Design World

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Lapp North America announces it will launch its expanded family of SKINTOP MINI cable glands at ATX West 2023, Booth 4355. The extended Skintop Mini range includes 2 to 7 mm diameter glands, allowing system designers to obtain protective, secure seals for their small-diameter cables while reducing cable density in their networked devices. Features and… The post Lapp introduces Skintop Mini cable glands at ATX West 2023 appeared first on Design World.

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Gary Mintchell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

While I was researching the QAD acquisition of RedZone , I noticed the prominence of something called “Adaptive Solutions.” When I mentioned I was curious about what that meant in beyond marketing terms, the PR team went to work and set up a conference call with QAD CEO Anton Chilton. He told me, “The pace of change facing manufacturers has required a real-time response to situations.

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Design World

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

To assist in training the next generation of manufacturing professionals, Acu-Rite is offering deep discounts on its line of DRO’s and Millpwr G2 CNC retrofit packages: [link] Additionally, Heidenhain is offering a collection of educational services and products to meet the demands for today’s digitization of data in NC metalworking. This worldwide initiative, called the Heidenhain Education… The post Heidenhain and Acu-Rite offer education support for manufacturing appeared first on Desig

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Plastics News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Materials maker LyondellBasell Industries has wrapped up a 2022 year that showed higher sales but lower profit.

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The $53 trillion manufacturing economy in the US is undergoing a major automation paradigm shift due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thanks to new practical frameworks, automation projects that were once impossible or inefficient to implement are now being fast-tracked, and robotics automation is becoming increasingly relevant to a growing number of users and scenarios.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The PAC report stressed that the department had been “struggling for years” to deliver critical digital projects, some of them needed for use by UK warships and satellites. The chair of the committee, Labour MP Dame Meg Hillier, said the MoD was "frankly not up to the task it faces", and called for a "significant cultural change" to bring the systems up to date and to be prepared for modern battles ahead.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Two business units from within logistics giant UPS and famous retail brand GAP are combining their expertise to offer “unmatched automation and supply chain capabilities” to apparel and footwear merchants. The companies say their new offering will enable mall and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to benefit from capabilities “previously only available to billion-dollar brands”.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

People who want to invest in stocks now commonly engage in online trading as an alternative option to more old-school methods.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Thousands of students working under the OCR and Cambridge International exam boards will sit on-screen mock ‘high stakes’ exams for the first time starting this week. GCSE Computer Science as well as IGCSEs in English and AS Level History are the first subjects being trialled, which will see schools pay around £10 for each digital exam. Jill Duffy, chief executive of OCR, said: “Students and teachers embraced digital learning by necessity during the pandemic.

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Plastics Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Toray Industries has developed recycled polyamide (PA) 66 from recovered silicone-coated airbag fabric scrap that achieves the flowability and mechanical properties of virgin PA 66.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Geek+ has provided 82 autonomous mobile robots for C-StoreMaster’s new $20 million distribution warehouse in Huntsville, Alabama, in the US. C-StoreMaster officially opened its 130,000-square-foot automated warehouse recently with a celebration attended by leaders in the convenience store industry and the city of Huntsville.

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Plastics Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Compounder signs exclusive agreement with bicycle-frame maker V Frames to develop materials, such as bio-based long carbon fiber, for water-assisted injection molding.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It’s not just the wisdom of crowds that says your smartphone is an extension of the mind. That small electronic device, which acts as your personalised atlas, calendar, post office, telephone, library and camera, is becoming formally recognised as a fully fledged external memory. And, the argument goes, if governments have no right to access the thoughts inside your head, why should they have the right to access the data on the machine to which we outsource our memory?

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Plastics Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Genesis' calendering operation converts implantable PEEK into thicknesses from 0.1 to 1.0 mm in rolls, spools of strip, and custom-sized sheets.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Flexiv, a builder of general-purpose robotics solutions, has released the latest addition to its product portfolio, the Moonlight adaptive parallel robot. Flexiv says Moonlight is the world’s first force-controlled parallel robot and is ideal for applications that require precise motion and force control, such as screw fastening, ultra-accurate loading, and polishing.

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Plastics News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

One auto supplier will open a satellite production facility closer to workers so they don't have to cope with the high cost of commuting.

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Drives & Controls

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Just months after claiming to have set a new world record for the smallest servodrive, the Spanish developer Ingenia has produced an even smaller device – a 250W drive that measures 33 x 17.6 x 6mm, and weighs just a mere 6 grammes. The new Denali drives are aimed at applications such as robots, industrial grippers and lab automation systems.

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Modern Materials Handling

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Research firm predicts CAGR of 16% through 2027 for the market for software used to control, execute, and manage the operations of automated warehouses.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The sensor is so cheap and simple to produce that its developers said it can be hand-drawn with a pencil onto paper treated with sodium chloride. It also paves the way for wearable, self-powered health monitors that could detect other health concerns like cardiac arrests and pneumonia. “Our team has been focused on developing devices that can capture vital information for human health,” said Professor Huanyu Cheng at Penn State university, lead author on the study.

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Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

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Modern Materials Handling

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Services PMI—at 55.2 (a reading of 50 or higher signals growth)—increased 6.0% over December’s 49.2, which was down 6.9% compared to November’s 55.5. Through November, the Services PMI had grown for 30 consecutive months.

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AU Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Australia Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic has launched consultations for the country’s first National Battery Strategy during a visit to Energy Renaissance , an Australian lithium-ion battery technology and manufacturing firm, at Tomago in the New South Wales Hunter Valley. The plan will help kickstart the local battery manufacturing industry and support the decarbonisation of the national economy, hit ambitious emissions targets, and foster Australian innovation.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Robot Insights In 2022, the global industrial robot market is expected to have grown by 8%, lower than previously forecasted. In 2022, collaborative robots continued to be the fastest growing market, with shipments increasing by 17% and sales rising by 20%. Supply chain constraints lingering from the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the ongoing energy crisis precipitated by the war in Ukraine will continue to put pressure on the market.

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The Fabricator

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Steelcon Group of Companies, Brampton, Ont., has acquired Hammett Steel, a structural and miscellaneous steel fabricator based in Columbus, Ga.

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Plastics News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Illinois attorney general is accusing 14 companies of hiding the dangers of fluorinated chemicals. It comes days after Michigan's attorney general settled a similar lawsuit over a plastic compounding plant in that state.

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The Fabricator

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Wandelbots, a Germany-based no-code robotics software firm, has opened a U.S. headquarters in Chicago to expand its global operations and accelerate human-centered robotics in the manufacturing industry.

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The Automation Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about Softing, Mitsubishi, B&R, Balluff, Idec, Anybus, Denso, AS-i and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Friday, February 3, 2023. First is a press release from Antaira here about how they just obtained a patent on their iPoE Budget Control feature, which helps to avert damage to Antaira industrial PoE switches by preventing the switch from overrunning its set PoE budget.

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The Fabricator

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

ESAB Corp. has introduced the Rogue ET 200iP Pro, a high-frequency TIG/stick welding inverter.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Google’s parent company Alphabet posted lower profits and only a small revenue increase, while Amazon also reported a fall in profits. Apple posted its first quarterly revenue drop in nearly four years. In Apple’s case, Covid restrictions at its manufacturing factories in China hit production, which impacted sales of the iPhone during the festive period.

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Modern Materials Handling

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Services PMI—at 55.2 (a reading of 50 or higher signals growth)—increased 6.0% over December’s 49.2, which was down 6.9% compared to November’s 55.5. Through November, the Services PMI had grown for 30 consecutive months.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The committee called on the government to “urgently” publish its semiconductor strategy, which was first announced two years ago, or otherwise risk the development of the UK’s burgeoning industry. The committee published a response to the government’s stocktake of the industry in November 2022, but it expressed disappointment that its recommendations had not been fully addressed yet.

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MEM

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Cherwell Laboratories , specialists in cleanroom microbiology solutions for the pharmaceutical, healthcare and related industries, will be leading an open discussion on environmental monitoring (EM) in line with EU GMP Annex 1 at the forthcoming Pharmig 30 th Annual Conference. The annual event to be held at the Nottingham Belfry, 30 November – 1 December, will focus on the ongoing challenges of microbiological contamination control compliance.

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Effective shop floor production planning and execution can be challenging. Despite technological advancements and methodologies, many manufacturing production managers still encounter issues that result in late orders, cash flow difficulties, and dissatisfied customers. These challenges can disrupt operations, reduce efficiency, and impact overall profitability.

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