Thu.Sep 22, 2022

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How to Properly Select a Proximity Sensor

Design World

This downloadable ebook on How to Properly Select a Proximity Sensor, provides a roadmap for people to properly determine which type of proximity sensor they’ll need for their application. Both types of proximity sensors are also available with IO-Link communications, so implementation to the IIoT / Industry 4.0 is fairly seamless. Learn about properly selecting… The post How to Properly Select a Proximity Sensor appeared first on Design World.

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OnRobot Automates the Robot Integration Process

Automation World

The forthcoming D:Ploy hardware and software from OnRobot automatically generates all the program logic, signal exchange, event handling, path planning, and real-time monitoring required for robot applications.

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Sifting clear audio from background noise

Design World

Powerful statistical techniques can discern a desired audio signal from a jumble of inputs. Dave Betts • AudioTelligence Most of us live and work in the midst of noise. We have become used to contending with the sounds of other people talking, music playing, the TV blaring, traffic roaring… Our brains are pretty amazing at… The post Sifting clear audio from background noise appeared first on Design World.

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IMTS / Hannover Messe Chicago Recap

Gary Mintchell

I didn’t have time to finish this about IMTS/Hannover Messe when I found myself in rainy Folsom, CA at the Inductive Automation’s Ignition Community Conference. More on that later. Here is a quick recap of my tour around two of the four full halls that comprised the event. I heard that there were more than 100,000 people who also toured the trade show floors.

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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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WAGO announces new Regional Sales Manager for Atlanta and Northern Georgia

Design World

Joseph Kain has recently been named WAGO’s new Regional Sales Manager for the Atlanta metro and Northern Georgia territory. With nearly 20 years of automation sales experience, Kain brings a wealth of knowledge to his new position. He most recently spent the last few years as a Regional Sales Manager with Aignep USA. Looking forward… The post WAGO announces new Regional Sales Manager for Atlanta and Northern Georgia appeared first on Design World.

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Processors ramping back up in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Fiona

Plastics News

Hurricane Fiona took out much of the power grid in Puerto Rico on Sept. 18 and brought heavy rains that caused flooding before sweeping by the Dominican Republic on Sept. 19, where it caused more damage almost five years to the day Hurricane Maria ravaged the islands.

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Nasa prepares to intentionally crash spacecraft into a small asteroid

E&T

A spacecraft built by Nasa is set to intentionally smash into a small asteroid as part of a planetary protection test mission, to help prove that this could be an effective way of deflecting dangerous incoming rocks. The chosen asteroid, named Dimorphos, orbits Didymos in around 11 hours and 55 minutes, but Nasa astronomers hope that Dart will destroy itself and cut about 10 minutes off this time.

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Custom paint colors for aluminum electronic enclosures

Design World

Metal electronic enclosures manufacturer METCASE has extended its range of ‘no extra cost’ custom paint colors and finishes. METCASE has added eight new shades to its range of always-in-stock paints – bringing the total to 38 colors plus anodizing, passivate, pre-treatment and anti-corrosion finishes. The new paint colors are violet blue (RAL 5000), cobalt blue… The post Custom paint colors for aluminum electronic enclosures appeared first on Design World.

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Scientists build electronic ‘brains’ for solar-powered micro-robots

E&T

The development could set the stage for a new generation of microscopic devices that can track bacteria, sniff out chemicals, destroy pollutants, conduct microsurgery and scrub the plaque out of arteries. Although microscopic machines have already been designed to crawl, swim, walk and fold themselves up, there were always 'strings' attached; to generate motion, wires were used to provide electrical current or laser beams had to be focused directly onto specific locations on the robots.

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General Motors announces investment in Lithion Recycling Inc.

Canadian Manufacturing

General Motors Co. is investing in Quebec battery recycling company Lithion Recycling Inc. Terms of the investment by GM Ventures in the company’s series-A financing round were not immediately available. Lithion is developing ways to recover materials from used lithium-ion batteries. The companies say the deal will help support a strategic partnership agreement.

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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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Bloomberg kicks off $85M campaign to stop plastics, petrochemical expansions

Plastics News

A foundation started by billionaire former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is spending $85 million to bolster local efforts to stop petrochemical and plastics expansions in Texas, Louisiana and the Ohio River Valley.

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Biology continues to inspire AI

E&T

There is no guarantee that artificial intelligence needs to match what happens in biology or even be biologically inspired. The early days of AI research focused far more heavily on building machines that could reason more formally about the world around them compared to the approaches in vogue today; these consist of feeding enormous quantities of data in the hope that a training algorithm will help a similarly large network of simple arithmetic blocks figure out some complex, common pattern in

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US Die & Mold invests $4M in expansion, creating 10 jobs

Plastics News

Manifold & Phalor Inc. and its division that rebuilds blown film dies, U.S. Die & Mold, is investing $4 million into a 30,000-square-foot expansion expected to create 10 jobs in Canal Winchester, Ohio.

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Rested, relaxed, and ready to roll

The Fabricator

An economic slowdown might be a blessing for metal fabricators who have leaned hard on their employees for the last two years.

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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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Kickstart: A second life for artificial turf

Plastics News

Fifty aging high school artificial football fields will become part of a recycling program; adding up safety violation statistics; auto suppliers are managing to get more money for parts impacted by inflation.

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Good Design Award of the Year — AdvanCell

AU Manufacturing

Media Release by D+I. Sydney-based radiopharmaceutical company AdvanCell has received the 2022 Australian Good Design Award of the Year for its world-first Alpha Isotope Generator designed by leading Australian product development consultancy, Design + Industry (D+I). . The generator addresses the greatest unmet need in targeted alpha therapies — a reliable, scalable and quality-controlled supply of this rare isotope used in prostate and several other cancer treatments.

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A ‘robust' plastics treaty push by governments, businesses at UN meeting

Plastics News

Two coalitions, one made up of countries and a second made up of industry, came to the U.N. General Assembly session in New York to push for a stricter global plastics pollution treaty. Negotiations start in November.

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Major Brands, NGOs Come Together to Endorse Global Plastics Treaty

Plastics Today

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and WWF announced today the formation of a Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty.

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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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Phillips-Medisize cancels planned layoffs

Plastics News

Phillips-Medisize Corp. had told officials in Wisconsin in July that it would lay off at least 96 people due to reduced demand from a customer, but said Sept. 20 that it rescinded that decision.

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Australia must invest in copper to keep pace with ‘global supply war’

AU Manufacturing

Article by Michael Huggins, Director and ANZ Head, Partners in Performance. Moves to acquire copper mines and mining companies by industry giants Rio Tinto and BHP are just the beginning of a looming global supply war for copper resources. To keep pace with market demand as the world races to achieve more ambitious emissions reduction targets , Australian investors and governments must prepare for this now.

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AI system that keeps ships from hitting whales launches off California

E&T

Whale Safe, a technology-based mapping and analysis system to help prevent whale-ship collisions, is scheduled to launch off to the San Francisco Bay Area Region, after finding success in southern California. . The announcement comes on the heels of the news of the death of Fran, the most photographed whale in California, caused by a ship strike. Whale Safe has been developed by the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory, in collaboration with the Marine Mammal Center, to help detect endangered whale

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Regional Victoria’s unemployment rate reaches new low in August

AU Manufacturing

Victoria’s regional unemployment rate slipped to 2.8 per cent in August from the previous 2.9 per cent record, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). . The latest ABS figure means Victoria retains its hold on the lowest record in the nation and reflects the state’s strong and resilient economy, the state government said in a statement. .

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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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Plastics Recyclers Europe: The circular economy for plastics is at risk

Plastics News

According to the pan-European association of European recyclers, Plastics Recyclers Europe, the high prices of electricity are starting to affect operations at Europe’s plastics recycling facilities, putting at risk the highly-touted transition towards circularity.

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Shipping taking promising first steps towards 2030 breakthrough goals on scalable zero emission fuels

AU Manufacturing

Media Release by Getting to Zero Coalition. The shipping industry is working towards full decarbonization by 2050 at the latest and last year an action plan was launched on which both private and public actors can focus their collective efforts around this and coming decades. The first-of-its-kind “ Climate Action in Shipping Report – Progress towards Shipping’s 2030 Breakthrough ,” launching on 21 September during New York Climate Week, prior to the Global Maritime Forum Annual Summit, and in p

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Researchers Uncover How to 3D-Print One of the Strongest Stainless Steels

NIST Manufacturing

Insights revealed by a large particle accelerator lit a path forward.

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Bio-Inspired Inks for 3D Printing of Next-Gen Wearable Tech

Plastics Today

A novel hydrogel combines electronic conductivity with biocompatibility for the design of integrated devices.

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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.

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De Havilland announces new site of Alberta aircraft manufacturing facility

Canadian Manufacturing

CALGARY — De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited has announced that the site of its new aircraft manufacturing facility will be in Wheatland County, Alberta, approximately 30 minutes east of Calgary. This new facility will be called De Havilland Field and will consist of a new aircraft assembly facility, runway, parts manufacturing and distribution centres and maintenance repair and overhaul centre.

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Australian Aluminium Council welcomes new aluminium decarbonisation roadmap

AU Manufacturing

The Australian Aluminium Council has backed a new aluminium decarbonisation strategy developed by the Mission Possible Partnership and the International Aluminium Institute. . The Making Net Zero Aluminium Possible: A Transition Strategy for a 1.5° C-compliant Aluminium Sector, which was introduced at the recent New York Climate Week, proposes an ambitious but achievable decarbonisation roadmap for the global aluminium industry. .

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Ofcom to probe cloud market dominance of Amazon, Microsoft and Google

E&T

UK regulator Ofcom has announced its plans to launch a probe into the dominance of technology titans Amazon, Microsoft and Google in cloud services "in the coming weeks". . The regulator is set to launch a market study that will assess how well the market is working, as well as any barriers to new entrants into the sector. It is expected to focus on the so-called 'hyperscalers', which let businesses access computing power and data storage from remote servers, rather than host it on their own pri

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Três fatores principais no design de produção de goods to person

Bastian Solution

Como integradora independente, a Bastian Solutions trabalha com diversas tecnologias e marcas. Como tal, não é incomum ser perguntado pelos clientes: “Quantas linhas por hora posso fazer com um sistema de goods to person?” Quando falamos de GTP (sistemas de goods to person), isso pode incluir sistemas de AutoStore, Perfect Pick, ASRS, Scallog, Attabotics, Caja Robotics, Kardex, Servus ou Adapto.

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Mastering Digital Transformation: Your Guide to a Successful MES Implementation

70% of digital transformation projects fail (BCG, 2020). In an industry where most large software implementations falter, we recognize the importance of planning, optimization, and execution. With over 25 years of industry experience and countless successful implementations, MASS Group is opening the vault of tips and tricks to provide a complimentary step-by-step guide in implementing a Work-In-Progress (WIP) tracking software.