Mon.Dec 12, 2022

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Web-Based HMI Proves Ready for Industrial Use

Automation World

With Inductive Automation’s Perspective module, companies can have access to all the web-functionality tools they want while also linking to legacy systems.

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Developments in conductive micro additive manufacturing

Design World

Horizon Microtechnologies recently launched its template-based 3D-microfabrication technology, which produces conductive micro additive manufacturing (micro-AM) derived parts with micrometer scale precision. At the Formnext 2022 conference, the company demonstrated its technology alongside micro-AM technology innovator Boston Micro Fabrication. Part of the demonstration featured the company’s post-build processes which introduced the versatility of micro-AM to such […].

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Cal Poly Awarded 2022 Mark C. Garvey Scholarship

Automation World

The PMMI Foundation and Garvey Corporation have selected Cal Poly Junior Jayna Regehr as this year's Mark C. Garvey Scholarship recipient.

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European banks continue fossil fuel funding despite climate pledges, report finds

E&T

A report looking into Europe’s top 25 banks from ShareAction identified some improvements in their climate and biodiversity strategies since the previous survey in 2020. But they still have “a long way to go” to meet internationally agreed standards to deal with climate change, cut emissions and safeguard nature, the report found. All 25 banks have said their businesses will be net-zero by 2050, but ShareAction said that a lack of transparency is leading to an underreporting of their support 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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Kickstart: On Comet, on Cupid, on Donner and Goodyear

Plastics News

While Santa's reindeer rest up to prepare for their big around-the-world trip on Christmas Eve, St. Nick took advantage of other aerial transportation to collect toys, courtesy of tire maker Goodyear.

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US scientists achieve major fusion energy breakthrough

E&T

The fusion energy that produced a 120 per cent net energy gain took place in the federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California in the past two weeks, the newspaper said, citing three people with knowledge of the matter. That would represent the first time that researchers have successfully produced more energy in a fusion reaction than was consumed during the process. .

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GB warms up two coal plants due to temperature drops

E&T

Two coal plants have been put on standby in Britain in preparation for an increase in the energy demand as the UK cranks up the heating to stay warm. . National Grid ESO said it had a sked Drax, which owns Britain's biggest power station, to prepare two coal-fired units. The company will also continue testing its blackout prevention scheme, which offers discounts on bills for households who cut peak-time electricity use on Monday evening.

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Good vibrations turbo charge green hydrogen production

AU Manufacturing

Media Release by RMIT University. Engineers in Melbourne have used sound waves to boost production of green hydrogen by 14 times, through electrolysis to split water. They say their invention offers a promising way to tap into a plentiful supply of cheap hydrogen fuel for transportation and other sectors, which could radically reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change.

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Is Iceland the coolest location for data centres?

E&T

Life on the North Atlantic island is chilly, foggy, and windy all year round. And while they may have to wrap up warm, and are unlikely to get a tan, Icelanders have acknowledged that their natural cold climate is ideal for one particular industry: data. Iceland’s data-centre industry is booming, and there are many reasons why this may be seen as a favourable location.

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Epson’s Fujimi Inkjet Innovation Lab reopens with new equipment and facilities

AU Manufacturing

Media Release by Epson. Epson has re-equipped and reopened the Fujimi Inkjet Innovation Lab at its Fujimi Plant Japan. Epson sees commercial and industrial printing as a growth area. The Fujimi Inkjet Innovation Lab, which first opened in October 2019, was created to promote the exploration of new inkjet printing applications in manufacturing in collaboration with a variety of partners.

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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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Book review: ‘Connected in Isolation’ by Eszter Hargittai

E&T

Uniqueness of circumstance isn’t always the best environment for scientific research. As Eszter Hargittai suggests in the introduction to ‘Connected in Isolation: Digital Privilege in Unsettled Times’ (The MIT Press, £22, ISBN 9780262047371), events that have journalists scrambling to deploy that much-overused epithet ‘unprecedented’ inevitably tend to produce ‘unreproducible’ observations, which is something scientists like to avoid where possible.

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Stewart Tool to build manufacturing plant in Virginia

The Fabricator

Stewart Tool Co. Inc., a Rancho Cordova, Calif.-based prototype to production manufacturer, will invest $9.1 million to establish its first East Coast manufacturing operation in Troy, Va.

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MIT engineers build portable, paper-thin solar cells

E&T

These durable, flexible solar cells , are much thinner than a human hair but can generate 18 times more power per kilogram than a conventional solar panel. . The cells are made from semiconducting inks that can be easily printed. They are then glued to a strong, lightweight fabric, making them easy to install on any fixed surface, providing energy on the go as a wearable power fabric or even being rapidly deployed in remote locations for assistance in emergencies.

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Angle adjustment fundamentals at the press brake

The Fabricator

Adjusting bend angles at the press brake control eventually becomes intuitive, but for the novice operator in a metal fabrication shop, the concepts can be difficult to grasp.

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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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UK manufacturers face harsh recession, industry body warns

E&T

The body, which represents UK manufacturers, blamed the forecast on increasing costs across the board, tighter fiscal and monetary policy and weakening consumer demand. The results, which were based on a survey of 330 firms, suggest the UK’s manufacturers are headed for “a perfect storm” the body said. Manufacturing is forecast to contract by -3.2 per cent in 2023, which comes on the back of a forecast -4.5 per cent contraction this year.

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Material Insights: Deal to create global leader in clear sheet; ExxonMobil launches PP unit

Plastics News

Röhm GmbH has acquired the Functional Forms business of Saudi Basic Industries, and ExxonMobil has launched production of a 1 billion-pound-per-year polypropylene unit on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

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Top 20 Warehouses 2022: Merger and Acquisition Momentum

Modern Materials Handling

Demand for dry and cold chain warehousing remained strong in 2022 and is expected to continue climbing steadily in 2023. As the sectors continue to evolve, warehouse operators are attracting investor attention, consolidating, and changing their names.

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Top 5 Control Engineering content: December 5-11, 2022

Control Engineering

Control Engineering’s top 5 content over the past week covered HMI and SCADA systems, MQTT, SI Giants, real-time data and more. Links to each article below. 1. HMI/SCADA systems: Upgrade your migration. When upgrading human-machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software, don’t just create a new version of the old.

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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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Do more with less warehouse energy

Modern Materials Handling

With energy prices spiking, going with green warehouse operations and automation makes strong financial sense. The methods to get to an energy-efficient, more sustainable warehouse are many, from features like solar to automation like high-density storage, while new analytics layers are capable of energy-saving insights.

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The role of supply chain in australian advanced manufacturing

Manufacturer's Monthly

Australian manufacturing has been disregarded for several decades in preference to the globalisation of supply chains. COVID-19 has triggered a policy re-think and placed local manufacturing and supply chain resilience back on the agenda. Multiple organisations together with government agencies are now working on the pathway to best rebuild Australian advanced manufacturing capability.

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Nasa’s Orion spacecraft lands on Earth after completing journey around the Moon

E&T

Orion is a partially reusable spacecraft which is designed to be capable of supporting a crew of six beyond low Earth orbit. The spacecraft was blasted into space using Nasa’s Space Launch System (SLS) on 16 November from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Over the course of 25.5 days, the space agency tested Orion in the harsh environment of deep space before flying astronauts on Artemis II.

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Built-in configurable functions with LINAK’s I/O interface

Manufacturer's Monthly

LINAK’s new I/O interface has a wealth of configurable monitoring and diagnostic functions built in, which can enable you to optimise the performance of your equipment and quickly and easily troubleshoot in the event of issues occurring. In the following paragraphs and associated videos, you can learn more about the Linak I/O actuator’s diagnostics and monitoring features.

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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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User priorities drive motive power choice

Modern Materials Handling

Operational priorities and infrastructure constraints should guide motive power choice, though lithium is seen as gaining ground in the long term. Every option has its strong points, so it comes down to using the goals of each operation to guide it down the best motive power path.

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Biopolymers Market Forecast is Sunny with Explosive Growth

Plastics Today

New bioplastics market report anticipates yearly growth of 22.4% to propel the value from $10.7 billion in 2022 to an estimated $86.7 billion by 2032.

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Rapid WMS rollout fits functional needs

Modern Materials Handling

Furniture e-tailer Oliver Space deploys Cloud WMS in less than two months while meeting its unique needs around inventory tracking and visibility over a reverse stream of goods being refurbished for its home furniture lineup.

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5 Top Sustainable Packaging Issues from 2022

Plastics Today

An end-of-year recap of sustainable packaging developments helps us celebrate positive developments, as well as see trouble-spots that still need attention.

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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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Nominations Open for the 2023 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards

Robotics Business Review

The deadline for submissions is January 10th, 2023. Categories include 1) Business and Management Innovation, 2) Technology, Services, and Research Innovation, or 3) Application and Market Innovation. The post Nominations Open for the 2023 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards appeared first on Robotics Business Review.

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Paul McKenzie to take reins as CSL’s new CEO, managing director

AU Manufacturing

Global biotechnology giant CSL Limited has named Paul McKenzie as its chief executive officer and managing director, effective 6 March 2023. . CSL’s Board of Directors appointed McKenzie on Tuesday to succeed Paul Perreault , who is stepping down to retire after 10 years in the role and more than 25 years with the company. . Perreault will remain with the company as a strategic adviser for an orderly transition until he retires on 6 September 2023. .

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Build a new MRO strategy for 2023

Modern Materials Handling

Here are some tips for getting past the current pain of inadequate MRO programs and making measurable gains on metrics from reduction in parts costs to gains in asset uptime. With recent MRO system failures fresh in your minds, now is the time to act.

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New committee created to shape Australia’s national robotics strategy

AU Manufacturing

Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic has unveiled the members of a National Robotics Strategy Advisory Committee that would establish Australia’s strategy for emerging automation technologies. . The committee will develop a national strategy that would ensure Australia harnesses opportunities in robotics and automation, advanced manufacturing, and agriculture. .

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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.