Design World

JANUARY 2, 2024

Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) can streamline material handling in manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and more, yet many facilities still primarily rely on conveyor systems. To serve as a flexible bridge between fixed conveyors and production lines, Interroll designed a light conveyor platform (LCP) to facilitate the handling of lightweight goods with AMRs from Mobile Industrial Robots… The post Light conveyor platform bridges fixed systems with flexible AMRs appeared first on Design

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Gary Mintchell

JANUARY 2, 2024

During the heyday of Getting Things Done productivity, I used an app called Nozbe for personal productivity. Perhaps less productivity as in a place to collect things and then generate lists which are the essence of tackling tasks. Over time I noticed that all the productivity apps generated to team collaboration for getting things done. This new app seems to be a bit oversold (marketing fluff at the beginning) but it does fit a couple of trends of people working together and getting new employe

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Design World

JANUARY 2, 2024

I love learning about engineering colleagues who are innovating in new ways — people who are rethinking problems that seem to be up against the proverbial brick wall. Take the current issues with renewable energy. While strides have been made in many areas of solar and wind, the daily (or hourly) variability of these technologies… The post Thinking outside the bus appeared first on Design World.

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Control.com

JANUARY 2, 2024

Doosan Group will be unveiling its latest innovations at CES 2024. The company will showcase its green-centric, future-thinking technology from Doosan Robotics, Bobcat, Enerbility, and HyAxiom.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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JANUARY 2, 2024

The head of the national Border Force has told the Times that – inspired by advanced border control technology in use elsewhere in the world – new eGates will be installed which allow arrivals into the UK using only facial recognition.

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Plastics Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

January 3 is National Drinking Straw Day. As sundry forces conspire to make the plastic drinking straw an endangered species, let's take a trip down memory lane and find out why it became so popular in the first place.

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E&T

JANUARY 2, 2024

The company overseeing plans to build the UK’s first nuclear waste repository was repeatedly targeted by cyber hackers last year, the body’s chief executive has admitted.

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Control.com

JANUARY 2, 2024

Digital controls like VFDs and soft starts have advantages by elongating start time, but simple strategies for starting motors with a reduced current draw, like star-delta (or wye-delta) are common.

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Automation Mag

JANUARY 2, 2024

Downturn in the Canadian manufacturing industry continued till the end of 2023, contracting further from November. The seasonally adjusted S&P Global Canada Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) registered 45.4 in December, down from 47.7 in November. This was the lowest reading since May 2020. The PMI posted below the crucial 50.0 no-change mark for eight consecutive months, according to the latest S&P Global report.

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E&T

JANUARY 2, 2024

Reskilling and upskilling the engineering workforce is frequently discussed in conjunction with topics like AI and sustainability, both of which were highlighted during the recent World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF) held in Monterrey, Mexico.

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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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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2024

A Tesla car demonstrates self-driving mode. Source: Tesla In Musk , Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk, we learned how Tesla planned to use artificial intelligence in its vehicles to offer its long-awaited full self-driving mode. Year after year, the company has promised its owners Full Self Driving, but FSD remains in beta. That doesn’t stop Tesla from charging $199 per month for it, though.

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Canadian Manufacturing

JANUARY 2, 2024

Shares of BlackBerry Ltd. were down 13.5 per cent after the company released its latest quarterly results and its new chief executive said he has his eye on cutting costs. Shares in the company closed down 74 cents at $4.74 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. John Giamatteo, who was named CEO earlier this month, said a key focus is to return BlackBerry to profitability and positive cash flow, which would require some tough decisions on its cost structure.

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Drives & Controls

JANUARY 2, 2024

The German engineering plastics specialist igus has developed a humanoid hand gripper that allows its ReBeL family of low-cost collaborative robots (cobots) to take on human-like tasks. The hand, made of lubrication-free plastics, has been designed to imitate human hand movements, and costs from £2,668 ($3,367) in the UK.

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The Guardian Manufacturing

JANUARY 2, 2024

Build Your Dreams outsells rival in final quarter of 2023 figures for battery-only vehicles Elon Musk’s Tesla has been overtaken by its Chinese rival, BYD, as the world’s top selling electric carmaker. BYD, which has been backed by the US investment billionaire Warren Buffett since 2008, has beaten Tesla’s production for a second consecutive year. Continue reading.

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Metrology

JANUARY 2, 2024

Flexxbotics, delivering workcell digitalization for robot-driven manufacturing, has announced that SpiTrex Orthopedics has selected the Flexxbotics solution for robot-driven manufacturing with autonomous process control. The post Closed Loop Compliance Assures Robot-Driven Manufacturing appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.

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The Fabricator

JANUARY 2, 2024

To keep up with the resurgence in manufacturing, companies are going to have to rely on advanced technology.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2024

Meili founder Samantha Lee demonstrated an in-hospital vehicle simulator as an autotech example. Source: LinkedIn As The Robot Report reported last October, one of the biggest autotech stories of the year was the stalling of Cruise after California’s Department of Motor Vehicles suspended its driverless testing license. While Cruise has had many mishaps since the launch of its robotaxi service on the streets of San Francisco in June 2022, including blocking emergency vehicles, parking on constru

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Industry Week

JANUARY 2, 2024

Schneider Electric and Aveva share how to update a decades-old manufacturing plant, focusing on Schneider's more than 66-year-old facility in Kentucky.

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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.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2024

Roboworx will provide field support services for robots. | Credit: ARO Administrative Resource Options Inc., or ARO, today unveiled a new subsidiary called Roboworx dedicated to robot service and customer satisfaction. Schaumburg, Ill.-based ARO said the brand will address the growing need to support the robotics industry. ARO has offered robotics as a service ( RaaS ) to help young robotics companies without a large customer base build field service and support teams.

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 2, 2024

A recent post by senior editor Julia Hider explores the use of the artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT to automatically generate G-code programming. That article flirts with the question of whether AI can replace CNC programmers. Spoiler alert: It can’t, even though it can aid them by automating certain aspects of what they do. That implied question in the article leaps out at me, because it reminds me of a very similar question that Julia and I, and all the writing staff of this sit

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Canadian Manufacturing

JANUARY 2, 2024

VANCOUVER — Graphite One Inc. announces that Taiga Mining Company, Inc. has exercised its option to purchase a 1% Net Smelter Production Royalty from the Company. The NSR is attached to 133 Alaska state claims owned or leased by Graphite One which the Company purchased on June 21, 2023 for approximately US$450,000 by issuing to the vendor 456,500 common shares of the Company at a price of CA$1.48 per share.

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The Fabricator

JANUARY 2, 2024

Knoxville, Tenn., emergency medical transportation manufacturer OnDemand Specialty Vehicles, a subsidiary of Priority OnDemand, is locating its production operations in Jumpertown, Miss.

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Canadian Manufacturing

JANUARY 2, 2024

A survey of factory managers in China shows manufacturing contracted in December in the latest sign the world’s second-largest economy remains sluggish. The official purchasing managers index, or PMI, fell to 49 last month in what officials said was evidence of weak demand, the National Bureau of Statistics reported on Sunday. It was the third straight month of contraction.

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Plastics Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

Sir Jim Ratcliffe finally got his wish on Christmas Eve, and it only cost him $1.6 billion.

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Canadian Manufacturing

JANUARY 2, 2024

ADSTOCK — Swander Pace Capital, a private equity firm specializing in consumer products companies, announced today it has partnered with CDPQ and Roynat Equity Partners to acquire a majority stake in St-Méthode Bakery, a supplier of fresh bread products. Located in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Québec, BSM will continue to supply customers throughout Québec and other markets from its flagship bakery in Adstock. “We are delighted to partner with BSM and its existing management te

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The Fabricator

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Fabricator magazine has named Ludlow Manufacturing, Waukegan, Ill., as the winner of its 2024 Industry Award.

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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.

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Canadian Manufacturing

JANUARY 2, 2024

VANCOUVER — Ballard Power Systems announced the appointments of Mr. CHEN Wenmiao (Michael Chen) and Mr. WANG Yingbo (Yingbo Wang) to the Ballard Board of Directors to serve as Weichai’s nominees following the planned retirements of Mr. Kevin Jiang and Mr. Sherman Sun from Ballard’s Board. Jim Roche, Ballard’s Chair, commented, “Michael and Yingbo bring valuable experience in power engineering and new energy technologies in the China market.

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E&T

JANUARY 2, 2024

Greater support for capital investment and skills development looks set to help domestic production achieve cost parity with work carried out in overseas locations, writes David Hughes of PTC.

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Canadian Manufacturing

JANUARY 2, 2024

GATINEAU — The Government of Canada is taking action to reduce plastic pollution and move toward a circular economy addressing the entire lifecycle of plastics, keeping it in the economy and out of the environment. On December 30, 2023, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Steven Guilbeault, launched a consultation on the creation of the Federal Plastics Registry, which will be used as a tool to monitor and track plastic from the time it is produced to its end of life.

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 2, 2024

Photo Credit: Getty Images Applied Manufacturing Technologies has announced that, following a large-scale automation project, the company has become a Credentialed System Integrator for Ignition by Inductive Automation and has launched a wide-ranging initiative for certification of the engineering staff. The company has launched its 2024 initiative to offer Ignition programming as a core engineering services offering.

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