Mon.Mar 13, 2023

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Cybersecurity and Social Engineering Awareness

Automation World

Being aware of social engineering practices is the first step in protecting you, your team and network, as well as being a good starting point for a holistic cybersecurity approach.

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Silicon Sensing appoints new Chief Engineer

Design World

Dr. Mark Marshall has been appointed as chief engineer of Silicon Sensing Systems Ltd. Dr. Marshall joined Silicon Sensing in 2017 as the lead engineer on numerous inertial programs. Immediately prior to commencing as Chief Engineer, he was the company’s consultant engineer and electronics discipline manager. In this role, he was responsible for the electronics… The post Silicon Sensing appoints new Chief Engineer appeared first on Design World.

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Using 3D Mapping Solutions Effectively for Enterprise AR

Gary Mintchell

The entire scope of technology going under Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Extended Reality (XR), Metasphere, and whatever comes next has been hyped beyond the Gartner Hype Cycle. That brings out the skeptic in me. Many trade show demonstrators have fitted me with a variety of glasses, goggles, hoods, hard hats with goggles, and many I’ve no doubt forgotten.

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VSP Connect links surgical planning to additive manufacturing ecosystem

Design World

3D Systems recently announced VSP Connect, a centralized, cloud-based surgical planning portal that integrates automated workflows and artificial intelligence (AI). As the latest addition to the company’s VSP surgical planning solutions, VSP Connect gives device manufacturers and surgeons real-time patient case visualization and improved collaboration capabilities.

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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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How a metal fabricator doubled revenue in two years

The Fabricator

Industrial Succession Group purchased a small California sheet metal operation in 2020. It wasn’t a strip-and-flip affair. Instead, it streamlined information management and doubled its head count and overall revenue.

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Volkswagen announces investment in Ontario

Canadian Manufacturing

ST. THOMAS — On Mar. 13, Volkswagen, Europe’s largest automaker, announced that its subsidiary PowerCo will establish an electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing facility in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. Following this announcement, François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, and Vic Fedeli, Ontario’s Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, issued the following joint statement: “Earlier today, Volkswagen announced that it has sele

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Proprietary closures bring sustained growth to Hoffer Plastics

Plastics News

Hoffer Plastics Corp. has only continued to grow since it won the Processor of the Year award in 2012. Now it has been honored with the Sustained Excellence Award.

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Plus One Robotics raises $50 million in new funding

Robotics Automation News

Plus One Robotics, a provider of advanced AI vision software and solutions for robotic parcel handling, has raised $50 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners, with Partner Rory O’Driscoll joining the board of directors.

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LyondellBasell buys Italy-based recycling compounder Mepol

Plastics News

Mepol makes recycled, high-performing technical compounds, officials with LyondellBasell in Dallas said in a news release. It operates compounding plants in Italy and Poland.

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How to Start a 3D Printing Service Bureau

Additive Manufacturing

The beauty of today’s manufacturing environment is that anyone can start a 3D printing service bureau and begin printing parts today. According to a recent report by Persistence Markets , the 3D printing service bureau industry is projected to surge eight times the size of its present state over the next decade. Forget the lemonade stand, today’s industrious children are downloading CAD drawings from the internet, printing figurines and selling them amongst their classmates.

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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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The bigger picture: Danuri lunar orbiter

E&T

A South Korean spacecraft has captured stunning new images of the lunar surface and Planet Earth. Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, also known as Danuri, is South Korea’s first ever spacecraft to orbit the Moon. Launched on a SpaceX rocket from the US in August 2022, it began travelling towards the Moon and was inserted into lunar orbit late in December.

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Mobile Metal Analysis for IncomingandOutgoing Material Verification

The Fabricator

When working with metal or metal alloys it is critical to know that it is the right one. The correct elemental composition needs to be ensured in order to meet the expectations of your customers, your production process, or to check what your supplier has delivered. For welding and fabricating it is critical that you know the materials you are working with are what you need them to be and that they are accurate in their composition.

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Lear to expand seating plant in Detroit

Plastics News

Lear Corp. will fill the remaining 268,000 square feet at the former Cadillac Stamping Plant on the city's east side, the company confirmed. A building permit for about $1 million of construction work was issued for the site last Tuesday, according to Detroit building permit records.

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Autonomous construction equipment company Teleo signs up new customers and expands worldwide

Robotics Automation News

Teleo, a company building autonomous technology for heavy construction equipment, has agreed deals with construction customers John Aarts Group, Teichert and Tomahawk Construction for remote-operated wheel loaders, bulldozers, and dump trucks, respectively.

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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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IDS: TRUMPF shows turbo 3D printing of dental prostheses

Dinesh Mishra

3D printing ensures high quality in dental prosthesis production // Producing metal dental prostheses eight times faster Ditzingen/Cologne, 09 March 2023 – The high-tech company TRUMPF is showing the new TruPrint 1000 at the world’s leading dental trade show IDS. “This 3D printer is the fastest machine on the dental market. With better quality, the TruPrint 1000 manufactures at a higher speed.

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Fernride and Terberg partner to take automated terminal tractors into series production

Robotics Automation News

Fernride, which specializes in autonomous trucking, and Terberg, a maker of terminal tractors, have agreed a collaboration to develop an automated terminal tractor CE certified for commercial production. This solution offers both teleoperated and autonomous driving capabilities to ensure a smooth and gradual transition to full autonomy with human-in-the-loop.

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Meta working on social media platform to rival Twitter, reports say

E&T

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has revealed it is working on a new social network solely designed for sharing text updates. The new app could become the most high-profile rival to Twitter and Mastodon. The former has been rife with chaos since Musk's aggressive takeover, with the company struggling to hold onto its advertising base amid large-scale staff layoffs and a succession of outages for the platform.

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Starship Technologies launches robot delivery service at North Carolina university

Robotics Automation News

Starship Technologies, the world’s leading provider of autonomous delivery services, announced today that its robots have started on-demand food deliveries at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte).

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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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Entering and thriving in defence: industry knowledge is key to success

Manufacturer's Monthly

An increasing number of advanced manufacturing businesses are looking towards the defence industry for opportunities in supply chain participation. Manufacturers’ Monthly learns about the incredible support Systematiq gives to enter and thrive in the defence market. Coming from a military family, Erin O’Brien’s first job was at the Defence Material Organisation, now referred to as the Department of Defence.

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Redline's ‘outrageous cultural behaviors' retain top employees

Plastics News

Redline Plastics wins PN Excellence Award winner for Employee Relations, part of its "golden rule" for the organization.

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FBR to manufacture Hadrian X robots for the US

Manufacturer's Monthly

Perth-based robotics company FBR Limited’s strategic agreement with UK-based M & G Investment Management will fund the manufacture and commercial deployment of three additional next-generation Hadrian X robots. The three new robots will be built on USA truck bases and will then be immediately deployed to offer ‘Wall as a Service’ via the existing Fastbrick Americas LLC entity.

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4 ways to prepare your workforce for smart manufacturing

The Fabricator

For press shops looking to implement smart manufacturing, workforce engagement in development is key to success.

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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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Forging the future of advanced composites

Manufacturer's Monthly

Aeromech was founded to bridge the gap between academia and industry by creating opportunities for big thinkers. Billy Friend sat down with founder and director Joe Bryant to learn about the company’s ambitions to propel Australia into the upper echelon of advanced composites manufacturing. Fresh from university, Joe Bryant began his career as an aerospace engineer with Airbus, working on the company’s first composite helicopter, the ARH Tiger.

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University of Adelaide ready to help Australia’s nuclear-powered defence efforts

AU Manufacturing

The University of Adelaide said it is ready to help train the workforce and provide the research expertise needed to help Australia achieve its goal to be a nuclear-powered defence force. The University’s statement comes after the Australian government announced its plans to purchase US submarines as an interim measure before building UK-designed craft in Adelaide.

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How additive manufacturing capabilities can boost Australian aerospace and defence industry growth

Manufacturer's Monthly

Matthew Hunter, national manager, emerging technology, Konica Minolta breaks down to Manufacturers’ Monthly the key opportunities and challenges in growing sovereign capability in Australia’s defence and aerospace manufacturing ecosystem. The 3D printing industry has significantly transformed, shifting from prototyping to end-use applications. The increasing ability to create strong, affordable 3D printed parts using various innovative materials has fuelled this transition.

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Australia, India pledge to strengthen economic, defence ties during leaders’ summit

AU Manufacturing

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have agreed to further strengthen the bilateral relationship between the two countries during talks at the Annual Leaders’ Summit held Friday in New Delhi. The leaders declared their intentions to conclude the ambitious Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) as soon as possible, building on the landmark trade agreement inked last year.

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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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Finding the Right Automation Partner

Modern Materials Handling

Making the business case for automation and selecting the right solution isn’t easy. But with the right partner, you can trust that your future will be in good hands and that the right systems will be implemented and maintained going forward.

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IperionX to supply recycled titanium powder to SLM Solutions

AU Manufacturing

IperionX Limited , a provider of sustainable titanium technologies, is delivering spherical titanium metal powders to global additive manufacturing system provider SLM Solutions under a newly signed memorandum of understanding (MOU). IperionX will supply the powders from its planned Titanium Demonstration Facility in Virginia, the company said in an ASX announcement.

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LyondellBasell Ups Its Sustainability Game with Mepol Buy

Plastics Today

Mepol Group is a manufacturer of recycled technical compounds with operations in Italy and Poland.

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Lancaster researchers reveal 3D internal structure of rechargeable batteries

AU Manufacturing

Researchers from Lancaster University in England have developed a technique that allows them to see the 3D internal structure of rechargeable batteries for the first time. The team was led by Professor Oleg Kolosov from Lancaster’s Physics Department in collaboration with University College London and NEXGENNA Faraday Institution Consortium, the university said in a news release.

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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.