Wed.Sep 14, 2022

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Visibility & Resiliency: Letting Your Factory Work For You

Cisco Industrial Automation

I am consistently asked by our customers: How can manufacturers contain customer satisfaction without excessive overstock? How can manufacturers better predict the output of manufacturing? What is the impact of manpower, materials, and methods on OEE? Could there be a link between IT-OT infrastructure and manufacturing visibility and resiliency? Manufacturers are meeting these challenges by adopting a digital first model and many plan on accelerating their technology transformation to power real

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MicroVision’s lidar solution now supported on Nvidia’s autonomous vehicle platform

Robotics Automation News

MicroVision, a maker of MEMS-based solid-state automotive lidar and advanced driver-assistance systems, says its Mavin DR dynamic view lidar system is now supported on the Nvidia Drive AGX platform. Mavin DR, MicroVision’s lidar sensor featuring a dynamic field of view, delivers high resolution at all ranges and with low latency, enabling new ADAS safety features […].

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A Lollapalooza of Injection Molding Star Power

Plastics Today

Companies in the vanguard of injection molding technology, including Arburg, Wittmann Battenfeld, and Haitian International, bring their newest and best to K 2022.

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Blaize partners with Accton to bring edge AI computing to robotic inspection

Robotics Automation News

Computing specialist Blaize has agreed a strategic partnership with Accton, a premier provider of networking and communications solutions, to bring edge AI computing to the AI inspection market. The Accton Smart Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) solution will utilize the Blaize Pathfinder P1600 Embedded System on Module (SoM) to add visual AI production line inspection for […].

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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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Automation and AI should be embraced, not feared

Control Engineering

Artificial Intelligence Insights. Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation will replace the dull and dangerous jobs and will give humans better and more fulfilling jobs. AI should not be feared, but rather embraced. The benefits outweigh the foreseen cons. Too much data can overwhelm automation and AI systems and damage the usefulness of the data being collected.

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Mercedes-Benz claims its ‘Drive Pilot’ is world’s first internationally certified Level 3 automated car technology

Robotics Automation News

Mercedes-Benz says its Drive Pilot automated driver assistance system has become the world’s first internationally certified Level 3 automated car technology. The company adds that it backs redundancy for safe conditionally automated driving. When it comes to conditionally automated driving (SAE Level 3), safety and reliability are the top priorities for Mercedes-Benz.

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How to Promote a SaaS Product on Social Media: The Ultimate Guide

Robotics Automation News

Software as a Service, or SaaS, is a type of cloud computing platform that has gained popularity. In fact, it had a revenue of almost $100 billion in 2020. Despite the popularity of software-as-a-service businesses, it is important that a Saas development company find new ways to promote themselves. This can be done through creative […].

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Nauto Recognized by Frost & Sullivan for Delivering an Innovative Platform that Helps Predict and Prevent Collisions and High-Risk Driving Behaviors

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

San Antonio, TX. — September 14, 2022 — Based on its recent analysis of the North American Fleet Safety in Vehicle Leasing Industry, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Nauto with the 2022 Customer Value Leadership Award for its comprehensive AI-powered driver and vehicle safety platform that can significantly reduce collisions and safeguards drivers’ lives.

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Doosan Robotics agrees partnership with Industrial Automation Supply

Robotics Automation News

Doosan Robotics, a manufacturer of industrial collaborative robots, has formed a strategic partnership with Industrial Automation Supply (IAS), New England’s only Phoenix Contact Automation Elite Distribution Partner. IAS will serve as partner and reseller of Doosan’s M, H, and A-SERIES cobots across northeast United States. Doosan’s four M-SERIES cobot models, all equipped with six torque […].

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Patient-Specific Devices Regulation and Questions

Additive Manufacturing

Patient-specific devices are nearing standard of care in several areas and many hospitals are eager to take the near automated workflows being sold for general purposes by 3D Printing companies in-house to produce these perfectly matched parts more efficiently for their patients. Does this make the hospital institutions medical device manufacturers, or does the regulatory burden fall on the 3D Printing companies who are providing the workflow and equipment?

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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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Liminal launches automated system for battery inspection in manufacturing

Robotics Automation News

Liminal, a specialist in electric vehicle battery manufacturing intelligence, has launched its EchoStat platform, a fully-automated commercial-ready manufacturing inspection solution based on ultrasound and machine learning. Scheduled to be fully operational in 2023, this in-process inspection innovation is a groundbreaking, critical advancement toward helping EV battery manufacturers achieve the accelerated production ramp rates and cost […].

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Discover the future of cloud-based manufacturing at Modern Manufacturing Expo

Manufacturer's Monthly

To thrive in this world of disruption, manufacturers must reduce complexity by investing in cloud-first technologies and automation. This is the position of CISCO Meraki, Cloud Network Partner of the Modern Manufacturing Expo which is set to make its long-awaited debut at the Sydney Showground on 20 and 21 September. “Manufacturing is a traditionally risk-averse, conservative, and labour-heavy industry but it is finally looking to reinvent itself through the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies

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Starship Technologies launches robot delivery service at Missouri State University

Robotics Automation News

Starship Technologies has rolled out its robot food delivery service at Missouri State University, in partnership with Chartwells Higher Education. This is the first university in Missouri where Starship delivery robots are providing service. The robots will provide deliveries daily. Starship’s fleet of 20 autonomous, on-demand robots will deliver food from several campus eateries, including: […].

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SMC Corporation’s LSP Series pump delivers flexible and highly accurate fluid management

Manufacturer's Monthly

SMC Corporation’s LSP series of liquid dispense pumps accurately dispense fluids with high precision and stability, even at low flow rates. This compact, solenoid-type diaphragm pump delivers reliable, leak-proof performance. “The LSP series pump is proven to accurately dispense fluid volumes between 5 µL and 20 µL each time it is energised – with a repeatability of approximately 1%,” Guiomar Fernandez, product manager for SMC Corporation Australia New Zealand commented.

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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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How to find out if someone is listening to your calls

Robotics Automation News

Mobile devices have become an indispensable part of our life. We cannot imagine our day without using them, because smartphone features enable us to keep in touch with the closest ones, organize our daily routine and find all necessary information on the Internet in an instant. The development of handy devices has made our life […].

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Inaugural Australian training, simulation and education conference

Manufacturer's Monthly

Major general Jeremy King, head of land capability, Australian Army, will provide the keynote address for the inaugural Australian Training, Simulation and Education Conference (AusTsec) at the Land Forces 2022 International Land Defence Exposition in Brisbane. The Australian Army will explore the art of the possible in simulation and training at October’s Land Forces 2022 and is looking to industry to provide cues on how distributed training may prepare personnel for live operations.

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Jeff Houghton becomes new CEO of L’Oréal’s ModiFace

Canadian Manufacturing

Jeff Houghton To Become New CEO of L’Oréal-Owned ModiFace (CNW Group/L’Oréal Canada Inc.). MONTREAL — ModiFace has appointed Jeff Houghton to be its new chief executive officer, the Toronto-based Augmented Reality (AR) beauty leader, acquired by the group in 2018. Houghton will begin his new role in October of 2022. Founder and current CEO of ModiFace, Parham Aarabi has expressed his desire to focus on a personal area of research interest and will be stepping down from his current role.

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3M has entered into an agreement with selected Fit Testing Service Providers

Manufacturer's Monthly

3M Australia Pty Limited and 3M New Zealand Limited have announced selected companies that are now ‘3M Preferred Fit Test Service Providers’ in the ANZ (Australia & New Zealand) region. 3M and these Fit Test Service Providers are working together to emphasise the importance of PPE fit and to help increase the availability of high-quality fit testing for 3M’s occupational personal protective equipment (PPE) customers.

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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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Moisture Monitor Verifies Dryness of Polymers in Real Time

Plastics Today

Connected to the drying hopper outlet, the new system from Conair detects moisture levels as low as 10 parts per million.

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Kickstart: Automotive fashion

Plastics News

An auto supplier taps into recycling for an auto show gala; hoping to avoid a rail strike; a rural community makes film recycling pay.

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Discover the future of cloud-based manufacturing at Modern Manufacturing Expo

AU Manufacturing

Media Release. To thrive in this world of disruption, manufacturers must reduce complexity by investing in cloud-first technologies and automation. This is the position of CISCO Meraki, Cloud Network Partner of the Modern Manufacturing Expo which is set to make its long-awaited debut at the Sydney Showground on 20 and 21 September. “Manufacturing is a traditionally risk-averse, conservative, and labour-heavy industry but it is finally looking to reinvent itself through the adoption of Industry 4

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The clean energy transition could save trillions, say Oxford researchers

E&T

Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy is "possible and profitable", and could save the world as much as $12tn (£10.2tn) by 2050 compared to continuing the current levels of fossil fuel use, according to a study by Oxford University. . In the paper, the research team denied the idea that a green transition would be extremely costly as "just wrong", and described a scenario in which rapidly transitioning to clean energy results in lower energy system costs than a fossil fuel system, whil

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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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Schneider Electric powers new data centre in Albury Wodonga

AU Manufacturing

Energy management giant Schneider Electric is backing the Leading Edge Data Centres (LEDC) in Albury Wodonga, which was launched today to serve enterprises located in the greater Riverina region. . The new data centre is intended to provide regional Australian businesses and communities with greater access to distributed cloud networks through reliable, cost-effective connectivity, reducing network latency while providing continuous power, reliability, and high security. .

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Yes! Employee Retention Is Possible!

NIST

Is your organization, like so many others today, struggling to recruit and retain a well-qualified and high-performing workforce? Are your workers excited to be a part of your team and motivated to serve your customers? Do they care for one another and the success of your business? Or do you feel like they are just going through the motions and punching the clock, unhappy, disengaged and eager to find something else?

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Orbital UAV to deliver engine development support to Anduril

AU Manufacturing

Uncrewed aerial vehicle compan y Orbital UAV was selected to provide engine development support for US-based defence products company Anduril Industries. . As part of the initial contract, Orbital’s engineering team will work closely with Anduril to identify an engine upgrade pathway for one of Anduril’s uncrewed aircraft system programs. . Work is expected to be completed in the first half of financial year 2023 and will involve the delivery of a costed scope of work for the engine upgrade, Orb

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Retail display maker Siffron ready for growth with new investors

Plastics News

Siffron, a maker of shelving, displays and other merchandising products and supplies is poised for new growth following the deal that gives Riverside a majority equity stake in the company and Blue Point a minority interest.

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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.

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Analysis: Is the electricity network ready for an EV revolution?

E&T

A revolution is coming – and it will be powered by electricity. As part of the government’s net-zero drive, and with a looming 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars, up to 30 million electric vehicle chargers will need to be installed by 2050, according to the trade association for energy infrastructure companies, BEAMA. On top of that, the association says 20 million heat pumps will also be required, increasing electricity demand by more than 70 per cent.

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Strengthening the link between innovation and production in U.S. manufacturing

Plant Services

In this installment of Reliable Reading, learn how “Advanced Manufacturing: The New American Innovation Policies” offers ideas to drive U.S. growth.

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Milliken launches production at clarifier plant

Plastics News

Officials with Milliken in Spartanburg, S.C., said that the new plant "will enhance access to Millad NX 8000 additives for customers worldwide.

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Medtech Supplier Expands Capacity, Adopts Multi-Sourcing to Allay Shortages

Plastics Today

A supplier of peelable FEP heat-shrink tubing and PTFE liners to medical device OEMs, Junkosha aims to increase output at its medical manufacturing plant by a factor of three.

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Mastering Digital Transformation: Your Guide to a Successful MES Implementation

70% of digital transformation projects fail (BCG, 2020). In an industry where most large software implementations falter, we recognize the importance of planning, optimization, and execution. With over 25 years of industry experience and countless successful implementations, MASS Group is opening the vault of tips and tricks to provide a complimentary step-by-step guide in implementing a Work-In-Progress (WIP) tracking software.