Automation World
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Harnessing technology to go paperless and digitalize tasks unlocks human efficiency by synchronizing processes, machinery, and people to strike the perfect smart factory balance.
Gary Mintchell
OCTOBER 31, 2022
The control and automation market I’ve been in since the late 90s has definitely become a software market. Yes, the main players that remain do still have their legacy controllers, instrumentation, sensors, and networking. The excitement that remains is mainly software and services. Domain expertise within the supplier community becomes increasingly important.
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Automation World
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Debuting in November and previewed at PACK EXPO International, the ABB Robotic Item Picker is designed to pick smaller items that are variable in size, shape, and substrate.
Design World
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Dyndrite, providers of the GPU-accelerated computation engine used to create next-generation digital manufacturing hardware and software, announced support for the new Open Vector Format (.ovf), developed by the RWTH Aachen University Chair Digital Additive Production DAP, within its Dyndrite Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) software. OVF provides a streamlined yet info-rich data link between the […].
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.
Automation World
OCTOBER 31, 2022
B&R's Acopos 6D uses wear-free, magnetically levitating shuttles to unlock and enable custom, batch-size of one packaging applications.
Plastics News
OCTOBER 31, 2022
As lead service lines are replaced in America's drinking water systems, plastic pipe producers find themselves defending their products as safe, cost-effective and sustainable.
Manufacturing Technology Today brings together the best content for manufacturing technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Chris Hohmann
OCTOBER 31, 2022
This month of November 2022 sees the first anniversary of the relocation of my place of residence, which is also the strong symbol of my family’s desired change in life. So far, one year after, a very satisfying change from all points of view. I took the opportunity, before initiating this change, to test some … Continue reading November 2022.
Automation World
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Easy 2 Change helps operators reduce the time needed for a blown film line changeover by 50%.
Canadian Manufacturing
OCTOBER 31, 2022
SAN DIEGO — SkySafe says its cloud-based counter-drone technology is now detecting drone flights in Canada, thanks to their partnership with Robotics Centre. The company’s cloud solution offers customers a way to detect, track, and analyze the drones in their airspace, without having to buy and maintain hardware. The company offers airspace awareness via a subscription to their cloud based application. “As more and more drones enter the airspace, there are more incidents occurring fr
Plastics News
OCTOBER 31, 2022
European recyclers have been unable to pass through higher energy costs. As a result, the profitability of plastics recycling has been undermined. Recyclers are responding by either taking an unprofitable line out of production or by completely shutting down recycling facilities.
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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.
Robotics Business Review
OCTOBER 31, 2022
The manual process of applying coating to floors to create a seamless finish is a demanding and time-consuming undertaking. Easy Floor Robotics' systems automates the process using mobile robots. The post Easy Floor Robotics – Start-Up Profile – Creating Seamless Flooring Using Autonomous Mobile Robots appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
Plastics News
OCTOBER 31, 2022
K 2022 put a spotlight on plastics materials, with top themes including circularity and climate protection.
The Guardian Manufacturing
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Company struggles to find investors willing to fund effort to build giant £3.8bn ‘gigafactory’ in north-east The UK government-backed battery startup Britishvolt is considering entering administration with the potential loss of almost 300 jobs after it struggled to find investors willing to fund its effort to build a giant £3.8bn “gigafactory” in north-east England.
E&T
OCTOBER 31, 2022
The Big Bang UK Young Scientists and Engineers Competition has opened for entries for 2023. . Inquisitive young minds with an idea to transform the future could win the prestigious title of UK Young Engineer or UK Young Scientist of the Year. Teachers can encourage students to think about issues they’re passionate about or develop solutions to challenges they’ve come across in their own lives by completing a project for entry into the competition.
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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.
Plastics News
OCTOBER 31, 2022
ENGEL North America runs a comprehensive paid apprenticeship program for students to learn the ins and outs of injection molding.
NIST
OCTOBER 31, 2022
National Manufacturing Day (MFG Day) provides students, parents and communities a glimpse of modern manufacturing. It’s held on the first Friday of October and has grown exponentially since starting back in 2012. Now it’s recognized during the entire month of October with manufacturing companies, schools and organizations planning activities, tours, seminars, class presentations, networking and social media campaigns to create awareness around manufacturing.
The Fabricator
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Forklifts were involved in 78 work-related deaths in 2020. Safety precautions can help to prevent this trend.
The Guardian Manufacturing
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Company spun out of Oxford University makes DNA and RNA sequencing devices to identify viruses and variants Not far from Didcot, once a halfway stop between London and Bristol on the Great Western Railway celebrated for Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s engineering, innovation has returned with a hi-tech factory manufacturing DNA and RNA sequencing machines.
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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.
HGR Inc.
OCTOBER 31, 2022
‘What It Took to Get Us to Stay’: Entry Level Manufacturing Workers Speak Up. Adrienne Selko | Nov 2, 2022 | Industry Week. The best resource for finding out why employees stay at their jobs is to ask them. IW spoke with three entry-level workers in different industries. Here are their responses as to what they like about their jobs and why they have stayed.
iBASEt
OCTOBER 31, 2022
iBASEt India Recognized with Business World Workplace Award. Lake Forest, Calif. – October 31, 2022 – iBASEt, the company that simplifies how complex products are built and maintained, today announced iBASEt India was named in Business World’s “Happiest Workplaces Award.” Winners were selected by Dr. Ashish Ambasta, Founder and CEO Happy+ Consulting, alongside a panel of judges including happiness experts and positive psychologists. iBASEt was ranked in the top 10 of the 30 winning organizations
Plastics News
OCTOBER 31, 2022
The 31,000-square-meter indoor facility will produce more than 1,000 metric tons of leafy greens including lettuces, arugula, mixed salad greens and spinach for in-flight meals annually, while reportedly requiring 95 percent less water than conventional agriculture.
E&T
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Atrial fibrillation – a form of irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia – leads to more than 454,000 hospitalisations and nearly 160,000 deaths in the US alone each year. Globally, it is estimated that approximately 60 million people are affected by the condition. Pacemakers are used to regulate the heartbeats of people with chronic heart diseases like atrial fibrillation and other forms of arrhythmia although they require an invasive procedure to install and can be extremely painful.
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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.
Plastics Today
OCTOBER 31, 2022
The event in March will feature more than 80 technical presentations and scores of exhibitors.
E&T
OCTOBER 31, 2022
The company has been developing a £3.8bn gigafactory intended to produce batteries for electric vehicles, in Blyth, Northumberland, where it had hoped to employ up to 3,000 workers. However, the group has been in emergency fundraising talks in recent weeks. The Financial Times reported that the company could slide into insolvency as soon as today (Monday).
iBASEt
OCTOBER 31, 2022
If you’re anything like me, sometimes work problems can keep you up at night. It probably takes only a moment to list a few of the tricks that commonly haunt your shop floor. Suppliers occasionally send defective parts, which are hopefully caught in the testing and sampling phase—but if not, they become downstream component issues. Supply chain problems can disrupt production plans.
The Fabricator
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Schuler offers the Energy Monitor, which links information on the power consumption of a system, including peripherals such as the coil line or transfer, with the production data.
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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.
Metrology
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Nikon Industrial Metrology has announced a series of new metrology systems for manufacturers seeking to measure the geometry of medium-to-large parts – from a car door, casting or fabrication to. The post Nikon Launches Turnkey Laser Radar Intelligent Quality Stations appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.
AU Manufacturing
OCTOBER 31, 2022
The Chinese manufacturing industry’s purchasing manager index (PMI) has seen a 0.9 per cent decrease in October, indicating a shrinking market activity in the country. . China ’s PMI currently stands at 49.2 per cent for the current month, which is below the threshold. . The PMI for large enterprises was at 50.1 per cent, marking a 1-point decrease from the previous month, while the PMI of medium-sized and small enterprises stood at 48.9 and 48.2 per cent, respectively.
Metrology
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Scheugenpflug, an Atlas Copco company, provides quality monitoring as an integral part of its sealant and adhesive bead dispensing cells saving time and space. By integrating RTVision systems, Scheugenpflug has. The post Integral Bead Inspection Sensor Ensures Perfect Application appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.
The Fabricator
OCTOBER 31, 2022
McDonald Steel Corp., McDonald, Ohio, a producer of custom-engineered hot-rolled shapes, has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Mac Steel GSC Inc. has acquired the assets of Cleveland-based General Steel Corp., a steel service center specializing in the processing of steel plate. General.
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