Gary Mintchell

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

I wanted to know more about what the software does and how Generative AI fits into the picture. Production supervisors and junior industrial engineers can improve workstation design and re-balance assembly lines to minimize the operator headcount needed to run a line while eliminating bottlenecks leading to 35% greater value per operator. “We

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Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 22, 2025

Fabricators relying heavily on external vendors often face quality issues, bottlenecks and unpredictable costs. By incorporating a CNC machining center into the workflow, fabricators do not need to send parts to an outside shop for finishing, reducing bottlenecks and ensuring better alignment between the cutting and machining processes.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JUNE 14, 2024

The Miller OptX 2 kW is ideal for sheet metal and general fabrication applications with high-volume, low-mix and TIG processes in place that are dealing with bottlenecks, often due to lack of throughput speed and labor force availability. Below is a guide to help you decide if laser welding is the right fit for your shop.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 9, 2023

UK-based Brown & Holmes (Tamworth) Ltd use automated CAM programming on the shop-floor to remove major production bottlenecks. CAM software can create NC programs that use the probe to measure the un-machined stock, then load the measurements back into the software to adjust the machining operations to fit.

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

MSI Mold Builders identified a bottleneck at the very start of its manufacturing process where it squared mold blocks and drilled and tapped eye-bolt holes to rapidly and safely move large blocks around the floor. It all adds up to fewer setups, and its size and capabilities are really good fits with what we do here.”

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Modern Machine Shop

OCTOBER 29, 2023

The difficulty of finding people to operate its machines and the lengthy downtime waiting for the crane became bottlenecks for FIBA. As already mentioned, the table is also large enough to fit three tubes simultaneously, whereas the older machines only fit two tubes per cycle.

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Robotics Business Review

JULY 11, 2024

He completed a market research study, dissecting the market to better understand where the bottlenecks are in food production and to identify the opportunities. But cooking isn’t the labor bottleneck in food production, the most labor-intensive is plating, assembly, and portioning. billion in 2023 to $3.35

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Manufacturer's Monthly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In their previous careers, they both worked with product design and often struggled with machine shops being bottlenecks for realising their innovative projects. That makes our job of fitting the components into our design so much easier.” HOOB was founded in 2014 by two engineers, Tanel Sildnik and Priit Raid.

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Automation Mag

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The overall investment led to efficiencies that allowed us to eliminate bottlenecks, deliver faster, and increase our outputs.” An automatic wire rope cutting line, plus additional swagers and upgraded annealing machines will be operated with an additional test bed and a third Twin-Path machine.

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Canadian Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The overall investment led to efficiencies that allowed us to eliminate bottlenecks, deliver faster, and increase our outputs.” Unirope, which has been servicing the industry since 1956, already had two warehouses in Mississauga, but it was running out of space to store growing inventory, and the situation was starting to impede production.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In short, Zero Tolerance wanted a machine that could do it all while still being compact enough to fit in limited floor space. Preferred Tool of Hugo, Minnesota, a full-service mold builder, was facing a bottleneck in electrode cutting that was slowing down mold production and reducing shop productivity. Read the full article.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MAY 29, 2023

The acquisition fit both companies perfectly. Crucially, Markforged’s Digital Forge platform is helping take Digital Metal’s mechanical solutions to the next level – the easy-to-use platform, best-in-class software capabilities and material expertise felt like a natural fit together.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

To gain that, however, it’s important that the parts coming from upstream are consistent — gaps or poor fit-up can hinder the operation — and that there are no bottlenecks that would make the robot stay idle. An advantage of robotic welding, in addition to speed and repeatability, is the relatively quick ROI.

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MEM

JANUARY 13, 2023

A fitness tracker for your machines. Dubbed a ‘fitness tracker’ for machinery, FourJaw’s machine monitoring platform avoids the traditional costly and invasive big-ticket alternatives to deliver the right information at the right time, securely from the cloud. Combining productivity data with energy monitoring to drive efficiency.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

AUGUST 28, 2023

This powerful combination enables businesses to assure security and compliance governance, speed up the root cause analysis of performance bottlenecks, and lower the operation overhead associated with managing hybrid and multi-cloud IT infrastructure. The result: modern enterprises realize the full transformational promise of the cloud.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JULY 11, 2023

Increasingly, Australia’s world-class welding workshops are light and bright, and fitted out with some of the most advanced technology available. The best way to do so is by undertaking operational efficiency improvements that help reduce or eliminate redundancies, errors, bottlenecks and waste. Industry 4.0

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Additive Manufacturing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Parts inspection in particular can be a significant bottleneck in the production process, in many cases creating delays of weeks or months. A new version in testing uses artificial intelligence to pre-adjust the models automatically. Our combined mission is to ensure that users’ 3D printed reality matches the CAD file each time.

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Control Engineering

MAY 12, 2023

Each new device will be fitted with more intelligent sensors, processing platforms and optimized machine learning (ML) algorithms to enable real time monitoring, ensuring operation in its zone of efficiency.

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Automation Mag

APRIL 24, 2023

And global supply chain bottlenecks seem to be easing. projects fit in? We’re squarely into 2023 and are slowly putting a few major shocks behind us. COVID-19 restrictions are (hopefully) a relic of the past. Inflation is still increasing, but the pace is slowing. Where do connected factory and Industry 4.0

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Fabricating & Metal Work

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

EcoFilter easily fits most machining centers and lathe envelopes from small to large, accommodating a broad coolant flow rate via flexible filter cell sizing. The EcoFilter Ò is environmentally friendly; it uses no consumables, and the single-drive design reduces energy consumption.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

AUGUST 10, 2022

Rapid part changes, raw material bottlenecks and labor shortages continue to drive demand for multisensor inspection with the option to automate. The mobile HB, fitted with a 5-axis PH20, can be placed on or near a production line to provide dimensional verification and process flow monitoring in real time.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JUNE 13, 2024

Pro Tip: don’t be afraid to ask for customisation options; true partners will work with you to create solutions that fit your unique challenges. Here’s what M1 ERP brings to the table: Enhanced production visibility— gain real-time insights into your production processes, track progress, and identify bottlenecks for improvement.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 12, 2023

We can improve throughput and eliminate the X-ray as a bottleneck by assessing which parts are at risk to fail and apply testing resources appropriately. Where testing is a bottleneck, this also increases overall throughput of the production line. At a simple level, AI can identify bottlenecks in component fulfillment.

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i4.0 today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But how does the concept of used machinery fit into this efficiency-oriented philosophy? With a detailed value stream mapping, bottlenecks in machine utilisation can be identified and resolved through restructuring or optimisation. In the production area, for example, this could be unnecessary material inventories or expensive rework.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

MAY 3, 2023

Jorgensen offers hydrocyclone filters in a variety of sizes to fit the volume and desired coolant clarity. Using this hydrocyclone filtration as its main filtration method, Flex C is economically and environmentally friendly as there are no disposable medias to worry about.

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i4.0 today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Once you have this platform in place, your organisation has the potential to realise significant operational improvements and agility, solve bottleneck issues, become more future-fit, and be empowered to make data-driven decisions that serve you now and in the future. So, have you fallen in love yet? smartertechnologies.com.

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Additive Manufacturing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Finally, all green parts can be printed by the Marine Corps network of producers and whose form, fit and function characteristics require no analysis of performance impacts prior to use. The DoD has high interest to make more 3D printed parts, primarily due to the supply chain issues that have become a major bottleneck,” Bredael said.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It overcomes dataflow control challenges between photonic and electronic components, a previous bottleneck. Moore’s Law, which predicts that the number of transistors on an electronic chip will double each year, is slowing down due to the physical limits of fitting more transistors on affordable microchips.

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i4.0 today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Cathode materials are an important bottleneck as far as electric vehicle batteries are concerned ,” principal investigator Professor Artem Abakumov from Skoltech Energy commented. “ The cathodes in batteries powering electric cars tend to use layered transition metal oxides, including nickel-rich ones.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MAY 15, 2023

The acquisition fit both companies perfectly. Crucially, Markforged’s Digital Forge platform is helping take Digital Metal’s mechanical solutions to the next level – the easy-to-use platform, best-in-class software capabilities and material expertise felt like a natural fit together.

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3D printing Additive manufacturing Made-to-spec Prototype  59

Automation Mag

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Additionally, the report highlighted bottlenecks in the development of AI and software for robot manipulation (such as grasping objects) and interaction (taking voice commands from a person without training). Mimic robots are being designed to fit into existing workflows.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 22, 2023

These DNA structures are then attached to a surface, where they fit together like puzzle pieces. You can orient them in specific directions that are controllable and keep them well-separated because the origamis are packed and naturally fit together, as puzzle pieces would.” bioeconomy.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The digital thread eliminates typical organizational bottlenecks that stymie change, helping companies drive process improvement. The digital thread is designed to help drive process improvements by eliminating potential bottlenecks. Digital thread insights. Different domains can collaborate. Data flows more easily between related.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This adds unnecessary downtime, which can create bottlenecks and labor inefficiency in the operation both upstream and downstream of the cutting and grinding process. For example, poor part fit-up in the material prep process negatively impacts operations downstream.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Process digital twin benefits include: An increase in plant margin and productivity by support operation in day-to-day activities, optimizing the plant operating conditions, fast de-bottlenecking, and reducing the utilities consumption. Support for operation decision-making by the application of the operator training simulator.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Unstable pressure and airflow: This symptom may be caused by leaking hoses or fittings, worn-out seals or malfunctioning valves. Excessive moisture or condensation: A buildup of moisture on the surface of your equipment might be a warning sign that your dryers or traps are not functioning as they should.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 2, 2023

Engineers there worked with an automation vendor to improve their equipment, computing power and communication protocols to provide better insights and reduce potential automation bottlenecks. Business continues to boom in the intralogistics industry.

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