Automation World

JULY 26, 2022

A new report from Bain & Company illustrates why machines-as-a-service is a growing trend that will change the familiar equipment manufacturer business model.

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Manufacturing 325

Design World

JULY 26, 2022

In our latest Technology Tuesday’s podcast, Design World’s Michelle Froese speaks with David Church, president of Sorbothane, about innovative shock and vibration solutions. Sorbothane has been developing materials and components that isolate vibration, attenuate shock, and damp unwanted noise for 40 years. In fact, the company is celebrating four decades in business this year!

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Automation World

JULY 26, 2022

Internet of Things communication methods such as OPC UA, MQTT, and REST API make field level data available to the cloud, creating flexible production networks to support efficient manufacturing.

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Manufacturing 189

Gary Mintchell

JULY 26, 2022

What if the time has come to rethink all these specific silos and strategies that we build software solutions around? Folk/rock group The Byrds popularized a Pete Seeger tune in the 1960s, “To everything (turn, turn, turn) there is a season (turn, turn, turn) and a time for every purpose under heaven.”. The time has come to rethink all the departmental silos manufacturing executives constructed over the years with vendors targeting their applications to fit.

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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.

Manufacturing

Automation World

JULY 26, 2022

How industrial organizations can leverage trustworthy information in real time to boost their ability to aggregate, contextualize, and share data to support key business drivers such as improving productivity and cost optimization.

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Manufacturing 147

The Fabricator

JULY 26, 2022

High school and college students from across the country competed in three welding categories at this summer’s SkillsUSA Championships in Atlanta. Here are the results.

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Robotics Automation News

JULY 26, 2022

A Belgian-Spanish startup called uWare Robotics says it has developed the “first end-to-end technology to map and monitor coastal ecosystems”. uWare says its system consists of a number of proprietary hardware and software technologies, including an autonomous underwater vehicle, called the uOne. Designed for maximum mobility, stability, cost-effectiveness, and autonomy, the uOne allows for data […].

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Control Engineering

JULY 26, 2022

Learning Objectives. Automation is becoming a necessity for manufacturers due to supply chain issues and severe labor shortages. Industry 4.0 adoption is making automation possible for technologies that wouldn’t have been considered even a few years ago. Younger workers are embracing technology and automation in their daily lives. Automation Insights.

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Robotics Automation News

JULY 26, 2022

Hai Robotics has formed a partnership with frictionless supply chain company Pop.capacity. With this partnership, Pop.capacity will be able to include Hai Robotics solutions as part of its portfolio offering to its customers in an effort to reduce friction points within their warehouses. Pop.capacity is pioneering the frictionless supply chain. By combining years of supply […].

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Seeburger

JULY 26, 2022

Progressive digitalisation has meant that we require – and expect – far more of our supply chains these days than in the past. Now, we generally expect that the right goods will always be in the right place at the right time. This, however, requires the entire value creation process to be reliable, transparent and […].

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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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Robotics Automation News

JULY 26, 2022

University Hospital Tübingen has successfully completed gynecological operations using the Distalmotion Dexter on-demand robotic surgery system. This marks the Swiss robot’s first clinical use in Germany. Professor Dr Diethelm Wallwiener, Prof Dr Sara Brucker, Prof Dr Bernhard Krämer and their teams used the Dexter robot in several surgical procedures.

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Plastics News

JULY 26, 2022

We may be in a recession, but some plastics sectors still look strong, according to Plastics News Economics Editor Bill Wood. In our July Numbers That Matter Live, he advised companies not to expose themselves to risks outside their control.

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Robotics Automation News

JULY 26, 2022

Kodiak Robotics, a self-driving trucking company, has expanded its autonomous freight service to Florida with 10 Roads Express, a provider of time sensitive surface transportation for the US Postal Service. To launch this partnership, Kodiak completed a round trip consisting of four commercial deliveries, including a coast-to-coast commercial run. A Kodiak autonomous truck carried 10 […].

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Canadian Manufacturing

JULY 26, 2022

Homeowners who took part in rebates for high-efficiency space and water heating appliances as well as rebates to prevent air leakage in homes are helping achieve record energy savings in B.C. (CNW Group/FortisBC Inc.). SURREY — FortisBC says the numbers from its energy reductions program indicate its measures are working to help customers save energy and money.

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Manufacturing 98

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Robotics Automation News

JULY 26, 2022

Fictiv, an on-demand manufacturing startup, has closed a $100 million Series E funding round. The investment will advance Fictiv’s mission to accelerate product innovation with an expanded focus on decreasing supply chain risk through its best-in-category technology and product experience. This unique combination of benefits helps Fictiv’s customers tackle both the continuous, competitive pressures to […].

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Additive Manufacturing

JULY 26, 2022

CHARLOTTE, N.C./July 25, 2022 — IperionX Limited announced that the U.S. Department of Energy has approved a technical collaboration between IperionX and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop low cost titanium alloys for additive manufacturing utilizing using IperionX’s titanium metal powders. The User Agreement has been executed to advance work between ORNL and IperionX at DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at ORNL.

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Robotics Automation News

JULY 26, 2022

Stego, a manufacturer of electronic components, is expanding its capacity at the group’s headquarters in Schwäbisch Hall, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. A doubling of warehouse volume for production is already complete. The construction of an office block is now starting. This should be completed by the end of 2023 and provide space for […].

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Plastics Today

JULY 26, 2022

Ineos Styrolution America’s sustainability commercial manager, Cassie Bradley, shares the benefits of PS and its future in the circular economy.

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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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Robotics Automation News

JULY 26, 2022

Ambi Robotics, a provider of AI-powered robotic parcel sorting systems for supply chain operations, has unveiled its new headquarters in Berkeley, California to support company growth and new product development. Ambi Robotics is ramping up installations of AmbiSort systems ahead of peak season as more shipping and logistics brands grapple with surging ecommerce demand.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JULY 26, 2022

Hitachi will establish its Kyoso (collaborative creation) Centre alongside the Advanced Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) in the First Building in Bradfield in 2023. . The NSW government has agreed to finalise the private sector tenancy agreement for the building with the Japanese multinational, whose collaborative research model will attract advanced technology jobs to Western Sydney. .

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Advanced manufacturing Manufacturing 95

Robotics Automation News

JULY 26, 2022

Embark Trucks, a developer of autonomous technology for the trucking industry, says it has successfully completed on-road testing in snowy conditions in Montana, USA. The testing, which Embark announced earlier this year, was conducted to demonstrate the performance and safety of Embark’s patent-pending Vision Map Fusion (VMF) technology in geographies that experience severe winter weather. […].

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MRPEasy

JULY 26, 2022

On a quest to raise the efficiency of a growing manufacturing operation, innovative eco bubble toy company Dr Zigs has found an invaluable asset in MRPeasy. “MRPeasy has increased our efficiency fantastically. We could not imagine working without the program,” business owner Paola Dyboski states. A world leader in eco-ethical bubbles In 2011, entrepreneur Paola […].

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Manufacturing 90

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Robotics Automation News

JULY 26, 2022

Cybernetix Ventures, an independent venture capital firm investing in early-stage robotics, automation and AI technology companies, today announced the launch of its first global fund headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Cybernetix Fund I will focus on pre-seed, seed and Series A investments into companies in the US and around the world developing robotics solutions for manufacturing, […].

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NCMS

JULY 26, 2022

In recent years, maintenance and sustainment professionals have increasingly been advancing predictive maintenance capabilities to catch and solve problems before they cause catastrophic failures. As the software and hardware used in vehicle systems becomes more complex, reactive vehicle maintenance becomes more challenging and expensive, necessitating increased investment in improving proactive maintenance.

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Manufacturing 90

NIST Manufacturing

JULY 26, 2022

The grants will help address current and future barriers to widespread adoption of metals-based additive manufacturing through measurement science research.

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Additive manufacturing Manufacturing 94

Manufacturer's Monthly

JULY 26, 2022

The Queensland government has launched a new $142 million Advance Queensland – Innovation for a Future Economy 2022-2032 roadmap. . The roadmap builds on the success of the existing Advance Queensland innovation agenda, setting out the state’s innovation priorities to drive good jobs in the lead up to the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brisbane. .

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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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E&T

JULY 26, 2022

Efforts to make flying greener mostly count carbon dioxide emissions only, an approach that might ignore 90 per cent of future flights’ contribution to climate change accounting to new findings. . The research, published in Nature just days after the UK government announced its target of reducing carbon emissions from flights to net zero by 2050, warns that many strategies devised to decarbonise the aviation sector have significant blind spots. .

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JULY 26, 2022

Combilift forklifts have increased efficiency and improved processes for many Australian steel manufacturers. Manufacturers’ Monthly caught up with Des Watkins, managing director of Watkins Steel about the company’s future plans and how Combilift saves time and improves efficiency. Operating since 1968, Watkins Steel has serviced clients in the building, mining, and construction industries throughout Brisbane and South-East Queensland.

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The Guardian Manufacturing

JULY 26, 2022

Former BP executive will take over from outgoing boss Warren East on 1 January The engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce has named the former BP executive Tufan Erginbilgic as its new chief executive to succeed the outgoing boss, Warren East. The British group said Erginbilgic would take on the role from 1 January next year. East announced in February that he planned to leave at the end of 2022 after eight years at the helm.

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Manufacturing 81

Manufacturer's Monthly

JULY 26, 2022

Over half (52 per cent) of Australian business leaders believe that a sustainability skills shortage is holding back their organisation’s energy transition, according to new research. The survey of more than 500 business managers and decision-makers across corporate Australia found that 76 per cent of businesses saw sustainable transformation as providing a competitive edge.

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Value chain Manufacturing 86

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