Fri.Mar 10, 2023

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Plug-in controllers from Nanotec feature compact size, high power ratings

Design World

The small plug-in motor controllers of the CPB series from Nanotec are easy to integrate into existing applications and customer boards. Available in three sizes with rated power of 150, 300, and 750 W, they have the same features and identical pin assignments on the logic connector. As a result, several performance classes of a […] The post Plug-in controllers from Nanotec feature compact size, high power ratings appeared first on Design World.

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Deutsche Telekom and T?Mobile US introduce Network APIs and Joint Developer Platform

Gary Mintchell

More news from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, this one concerning working with telco networks. In brief: New network Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) will enable developers to build and innovate with telco network capabilities Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile US address global use cases with joint platform and new network APIs First partner: Siemens Energy optimizes user experience for remote maintenance using a Quality-on-Demand (QoD) API Collaboration with Microsoft will make it

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Achieving sharp bends in aluminum with the right tooling

The Fabricator

Fabricating aluminum brings with it a few challenges unique to bending and forming—getting sharp bends without cracking, reducing or eliminating galling, and preventing marking. Three press brake bending experts offer their assistance.

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How Moxa Industrial Wireless Creates More Network Possibilities

Automation World

Industrial WLANs enable the connection of automated equipment for improved operational efficiency.

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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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Laser welding thick with dynamic beam shaping technology

The Fabricator

Dynamic beam laser (DBL) technology might be a harbinger in the industrial lasers arena. No longer static, the laser beam can be shaped, sequenced, and focused in multiple ways to suit an application’s and metal fabrication shop's needs.

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Future of Agriculture: What Does Automated Vertical Farming Look Like?

Robotics Automation News

Today, automation is revolutionizing productivity and bringing other benefits across almost all industries. Agriculture is also shifting from manual labor towards a highly automated model where almost no workers are required on site.

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Mold Builders Face Diverse Set of Challenges in 2023

Plastics Today

Workforce development remains the number-one issue for US mold makers, but its dominance is shrinking as other challenges come into view, according to a business report from the American Mold Builders Association.

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After All: All aboard the vintage tram of life

E&T

Guess what the biggest highlight was of my recent short visit to Lisbon? No, not Alfama, the city’s oldest district, with its winding, naturally ventilated alleyways, cobbled streets, and secret squares. Nor the magnificent Castelo de Sao Jorge, with its thick Moorish walls and lush gardens. Nor even the mouth-watering Pasteis de Nata, the famous freshly baked and cinnamon-dusted custard tarts – yum!

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Covestro Expands Polycarbonate Film Capacity in Thailand

Plastics Today

With completion slated by 2025, the new capacity will serve applications in the ID card, automotive, and electronics industries with a growing range of more sustainable films.

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Latin America poised to become renewable energy giant, report reveals

E&T

Latin America is poised to become one of the world's largest producers of renewable energy, with almost one billion solar panels' worth of large-scale clean-electricity projects slated to come online in the next seven years across the region, the report says. GEM, a US-based non-profit organisation which tracks clean-energy development, states: "Rich in wind and solar resources, Latin America has the potential to be a global leader for renewable energy".

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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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Canada’s Plastics Ban Has Its Day in Court

Plastics Today

Dow Chemical Canada, Nova Chemicals, and other industry players as well as two provinces argued in a federal Canadian court this week that the plastics ban is unconstitutional and based on scant scientific evidence.

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Bankruptcy Lawyer: Your Guide to Overcome Financial Difficulties

Robotics Automation News

What is Bankruptcy? Bankruptcy filing is the legal process in which outstanding financial liabilities of an individual or an organization are discharged through debt relief. This debt relief acts as a financial cushion for debtors who have failed to repay their debts.

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Taking a different approach to DCS upgrades

Control Engineering

DCS insights When it comes to distributed control system (DCS) upgrades, companies need to become more flexible and smarter in their overall approach because production is getting faster and more sophisticated. This is a challenge because a DCS is a closed system and does not take to upgrades easily. Embracing concepts and technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and smart manufacturing can help.

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Dear Evil Engineer: Could I nudge the Earth a little further from the Sun?

E&T

Dear Evil Engineer, As a yeti, I often wish that millions of years of evolution had better prepared me for life on a planet with average temperatures well above freezing. I tend not to stray far from the Arctic – which severely limits my career opportunities – but global heating is rendering even that habitat smaller and sweatier by the year. Would it be possible to nudge the Earth into a higher orbit around the Sun and bring down surface temperatures to something more comfortable?

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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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Ont. requiring students to earn a technological education credit, trying to address labour shortage

Canadian Manufacturing

MISSISSAUGA — The Ontario government is implementing a new high school graduation requirement to help better prepare students across our province for the jobs of tomorrow. Starting with students entering Grade 9 in September 2024, all students will now be required to earn a Grade 9 or 10 Technological Education credit as part of their Ontario Secondary School Diploma.

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Tips on Xero specialist and payroll services in UK and London

Robotics Automation News

When it comes to running a business, there are many moving parts that need to be managed effectively. From bookkeeping and accounting to payroll and tax planning, businesses need to ensure they are staying on top of their finances to remain competitive and profitable.

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Dig In to NetDevOps at Automation Developer Days, May 9-11

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

Secure your seat at Automation Developer Days in Stockholm – May 9-11 We are happy to announce that you can now register for Automation Developer Days !

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Tips for Bookkeeping in Surrey

Robotics Automation News

Bookkeeping is an essential task for businesses of all sizes, and it involves recording financial transactions, reconciling accounts, and producing financial reports. Effective bookkeeping can help businesses to manage their finances more efficiently, identify areas for improvement, and ensure compliance with tax laws and regulations. Here are some tips for bookkeeping in Surrey.

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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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Cdn. economy added 22,000 jobs in Feb. 2023

Canadian Manufacturing

Employment in Canada rose slightly last month after January’s jobs report raised eyebrows among economists anticipating a slowdown in the labour market this year. In its labour force survey Friday, Statistics Canada said the economy added 22,000 jobs in February, with employment up in the private sector. The federal agency said the country’s unemployment rate held steady at five per cent, hovering near record-lows.

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3D printing construction market projected to surpass USD 397.5b by 2030

AU Manufacturing

A recent study by SkyQuest Technology Consulting has found that the 3D printing construction market is projected to surpass USD 397.5 billion by 2030 at a CAGR of 87.38 per cent from 2023 to 2030. This projected growth is highly influenced by the growing demand for affordable and sustainable housing solutions, according to the report. Due to the extensive usage of 3D printers in the construction sector, SkyQuest found the 3D printing construction market has had considerable growth in the Asia Pa

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Advance: Women in Manufacturing 2023 powering the journey of women

Automation Mag

It is critical to continue chipping away at all the barriers preventing or discouraging women from entering Canada’s manufacturing industry. Annex Business Media’s manufacturing group returned with the third annual Advance: Women in Manufacturing virtual summit to facilitate conversations about breaking barriers, advancing women into positions of their choice, and embracing equity.

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Gain Deeper Insights into your Cisco SD-WAN Deployments with NWPI

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

Imagine that you’ve built a house and invested time, money, and effort into it for a long time.

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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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Marin Tchakarov joins Fox Robotics as CEO

Modern Materials Handling

Tchakarov, formerly CEO at Kindred Systems, brings nearly 30 years of entrepreneurial and executive technology experience to Fox Robotics.

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Ursa Major Completes Hotfire Test of 50,000-Pound Thrust 'Ripley' Engine

MBT

Ursa Major engines are designed to be used on multiple vehicles and for various use cases.

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What makes a credible corporate climate pledge?

E&T

The British government likes to advertise its contribution to cutting carbon emissions. And the figures do look good at first glance. The UK was apparently doing a good job of meeting commitments agreed at the end of 2015 well before ministers even turned up in Paris for a signing session. UK emissions peaked 50 years ago, a time when coal was the predominant fuel for both heating and electricity generation.

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Quantum Storage, M&M Plastics add 11 presses in $8M expansion

Plastics News

The parent company, Graduate Plastics Inc., is investing $8 million at the Miami site where the businesses mold 200 million industrial bins and components at five plants annually.

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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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Automation This Morning for March 10, 2023

The Automation Blog

Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about IO-Link Products, Ethernet to DeviceNet to Modbus Bridges, Codesys Updates, AI, DCOM, SCADA and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Friday March 10, 2023. First up we have a press release here from Pepperl+Fuchs about being chosen as Rockwell Automation's Ecosystem award winner for 2023.

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Defect-detecting AI could enable 3D printing on industrial scale

E&T

Many industries already rely on the process to rapidly build parts and components. Rocket engine nozzles; pistons for high-performance cars, and custom orthopedic implants are all made using additive manufacturing, a process that involves building parts layer-by-layer using a 3D printer. However, structural defects that form during the building process is one of the reasons why this approach has not become more widely adopted.

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Nano Dimension Announces Formal Offer to Acquire Stratasys

Metrology

Nano Dimension Ltd., a leading supplier of Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME) and multi-dimensional polymer, metal & ceramic Additive Manufacturing (AM) 3D printers, has announced that it has made a formal, non-binding offer to The post Nano Dimension Announces Formal Offer to Acquire Stratasys appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.

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Government delays HS2 by two years over ‘rocketing’ costs

E&T

With over £20bn spent on Phase One – the line going from London to the West Midlands – already, the government said it was shifting towards prioritising this opening stage, with the first high-speed rail services set to run between new stations at Old Oak Common in West London and Curzon Street in Birmingham by the early 2030s. It added that while it remains “fully committed” to delivering HS2 from Euston to Manchester, inflationary pressures coupled with the UK’s struggling finances have forced

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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.