Automation World
JULY 20, 2022
Learn about the different types of commonly available automated valves, valve sizing and performance issues, how piping and valve materials can impact valve choice, and deciding among electric, pneumatic, and hydraulic valve actuators.
Gary Mintchell
JULY 20, 2022
I met Ça?layan Arkan, Vice President, Global Strategy and Sales Lead, Manufacturing and Supply Chain at Microsoft, a few years ago. Checking through Microsoft press information recently, I came across his blog reporting from Hannover in May. Here are four trends he picked up. He begins by citing Microsoft partners at the event: ABB, Ansys, Accenture, Avanade, AVEVA, Blue Yonder, Cognite, C3.ai, ICONICS,o9 Solutions, PwC, PROS, PTC, Rockwell Automation, Sight Machine, Tata Consultancy Services, a
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Manufacturer's Monthly
JULY 20, 2022
Ai Group’s Centre for Education and Training (CET) has set out the scale of the digital transformation opportunity (and challenge) before the industry in a new report. “Digital transformation presents an incredible opportunity to grow and reshape our economy for the better, but the secret to unlocking this potential lies with people, not machines,” Ai Group head of Education & Training and executive director of the CET Megan Lilly said. “We conducted interviews and ca
The Fabricator
JULY 20, 2022
Maysteel Industries manages its growth through three related diversification strategies: diversity in geometry, in customers, and in careers.
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.
Manufacturer's Monthly
JULY 20, 2022
New South Wales is aiming to cement its place as a world leader in bushfire technology commercialisation and position itself for international export of innovative bushfire solutions under a new NSW government program. . Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology, Alister Henskens said the Bushfire Commercialisation Fund will help innovators translate their research into practical solutions that will improve bushfire detection, preparation and response. .
Control Engineering
JULY 20, 2022
Digital Transformation Insights. Digital transformation (DX) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) can help simplify cloud architectures, which are comprised of six layers. The layers go beyond information technology/operational technology (IT/OT) convergence and help create the foundation for a business enterprise. Much of the transformation happens at level 1.
Manufacturing Technology Today brings together the best content for manufacturing technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
E&T
JULY 20, 2022
Albanians were unable to use scores of government services on Monday as a cyber attack caused the main servers of the National Agency for Information Society to go down only a few months after shifting most public sector services to an online portal. “Albania is under a massive cybernetic attack that has never happened before. This criminal cyber-attack was synchronised… from outside Albania,” the Council of Ministers said in a press release.
Seeburger
JULY 20, 2022
What is the future of electronic data interchange, otherwise known as EDI? According to EDI experts, the answer depends on several factors, including the technologies involved and the underlying business processes. Basically, it depends on how it is being used. EDI has been used to electronically send and receive documents such as orders, delivery notes […].
Additive Manufacturing
JULY 20, 2022
From initial use as a prototyping tool to additive manufacturing’s role as an enabler for electrification, mobility, and more, the automotive industry is accelerating additive manufacturing. John Rupp, Advanced Manufacturing Technical Advisor, Cummins ; Manoj Patnala, Wrapped Cockpit and Trim Global Core, Body Interiors, Ford Motor Company ; and Kevin Baughey, Transportation and Motorsports Segment Leader, 3D Systems discussed how the technology is being used, challenges that exist, and how addi
Manufacturer's Monthly
JULY 20, 2022
Richardson Devine Marine Constructions have been building high performance, Tasmanian aluminium ships for more than 30 years. Manufacturers’ Monthly finds out how the company has forged a stellar reputation in conjunction with supplier Capral Aluminium. From Hobart waterfront’s Brooke Street Pier, visitors can be taken to the famous Museum of Old and New Art in a very special ferry.
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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.
AU Manufacturing
JULY 20, 2022
Advanced semiconductor company Archer Materials has provided shareholders with updates on its 12CQ quantum computing chip technology innovation. . The project seeks to integrate Archer’s propriety qubit material with mobile-compatible devices designed for industrial-scale semiconductor nanofabrication. . The chip is a world-first qubit processor technology that is expected to allow for quantum computing-powered mobile devices. .
Additive Manufacturing
JULY 20, 2022
EL SEGUNDO, Calif./July 19, 2022– Impulse Space announced a groundbreaking partnership and launch mission with Relativity Space to deliver the first commercial payload to Mars. With an anticipated launch window starting in 2024, the historic partnership rapidly advances the companies’ shared goal of a multiplanetary existence for humanity. Under the exclusive agreement, Relativity is scheduled to launch Impulse’s Mars Cruise Vehicle and Mars Lander in Terran R from Cape Canaveral, FL in an
AU Manufacturing
JULY 20, 2022
Australian rocket manufacturer ATSpace and spaceport provider, Southern Launch, have been granted Governmental approvals to launch two suborbital “Kestrel I” rockets from the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex in the coming months. In order to assess the experimental Kestrel I rocket design under various operational conditions, the VS02 and VS03 missions will fly the rockets along sub-orbital trajectories.
The Fabricator
JULY 20, 2022
Fear not. Robots are here to help metal fabricators grow their businesses, not take jobs from humans.
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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.
AU Manufacturing
JULY 20, 2022
Media release by New Zealand Coastal Seafood’s. Australian Securities Exchange listed company, New Zealand Coastal Seafood’s (NZCS), (ASX:NZS) has developed a new process that allows the bladder from Ling fish to be turned into high-quality collagen powder of over 90% purity. The unique process adds further value to ling swim bladders representing another significant opportunity to utilise a part of the fish that, until relatively recently, may have been limited as a specialty functional food fo
Plastics Today
JULY 20, 2022
New capacity added to facility in Worms, Germany, with more to come in Shanghai. Auto taillights are among growth applications.
AU Manufacturing
JULY 20, 2022
BHP and India’s Tata Steel, one of the largest steel producers in the world, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly “study and explore” lower carbon iron and steelmaking technology. The agreement will see BHP and Tata collaborate in two major areas — the use of biomass as an energy source and the implementation of carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) in steel production — with a view to lowering the intensity of emissions from the blast furnace steel route.
E&T
JULY 20, 2022
The Sheffield team has been working with US-based start-up CO2Rail to design direct air capture (DAC) equipment that can be placed within special rail cars on already running trains to absorb carbon from the atmosphere, helping to mitigate the impact of climate change. The DAC rail cars work by using large intakes of air that extend up into the slipstream of the moving train to move ambient air into the large cylindrical CO2 collection chamber and eliminate the need for energy-intensive fan syst
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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.
AU Manufacturing
JULY 20, 2022
The Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals (AWAC), the joint venture (JV) between Australian holding company Alumina Limited and US-based aluminium producer Alcoa, has reported a $162 million revenue for the first six months of 2022. . The latest income marks a $25 million increase compared to the JV’s contribution in the previous year. . AWAC specialises in the mining of bauxite, the extraction of alumina, and aluminium smelting.
E&T
JULY 20, 2022
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) was found to have a stockpile of almost 4 billion items that are not needed, many of which will be burned, which has raised environmental concerns. The Department remains in dispute with many suppliers it entered into contract with over the quality of the PPE provided, but it accepts that some surplus stock will end up being incinerated.
AU Manufacturing
JULY 20, 2022
Partners in Performance (PIP), a global management consultancy, is urging the Australian government to renew its investment in copper mining to bolster the country’s electrical grid. . According to a media statement issued by the Sydney-based firm, the increasing pressure on the electrical grid has made copper “the new oil” as Australia increasingly turns toward renewable energy solutions. .
E&T
JULY 20, 2022
The researchers have implemented their system in the field and say the design could help the aviation industry become carbon neutral. “We are the first to demonstrate the entire thermochemical process chain from water and CO2 to kerosene in a fully-integrated solar tower system,” said Aldo Steinfeld, a professor from ETH Zurich. Previous attempts to produce aviation fuels through the use of solar energy have mostly been performed in the laboratory.
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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.
Canadian Manufacturing
JULY 20, 2022
CALGARY — Alberta Innovates and the Government of Alberta are announcing the first Advancing Hydrogen – Competition 1 program. The provincial hydrogen economy is meant to play a key role in Alberta’s Recovery Plan and in the provincial Hydrogen Roadmap. $20 million dollars will be available over 24 months to support projects under the Advancing Hydrogen – Competition 1 program.
E&T
JULY 20, 2022
The review will consider four key areas, each led by an independent expert in their field. Three of these areas will be focused on gathering insights from other countries and making comparisons with international rail networks that are more used to dealing with extreme heat and fluctuations in temperature. Andrew Haines, chief executive of Network Rail, said: “The weather we’ve experienced this week has put a huge amount of pressure on our infrastructure, our staff and our passengers, and with e
The Fabricator
JULY 20, 2022
Walmart has signed a definitive agreement with Canoo to purchase 4,500 all-electric delivery vehicles, beginning with the Lifestyle Delivery Vehicle (LDV), with the option to purchase up to 10,000 units.
E&T
JULY 20, 2022
The robot, known as the Sample Transfer Arm (STA), is part of a wider joint endeavour between Nasa and ESA called the Mars Sample Return mission, already under way. As of late, Nasa’s rover has drilled eight of an eventual 38 samples of Martian rock and soil. ESA is currently developing another small rover to retrieve these samples and place them in an ascent vehicle that will carry them into orbit for retrieval and shipping back to Earth via the ESA Earth Return Orbiter.
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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.
Plant Services
JULY 20, 2022
Manufacturing plants continue to struggle meeting their workforce needs, and it’s changing how companies hire and train workers.
E&T
JULY 20, 2022
According to the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, the new space technologies could help to cut carbon emissions, improve energy security and enhance the UK’s reputation as a science superpower. It has the potential to boost energy security by providing reliable, affordable alternatives to expensive and volatile fossil fuels, while reducing the UK’s contributions to climate change.
The Fabricator
JULY 20, 2022
Comau and Seabery have joined forces to create an educational training program for students and workers that allows them to practice the skills needed to become proficient and certified robotic welders.
E&T
JULY 20, 2022
The wide-ranging reforms of the wind sector included in the Energy Bill feature a push to reduce the approval times for marine turbine projects from four years down to only one. . Parliament has debated the bill for the first time in the House of Lords, against a backdrop of record-breaking temperatures and spiralling energy bills fuelling a cost-of-living crisis.
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