium to filter out the oxygen. carbon and oxygen ?

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Automation This Morning for March 2, 2023

The Automation Blog

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about Motors, Reporting, Modbus, KNX, Pwn2Own, LOTO, Light Curtains, Simulating XYZ Machines, Node-RED, Coils, Alto, IEEE, Tower Lights, Valves, Ethernet IO and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Thursday March 2, 2023. To learn more, click here.

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Can Connecting ERP to Machine Tool Monitoring Address the Workforce Challenge?

Modern Machine Shop

When the activity report from a machine tool monitoring system shows a particular machine being out of cycle for an unexpected stretch of time, the cause of that lost productivity typically is not the machine itself. It is organization monitoring — or should be. But in practice, there is a big missing piece. Yes, says Ellis.

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Take Time to Save Time: 6 Steps in Mold Design to Reduce Back-End Troubleshooting

Mold Making Technology

Since making these changes, our on-time delivery and successful initial first article inspections (FAIs) have drastically increased. Photo Credit, all images: Westminster Tool When you go to a moldmaker, what are you really buying — just steel or something more? Why is it important to take these steps early in the process?

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Catching up with Industry 4.0

Automation Mag

In the 2022 Federal Budget, the Government of Canada singled out “innovation and productivity” as the “Achilles heel” of the Canadian economy. . The one thing I really worry about is the fact that companies are saying, ‘I’m not even going to invest in robotics or automation until I can be sure I can get the staff to run it,’” says Darby. .

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Building robots can be a pain: 6 reasons you should let someone else do it

Robotics Business Review

AsSKA Roboticsfounder Spencer Krause explained in blog post “Why Companies Should Contract Out Robotics Systems Development” and in a recent interview with R&D World : Many of todays businesses seem to hesitate when it comes to outsourcing difficult engineering tasks. You need cash, time, and peoplelots of em.

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James May: ‘Our attitude to engineering is a very British disease’

E&T

James May just likes talking about and getting stuck in with vehicles. A man it seems obsessed with the machines that get us from A to B, his current focus has turned away from propelling them by burning fossils or charging batteries, and towards those “marvellous vehicles” that only require the application of human muscle.