Sat.Aug 27, 2022

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Controllers through the ages

Control Engineering

PLC and PAC Insights . Controllers through time have evolved technologically, thus changing how we use them. Different control systems, like PLCs, are now capable of multiple functions and purposes, and are now more data-oriented. Increased memory, high speed capability and automated processes has helped to reduce overall cost and time consumption. The development of PLC technology has made it easier to integrate these controllers with other technology.

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Boom founder Blake Scholl: from high school dropout to supersonic high-flyer

The Guardian Manufacturing

The man who aims to bring a ‘son of Concorde’ to the skies – and do it sustainably – found his project tapped into the passions of employees and investors alike Blake Scholl has been a plane geek since he was a baby, when his parents took him to watch turboprop Cessnas taking off near their home in Cincinnati, Ohio. “I had a Fisher-Price toy plane, and my parents say I held it up and knew it was like those in the sky,” he says in a video chat from his car in Denver, Colorado.

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Inks for 3D-printable wearable bioelectronics designed

Control Engineering

Additive Manufacturing Insights. Texas A&M University has developed a new class of biomaterial inks that mimic native characteristics of highly conductive human tissue, which is needed for the ink used in 3D printing, or additive manufacturing. To print the ink, researchers designed a cost-effective, open-source, multi-head 3D bioprinter that runs on open-source tools and freeware.

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TRUMPF Inc. Announces Executive Promotions and New CFO

Additive Manufacturing

FARMINGTON, Conn., August 17, 2022 – TRUMPF has appointed Bettina Steingruber to serve as chief financial officer, a position previously held by Lutz Labisch, who became TRUMPF Inc. president & CEO on March 1, 2022. Steingruber will be responsible for overseeing the finance and controlling, IT infrastructure and business systems, customer contracts & collections, customer financing, logistics & customs, and shared services departments for TRUMPF subsidiaries in the United States, Mex

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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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Cooperation to develop an instrumentation device profile

Control Engineering

The OPC Foundation (OPCF) and the FieldComm Group (FCG) announced a collaboration to drive multi-vendor interoperability of instrumentation devices based on OPC UA and the extensions for the field level, named OPC UA FX (Field eXchange). This development will incorporate preliminary work by both organizations. This will ensure that the market will have only one single standard.

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Carbon Acquires ParaMatters to Expand Design Software Optimized for Additive Manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 24, 2022 — Carbon announced the acquisition of ParaMatters, a design software provider for additive manufacturing. This acquisition expands Carbon’s current software capabilities to include topology optimization. Carbon’s technology platform now broadens to enable product design and development teams to create better products in less time using a wide variety of materials and production systems.

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Movers, Shakers, Funding & Other News for August 8-26

Additive Manufacturing

ICYMI: The additive manufacturing community saw movement for people, organizations, and funding in the last few weeks. Stratasys, 3D Systems, Carbon, and GoEngineer all announced acquisitions to expand their position to meet the needs of AM professionals. Trumpf, Prellis Biologics, and 3D Systems moved experienced leaders into new positions. ExLattice and Nuburu received SBIR awards to accelerate development of AM technology and tools.

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Desktop Metal Expands Partnership with Henkel, Qualifies Loctite® Materials on Xtreme 8K

Additive Manufacturing

BOSTON, August 23, 2022 — Desktop Metal announced it is expanding its partnership with Henkel on photopolymer material development, beginning with the qualification of Henkel’s Loctite® 3D IND405 Black and Loctite 3D 3843 for use on the Xtreme 8K, the world’s largest DLP printer for high-volume production of end-use parts. Both popular engineering materials in the 3D printing industry at large, Loctite 3D IND405 Black and Loctite 3D 3843 are both stiff, strong and durable – making them ide

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NUBURU Awarded SBIR Phase II Contract to Develop Blue Laser-Based Area Printing Additive Manufacturing System

Additive Manufacturing

CENTENNIAL, Colo./August 23, 2022 — NUBURU ® has been awarded an AFWERX Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to develop a blue laser-based 3D printing solution with area printing technology. The goal of the one-year project is to demonstrate improved speed and accuracy of a metal 3D printer based on NUBURU’s blue laser technology.

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Accelerating High Volume Additive Manufacturing: 3D Systems to Acquire dp polar GmbH

Additive Manufacturing

ROCK HILL, S.C., Aug. 08, 2022 — 3D Systems announced it has entered an agreement to acquire dp polar GmbH , the German-based designer and manufacturer of a high volume additive manufacturing system designed for high-speed mass production of customized components. Central to dp polar’s patented continuous printing process is a large-scale, segmented, rotating print platform that eliminates the start/stop operations of virtually all additive manufacturing platforms.

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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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Prellis Biologics Appoints New CEO

Additive Manufacturing

SAN FRANCISCO/August 10, 2022 — Prellis Biologics appointed Michael Nohaile, PhD as its new CEO. Dr. Nohaile joins from Generate Biomedicines and succeeds Prellis Bio founder Dr. Melanie Matheu, who will assume the role of Chief Technology Officer and retain a Board seat. “I am honored to join the Prellis Bio team and to partner with Melanie and the entire Prellis team to further build on their inspiring vision for the next generation of medicines,” said Dr.

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3D Systems Announces Appointments to Medical Advisory Board

Additive Manufacturing

ROCK HILL, S.C., Aug. 18, 2022 — 3D Systems announced the appointment of Dr. Toby Cosgrove, former president & chief executive officer of the Cleveland Clinic, and Dr. Bon Ku, director of the Health Design Lab at Thomas Jefferson University, as the fourth and fifth members of the company’s recently established Medical Advisory Board (MAB).

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ExLattice Receives NSF SBIR Phase I Award to Accelerate Engineering Simulation for Additive Manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing

DURHAM, N.C., Aug. 17, 2022 — ExLattice, Inc announced receiving a Phase I award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program for further developing its accelerated simulation engine dedicated to additive manufacturing. The Phase I SBIR grant, valued at over $250,000, will be used to develop, and validate ultrafast manufacturing simulation solutions in collaboration with multiple universities.

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TriTech Titanium Parts Matches Production Technology to the Part

Additive Manufacturing

DETROIT, Aug. 10, 2022 — TriTech Titanium Parts was launched on April 5, 2022. According to its President, Bob Swenson, TriTech is a spin-off of his former company, AmeriTi Manufacturing, which was sold to Kymera International also on April 5, 2022. AmeriTi is a successful business that has operated since 1984, focusing on titanium products from recycled material.

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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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Stratasys to Acquire Covestro’s Additive Manufacturing Materials Business

Additive Manufacturing

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. & REHOVOT, Israel– Stratasys announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the additive manufacturing materials business of Covestro AG. The acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive upon closing. It will include R&D facilities and activities, global development and sales teams across Europe, the U.S. and China, a portfolio of approximately 60 additive manufacturing materials, and an extensive IP portfolio comprised of hundreds of patents a