Wed.Oct 26, 2022

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Kawasaki Highlights Packaging and Palletizing Robots

Automation World

At PACK EXPO International, Kawasaki showcased three of its robots designed for packaging and palletizing operations in the consumer packaged goods industries.

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AutomationDirect now offers SEIFERT enclosure thermal management products

Design World

AutomationDirect has added new quality Seifert products to their existing enclosure thermal management lineup. The SlimLine series of enclosure air conditioners are designed for indoor and outdoor use, operating with an internal closed loop system to protect from dust, oil, and water intrusion. These air conditioners offer up to 4,900 BTU/H, high-performance fans, and are… The post AutomationDirect now offers SEIFERT enclosure thermal management products appeared first on Design World.

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Beckhoff Updates XTS with No-Cable Technology

Automation World

At PACK EXPO International, Beckhoff exhibits its XTS linear transport system with no-cable technology for contactless, continuous power supply, and synchronous real-time data transmission.

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TurboBlast Safety Air Gun for heavy-duty jobs requiring maximum force

Design World

EXAIR’s new TurboBlast Safety Air Gun is the latest addition to the EXAIR line of safety air guns. The TurboBlast is capable of producing up to 23 lb of force with a simple press of a button trigger and is a suitable solution for blowoff applications requiring maximum force such as removing stubborn or heavy… The post TurboBlast Safety Air Gun for heavy-duty jobs requiring maximum force appeared first on Design World.

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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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A Pair of Rockwell Automation Announcements

Gary Mintchell

Rockwell Automation Expands Threat Detection Offering through Managed Services. In many ways the tech industry—consumer and industrial including even Apple—is moving from product-centric to finding ways to promote continuing revenue through service offerings. This example comes via Rockwell Automation. Rockwell Automation launched the new Threat Detection Managed Services offering in early 2022 providing customers with application-level, real-time monitoring, and response services to help detect

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Carbon’s developmental bioabsorbable elastomer platform has demonstrated biocompatibility in vivo

Design World

Carbon announced that its developmental bioabsorbable elastomer platform has demonstrated biocompatibility in vivo, with all samples being classified as non-toxic and exhibiting tunable times for full absorption. This latest milestone demonstrated the elastomer’s potential in biomedical applications such as soft tissue repair, wound dressings, and nerve conduits.

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K 2022 attendance slips 21%, exceeds expectations

Plastics News

K 2022 was held against the backdrop of the COVID pandemic, the start of a global recession, skyrocketing energy prices and war in Ukraine. Prior to the show, organizers said they did not know how those potential negatives would impact attendance.

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PACK EXPO International Attendance Surpasses Last Edition

Automation World

Over 44,000 attendees come together for the most comprehensive packaging and processing event this year.

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Strong US dollar impacting global plastics sectors

Plastics News

Bill Wood: "The U.S. dollar is the dominant currency in world trade. For the rest of the world, it means that if a country wants to engage in trade, its markets will be directly and heavily influenced by the value of the U.S. dollar.

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Federal Budget redirects industry grant funding

Manufacturer's Monthly

The manufacturing industry has reacted to the Federal Budget, suggesting the right type of support must be given for the government’s reallocation of funds to bear fruit. Off the back of Scott Morrison’s Modern Manufacturing Strategy, Tuesday night’s budget announced a commitment of $15 billion over seven years from 2023-24 to establish a National Reconstruction Fund (NRF).

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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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High-Tech Bots and Devices for Business Owners

Robotics Automation News

Hiring employees is one of the costliest moves any business owner can make. Along with the obvious monetary toll in the form of payroll expenses, there are other considerations. Things like insurance, necessary office space, training, and other factors can add up fast. Maybe that’s why so many entrepreneurs and independent startup owners are seeking […].

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Kickstart: More growth for vinyl

Plastics News

National Vinyl Products breaks ground on expansions in Delaware and Utah, eliminating a job that "sucked" and using 3D printing to diagnose kids' ear infections.

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How CNC machining helps the robotics industry

Robotics Automation News

The industry is in a state of constant evolution and the need for robots is gradually increasing day by day. Now, before you start thinking about the Terminator 2 scenario, you need to realize that it is no longer some distant future. It is our reality. And they are not here to bring us the […].

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GreenPower’s electric school buses are now eligible for purchase under the U.S. EPA announcement

Canadian Manufacturing

GreenPower’s All-Electric Type D BEAST and Type A Nano BEAST school buses. SOUTH CHARLESTON — GreenPower Motor Company Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of zero-emission, electric-powered, medium and heavy-duty vehicles, says they laud the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its announcement of the selectees that are eligible for nearly $1 billion in funding to school districts across the nation to cause the transition to zero-emission school buses.

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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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AM Medical Summit panel preview – Laura Gilmour of LG Strategies

Additive Manufacturing

AM Medical Summit: Where Medicine & Technology Meet to Transform Lives November 1–3, 2022. 0:21 – Panel 1 preview: QMS Approaches for Point-of Care 3D Printing Wednesday, November 2, 2022 1:30 PM to 2:15 PM · 45 min. (US/Central). 4:00 – Panel 2 preview: How Does Regulatory Compliance Impact Your 3D Printing? Wednesday, November 2, 2022 11:00 AM to 11:45 AM · 45 min.

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10 Winter Car Problems You Can’t Ignore

Robotics Automation News

In most parts of the country, winter means dealing with frigid temperatures, snow, ice and salt-covered roads. At first glance, this may not seem like it has much to do with your car or your driving. However, the truth is that winter can present serious dangers when you’re behind the wheel and expose the vehicle […].

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7 Innovative Medical Applications in Additive Manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing

The value proposition of medical 3D printing is massive. Innovation drives innovation, though, and the ability to use advanced medical imaging to create patient-specific or patient-matched devices has always been a driver for innovation – especially as new technologies have developed. Certain devices on the market or in use with patients now would not have been able to have been manufactured previously.

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Finalists Named for the 2022 Maintenance Innovation Challenge

NCMS

The DOD announced today that the six finalists for the 2022 Maintenance Innovation Challenge (MIC) have been named. The Joint Technology Exchange Group (JTEG) principals reviewed and selected the finalists from a total of 92 outstanding entries. The finalists, listed in alphabetical order are: Cold Spray Pop Up Production Cell, submitted by Susan Simms, US […].

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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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The technological advancements leveraged by Ukraine  

Robotics Automation News

Ukraine is seen as one of the few countries that have been able to withstand the test of time and all the attacks that Russia had in store for it. Now, it all came out of nowhere for Ukraine, and the overall destruction level also got significantly higher with the scenario. [link] your ultimate aid when […].

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Sensors developed for fitted face masks

Control Engineering

COVID-19 Insights. While there are no simple ways to fit a mask, a sensor developed by MIT researchers could make it much easier to ensure a good fit. The researchers created a device called a conformable multimodal sensor face mask (cMaSK), which measure many parameters embedded in a flexible polymer frame that can be reversibly attached to the inside of any mask, around the edges.

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AML3D to deliver prototype parts for BAE Systems

Manufacturer's Monthly

Wire Additive Manufacturing (WAM®) developer AML3D has announced a purchase contract with BAE Systems Australia to manufacture prototype parts for nine Hunter class frigates. . The prototype parts will support BAE Systems Australia’s contract with the Australian Department of Defence to design and build the Hunter class frigates for the Royal Australian Navy.

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Traveling with a baby in a car: Practical tips

Robotics Automation News

Young parents are often hyper-responsible. With the advent of children, moms and dads completely rebuild the rhythm of life for the most important family members and give up many of the usual pleasures. Traveling is just one of those pleasures. It is not known in advance how the child will feel in transport and how […].

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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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Solving manufacturing problems from the ground up through process management

The Fabricator

Earning the trust of people on the shop floor and learning from them is the quickest way to solve a company’s manufacturing process woes.

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The significance of the technological scenario 

Robotics Automation News

A lot of cryptocurrencies at this point have met with an additional stream of challenges, and they have certainly shown many advancements which have shown compelling growth in the current situation. Online Brokers reviews can help you to proceed independently in the crypto trading scenario, which is indeed a proposition too lucrative to avoid at this […].

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Queensland seeks to attract students to join hydrogen industry

AU Manufacturing

Queensland is cementing its position as a global green hydrogen leader with the expansion of the Gateway to Industry Schools Program (GISP). . The expansion project is a joint venture between the Palaszczuk government and Energy Skills Queensland (ESQ) and is expected to include a new hydrogen-focused program that would link students with local industries and help them explore career opportunities in the sector. .

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Reshoring a bright spot for US plastics industry

Plastics News

Global resin markets are improving, but still face a good number of challenges. On the positive side, reshoring has added 350,000 jobs in the U.S.

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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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Spare bearings a thought when under the pump

Manufacturer's Monthly

Designed to take radial and axial loads at high speeds, Angular Contact Ball Bearings are often essential to the performance of industrial pumping applications. Which is why having quality bearings in stock is important. “I encourage customers to increase their inventory and holding of critical spares, such as these type of ball bearings, which are widely used for pump repair,” says Anthony O’Keefe, regional business manager for Motion Australia.

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Orbital Nasa instrument uncovers huge methane plumes

E&T

The agency’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission is mapping the prevalence of key minerals in the planet’s dust-producing deserts – information that will advance our understanding of airborne dust’s effects on climate. But EMIT has demonstrated that it is also good at detecting the presence of methane, which is estimated to be 80 times more effective, ton for ton, at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide in the 20 years after release.

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Next-gen: Enabling digitisation with cybersecurity with Altivar Soft Starter ATS480

Manufacturer's Monthly

The next evolution of soft starters for digitisation optimised to meet cybersecurity standards. Designed to address processes and infrastructures, ATS480 simplifies project execution and maximises the availability of your applications, even in the most demanding environments. ATS480 builds on the proven robustness and start/stop performance extending the lifetime of the ATS480 equipment and preserving your initial investment by reusing the current design.

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Climate change having increasingly dire impact on human health

E&T

The Lancet Countdown is an annual report tracking climate change and the impact it has on global human health. It said that climate change is exacerbating food insecurity, health impacts from extreme heat, the risk of infectious disease outbreaks and life-threatening extreme weather events. Furthermore, delay in the adoption of low-carbon energy sources has left households dependent on dirty fuels, vulnerable to energy poverty and exposed to dangerous levels of fuel-derived air pollution.

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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.