Design World

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Markforged has introduced Performance Advisor, a software tool designed as a fast and easy way to get stronger parts, particularly when use cases are unknown. The first step to manufacturing strong parts with Markforged printers is to use Eiger to configure print settings, which can influence the strength (performance) of a part. For example, it […] The post New Performance Advisor helps strengthen parts with less material appeared first on Design World.

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Gary Mintchell

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Here is the last of the prediction articles I picked up in December but had too much news to pack in. Usually November and December are void of news. These thoughts are from Aaron Merkin, CTO, Fluke Reliability & Ankush Malhotra, President, Fluke Reliability. The promise of AI to bridge the skilled labor gap Traditional AI – This is artificial intelligence in its traditional form, learned data that powers predictive insights.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute are developing a modular robot that can creep inside natural gas pipelines to map where pipes are, detect decrepit or leaking pipes, and, when necessary, repair the pipe by applying a resin coating along its inner wall.

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Automation World

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

How a portable operations station can contain all the automation technologies needed to for a GMP life sciences facility to produce quality-controlled products.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Virtual Incision, the developer of the MIRA Surgical System, says that spaceMIRA is currently in transit to the International Space Station. The device is aboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft carried by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

SpaceX has been selected to launch the Starlab space station to low-Earth orbit (LEO) before 2030 – a commercial venture from a joint partnership between Airbus and Voyager Space.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

GITAI’s S2 dual-armed robot system will conduct various tasks at the International Space Station. | Source: GITAI GITAI USA Inc.’s latest robotic system, S2, this week launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket headed for the International Space Station. It is part of a mission to resupply the ISS and to test innovations including a surgical robot and a metal 3D printer.

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Corey Alton Fox, operations manager for Accede Mold & Tool, is one of MMT 's new editorial advisory board (EAB) members. Photo Credit: Accede Mold & Tool Meet Corey Alton Fox. Corey is a seasoned professional and third-generation leader in the moldmaking industry. Currently serving as the operations manager at Accede Mold & Tool , an independent and privately-owned injection mold builder in Rochester, New York, Corey brings a wealth of expertise to the editorial advisory board (E

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cimcorp, a pioneer of intralogistics automation specialized in fresh food handling and tire-handling solutions, has partnered with REWE Group, one of Germany’s leading food retail companies, to automate the fulfillment of fresh produce at REWE’s logistics center located in Oranienburg, about 31 miles north of Berlin.

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Control.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Effectively managing data includes processing it after initial collection: performing calculations, reviewing for anomalies, and displaying the data for easier actionable insights.

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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.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

New Scale Robotics has formed a new partnership with Fanuc Americas as an Authorized Systems Integrator. This new relationship expands the Fanuc system’s capabilities by enabling the automation of manual gauging processes, helping manufacturers eliminate bottlenecks and improve productivity.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A new study by Penn State University has found that trees are struggling to sequester carbon in warmer, drier climates – meaning that they might no longer serve as carbon sinks.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Honeywell says it will team up with Hai Robotics to deliver flexible, high-density storage and retrieval solutions to distribution centres. The alliance couples Hai’s innovative robotics technology with Honeywell’s Momentum Warehouse Execution Software, enhanced cybersecurity capabilities and experience integrating robotics solutions.

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Control.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Instock has partnered with GoBolt to implement gravity-defying fulfillment robots in select GoBolt warehouses. The companies aim to demonstrate a novel approach to simplify automated storage and retrieval systems.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Changi Airport Group and Aurrigo International are collaborating to test the latest version of its electric-powered autonomous vehicle, Auto-DollyTug, at Changi Airport. Auto-DollyTug, which has new ground handling capabilities and is more maneuverable, will be put through different scenarios to assess its efficiency and speed when it comes to aircraft turnaround times.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Robot Report Podcast · What’s next for iRobot? In this episode, Steve Crowe, Mike Oitzman and Gene Demaitre discuss the termination of Amazon’s proposed acquisition of iRobot. As a result of the terminated deal, iRobot CEO and co-founder Colin Angle is stepping down, and the company is laying off 31% of its employees. The companies signed the proposed acquisition agreement on Aug. 4, 2022.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

McAlister Design & Automation, a subsidiary of Wauseon Machine, a provider of automation solutions, tube forming technologies, precision machining, and fabrication, reveals its new Battery Test and Assembly System. This market-leading battery system enables the inspection and testing of battery cells and assembly of battery packs, commonly used in electric vehicles and consumer products.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

RoboTire, a robotics startup developing an automated tire-changing system for mechanics, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. RoboTire was founded in 2018, was based in Plymouth, Michigan, and won an RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award in 2023. RoboTire filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the Court of Delaware on January 19, 2024. You can read the filing here (PDF).

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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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Drives & Controls

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Mitsubishi Electric has developed an AI tool that analyses manual tasks on production lines in a few minutes and visualises how the tasks could be performed more efficiently to improve productivity. The company says that tool can cut the time needed to analyse such tasks by up to 99%.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A screen grab from a NASA broadcast shows a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station on Jan. 30, 2024 with the spaceMIRA from Virtual Incision onboard. | Source: NASA Virtual Incision’s MIRA surgical robot system has made it to the International Space Station (ISS). Lincoln, Nebraska–based Virtual Incision received a grant in 2022 for the MIRA platform to be used in a technology demonstration aboard the ISS.

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The Fabricator

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Little Rock, Ark.-based Lexicon Inc. has promoted Micah Lopez to vice president, project management, for its Fabrication Group.

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Plastics Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The class of 2024, including two “historical” historical plastics pioneers, are featured ahead of the event in this slide show.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Industry Week

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As the market sends mixed signals, certain technologies point to resiliency.

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Cisco Smart Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Only Cisco offers a unified solution to address full-stack observability (FSO) use cases across all major industries Every day, hundreds of millions of people buy groceries, book travel, order… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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NIST

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Manufacturers are under increasing pressure from consumers, retailers, investors, and regulatory agencies to act on sustainability and to verify the sustainability of their products and practices. Given the array of issues related to sustainability, navigating the demands can be complex and resource-intensive.

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Plastics Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Many plastics businesses experienced flat or declining performance in 2023, but the outlook for 2024 is cautiously optimistic.

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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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Cisco Smart Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Network infrastructure has typically been static and fractured with enterprises dealing with multiple vendors across the globe.

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The Guardian Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Supply chain difficulties have led to job losses and cuts in purchasing and stocks, according to survey from S&P Global Britain’s factories have been hit by disruption caused by Houthi rebel attacks in the Red Sea that led to shipping delays and contributed to rising costs, as the boss of Adidas warned about “exploding” global freight rates. UK manufacturers have experienced growing supply chain difficulties, as the Red Sea crisis led to the rerouting of deliveries of raw materials, componen

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Cisco Smart Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

I have been at Cisco many years and seen a few transformational events affect network engineers.

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Canadian Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

TORONTO — CME says that Ontario manufacturers continue to face acute workforce needs with 18,900 jobs currently unfilled, over 7,000 confirmed new manufacturing jobs about to open up and significant retirements expected between now and 2028. Breaking this down by region, the Greater Toronto Area, Kitchener-Waterloo and the Hamilton-Niagara region are facing the largest number of vacancies and are expected to face even more pressure as new manufacturing jobs, especially in the auto and electric v

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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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