Automation World
JULY 11, 2022
The convergence of IT and operations technology requires specific skills associated with roles in both departments, which sometimes requires integrators to act more as change facilitators than engineers.
Gary Mintchell
JULY 11, 2022
“In more than 25 years in the automation and energy business, I have never experienced more exciting times, albeit with more existential challenges,” says Peter Terwiesch, President, ABB Process Automation. Terwiesch spoke with me several times back when he was CTO of ABB process automation. He has always had marvelous insight into technology trends and process applications.
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Automation World
JULY 11, 2022
See how software providers are continuing to move towards SaaS models for developing, delivering, and monetizing their work, and how that trend is breaking into the manufacturing space.
i4.0 today
JULY 11, 2022
Challenge: Rauland , a subsidiary of AMETEK, is an American manufacturing company based in Mount Prospect, Illinois that produces workflow and life-safety solutions for hospitals and schools worldwide. Constantly growing as an organization, they recently set internal mandates to increase manufacturing capacity by 30%, while initiating a more data-driven approach across their business.
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.
SMMT
JULY 11, 2022
UK Automotive’s production carbon footprint shrinks to lowest level on record, as CO 2 emissions fall -11.2% in 2021. Industry greener and cleaner with less energy use and more sustainable energy sourcing. Waste to landfill per vehicle falls to lowest ever level – down -96.2% on 1999. The UK automotive industry’s production carbon footprint fell by -11.2% in 2021 compared with the previous year to reach its lowest level since records began, according to new research from the Society of Motor Man
MRPEasy
JULY 11, 2022
Make-to-stock (MTS) is a manufacturing workflow that uses the push system. This means that goods are produced to stock by “pushing” them through the supply chain according to anticipated demand. In this post, we will look at the pros and cons as well as best practices for utilizing MTS. What is Make-to-Stock (MTS)? Make-to-stock, or […]. The post Make-to-Stock Manufacturing Workflow and Best Practices appeared first on Blog for Manufacturers and Distributors.
Manufacturing Technology Today brings together the best content for manufacturing technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Fabricator
JULY 11, 2022
Equipment manufacturer MC Machinery Systems, Elk Grove Village, Ill., has named Erik Sweede as the Northeast regional sales manager for EDM and machining.
HGR Inc.
JULY 11, 2022
We were excited to host our official Open House at our newest location last week. Located deep in the heart of Texas, our newest showroom in Fort Worth has a wide selection of industrial surplus items. Serving the mid-west and southern states, our facility is at the epicenter of industrial transport in the southern half of the United States. . As with our other locations, not only can you visit but you can browse online and see what is currently in stock, but you can also stop in and wander the
The Fabricator
JULY 11, 2022
The Harris Products Group, a manufacturer of gas distribution and regulation products, brazing and welding equipment, and consumables, has promoted Dave Thayer to director of North America sales.
i4.0 today
JULY 11, 2022
Remote patient monitoring could grow by 128 percent but is the power sufficient? . The remote patient monitoring (RPM) market is projected to be worth over £1.4 billion by 2027. However, there are still challenges that need to be solved to ensure the widespread adoption of healthcare diagnostics at home, including around the power source. Here Robert Brown, marketing executive at battery manufacturer Accutronics Ltd (an Ultralife company), explores the benefits and difficulties of meeting these
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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.
iBASEt
JULY 11, 2022
Manufacturers adopting a Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) strategy report improved traceability and agility, faster delivery, greater efficiency, and lower costs. What should you consider to realize similar benefits? An MBE is an organization that uses digital models to support commissioning, operating, servicing, and decommissioning a product, thereby eliminating many of the process and coordination challenges associated with managing products with paper-based, manual processes throughout their lif
Automation Mag
JULY 11, 2022
Advanced Motion & Controls is offering Euchner’s latest releases in safety engineering components in Canada. The products include an upgraded multifunctional gate box, as well as two innovative FlexFunction solutions – a safety switch and a safe key system. All three products were recently showcased at the Automatica 2022 trade show. Eucher’s upgraded MGB2 Modular multifunctional gate box is now available for the safe EtherCAT P with FSoE.
Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing
JULY 11, 2022
After a weeklong halt, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWCV) restarted production of its electric minibus, the ID. Buzz, and its commercial counterpart, the ID. Buzz Cargo on July 4 at its Hanover (Germany) plant. The temporary shutdown was necessitated by defective batteries sourced from a new supplier. Reports claim that the battery cells did not perform as expected with implications for the vehicle’s driving range and working life.
The Fabricator
JULY 11, 2022
En el pasado, el corte con chorro de agua de cinco ejes era muy complicado, pero la industria ha avanzado mucho debido al software de programación.
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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.
Manufacturing Tomorrow
JULY 11, 2022
Unlike comparable solutions, mold pins remain on their manufacturing fixture during metrology?shortening the time to data processing and minimizing uncertainty from remounting and re-aligning the sample. With new interface improvements, the Compass 2 now delivers 3x better form deviation performance than the original Compass.
The Fabricator
JULY 11, 2022
On July 6, Solar Atmospheres hosted more than 40 high school students enrolled in the Summer Engineering Institute (SEI) at Lehigh University.
Manufacturing Tomorrow
JULY 11, 2022
These next-generation industrial Ethernet switches deliver high-reliability, high-bandwidth performance ideal for use in critical industrial infrastructure and enhance network capabilities, improve network security and advance usability in powerful new ways.
The Fabricator
JULY 11, 2022
Metal stamping press manufacturer AIDA-America held the 2022 Servo Symposium at its Dayton, Ohio, facility June 15-16.
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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.
i4.0 today
JULY 11, 2022
A study by the Politecnico di Milano, conducted together with Stanford University, the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa and the University of Glasgow and published in the prestigious journal Light: Science & Applications, has found a way to separate and distinguish optical beams even if they are superimposed and the form in which they arrive at their destination is drastically changed and unknown.
The Fabricator
JULY 11, 2022
Beckhoff Automation, Savage, Minn., has hired Buck Tanner and Steve Boelte as business development managers.
Control Design
JULY 11, 2022
ABB opened a new global innovation and training campus at the headquarters of B&R in Eggelsberg, Austria, its global center for machine and factory automation. The new campus will create as many as 1,000 additional jobs and includes research and development laboratories, as well as global training facilities for.
The Fabricator
JULY 11, 2022
Productive Robotics has introduced a new, automated vision system for its 7-axis OB7 collaborative robot.
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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.
Control Design
JULY 11, 2022
Feel the need for highly precise motors
The Fabricator
JULY 11, 2022
Schuler’s press manufacturing location in Erfurt, Germany, is marking its 125th year in business.
Manufacturing Tomorrow
JULY 11, 2022
New insert targets stainless and heat resistant super alloy materials
The Fabricator
JULY 11, 2022
Fives has received a contract for a recoiling and inspection line to support automotive applications at the new Nucor steel plant in West Virginia. Fives also previously received orders for two galvanizing lines for this $2.7 billion facility, which is expected to begin operations in the second.
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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.
Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing
JULY 11, 2022
San Antonio, TX – July 11, 2022 – Based on its recent analysis of the global private TLS certificates market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes HID Global with the 2022 Global Private TLS Certificates Enabling Technology Leadership Award. The company provides public key infrastructure-as-a-service (PKIaaS) and digital certificates to address enterprise network security, IoT device security, website security, and validated identity and trusted transactions As part of its growth strategy, HID Globa
The Fabricator
JULY 11, 2022
Madison Chemical, Madison, Ind., has been recognized by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Environmental Stewardship Program, for reducing its use of nonylphenol ethoxylate (NPE) surfactants in its products.
The Fabricator
JULY 11, 2022
Hexagon AB has announced its acquisition of TST Tooling Software Technology LLC, the U.S. and Canada master distributor of Hexagon’s Visi CAD/CAM software and Peps CAM programming software.
The Fabricator
JULY 11, 2022
Nano Dimension set to acquire metals and ceramics specialists
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