Fri.Jan 20, 2023

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Mobile Robots for CNC Applications

Automation World

Manufacturing companies are increasingly using mobile robots in CNC operations to move raw materials from storage to machining, transfer cutting tools between a tool room and machines, and deliver semi-finished or finished parts to the next process phase.

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Metaverse Solutions For Enterprises

Gary Mintchell

Press releases and extensive news coverage provoked some thinking about the Metaverse and its assorted technologies—Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), eXtended Reality (XR), and Mixed Reality (MR). It’s enough to distort in one’s mind just what is reality. Some psychologists and philosophers think there is no reality outside of what’s in your head.

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KUKA to showcase automation for human/machine collaboration at ATX West

Design World

During the ATX West 2023 show, KUKA Robotics will showcase several new technologies geared specifically for safely automating manufacturing processes where humans interact with robots on a regular basis. Among those technologies are the new LBR iisy cobot, the new KUKA KMP 600-S diffDrive automated mobile platform, and the company’s LBR iiwa robot incorporated into… The post KUKA to showcase automation for human/machine collaboration at ATX West appeared first on Design World.

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Government pledges £32.5m to decarbonise industry

E&T

The second phase of the Red Diesel Replacement Competition will provide a £32.5m funding package to support innovative projects that are developing greener energy alternatives, the government has announced. The funding is expected to be focused on greener alternatives to red diesel such as electrification and green hydrogen, providing a pathway for industry to cut emissions and energy costs.

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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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PTDA welcomes new member

Design World

The Power Transmission Distributors Association (PTDA), the leading association for the industrial power transmission/motion control (PT/MC) distribution channel, welcomes a new distributor member. Nelson Electric Motors (Opelika, Ala.) Founded in 1968 in Alexander City, Ala., Nelson Electric Motor Service provides expert Electro-Mechanical Repair services to the Central Alabama region.

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Stacy’s Rise Project announces class of Canadian grant recipients in support of women entrepreneurs

Canadian Manufacturing

SRP Canadian Winners (Photo: CNW Group/PepsiCo Foods Canada) MISSISSAUGA —Stacy’s Pita Chips inaugural Canadian Stacy’s Rise Project class is a grant and mentoring program for women entrepreneurs. For the first time, the Stacy’s Rise Project opened its applications to women founders based in Canada, expanding the impact of the program beyond the U.S. with the help of a new Canadian partner, Women’s Enterprise Organizations of Canada (WEOC). “Women-owned businesses i

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GreyOrange launches GreyMatter open API to manage variety of robotic systems

Robotics Automation News

GreyOrange, a provider of automated robotic fulfillment and inventory optimization software, has launched its GreyMatter open API (application programming interface). The API enables any vendor’s robotic solution to seamlessly connect to the GreyMatter fulfillment orchestration platform, giving customers the freedom to choose the technology that fits their warehouse environment.

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EU countries urge bloc to set end date for new CO2-emitting trucks

E&T

The European Commission is set to propose tougher CO 2 standards next month for heavy goods vehicles to comply with the bloc's climate change goals. It has already set more ambitious targets for cars, including a 2035 deadline for all new cars sold in Europe to have zero CO 2 emissions. Next month's EU proposal should set a 100 per cent zero-emissions target for heavy duty vehicles, the four countries said.

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Steel mill price hikes appear to be sticking

The Fabricator

Despite the current trend of increasing steel prices, market observers aren’t certain if the conditions exist for the trend to continue.

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Google parent company Alphabet axes 12,000 jobs globally

E&T

Google’s parent firm Alphabet has said it will cut about 12,000 jobs worldwide, becoming the latest player in the technology industry to significantly reduce its workforce. The news was revealed in an email to Google employees that was later shared in a company blog post. The job cuts represent about 6 per cent of the group's global workforce and will affect "roles across product areas, functions, levels and regions", according to Sundar Pichai, Alphabet's CEO.

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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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Recyclers praise ‘powerful' plastics bill in Washington state

Plastics News

Lawmakers in Washington state are seriously considering a combination EPR, bottle bill and recycled-content law that would have a big impact on plastics packaging.

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Diagnosing porosity issues in vertical-up gas metal arc welding-pulse (GMAW-P)

The Fabricator

The Consumables Corner team addresses a shop’s porosity issues in vertical-up welding using gas metal arc welding-pulse.

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Nauticus Robotics expands into Europe with operating bases in Norway and the UK

Robotics Automation News

Nauticus Robotics, a Houston-based developer of ocean robots, autonomy software, and services to the marine industries, has launched operations in Norway and the United Kingdom, beginning the company’s international expansion strategy for 2023 and beyond. The operating bases are strategically located in Stavanger, Norway and Aberdeen, Scotland to service the North Sea offshore market.

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Kickstart: Celebrating cobots

Plastics News

Insert the phrase "I, for one, welcome our cobot overlords" at this spot.

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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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Exotec expands warehouse automation product range

Robotics Automation News

Exotec, a warehouse robotics provider, has expanded its product portfolio with three solutions: a new conveyor system, an improved picking solution, and new proprietary warehouse software.

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Renishaw launches metal rotary scale for ATOM DX encoders

Motion Control Tips

Renishaw’s new CENTRUM CSF40 scale is an innovative metal scale disc for its ATOM DX encoder series. Rotary RCDM glass scales are now joined by CENTRUM stainless steel self-centering discs. CENTRUM CSF40 scale discs are quick and easy to install ‘right first time’ due to their innovative mounting features that automatically center the scale when […] The post Renishaw launches metal rotary scale for ATOM DX encoders appeared first on Motion Control Tips.

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SICK launches new linear encoder for industrial applications

Robotics Automation News

SICK has launched a new linear encoder product family for high-precision detection of piston positions in hydraulic cylinders and the monitoring of linear movements in machines. The DAX linear encoder product family provides flexibility for countless industrial applications. The product family offers three designs to suit these applications, all with industry-appropriate measuring ranges.

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ExxonMobil's growth on US Gulf Coast continues

Plastics News

The PP plant in Baton Rouge, La., is part of ExxonMobil's Growing the Gulf initiative, a 10-year plan to invest more than $20 billion to expand manufacturing facilities on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

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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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Brain Corp partners with Google Cloud to introduce analytics solution for retailers

Robotics Automation News

Brain Corp, an artificial intelligence company creating technologies in robotics, is partnering with Google Cloud to launch “BrainOS Inventory Insights”, a new and proprietary solution able to deliver next generation in-store inventory analytics to retailers.

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Skilled Trades Ontario marks one-year anniversary

Canadian Manufacturing

SCARBOROUGH — Skilled Trades Ontario (STO), Ontario’s agency responsible for apprenticeship and skilled trades certification, is celebrating its one-year anniversary by updating training and curriculum standards. With one-quarter of all apprentices in Canada training in Ontario, STO is delivering on its mandate of increasing labour mobility and improving training standards for apprentices and skilled trades workers.

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ABB opens its Mexico Technology and Engineering Center

Robotics Automation News

ABB has established a new regional operations center for North America, bringing technology expertise closer to customers and building on its similar resources globally.

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Blockchain Deployed to Track Sustainability of Composites for Bicycles

Plastics Today

Fujitsu and Teijin have started joint trials with Germany’s V Frames and Advanced Bikes to enhance the environmental value of recycled carbon fiber used in the manufacture of bicycle frames.

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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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Plastics in Politics Live - February 2023

Plastics News

Join us February 14 at 2PM EST for a Plastics In Politics Livestream. In our first politics livestream of the new year, we’ll look at a policy change for the Plastics Industry Association, which now says it’s OK with some bottle bills and extended producer responsibility laws. We can talk about what does and does not mean. Chemical recycling remains a hot topic, with Congress passing a federal budget at the end of the year that included a victory for environmentalists, while on the opposite side

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Barcoding, Inc., acquires AGV provider FRED Automation

Modern Materials Handling

This acquisition represents continued expansion and investment in industrial automation for Barcoding, Inc.

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View from Brussels: MEPs want more video-game regulation

E&T

According to a report authored by the Parliament, there should be harmonised rules that allow parents in particular to know more about the content of the games their children play, as well as the amount of money they spend while playing the game. Features like loot boxes – which offer players a random selection of virtual items – and gold-farming – which allows players to exchange in-game currency for real-life money – have become commonplace in modern games.

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Learn the Basics of Medical Device Packaging

Plastics Today

The Medical Device Fundamentals class comes to Anaheim, Calif., during the WestPack and MD&M West shows.

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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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AI walking stick helps blind people to navigate

E&T

The researchers said the walking stick could one day help blind people carry out tasks from shopping for a box of cereal at the grocery store to picking a private place to sit in a crowded cafeteria. The white-and-red walking stick includes a camera and computer vision technology to help it map and catalogue the world around it. It then guides users by using vibrations in the handle and with spoken directions, such as “reach a little bit to your right”.

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Bo-Mer goes big on solar

Plastics News

Custom thermoformer Bo-Mer Plastics recently completed a solar panel installation at its factory complex in Auburn, N.Y., that it says will generate more than half its electricity.

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Injection-Moldable Glass-Plastic Blend Has Clear Potential in Automotive, Medical Sectors

Plastics Today

Machine builder Engel inks cooperative agreement with German startup Glassomer to develop new applications for glass injection molding technology.

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CPSC Focuses On Child Safety in the Home

Foley

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has long focused on consumer products that pose unique risks to children, especially products in the home like clothing storage 1 and window coverings; 2 this emphasis has only increased in recent months. As Chair Alexander Hoehn-Saric made clear in a rejection of a proposed voluntary standard on infant sleep products, the CPSC’s efforts reaffirm the Commission’s “commitment to protecting the most vulnerable among us." 3 Manufacture

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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.