Tue.Nov 15, 2022

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New Launch: Nupano Open Automation Platform for OEMs From Lenze

Automation World

Machine builders can use the Nupano cloud-based platform to create new machine related digital services and revenue streams through the ability to remotely and securely update and maintain equipment in the field.

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HARTING Mexico Manufacturing inaugurates new building to accommodate growth

Design World

HARTING Mexico Manufacturing announced the expansion of its manufacturing facility with an inaugural ribbon-cutting event. HARTING Technology Group COO Andreas Conrad, HARTING Americas CEO Jon DeSouza, and HARTING Americas COO Florian Stuetzel hosted the ceremony on behalf of the global company. The event also included a virtual address from HARTING Technology Group’s Chairman of the… The post HARTING Mexico Manufacturing inaugurates new building to accommodate growth appeared first

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Perish the Thought That IT and OT Will Never Work Together

Gary Mintchell

I hate the term IT/OT convergence. It is so old. People and technologies have continually made changes that actually bring things together. People are not stupid. Just focused on their jobs. I recently talked with a product manager regarding silicon infrastructure. He talked of how the technology of his product would lead to breaking of IT silos and also to IT/OT convergence.

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3D Systems offers high-performance metals for 3D printing

Design World

3D Systems announced the addition of two new materials — Certified HX and Certified CuCr2.4 — to its industry-leading materials portfolio. Both materials are certified for use with the company’s DMP Flex 350, and DMP Factory 350 3D printers, and HX is also certified for the DMP Factory 500 to address a breadth of applications […]. The post 3D Systems offers high-performance metals for 3D printing appeared first on Design World.

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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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The artistry and fabrication behind San Francisco’s stainless steel rock sculptures

The Fabricator

What made the 20 colorful rock-like structures outside a San Francisco building possible? Artistry, metal fabrication, and some delays, artists and fabricators said.

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3D Systems partners with Wematter on SLS

Design World

3D Systems announced a strategic partnership with Wematter, a Swedish 3D printer manufacturer, that will broaden 3D Systems’ Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) portfolio. Wematter designed and introduced the Wematter Gravity in 2020 which brought an affordable, turnkey SLS solution to the market in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. Through this partnership, 3D […].

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Nozzle provides a hollow cone spray pattern for pressurized liquids

Design World

EXAIR’s new 3/8 NPT HollowStream liquid atomizing spray nozzle provides a hollow cone spray pattern for pressurized liquids. They are applied to solve cooling, cleaning, foam breaking, rinsing, and dust suppression applications for industry. The tangential flow design is vaneless, with wide open internal features to resist clogging, and works well with liquids containing particulate.… The post Nozzle provides a hollow cone spray pattern for pressurized liquids appeared first on Design Worl

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Technology is Making it Easier Than Ever to Become an Entrepreneur

Robotics Automation News

In recent years, the tech industry has not only become more and more powerful but also more and more accessible to would-be entrepreneurs. With almost everything you need to start a business now available via the internet, it’s easier than ever to turn your great idea into an even greater reality without spending much of […].

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Jabil Additive shows engineered materials and advanced additive manufacturing capabilities at Formnext

Design World

Jabil Inc. will showcase the latest advancements in engineered materials, as well as increasing customer adoption of its global additive manufacturing platforms and solutions for product prototyping, parts production and the development of manufacturing jigs, fixtures and tooling. Experts will share an update on the latest testing, validation and use of Jabil Engineered Materials.

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RapidDirect Introduces Automated DfM Feedback Tool Can Help Optimize Your Part Design

Robotics Automation News

RapidDirect’s automated DfM feedback tool offers quality manufacturability tips for your parts production. This improved automated DfM tool provides a reliable analysis of your parts design for crucial issues that can affect their manufacturability or attract additional manufacturing costs. Read on to learn about the new DfM feedback tool, how it works, and its advantages. […].

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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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Where to Focus Your Improvement Efforts

Mold Making Technology

Mold builders need a systematic process that allows the business to repeatedly (and with confidence) make decisions about what to improve on an ongoing basis. Photo Credit, all images: Science of Business Inc. This is the fourth and final installment in our series of articles. We’ve covered a wide range of topics and how those topics affect the moldmaking industry, ranging from pricing to marketing to technology.

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Embark launches coast-to-coast autonomous trucking network

Robotics Automation News

Embark Trucks, a developer of autonomous technology for the trucking industry, has launched its “coast-to-coast backbone of the Embark Coverage Map”, preparing key Sunbelt markets to be served by Embark fleet partners. The Coverage Map includes nine transfer point sites in cities across the Sunbelt, including new locations in Dallas, El Paso, Atlanta, and Jacksonville, […].

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North American Tooling Spend Forecasted to Reach $8.3 Billion in 2025

Mold Making Technology

Five-axis CNC milling machine and monitor gauge cutting tire mold parts via solid ball end mill tools. Photo Credit: Getty Images. Harbour Results Inc. (HRI) recently released the results of the Harbour IQ in-depth study on the current state of the automotive vendor tooling industry. The analysis indicates automotive vendor tooling spend in North America will increase year-over-year at a rate of 13.4%, resulting in $8.3 billion in spending in 2025, a significant increase from 2022 estimated spen

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Techman Robot launches ‘all-in-one’ AI collaborative robot series

Robotics Automation News

Techman Robot has launched its “TM AI Cobot” series, describing it as a “collaborative robot which combines a powerful and precise robot arm with native AI inferencing engine and smart vision system in a complete package”. The company says the new machine is ready for deployment in factories and can accelerate the transition to Industry […].

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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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Queensland breaks ground for Australia’s first Hydrogen Centre of Excellence

AU Manufacturing

The Queensland government today opened Australia’s first Hydrogen Centre of Excellence to prep the future workforce for the state’s transition into becoming a global hydrogen superpower. . The $20 million vocational training facility located in Beenleigh was established in a partnership between the Queensland government and the Plumbing Industry Climate Action Centre (PICAC). .

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Guident selected to provide autonomous shuttle services

Robotics Automation News

Guident has been selected by Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRiC) to provide an autonomous shuttle service for a 2.1-mile fixed route with eleven stops within BRiC and connecting to the Boca Raton Tri Rail station, the most frequented station in South Florida. The service will utilize Polaris GEM e6 vehicles equipped with autonomous vehicle capabilities […].

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Reading What the Dial Indicator Is Saying

Modern Machine Shop

Photo Credit: Mahr Inc. Dial indicators — also known as dial gages, clocks, comparators or just indicators — are widely used as basic gages for measuring linear dimensions. Dial indicators have been around since the early 1900s. While digital indicators may be gathering more attention recently, dial indicators are unlikely to disappear any time soon.

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Addverb and McMurray Stern partner to offer ‘next-generation’ warehouse robotics to customers

Robotics Automation News

Addverb has agreed a new partnership with mobile storage and warehouse automation leader McMurray Stern. Combining McMurray Stern’s fully integrated storage options with Addverb’s fixed and flexible solutions featuring its proprietary software, will enable new and existing customers to fully customize and optimize their picking, packing, storage and other automation systems.

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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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Order-X – The New Message Standard for Electronic Ordering

Seeburger

In the world of electronic invoices, the German-French format ZUGFeRD/Factur-X has been setting standards in Europe for some time. Now the deutsche Forum für elektronische Rechnungsstellung in Deutschland (FeRD) and the French Forum National de la Facture Électronique et des Marchés Publics Électroniques (FNFE-MPE) are taking another important step towards fully digitalized supply chain management […].

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PLC Program Commands: Performing Array Functions Part 1

Control.com

Arrays can streamline data storage and math operations, but they can be difficult to understand for a beginning programmer. Learn the background of array instructions in the Rockwell Studio 5000 software.

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Manufacturing needs to be agile, resilient and sustainable

Control Engineering

Digital transformation insights. Manufacturers are using digital transformation to be more agile, resilient and sustainable in their operations, which are becoming more customized. Sustainability is a growing focus for companies looking to improve their products through digital transformation. Manufacturing, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, was going through many changes and evolving to a more digitalized and virtual world than before.

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Shell Chemical begins production at Pennsylvania PE plant

Plastics News

Shell Chemical has begun production at its much-anticipated polyethylene resin complex near Pittsburgh. Shell officially started production in Monaca, Pa., on Nov. 15. The firm had been sampling PE resin made at the site with potential customers for several months. "Building this world-class facility is a fantastic achievement and one the team can be proud of," Downstream Director Huibert Vigeveno said in a news release.

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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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GroundProbe eyes second manufacturing facility in North America

AU Manufacturing

Global tech leader and Orica Monitor company GroundProbe is planning to establish its second manufacturing operations in Tucson, Arizona. . The new facility marks a new milestone in GroundProbe’s efforts to expand its manufacturing capabilities and to better serve its customers in the Northern hemisphere. . The expansion also comes following the company’s significant growth over the past few years. .

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Arduino’s First-ever micro PLC is On its Way

Control.com

Arduino takes a leap of faith and moves into the world of industrial automation with the first-ever Arduino PLC, partnering with Finder to design the Opta with control engineers in mind.

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Codan to provide HF Amplifier, Antenna System for Raytheon’s Land 555 Bushmaster upgrade

AU Manufacturing

Raytheon Australia has tapped Codan Communication to deliver a High-Frequency Amplifier and Antenna System for the Force Level Electronic Warfare System—Land, which is being supplied for the Australian Defence Force. . The HF Amplifier and Antenna System will serve as a crucial component for the Force Level Warfare (EW) system for the Australian Army. .

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Australia’s first advanced computer manufacturing facility

Manufacturer's Monthly

Australia is a step closer towards developing sovereign capability in critical technology with SoftIron officially opening Australia’s first component-level IT infrastructure manufacturing facility in Sydney. SoftIron’s facility is an advanced manufacturing hub that produces ICT componentry for SoftIron’s groundbreaking HyperCloud Intelligent Cloud Fabric , the world’s first complete technology for building clouds.

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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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Australian universities receive ARC funding to boost infrastructure research capabilities

AU Manufacturing

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has unveiled $39 million in research funding that would provide Australian researchers with the means to acquire key research equipment and infrastructure. . Awarded under the Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment, and Facilities (LIEF) scheme, the funding would allow researchers in 21 universities to undertake cutting-edge basic and applied research and training. .

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EtherCAT Technology Group elects new Board of Directors member

Manufacturer's Monthly

Dr Gerhard Grunwald was unanimously elected as a member of EtherCAT Technology Group’s ( ETG ) Board of Directors, succeeding long-time board member Prof Dr Peter Heidrich. . Prof Heidrich was elected at the beginning of 2004 as a member of the Board of Directors at the first Membership Assembly of the EtherCAT Technology Group after its foundation and has been confirmed in office eight times since then.

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Monash University rolls out world’s first cyborg heart competition

AU Manufacturing

A team of biomedical engineering students from Monash University has kickstarted the world’s first artificial heart competition to help over 64 million people worldwide who suffer from heart complications. . Heart Hackathon is the world’s first student-led biomedical engineering competition and was created by Monash Young MedTech Innovators. It seeks to design and commercialise a robotic heart that would help combat heart failure. .

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Italy bans the use of facial-recognition technology

E&T

Italy has banned the use of facial-recognition technology and similar biometrics systems until either a specific law is adopted or at least until the end of next year. . "The moratorium arises from the need to regulate eligibility requirements, conditions and guarantees relating to facial recognition, in compliance with the principle of proportionality," the agency said in a statement.

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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.