Tue.Nov 08, 2022

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Robot Piece Picking Advances with Artificial Intelligence

Automation World

At PACK EXPO International, Siemens previewed its forthcoming AI-driven software for the development of pick-and-place robot systems that can grasp objects previously unknown to the system.

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OPC Foundation welcomes the new “.NET User Group” to maintain the open-source UA-.NET Standard project

Design World

The OPC Foundation (OPCF) welcomes the launch of the “.NET User Group” initiated by three companies represented on the OPC Foundation Board of Directors ABB, Microsoft, and SAP. This group aims to maintain and extend the existing open-source “UA-.NET standard” project, which is available on GitHub. All three companies use this open-source project in their… The post OPC Foundation welcomes the new “.NET User Group” to maintain the open-source UA-.NET Standard project appeared first on Desig

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Festo Didactic Takes Its Apprenticeship Program to the Next Level

Gary Mintchell

Festo has made significant investments in education and training over the past few years in Mason, Ohio just outside of Cincinnati. This news notes the next step. Festo Didactic Learning Systems North America and its partners announced plans for the Mechatronics Apprenticeship Program (MAP) at its Regional Service Center (RSC) in Mason with industry, education, and government coming together.

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Continuous, High-speed Capsule/Tablet Weighing Based on Microwave Resonance

Automation World

Work Microwave debuts a new capability in pharma production: a vibration insensitive, continuous capsule weighing sensor that can be integrated into filling machines.

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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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Industrial Ethernet Security Harmonization Group (IESHG) publishes first whitepaper

Design World

The major Standards Development Organizations OPC Foundation, PI, ODVA and FieldComm Group announce the release of the first whitepaper of their joint working group called Industrial Ethernet Security Harmonization Group (IESHG). The IESHG meets on a regular basis to discuss security topics in the industrial automation context. The goal of the working group is the… The post Industrial Ethernet Security Harmonization Group (IESHG) publishes first whitepaper appeared first on Design World.

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Inventory Planning – A Quick Guide

MRPEasy

Inventory represents the very foundation of any manufacturing or distribution operation. Keeping the raw materials, WIP, and finished goods inventories at optimal levels is crucial for short- and long-term business success. What is Inventory Planning? Inventory planning is a set of practices designed to help businesses keep optimal stock levels at any given time.

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Breaking down the information silos at FABTECH

The Fabricator

Information silos keep information hidden in manufacturing. Many metal fabricators and shop owners heading to FABTECH 2022 in Atlanta, looking for interoperable technologies, hope to break those silos for good.

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What You Need to Know About Leader Pins and Bushings

Mold Making Technology

Figure. 1 Straight (top) and shouldered (bottom) leader pins. Photo Credit, all images (including landscape image): Jim Fattori. Leader pins are often referred to as guide pins. They lead or guide one half of a mold into the other. The outer diameter of a leader pin is typically 0.0010 inch below nominal with a tolerance of +0.0000/-0.0005 inch. A leader pin bushing typically has an inside diameter of 0.0005 inch above nominal with a tolerance of +0.0005/-0.0000.

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Cobots lend a hand on the shop floor

Automation Mag

Until very recently, Marc Sauvé never imagined he’d be teaching his team members to program robots. “I would never even have thought about a robot,” he says. “That was something for car manufacturers.”. Sauvé is process leader for steel processes at Carriere Industrial Supply (CIS), which manufactures heavy equipment and wear parts for mining and other applications in its plant near Sudbury, Ontario.

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Kickstart: 'Holding people to account' on plastics, climate

Plastics News

If you thought there's been a flood of news and social media posts recently about plastics pollution, net-zero carbon goals and climate change, brace yourself for an even bigger wave over the next few days.

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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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API in Action: Self-Services

Seeburger

Beside the product portfolio itself, digitalization and digital processes is one significant pillar of a modern IT integration team. Web-based platforms like for travel booking or requesting vacation are booming, because people can interact with their service provider 24/7 in real-time with no need to organize meetings or wait for anyone. SEEBURGER BIS comes with […].

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Kickstart: 'Holding people to account' on plastics, climate

Plastics News

If you thought there's been a flood of news and social media posts recently about plastics pollution, net-zero carbon goals and climate change, brace yourself for an even bigger wave over the next few days.

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Polymer Composite Enables 50% Weight Reduction with No Loss in Strength, Durability

Plastics Today

The polyethylene formulation infused with a proprietary, carbon-based material called Lyten 3D Graphene is engineered for rotational molding applications.

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Chemical manufacturer voted regional exporter of the year

Manufacturer's Monthly

Envirofluid, a Warnambool-based company, has received Regional Exporter of the Year at the 2022 Governor of Victoria Export Awards. Envirofluid has developed, and exports, one of the largest ranges of effective, work-safe, environmentally-friendly chemicals in the world, and has now been recognised for its achievement. The 100 per cent Victorian-owned company has also received the 2022 Australian Defence Industry Awards – Manufacturer of the Year.

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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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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Spectrum Enterprise as the Customer Value Leader in the United States Business Carrier Ethernet Services Industry

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

SAN ANTONIO, TX – November 8, 2022 – Frost & Sullivan has recognized Spectrum Enterprise with the 2021 US Business Carrier Ethernet Services Customer Value Leadership Award. Organizations often want to combine software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) technology with carrier Ethernet-built WAN to securely connect an expanded number of locations nationwide, and Spectrum Enterprise is successfully supporting this hybrid networking trend by integrating its managed SD-WAN offering with traditi

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There’s more than one way to reduce shipment damage

Modern Materials Handling

Despite all the emphasis on sustainability lately, protective paper packaging also needs to make the performance and economic case to replace plastic. In this story, it does just that.

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Bekum enters a new era

Plastics News

In the U.S. market, Bekum has completed an expansion in Williamston, adding 40,000 square feet of production and 7,400 square feet of offices.

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Rebecca Healy wins Excellence in Manufacturing Award

Manufacturer's Monthly

Manufacturers’ Monthly congratulates Rebecca Healy as the winner of the Excellence in Manufacturing Award for Women in Industry 2022. Boxhead Plastics is an Australian-owned not-for-profit social enterprise that exists to support the automotive industry to divert more of its plastic waste from landfill. It is the pioneer of a process that repurposes polypropylene car bumper bars into clever, useful products from Australia’s growing pile of automotive plastic waste.

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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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Control Automation PLC Video Series - Discrete PLC Inputs

Control.com

We are excited to release the next tutorial video from our own Control Automation engineering staff. Join us for the YouTube release on Wednesday, November 9th with a live Q&A from the video author and engineer.

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Pivotree and GreyOrange partner on order fulfillment capabilities

Modern Materials Handling

Combining warehouse and order management solutions with AI-driven software and robotics expected to increase performance and reduce cost in fulfilling orders.

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DFM Tool Shortens Injection Molding Design Cycle, Accelerates Product Development

Plastics Today

Fictiv will demonstrate its design for manufacturing (DFM) technology during a free PlasticsToday webinar on Nov. 16.

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Gaining throughput and space with mobile robots

Modern Materials Handling

A distributor of electrical components improves throughput with autonomous mobile robots by 25% while reclaiming space and freeing workers from select manual tasks.

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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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SPE Automotive Names Innovation Awards Winners

Plastics Today

Winners in the 10 categories were announced earlier this month at the 51st SPE Automotive Innovation Awards Gala.

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Becoming Defence ready

Manufacturer's Monthly

There has never been a greater need for Australia to develop and maintain a sovereign defence industrial base. Sascha Sinclair from Systematiq shares with Manufacturers’ Monthly how to best deliver products to the defence industry. Australia faces an increasingly contested geopolitical environment, it is important for the Australian Government to grow the industrial base required to support the Australian Defence Force.

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Créer une expérience client unique : Decathlon mise sur la micro-exécution

Bastian Solution

Du concept à la réalité de la micro-exécution, Decathlon et Bastian Solutions ont collaboré pour créer un système de micro-exécution en magasin en contact avec les clients. « L'objectif de Decathlon était de créer un nouveau parcours client unique et amélioré en supprimant idéalement les tâches sans valeur ajoutée pour le personnel », a déclaré Diba Aleagha, responsable des opérations et du commerce électronique pour Decathlon Canada.

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Making your AGV systems safe, in every way possible

Manufacturer's Monthly

Many years ago, Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) were primarily used for moving large and heavy goods in factories. Today, the rapid growth of the e-commerce industry and the paradigm shift in the automotive sector are the key drivers for the increasing trend in the use of AGVs. More and more companies are turning to flexible automated solutions that can handle the ever-changing consumer behaviour.

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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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Women in the Fastener Industry (WIFI) Announces Joanne Sherman E-Learning Scholarship Winner

Fastener News Desk

Amanda Chance , Fast-Spec Inc, is the winner of the Joanne Sherman E-Learning (THORS) Scholarship. This scholarship will allow her to build skills and learn more in the classes she chooses to take within the fastener industry. The 5 courses Amanda has chosen include: Threaded Fastener Terminology and Components, Threaded Fastener Testing and Defects, Oil Seal Fundamentals: Rotary Applications, Heat Treat Basics, and Plating Fundamentals.

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Minister Tassi tours Hamilton region and announces $2.5M for Sante Manufacturing

Canadian Manufacturing

HAMILTON and LONDON — On Nov. 7, Filomena Tassi, Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), along with MP Lisa Hepfner, MP Arielle Kayabaga, and MP Peter Fragiskatos, visited FedDev Ontario funding recipients, small business owners and leaders in Hamilton and London. While in Hamilton, the Minister attended the annual “Invest in Hamilton Partnership Meeting” at McMaster Innovation Park.

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New mini planetary gearmotors for small stepper motors

Motion Control Tips

Applied Motion Products’ new PH Series mini planetary gearmotors are used with small step motors in NEMA 8, 11, and 14 frame sizes. The small design of the gearheads allows them to be paired with small motors and doesn’t adversely affect the outside dimensions of the combined gearmotor. These gearmotors are used in applications where […].

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Theatre: ‘Not One of These People’

E&T

Dramatist Martin Crimp is known for plays with unconventional structures that prompt questions about the dramatic process. Now, he takes to the stage for the first time, directed by Christian Lapointe and supported by a cast which does not exist. ‘Not One of These People’, which came to London’s Royal Court Theatre for three nights in early November in a co-production with Québec City’s Carte Blanche and Carrefour international de théâtre, is based around use of deepfakes: media (in this case, i

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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.