Control.com

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Realtime Robotics has partnered with HLS Engineering Group to enhance automation cell optimization, aiming to eliminate production bottlenecks and reduce cycle times within a matter of weeks.

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Design World

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Control cabinet and switchgear manufacturing is under increasing time pressures and the lack of skilled employees may also be causing bottlenecks in many cases.

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Gary Mintchell

APRIL 18, 2023

US manufacturers have been moving the actual making of products out of the country for many years. We’ve seen Germany and Italy and China aggressively move to strengthen manufacturing in their countries. Only recently has there been a concerted effort to bolster manufacturing here. This, of course, is a concern for this country.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

MARCH 20, 2024

Small and medium-sized manufacturers with successful supply chains rely heavily on robust production planning. Optimizing the production plan, which takes into account the manufacturing process from raw materials to finished goods, can enhance a company’s operational efficiency, cost savings, and customer satisfaction.

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Gary Mintchell

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Retrocausal, a leading platform provider for manufacturing process management, today announced a $5.3M Funding will be used to meet the increased market demand for its proprietary generative AI technology, Retrocausal’s Kaizen Copilot software for Manufacturing Assembly Optimization. The funding was straightforward.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This new relationship expands the Fanuc system’s capabilities by enabling the automation of manual gauging processes, helping manufacturers eliminate bottlenecks and improve productivity. New Scale Robotics has formed a new partnership with Fanuc Americas as an Authorized Systems Integrator.

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ATS

APRIL 5, 2024

In other cases, manufacturers retrofit machines with IoT devices. The importance of machine data in manufacturing Manufacturing machine data gives visibility into what’s happening in the factory and can provide insights into equipment operation and performance. This is especially important at the bottleneck process.

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Gary Mintchell

MARCH 18, 2024

The Seeq AI Assistant provides organizations with the opportunity to further de-bottleneck their most precious resource – the people at the frontlines of their processes and decisions. The post Seeq Announces Generative AI Capabilities with Seeq AI Assistant appeared first on The Manufacturing Connection.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Realtime Robotics’ innovative optimization service was recently used by  Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles  in Hanover, Germany, in a proof-of-concept project for electric vehicle manufacturing. Customers need only send Realtime their simulation CAD file for the bottlenecked cells. Buzz vehicle line.

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Control.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A shortage in skilled labor prompted EPLAN to create the new Eplan Smart Mounting software to alleviate manufacturing bottlenecks by efficiently mapping out control cabinets digitally before they are manufactured.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

APRIL 18, 2024

Cell Q™ uses a modular platform that can be expanded to incorporate new instruments providing the flexibility required to meet new IDMO client needs

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Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 22, 2024

AI-integrated quality control software allows manufacturers to measure the true quality of manufactured and purchased parts by identifying defects the human eye cannot see. Few technologies have transformed the manufacturing industry like ERP software. It can reduce inventory levels by up to 50%.

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Cisco Industrial Automation

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

I am consistently asked by our customers: How can manufacturers contain customer satisfaction without excessive overstock? How can manufacturers better predict the output of manufacturing? Could there be a link between IT-OT infrastructure and manufacturing visibility and resiliency?

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Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The new Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Hub for Advanced Manufacturing of 2D Materials (AM2D) was formally opened by Member of Parliament Dr Carina Garland, Member for Chisolm, at an event that showcased the research activities of the Hub, and brought together researchers and industry.

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Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 31, 2024

Wolfram Manufacturing’s use of machine monitoring data from its own program, OnTakt, is evident from the equipment on its floor. The data showed chip management was causing a bottleneck, so the shop now has more chip conveyors than machine tools. Photos provided by Wolfram Manufacturing.

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MRPEasy

JULY 18, 2023

Production efficiency indicates how much a production unit manufactures with the given amount of resources. Measuring and tracking production efficiency enables manufacturers to identify bottlenecks, optimize processes, and improve their overall productivity and profitability. What is production efficiency?

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The Guardian Manufacturing

JULY 25, 2022

Supply bottlenecks, cost pressures and softer demand hit British industry Growth in UK factories’ order books and output has slowed to its weakest in 18 months as cost pressures, supply bottlenecks and softer demand hit British industry.

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Robotics Automation News

MAY 15, 2023

nTopology, the developer of generative design software for engineering, and EOS, an industrial 3D printing company, are developing a new “Implicit Interop” capability, solving what they see as “a major bottleneck in the additive manufacturing workflow”.

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Gary Mintchell

APRIL 27, 2023

You have been trying to point out bottlenecks to production on your machine. The video analytics point out the bottleneck. You are an operator on a production line. Then engineers install streaming video pointing not just at a specific point on you or the machine but with wide enough scope to see the larger process. Vindicated.

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Automation Mag

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Unirope, a company specializing in manufacturing, distributing, testing, certification, and inspection of high-performance wire rope and rigging products, has added 50,000 square feet of manufacturing space to its headquarters. The expansion represents the completion of a journey that started in 2018.

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The Guardian Manufacturing

AUGUST 23, 2022

Higher costs, weaker demand and bottlenecks sink manufacturing output to lowest level since start of pandemic Britain’s factories are bearing the brunt of the slowdown in the economy as higher costs, weaker demand and supply bottlenecks combine to send output plunging.

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Metrology

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The new relationship expands the FANUC system’s capabilities by enabling the automation of manual gauging processes, helping manufacturers eliminate bottlenecks and improve productivity.

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Plastics News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

While there may still be many plastics processors that continue to experience bottlenecks in the supply chain, a growing number of manufacturers now find themselves struggling with just the opposite problem — oversupply and lagging demand.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Share Manufacturers need their operations to run as efficiently and consistently as possible. For example, many manufacturers may use the terms “process” and “procedure” interchangeably, even though they describe different aspects of operations management. This means they must be as clear as they can with the language they use.

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Universal Robots

MARCH 16, 2018

Universal Robots and OCTOPUZ work together to automate Fibreline’s manufacturing process while providing flexibility. In the search for a way to efficiently drill holes through the pieces of foam used for the upholstery to create the tufted look, Fibreline determined automation was the key to achieving their production goals.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

For UK manufacturers, it’s a bit of positive news at a challenging time. This helps teams prioritise how they allocate time and budget to a project and drives them to identify the use cases most likely to deliver value fastest - typically those that tackle the most persistent, frequent and wasteful bottlenecks in their production processes.

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Gary Mintchell

JANUARY 10, 2023

Video as a sensor has been a topic for several posts here at The Manufacturing Connection. You have been trying to point out bottlenecks to production on your machine. The video analytics point out the bottleneck. You are an operator on a production line. Vindicated. Proof in the data. The video is not for spying on employees.

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Gary Mintchell

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The three role-based copilots—Plant Performance Copilot, Digital Manufacturing Copilot, and the Connected Worker Copilot—provide enhanced human-like interaction so workers can get beyond standard data analytics and analysis to understand what happened, why, and more importantly, anticipate future events.

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Fastener News Desk

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

This has taken the form of long lead times, as well as stalling of production when parts needed for manufacturing fail. Efficiency is critical for businesses to remain competitive, so these bottlenecks can be extremely damaging. There is a potential solution, however: additive manufacturing. Industry 4.0

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 17, 2023

Offset a mile recession in 2024 and depression in 2030 in part with manufacturing automation. Be prepared: Companies have the opportunity to pull ahead and improve automation and efficiency in operations and reduce supply chain bottlenecks. Manufacturing economy insights. Manufacturers need to prepare for 2030.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 8, 2023

Learning Objectives Learn about new cybersecurity concerns that emerge when connecting manufacturing systems such as SCADA to enterprise IT networks. Learn how data analytics can help operators to identify production bottlenecks and optimize resource allocation. Learn how robotics technologies can help navigate the labor shortage.

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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. Repair parts are much easier to come by for this new machine, and hiring manufacturing talent who can work on the new machine is much simpler than hiring for the aging three-axis machines.

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MEM

AUGUST 7, 2023

Theorem’s suite of Extended Reality (XR) products is constantly advancing to meet the demands of our valued customers and the ever-evolving world of engineering and manufacturing with spatial computing. Manufacturing & Engineering Magazine | The Home of Manufacturing Industry News The post TheoremXR (2023.2)

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 15, 2024

Through its latest functionalities, ShopFloorConnect is made scalable and robust, giving manufacturers easy-to-use software for increased efficiency and reduced downtime, including when remote monitoring is required. Wintriss is sharing its new ShopFloorTracker hardware solution which complements ShopFloorConnect.

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Metrology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Transporting parts and materials to assembly lines and between manufacturing cells is one of the industry’s most complex and inefficient tasks, often resulting in production bottlenecks.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 6, 2023

Manufacturers looking to gain ground on their digital transformations are often drawn to the idea of using simulations of their operations to gain visibility into their processes and improve efficiencies. However, in a multifaceted manufacturing setting, there is a more comprehensive and scalable option: Digital twins.

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AU Manufacturing

MAY 12, 2023

Scheduling jobs in manufacturing is one of the most complex tasks in operating a shop floor as it involves a range of various details that must be accounted for, such as work orders, raw material availability, due dates, employee skill sets, and work centre capacity.

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