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Digital Twins are powerful, and they’re not just for products

iBASEt

There are actually several types of Digital Twins that can be used in manufacturing. Product Twin: Product models capture product definition and lifecycle activity, providing a digital source of as-designed, as-engineered data along with virtual representations of the product.

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Intelligent manufacturing: The Canadian story

Automation Mag

Hudon added that industry leaders should come back to a narrative that makes the definitions and benefits of AI simpler. She shared that manufacturers that do adopt AI are able to see an impressive difference in their growth and efforts in scaling up their businesses.

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Automotive lidar’s role growing because of increased use of autonomous vehicles

Control Engineering

Cameras offer color and high-definition images but suffer from poor depth information and can be easily affected by the sun and other poor weather conditions. Lidar systems emit their own light, making them less susceptible to interference from external sources such as sunlight, fog, or rain.

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Mobile cobots deliver savings for cosmetics company

Control Engineering

Now that the robots are working next to these sources, Coty is able to move employees farther away from this environment and redeploy them to less repetitive and more interesting tasks. At this point in the project, everyone’s definitely getting more comfortable with the robots.”