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Automated Robot Path Planning for Complex Applications

Automation World

Realtime Robotics shows how its software can automate robot motion planning—for both small cobots and large industrial robots—to avoid collisions in tight work spaces.

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mk North America promotes Scott Blais, Jr. to sales and business development manager

Design World

mk North America, Inc. has promoted Scott Blais, Jr. to a sales leadership position within the company, effective September 19, 2022. Scott Blais, Jr. assumes the sales and business development manager role vacated by Eugene Shaw. Blais will report to Andreas Haussmann, president, and will lead all North American inside and outside sales activities.

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HighByte Expands Industrial Connectivity from Microsoft Azure IoT Edge to Azure Digital Twins

Gary Mintchell

Many industrial software companies have been connecting with Microsoft Azure services. This release from HighByte reveals its latest version expanding connectivity. HighByte announced the release of HighByte Intelligence Hub version 2.5 that expands connectivity to Microsoft Azure services, including Azure IoT Edge and Azure IoT Central, and the ability to import DTDL models from Azure Digital Twins.

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Kickstart: Plastics and pickleball

Plastics News

Pickleball calls itself the fastest growing sport in America. It's also one that uses a lot of plastics with a preference for rotomolded balls.

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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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Collaboration For Large-Scale Green Hydrogen Production

Gary Mintchell

The large process automation suppliers are racing for leadership in green hydrogen production. You could search hydrogen on the blog to see the latest news. This one updates a new initiative by ABB Ventures. ABB and Hydrogen Optimized announced a collaboration that positions companies for global leadership in large-scale green hydrogen production systems.

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The rise of returnable, reusable packaging to help manufacturing's reshoring efforts

The Fabricator

Logistics, material handling, and packaging company ORBIS fabricates the returnable dunnage that’s becoming an increasingly important part of the growing domestic supply chain in manufacturing.

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Playing with Fire: Welding for fun (and just for the hell of it)

The Fabricator

Many fall for welding the moment they strike their first arc. Detroit-based welder Josh Welton says it is because welding can be many things: a job, a career, a tool, entertainment, meditation, and a lifestyle.

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Capterra study shows that Quebecers prefer to buy products from the circular economy

Canadian Manufacturing

Bar graph representing the sustainable habits of Quebec consumers based on frequency. TORONTO — Capterra has just released the second part of its survey regarding the circular economy, for which more than 1,000 Canadian consumers were surveyed. The first half of this report analysed consumer participation in the circular economy in Quebec. For this second part, Capterra Canada focuses on beliefs and habits regarding sustainable consumption.

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How serious is your manufacturing company about starting a lean journey?

The Fabricator

Are you serious about lean manufacturing, or are you just dabbling? Considering the state of the world, now would be a good time to get serious.

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Injection molding design guide

Plastics News

A collection of industry best practices, including: recommended wall thicknesses, boss design, gate types and more. Learn about which features to consider when designing parts for injection molding and how to forecast production schedules.

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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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Wisconsin technical college debuts NBT welding summer camp

The Fabricator

A small group of 12- to 15-year-olds participated at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Marinette’s first-ever welding camp, funded by a grant from Nuts, BoltsandThingamajigs.

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NHL honors Covestro, Pittsburgh Penguins for 'Rethink the Rink' program

Plastics News

Every year, Carnegie Mellon University students collaborate with Covestro engineers and Penguins experts to conceptualize innovative safety solutions for rinks and player equipment in a week-long activation.

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Medical 3D Printing: Leveraging the Established for the Emerging

Additive Manufacturing

In spite of the similar goals to improve and save lives, established medical 3D printing ( established being defined here as 3D printing of guides, models, prosthetics, patient assist devices, and permanent implants) and emerging tissue-restorative 3D printing/bioprinting (with or without living cells) are frequently treated independently of each other.

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Australia’s largest purpose-driven business even is back

AU Manufacturing

Media Release by Purpose Conference. Purpose Conference , Australia’s largest purpose-driven business event, is back by popular demand after a four-year hiatus, with more than a thousand forward-thinking speakers, businesses and brands participating. This year’s event will see over 600 attendees over two days engage in an immersive experience of talks, workshops, creativity and networking, 19 & 20 Oct at Carriageworks, Sydney.

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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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3D Printed Antimicrobial Trauma Device Development Grant Awarded by NIH

Additive Manufacturing

SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 29, 2022 — SINTX Technologies, Inc. announced a Phase I grant of $275k awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop and test an antimicrobial trauma device. The device will be constructed of a 3D printed continuous carbon fiber (cCF) reinforced polyetherketoneketone (PEKK) plate with silicon nitride embedded into its surface.

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Louisiana appeals Formosa permit ruling

Plastics News

Louisiana state officials are appealing a judge's ruling revoking air permits for Formosa Plastics' $9.4 billion resin plant planned in the state.

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Critical Battery Materials Focus of 6K Energy and ONE Joint Development Agreement

Additive Manufacturing

North Andover, MA, September 29, 2022 – 6K announced that its 6K Energy division has signed a joint development agreement with Our Next Energy (ONE) to develop and produce the critical battery material that ONE will use in their Gemini and Aries battery platforms. The agreement strengthens the procurement of domestically produced electric vehicle batteries for automotive OEMs manufactured by ONE made with battery materials produced locally by 6K Energy.

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Google shutting down Stadia gaming platform after just three years

E&T

Stadia is a cloud gaming service first launched in 2019 that is operated by Google and is accessible through Chromecast Ultra and Android TV devices. Rather than running games on the device itself, like traditional home consoles, they run on one of the company's numerous data centres and stream the game’s video and audio feed back to the user. This requires a very low latency internet connection for the games to feel smooth and responsive on the user’s end, something which Google cannot guarante

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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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Federal government announces renewed funding for work placement opportunities for post-secondary students

Canadian Manufacturing

TORONTO — On Sep. 29, François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced renewed funding for the Business + Higher Education Roundtable (BHER) program. The $17.1 million investment over the next 3 years will enable the creation and scaling of over 22,300 WIL opportunities for students across Canada. BHER will leverage its renewed program funding and existing partnerships in focus areas aimed at under-represented groups, giving them the resources and tools

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Q&A: Why does TCS sponsor the London Marathon?

E&T

Dickon Ross: For those who may not know already, what is TCS? Michelle Taylor: TCS is a global IT services and consulting company, so we basically work with our clients around the world to use technology to help innovate and improve how they work and transform their businesses. DR: What does the sponsorship involve, apart from putting your name in the title?

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Outway announces its performance socks are available

Canadian Manufacturing

Outway performance socks are designed for the pursuit of personal bests. Bike, run, workout, hike, and more in comfort and style. (CNW Group/Outway Ltd.). VICTORIA — Outway, an athletic lifestyle brand, is trying to create a shift in the athleisure market with its performance socks. In recent years, Outway says the industry has witnessed extraordinary growth because of an increasing awareness of health and fitness.

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Observations confirm computational model predictions of sea-level rise

E&T

A team of scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US has analysed the 'fingerprint' of sea-level change attributable to the melting of the Greenland ice sheets. By analysing high-resolution satellite observations, the team was able to confirm the predictions made using theoretical and computational models of sea-level changes to forecast climate-change-driven impacts.

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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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Preparing for Disruption to Ensure Long-term Success

Fabricating & Metal Work

PROFIT MASTERY. The events of the last couple of years have been disruptive, to say the least. And while the impact has been extreme and far-reaching it isn’t necessarily completely devastating. Nor will it be the last disruption your business faces. What many businesses don’t realize is that disruptions come in all shapes and sizes and with varying degrees of impact and longevity.

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Nasa and SpaceX plan mission to boost the orbit of the Hubble Telescope

E&T

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is planning to fund the study which could see one of the firms dragon rockets used to adjust the telescope’s orbit in a servicing mission. Hubble orbits the Earth in the extremely tenuous upper atmosphere, and over time its orbit decays due to drag. If not reboosted, it is estimated that it will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere sometime between 2028 and 2040, with the exact date depending on how active the Sun is and its impact on the upper atmosphere.

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Magna plastic exterior components offer advantages for EVs

Plastics News

Magna brings new technology to exterior panels that allow automakers to provide a unique style to future vehicles that still reflect car brand recognition.

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StatCan says job vacancies dropped below one million in July 2022

Canadian Manufacturing

Statistics Canada says the number of job vacancies in the country moved lower to slip below one million in July, but remained well above where they were a year earlier. The agency says employers in Canada were actively recruiting for 964,000 vacant positions, down by 56,400 compared with June. However, the total number of job vacancies in July was up 134,300 compared with July 2021.

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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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AKYAPAK 3 ADM - 10 Axis Three Spindle CNC Drill Line

The Fabricator

Perfect solution for structural steel works by 10 axis CNC - fast, robust, reliable, and much more. Features include: cut to length with combined bandsaw, customer-specific layout, machining with no movement within 20’ sub-axe, countersinking, tapping, slotting-plunge milling-feed milling, scribing marking, and large hole milling.

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Chinese manufacturing weakens, adding pressure to global economy

Canadian Manufacturing

Growth in Chinese factory activity was weak in September, export orders fell and employers cut jobs, two surveys showed on Sep. 30, adding to pressure on lackluster economic growth. A monthly purchasing managers’ index released by business news magazine Caixin fell to 48.1 from August’s 49.5 on a 100-point scale in which readings below 50 indicate activity contracting.

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Nuts, BoltsandThingamajigs Awards Gala

The Fabricator

Hear uplifting stories of the progress NBT is making to inspire and encourage young people to pursue prosperous manufacturing careers. Proceeds of the gala directly support NBT’s summer manufacturing camp and scholarship programs to help build a pipeline for tomorrow’s skilled workforce.

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Digital Health Company Epicore Biosystems Won’t Sweat Supply-Chain Bottlenecks

Plastics Today

The maker of sweat-sensing wearables partners with 3M and Innovize to ensure uninterrupted materials supply and production.

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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.