Sat.Dec 10, 2022

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Tools You Can Use Today to Build the Plastics Processing Plant of Tomorrow

Plastics Today

Forward-thinking plastics processors are applying artificial intelligence, advanced sensors, next-gen robotics, and data-driven decision making to create new thresholds of efficiency.

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Clever TIG welding tip from Rush Kane

The Fabricator

Detroit fabricator Josh Welton caught up with fellow welder Rush Kane at FABTECH 2022 in Atlanta to learn about one Kane's favorite TIG welding tips: Prepping a tungsten electrode on the fly.

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Star-crossed: Mercedes faces dilemma over dependence on Russia and China

The Guardian Manufacturing

Moscow provides Germany with power, and the Chinese buy the company’s cars in their thousands, but now war and global tensions are darkening the diplomatic weather A brand new, gleaming Mercedes vehicle rolls off the production line roughly every three minutes at the carmaker’s Rastatt plant in south-western Germany. A total of 185,000 of its upmarket A-Class, B-Class and all-electric EQA cars were assembled here last year in the factory, close to the French border.

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Removing IT/OT barriers to ensure plant floor safety, operational integrity

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives. Information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) departments need to work together to keep industrial control systems (ICSs) secure. Communication and collaboration are key to lowering barriers between the two sides. Establishing firm boundaries and set roles can help reduce confusion, as well. Cybersecurity Insights.

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Speeding Robotics Automation with AI

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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Minnesota metal fabricator looks around the bend with part automation

The Fabricator

Dalsin Industries, Bloomington, Minn.