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2022 LEAP Awards winners are unveiled!

Design World

Winning entries in the 2022 LEAP (Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program) Awards were announced by WTWH Media today in 14 categories: Additive Manufacturing Advanced Materials Connectivity Embedded Computing Fastener Technology Hydraulics Industrial Automation Mechanical Motion Control Pneumatics Power Electronics Software Switches & Sensors, and Test & Measurement.

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Digitalization Changes Everyone’s Job

Automation World

With a direct, high-level view of the impacts across industry, Microsoft’s Jeff Winter says when digital transformation is successful, it fundamentally changes everyone’s job. But how many companies are ready for that?

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A life-long love of engineering

Design World

Meghan Olds, Director of Operations, Powder Atomization, Oerlikon BS, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan MS, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Dayton Meghan Olds’ journey with engineering began in elementary school. Encouraging young students to explore their creativity, the school offered an accelerated program that included competitions focused on invention.

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Skills Gap Threatens to Stall Industrial Digital Transformation

Gary Mintchell

This one shouldn’t surprise anyone. Hitachi Vantara commissioned a study by 451 Research to determine if there is a skills shortage that could inhibit industrial digital transformation. Competing priorities and skills shortages in IoT, AI/ML data science and robotics undermine potential progress in IT/OT convergence and security. Research found a lack of digital skills is jeopardizing industries’ digital transformation initiatives.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Würth Elektronik components now available to electronics engineers

Design World

CELUS, a provider of cloud-based electronics engineering automation software, announces that Würth Elektronik, a global manufacturer of electronic and electromechanical components, has signed up to become a Component Partner to the CELUS Engineering Platform. The two companies will collaborate to integrate Würth Elektronik components into the CELUS component database, further strengthening CELUS’ capabilities to automate… The post Würth Elektronik components now available to electronics en

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How Does Digital Transformation Enable Sustainability?

Cisco Manufacturing

Manufacturers can contribute to corporate and global sustainability goals by building an intelligent plant to better manage energy, waste, and materials. To accomplish this, they can employ new and better capabilities by: Extending the life and optimizing the use of legacy equipment through performance monitoring. Monitoring inventory for consumables, packaging, and scrap.

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Sales hit high, goodbye to tie says Sumitomo (SHI) Demag CEO

Plastics News

Gerd Liebig at Sumitomo (SHI) Demag says processing post-consumer resin is not insurmountable; the technological challenge is to control non-uniform materials through process monitoring.

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Inspired by engineering

Design World

Kate Schneidau, M.S., mechanical engineering, University of Louisville Today’s young women engineers find this field can inspire entrepreneurial ambitions. For Kate Schneidau, the idea of becoming an engineer began early, “right after my princess and racecar driver stages as a child,” she says. “I always wanted a field that would allow me to be creative… The post Inspired by engineering appeared first on Design World.

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Fixing the rep of blue-collar jobs

The Fabricator

If manufacturers want to stay in the contest for talent and win it, they’re going to have to pull out all the stops—manufacturing camps, apprenticeship programs, flexible work schedules, retraining allowances, scholarships, marketing campaigns, and more.

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Innovative Product Development with MBSE

Design World

By Tim Kinman, Vice President, Trending Solutions Consulting, Siemens Digital Industries Software Model-based systems engineering, most easily referenced as MBSE, is not exactly new but its application in today’s product development is expanding rapidly. For decades it was reserved for the most complicated projects, one of the reasons it is so commonly associated with NASA… The post Innovative Product Development with MBSE appeared first on Design World.

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Modernizing MES: A Guide for Complex Manufacturers Adapting to Industry 4.0

As engineers push the boundaries of innovation with groundbreaking hardware products, their success depends largely on the speed and efficiency of production. The challenge? Manual processes and disparate systems lead to multiple versions of documents, incomplete records, and duplicated work, creating a chaotic system of records that is difficult to manage.

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Brad Keselowski on his season of significant change, expanding into advanced manufacturing

The Fabricator

Brad Keselowski is a NASCAR Cup Series Champion race car driver with a hall of fame-caliber career; co-owner of Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing – one of NASCAR’s preeminent teams—founder, owner, and a pioneer in advanced manufacturing with Keselowski Advanced Manufacturing (KAM); and “full-on girl dad.” All of those experiences have provided cross-training to improve his performance in each arena.

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Ontario launches skilled trades career fairs for students

Canadian Manufacturing

PHOTO: Students/Cassandra Jowett via Wimimedia Commons. TORONTO — The Ontario government is trying to solve the labour shortage in the skilled trades and in manufacturing by launching career fairs this fall to prepare students for jobs in the skilled trades. These fairs address labour shortages in high-demand sectors and help deliver the province’s infrastructure plans.

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Detecting galling onset in aluminum alloy stamping, Part I

The Fabricator

Oakland University researchers studied combinations of die material, die surface treatment, and lubricant to determine how best to prevent galling when stamping aluminum structural parts.

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Sorting PLA from Municipal Plastic Waste is Proven Easy Again

Plastics Today

Industrial test by TotalEnergies Corbion and Tomra Recycling finds there’s no barrier to effective separation of polylactic acid packaging from other plastic waste including PET.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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The big picture: Investing in innovation during economic downturns

Automation Mag

As manufacturers are aware, the cost of doing business is increasing. Volatile market conditions have created a squeeze on companies that are stuck between the rock of increasing raw materials prices and the hard place of customers who are not ready to shoulder new costs. Along with the cost squeeze is the issue of excess production capacity. Canadian manufacturers have headroom to produce more and while there has been recovery over the last two years, production levels are still at a similar

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Plastics by the Numbers 3Q22

Plastics Today

18 plastics industry market reports from the third quarter of 2022 are featured in this slideshow gallery including recycled ocean plastics, plastic compounding, 3D printing plastics, PHA, and more.

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Digital skills boost for manufacturers in Victoria

Manufacturer's Monthly

Victorian manufacturers will be supported to equip workers with digital skills and create high-paying jobs through a $4.5 million Digital Jobs for Manufacturing program. . Minister for Industry Support and Recovery Ben Carroll announced that applications have opened for the program to help local manufacturers adapt and develop the digital capabilities they need to maintain their competitive advantage.

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Omron names Génik as its new Certified Systems Integrator partner

Automation Mag

Omron Automation Americas has added Quebec-based Génik as a new partner in its Certified Systems Integrator program. Génik offers solutions to end users using its G-KDM (Génik – Kaizen Design Method). With its solutions, it helps its customers eliminate waste, increase quality and reduce cycle times, among other things. “Génik is proud to collaborate with Omron who is a leader in the industrial automation industry.

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5 Ways New Manufacturing Companies Are Accelerating Innovation

Next-gen manufacturers are redesigning factories to enable agility at every stage of production. From more timely communication between engineers and technicians to technologies that empower real-time collaboration, they’re getting ahead by making iterations and improvements during a build, across the production line at scale. This level of flexibility means they can develop more quickly than their legacy counterparts.

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High prices threaten plastics innovation

Plastics News

The German plastics industry is facing debilitating energy and raw material shortages going into the K 2022 trade show.

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Steel prices still sliding despite labor concerns

The Fabricator

Certain factors are in place for a potential spike in steel prices, but most steel consumers don’t seem phased by it.

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Bombardier announces agreement with Signature Aviation for sustainable aviation fuel

Canadian Manufacturing

ORLANDO — Bombardier and Signature Aviation announced on Oct. 17 that they had reached a multi-year agreement for the purchase of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) quantities, utilizing the Book and Claim system, covering all of Bombardier’s flight operations starting in January 2023. The agreement is reportedly the first of this scope for a business aviation original equipment manufacturer (OEM).

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Crafting sustainable outdoor play for Australian communities

Manufacturer's Monthly

Manufacturers’ Monthly finds out how a Queensland business is working with Capral Aluminium to create 100 per cent recyclable children’s playground equipment and fitness systems. All in the name of play – rapidly growing business WillPlay set out on a journey to create recyclable pirate ships, giant treehouses and rockets. Since its start-up in 2013, councils, schools and commercial developments around Australia have been lining up for WillPlay’s outdoor play and fitness equipment, tailored to t

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Kickstart: Ferris State University and a 'once-in-a-century' project

Plastics News

Ferris State University's plastics program may be in just the right place at the right time to play a big part in developing future electric vehicles.

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Why 5G is the heart of manufacturing digital transformation

Manufacturer's Monthly

Manufacturers’ Monthly spoke with Philippe Gerard, Head of APAC Manufacturing & Logistics at Nokia, about digitalising the manufacturing process, and why 5G implementation is the cornerstone upon which Industry 4.0 successes are built. Much has been made in the manufacturing industry – and beyond – of the possibilities inherent in Industry 4.0 for building resilient, dynamic, productive, efficient, sustainable, and safe operations.

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Pioneering the Future of Semiconductor Measurement Techniques

NIST Manufacturing

Today, CD-SAXS (critical dimension small angle X-ray scattering) is an industry-wide measurement technique for next-generation semiconductor fabrication.

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Lockheed Martin Australia to invest in new national IAMD Ecosystem

Manufacturer's Monthly

Lockheed Martin Australia recently announced it will invest $74 million to establish a National Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD) Ecosystem in Australia. The ‘National IAMD Ecosystem’ will position Australia for a key role in the IAMD global supply chain. It will bring government, industry and academia together to create, enhance and maintain long-term capability for Australia.

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How Legacy Tools Are Failing Inventive Manufacturing Engineers

Bringing new and improved products to market takes more than just good ideas. It requires agile, iterative production, and real-time collaboration. Most manufacturers recognize the risk of not adapting, but they’re hampered by technologies like MES that haven’t kept up with the pace of hardware innovation. As new manufacturers enter the market with technologically progressive ways of building at scale, existing manufacturers must adapt to stay relevant.

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Konica Minolta Australia announces the availability of the Markforged large format FX20 3D printer

AU Manufacturing

Media Release by Konica Minolta Australia. Konica Minolta Australia has announced the availability of the large format FX20 3D printer through its partner, Markforged , creator of the integrated metal and carbon fibre additive manufacturing platform, the Digital Forge. . The FX20 is the biggest, fastest, and most sophisticated 3D printer Markforged has ever produced.

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Analysis shows that carbon emissions from forestry are being masked by the Canadian government

Canadian Manufacturing

An analysis suggests that Canada is using questionable methods to dramatically underestimate greenhouse gas emissions from the forestry industry, which it says equal those from Alberta’s oilsands in some years. “Canada is taking credit for carbon removal from vast forests that have never been logged as a way of masking emissions,” said Michael Polanyi of Nature Canada, which co-sponsored the report.

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Green Trends in Industrial Manufacturing

HGR Inc.

Green manufacturing is an important topic at the forefront of industrial manufacturing. Companies are constantly looking for ways to reduce waste and positively impact both the environment and their businesses. . As companies look toward greening their manufacturing processes , here are three trends you can look for in the industry. . Using Renewable Energy .

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Lack of digital skills could be costing the UK close to £13bn per year

E&T

As a result of the digital skills gap, UK workers could be missing out on around £5.69bn in additional wages, according to a new study carried out by Virgin Media O2 and based on modelling from economic consultancy Cebr. . The study found that many people believe that a lack of knowledge on using the internet has held them back at work and also prevented them from shopping online for better deals on goods and services as the cost of living rises.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.