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New ASTM standard aims to establish consistent grading system for additive manufacturing in automotive sector

Automation Mag

ASTM International shared in a press statement that its additive manufacturing technologies committee ( F42 ) is developing a proposed standard that will be used to assign part grades across automotive industries that use AM to produce parts. This document is one step toward adding part grades/classifications in all transportation areas.”

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Model management software challenges at automotive facility

Control Engineering

Lacking documentation of how things work, observing programmable logic controllers and human-machine interfaces can help update production models. Updated project models were needed for several automotive production lines. Updated project models were needed for several automotive production lines. Learning Objectives.

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Digitalization of the Automotive Industry: From Traditional EDI to Modern EDITrends

Seeburger

EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is a time-tested yet advanced technology for harmonized electronic document and information exchange. By implementing EDI, tedious manual data entry and conventional paper-based processes become obsolete, allowing business transactions to proceed with increased speed, accuracy and efficiency.

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Unifor unveils its new automotive manufacturing policy

Canadian Manufacturing

The comprehensive policy document, entitled “Navigating the road ahead – rebuilding Canada’s powerhouse auto sector” is available on Unifor’s new website www.uniforautohub.ca. The document is the product of months of work by production and skilled trades members in auto assembly and auto parts manufacturing.

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Latest Automated Vision Inspection of Welds Produces Repeatable Results

Fabricating & Metal Work

Automotive component manufacturers face a number of production challenges. Particularly so, as automotive component manufacturers are increasingly mandated by stricter requirements to document quality assurance of their manufactured products along each step of production. Image courtesy VITRONIC.) Image courtesy VITRONIC.)

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Used machines: Auction of high-quality industrial robots

i4.0 today

Nowadays, industrial robots are an important part of production for many companies in the automotive industry. However, the automotive industry remains the leader among all sectors. But other sectors also benefit from their use, such as the metal industry, the plastics and chemicals sector and food production. Today Magazine.

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Upgrading ventilation equipment systems in automotive tunnels

Control Engineering

With little original documentation to base design off and old-fashioned light boards in operation, our team went to work on supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) screens and processes. The post Upgrading ventilation equipment systems in automotive tunnels appeared first on Control Engineering. CONSIDER THIS.