Mon.Oct 24, 2022

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Bosch Rexroth's robots, conveyors and automation platform for CPG manufacturers

Automation World

Integration of pick-and-place robots, conveyors, autonomous mobile robots, and an open, app-based automation platform to address specific CPG operations are highlighted in Bosch Rexroth’s exhibit at PACK EXPO International 2022.

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State-of-the-art Guadalajara factory expands North American manufacturing capabilities

Design World

Molex announces a major expansion of its global manufacturing footprint with the opening of a new factory in Guadalajara. The new 60,000 m2 facility nearly doubles Molex’s footprint and manufacturing space in Guadalajara, with the potential to increase capacity by an additional 100,000 m2 to support advanced engineering and large-scale production for automotive, transportation, and industrial customers in North… The post State-of-the-art Guadalajara factory expands North American manufactu

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Festo AX Introduced at PACK EXPO International

Automation World

The Festo Automation Experience (AX) is an artificial intelligence platform for predictive quality, predictive maintenance, and energy optimization.

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New Festo AI Solution improves machine usage, product quality, and energy efficiency

Design World

Festo introduces the Festo Automation Experience (AX), a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform for predictive maintenance, predictive quality, and energy optimization. Using advanced analytics, Festo AX maps data to learn a component, machine, product, or energy system’s healthy state. Festo AX provides actionable information to correct anomalies when data begins trending out of normal.

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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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Is your PLC a weapon?

Automation World

As cyber threats continue to evolve and grow, it’s always good to contemplate and re-assess your industrial cybersecurity.

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New IoT Services

Gary Mintchell

Two announcements from HiveMQ. HiveMQ Accelerates IoT Data Ingestion into Google Cloud. Aligning your IT infrastructure with a major supplier can be not only expensive, but also it can leave you vulnerable to corporate decisions made far away. For example, Google recently announced plans to retire Google IoT Core, leaving customers with less than a year to migrate their IoT applications to a new service.

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How flexibility will shape metal fabrication’s future

The Fabricator

Many fabricators and manufacturers attending FABTECH aren’t looking to cut, bend, or weld faster. They’re looking for ways to stop on a dime, change direction, and adapt.

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Digital Twins to Simulate Different Processes in a Line

Automation World

Siemens demonstrates how to use digital twins to simulate five processes in a line: Rinsing, filling, labeling, inspecting, and packaging.

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Regional Victoria receives boost for glass, organic waste recycling

AU Manufacturing

The Victorian government has announced a $3 million investment to establish designated glass and organic waste drop-off points in Regional Victoria. . The project is expected to help reduce landfill and enhance recycling with new drop-off points across 11 regional council areas. Tonnes of glass is expected to be recycled into new glass bottles and jars and organic resources into compost. .

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Miura Connect Showcases Real-Time Steam Infrastructure Data at PACK EXPO International

Automation World

IIoT solution for operators designed to works seamlessly with Miura's boilers and equipment.

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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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Xspee3D printer from Spee3D produces metal parts anywhere

The Fabricator

Spee3D has unveiled its Xspee3D printer, a containerized, ruggedized, and deployable cold-spray metal 3D printer that provides all of the necessary functions to print metal parts from anywhere in minutes, the company reports.

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Mechanical and Robotic Palletizers

Automation World

TopTier highlights its mechanical, low-infeed mechanical palletizers and robotic palletizer cells at PACK EXPO International.

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Braskem and SML Collaborate on PCR Stretch Film

Plastics Today

Polymer and extrusion-equipment expertise creates a a high-performance palletizing film with 30% recycled content demoed on the largest machine at the K Show.

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Emerson Releases Clean-in-Place Optimization Tool

Automation World

Monitor energy, chemical, and compressed air usage for in-depth analytics.

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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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Dynabrade Awarded ISO 9001:2015 Certification for its Quality Management System

Fabricating & Metal Work

Dynabrade, Inc., the leading industrial abrasive power tool manufacturer announced that the Company has earned ISO 9001:2015 certification for its quality management system. ISO 9001:2015 is a globally recognized quality management standard developed and published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The certification provides a model for companies of all types and sizes to use in creating an effective quality management system.

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New Tools for Digitalization of Your Packaging Line

Automation World

Krones is showcasing digital solutions for production efficiency and operator support for critical tasks.

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New generation takes charge at Bunting Magnetics

Plastics News

While Bunting already has locations in the United Kingdom and Canada, new CEO Robert Bunting envisions more global growth, even if it is more of a long-term opportunity.

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Automation Takes Center Stage at PACK EXPO International

Automation World

The Future of Automation in Packaging and Processing Report indicates labor shortages are driving the push toward automation.

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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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Worth the wheat: upgrade solution for grain processing OEM

Manufacturer's Monthly

From wheat and barley to various pulses and oats, Australian grain farming spans across northern and southern cropping regions, utilising the country’s optimal rain patterns for diverse plantation year-round. . Roughly 22 million hectares of domestic commercial grain crops are planted annually, and national exports account for 10 to 15 per cent of the world’s global wheat trade.

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The City of Melton recommits its support for local makers

AU Manufacturing

Media Release by Australian Made. The second fastest-growing municipality in Victoria , the City of Melton is home to 26,000 jobs and has an annual economic output of $8.364 billion per year. Manufacturing is the region’s fifth largest and most emerging employment industry, employing 9.1% of people in 2020/21, up from 4.5% in 2015/16. City of Melton Mayor, Councillor Goran Kesic, said, “The City of Melton is a place with outstanding opportunities for the manufacturing sector.

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Amazon Canada opens an advanced robotics facility

Canadian Manufacturing

Amazon’s RWC4 robot: A robotic arm that sorts totes, the logistical units of an Amazon facility centre, by destination and builds pallets. (CNW Group/Amazon Canada). OTTAWA — On Oct. 21, Amazon Canada celebrated the opening of its most advanced robotics facility, YOW3, in Barrhaven, Ontario. The only facility of its kind in Canada, and one of only five globally, YOW3 purports to create more than 2,500 jobs and offer an opportunity for employees to work alongside Amazon technology. “Today i

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DroneShield to deliver counter-drone systems to Asia

AU Manufacturing

Autonomous systems developer DroneShield has secured a $900,000 portable counter-drone systems order from an allied Asian country. . The delivery and payment will occur over the current and March 2023 quarters, DroneShield in an ASX announcement. . Oleg Vornik, chief executive of DroneShield, said the latest order reflects the progression of the business from the development of the company’s product suite several years ago to orders that continuously increase in size. .

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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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Charging into the Future with Electric Vehicles: ‘We’re Still Learning Every Day’

Industry Week

The IndustryWeek Manufacturing & Technology Show launched with a wide-ranging discussion of EV manufacturing. Panelists from Ultium Cells, Lincoln Electric, Eaton and Cirba Solutions shared insights.

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Stork IMM's global flight comes to roost in US

Plastics News

Hengelo, Netherlands-based Stork Plastics Machinery BV announced at K 2019 that it was reinvesting in North America to support its customers in the packaging market. Three years later, a subsidiary called Stork IMM USA has headquarters near Philadelphia, stocked with local spare parts and looking for a national sales manager.

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A2 Milk Company’s operations chief Shareef Khan resigns

AU Manufacturing

The a2 Milk Company ’s (a2MC) chief operations officer Shareef Khan has stepped down from his post and is slated to leave the company at the end of 2022. . Khan’s departure comes as he seeks to spend more time with his family and explore other pursuits, the company advised investors in an ASX announcement. . The COO joined the company in 2012 to develop its supply chain operations with Synlait Milk and foster the growth of a2MC’s infant formula business unit. .

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Simple laser system could help astronomers find new planets on the cheap

E&T

The laser emits light at one billion pulses per second and comprises just two mirrors and a sapphire crystal containing a small amount of titanium. It is powered by a green laser similar to the laser pointers found in shops for under £5, which converts the light into infrared pulses with peak powers of one kilowatt. The researchers estimate that it reduces the cost, complexity and power consumption of typical ultrafast lasers by around a factor of 10, which makes it more accessible to users in o

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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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Investment in the right technology

Manufacturer's Monthly

Elexon Electronics is forging its future in the defence space via extraordinary innovation. Manufacturers’ Monthly speaks with co-owner Leigh Bateman about the company’s sensor technologies and a range of products for niche local and export markets. Elexon Electronics’ roots begin in 1992 when entrepreneur Leigh Bateman founded its predecessor – an engineering company called IEDEC.

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Waste CO2 from city buildings delivers bumper harvests on rooftop gardens

E&T

With an ever-expanding urban population and city sizes growing globally, researchers are looking at ways to make cities greener and more sustainable. Rooftop farms and gardens that take advantage of under-utilised roof space are a popular option, providing new food resources while simultaneously cooling the surrounding area, increasing building insulation and improving air quality.

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Xebec gets $3M loan from BoC and EDC as restructuring continues 

Canadian Manufacturing

MONTRÉAL — Xebec Adsorption Inc. has entered into an interim financing facility with the National Bank of Canada and Export Development Canada. The DIP Facility consists of a revolving multiple draw credit facility of up to a maximum principal amount of $3 million. The company has said the funds will be contributed towards its operations as it continues restructuring efforts under the CCAA.

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Complacency of firms is leaving ‘the door open to cyber attackers’, ICO says

E&T

John Edwards said that many firms are too relaxed about basic measures such as keeping software up to date and training staff to minimise the risk of infiltration from bad actors. The warning comes as the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a fine of £4.4m to Interserve Group, a Berkshire-based construction company, for failing to keep the personal information of its staff secure, which was a breach of data-protection laws.

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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.