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Cloud-based Technologies Can Drive the Future of Europe’s Automotive Industry

i4.0 today

In July 2021, the German Association of the Automotive Industry, known as Verband der Automobilindustrie (VDA), cut its forecast for production growth from 13 percent to 3 percent, citing supply-chain disruptions, including a shortage of semiconductors. billion pounds ($3.30 Euros) to costs. billion pounds ($3.30 Euros) to costs.

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How Additive Manufacturing Can Help Fix the Supply Chain

Fastener News Desk

This has taken the form of long lead times, as well as stalling of production when parts needed for manufacturing fail. There is a potential solution, however: additive manufacturing. This opens new doors for faster and more localized manufacture of parts in these and other industries. Industry 4.0

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What Does 2023 Hold for Printed/Flexible Electronics?

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With applications ranging from energy harvesting to sensing, and applicability to sectors being as varied as healthcare and automotive, printed/flexible electronics are set to change our expectations of what electronics can provide and where they can be utilized. Source: IDTechEx. Source: IDTechEx. FHE circuit schematic.

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polySpectra Unlocks End-Use Healthcare & Consumer 3D Printing with New COR Bio Resin

Additive Manufacturing

With proven flagship technologies compatible with both industrial and, more recently, desktop DLP/LCD 3D printers, COR materials bring additive manufacturing to true production quality. We see a world where every designer, inventor, and engineer can quickly and affordably make their ideas real with digital manufacturing.

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The CHIRON Group publishes its first sustainability report

Dinesh Mishra

And, by investing in heat recovery and photovoltaic systems, as well as purchasing the required energy from renewable sources, the first milestone has already been reached: Production operations at the CHIRON Group sites in Germany are now carbon-neutral. Around two thirds of machines and solutions that are sold are exported.

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IDTechEx Asks If Electronics Manufacturing Can Join the Digital Age

i4.0 today

Asked whether electronics is a ‘digital technology’, almost everyone would reply in the affirmative. However, while printed circuit boards (PCBs) enable digital technologies, the manufacturing processes used to produce them are still largely analog. Why Do We Need Digital Electronics Manufacturing?

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Nikon Metrology Acquires Avonix Imaging

Modern Machine Shop

subsidiary of Nikon Corporation, has purchased Avonix Imaging LLC , which has been a strategic X-ray CT (computed tomography) equipment manufacturing partner to Nikon Industrial Metrology Business Unit (IMBU) since 2015. In its medium-term management plan through 2025, Nikon has positioned digital manufacturing as its key strategic business.