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Heilind Electronics introduces Hirose 1 mm Pitch Wire-to-Board Connector

Design World

Heilind Electronics, a distributor of interconnect, electromechanical, and sensor products, is now featuring the Hirose KW30 Series 1 mm Pitch Wire-to-Board Connector. The HIROSE SignalBee KW30 Series 1 mm Pitch Wire-to-Board Connector is designed to meet the evolving needs of the market. With a 1 mm pitch (2 pos. is 2 mm pitch) and a… The post Heilind Electronics introduces Hirose 1 mm Pitch Wire-to-Board Connector appeared first on Design World.

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Inductive Automation Launches Alliance Partner Program

Gary Mintchell

The Ignition Ecosystem Expands with the Addition of the New Alliance Partner Program Partner programs if well run where everyone sees a win are a great growth tool for the platform company as well as providing convenience for customers. I’ve seen successes over the years. I’ve also seen companies who couldn’t maintain consistency with the program or who eventually wanted to take too many things in house.

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International Power regulated and unregulated linear power supplies

Design World

AutomationDirect has added International Power regulated and unregulated linear power supplies to their current lineup of open-frame linear power supplies. The IH series regulated open-frame power supplies are designed to operate over a wide range of AC power sources. They maintain a constant output voltage, regardless of changes in input voltage or load current, and… The post International Power regulated and unregulated linear power supplies appeared first on Design World.

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Know Your Loop Before You Tune It

Automation World

PID control algorithms do not exist in a vacuum. That’s why it’s important to consider numerous operational factors before tuning a control loop.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

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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Heilind Electronics introduces Omron High Power PCB DC Relays to its product lineup

Design World

Heilind Electronics, a distributor of electronic components, announces the availability of the Omron G9KB High Power PCB DC Relay within its comprehensive product portfolio. The Omron G9KB Relay is a powerful solution for increasing electrical demands and shrinking product packaging. The high-capacity G9KB can switch up to 50A at 600VDC bi-directionally.

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CERATIZIT appoints Mr Andreas Fritz as President of the Regional Unit Asia Pacific

Dinesh Mishra

CERATIZIT S.A., Mamer, Luxembourg (Headquarters), 3 August 2023 CERATIZIT, a global leader in Cutting Tools and Hard Material Solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Andreas Fritz as President of the CERATIZIT Regional Unit Asia Pacific, effective May 1, 2023. In his new role, Mr. Fritz will oversee all CERATIZIT production and sales sites across Asia, as well as leading sales of branded cutting tool products throughout the region.

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Battery maker LG Energy Solution considering sites for North American HQ

Plastics News

A move to Holland, Mich., could bring an influx of senior-level jobs to western Michigan, building on hundreds of manufacturing positions the company is creating with its $1.7 billion battery plant expansion.

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Re-shaping manufacturing: RSM and Aequitas’ investment outlook in turbulent times

Manufacturer's Monthly

RSM has partnered with Aequitas Investment Partners, a specialist asset consultant and investment manager, to assist RSM’s advisers in developing investment portfolios and managing them through the turbulent economic environment. Author: Grace Bacon, RSM partner, and Rowan Stewart, Aequitas Investment Partners, joint chief investment officer This article gives an overview of how RSM and Aequitas view the outlook for manufacturing from the perspective of a long term investment manager.

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Material Insights: Compounding and recycling deals

Plastics News

In this week’s Material Insights, we have news on a new joint venture with a recycling focus, involving Ravago Group and Republic Services. Also, Techmer PM, which recently brought in a new investment group, is buying a specialty compounder.

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Training support isn’t a URL & zoom invite!

Manufacturer's Monthly

I have 20+ years of experience as a live trainer and have also delivered many virtual training sessions (live sessions with trainer and a group of trainees). Author: Jeff Naylor, MD – SIRF Roundtables I pride myself on putting in everything I have into sessions to energise trainees to present their manager/s with the real issues they worked on & the solution options they developed during the training.

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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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Collett Transport Unveils Brand New Elland Heavy Lift Warehouse

MEM

Collett & Sons Ltd, a leading name in heavy transport and logistic solutions, proudly announces the grand opening of their new build Heavy Lift Warehouse at their Elland Depot Complex. The new Heavy Lift Storage Facility boasts an impressive array of features, including: Ample Storage Space : The internal storage area spans an additional 750 square metres to the existing 3800 square metres, providing a secure and efficient environment for storing valuable heavy lift cargo.

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Increased antibiotic resistance linked to higher air pollution

E&T

North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia have the highest levels of antibiotic resistance, while Europe and North America have the lowest. Almost half a million premature deaths in 2018 were linked to antibiotic resistance potentially resulting from air pollution, costing global economies an additional $395bn. The study from researchers at Zhejiang University in China suggests that meeting World Health Organization (WHO) air quality guidelines by 2050 could reduce antibiotic resistance by 17

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Creating a Low-Cost OpenPLC Pulse Timer Function Block HMI with an M5Stack Core

Control.com

Triggering a machine by an external event often requires a pulse timer for OpenPLC Pulse Timer control. Here’s a brief tutorial on how an M5Stack Core can offer a simple, effective low-cost Arduino OpenPLC HMI solution.

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Fears That Prevent Entrepreneurs From Developing Businesses in a Big City

Robotics Automation News

Despite the fact that any business is inextricably linked with mistakes and failures, many entrepreneurs, especially at the initial stages, are afraid to act: change strategy, make decisions, and develop and scale projects. These fears and the attitudes associated with them may seem well-founded, as there are common mistakes businesses make at the beginning.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Superior DuraGal® products, locally made

Manufacturer's Monthly

DuraGal® Profiles are proudly manufactured in Australia by Australian Rollforming Manufacturers (ARM) located in Dandenong South, VIC. From this newly built, state of the art facility, ARM serves all of Australia with high quality rollformed products that can be relied upon. About Australian rollforming manufacturers Established in the 1940s, Australian Rollforming Manufacturers provide world-class rollformed products, design expertise and dedicated project management services to a wide range o

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Westlake Royal helps Rescuing Families with home upgrades

Plastics News

Rescuing Families renovates homes for those who have family members with disabilities, making the homes more accessible, repairing damage and upgrading items within the home.

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ContaClip Releases New Push-In, High-Capacity Terminal Blocks

Control.com

ContaClip adds to an existing product line of terminal blocks with versions that support 10mm^2 conductors up to 4 amps, with a double-level version for added wiring capacity.

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TheoremXR (2023.2) Driving Innovation in Engineering and Manufacturing

MEM

Theorem Solutions is thrilled to announce the latest update to TheoremXR (2023.2). Theorem’s suite of Extended Reality (XR) products is constantly advancing to meet the demands of our valued customers and the ever-evolving world of engineering and manufacturing with spatial computing. This release introduces exciting enhancements, such as Time and Motion capabilities, specifically designed for Mixed and Virtual Reality users.

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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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Most domestic abuse cases feature spyware and remote monitoring, MPs warn

E&T

MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee launched an inquiry last year to consider the potential harms of connected technology such as smart speakers, virtual assistants and wearable fitness trackers. It is estimated that there are roughly nine connected devices in every household in the UK, while by 2050 there will be 24 billion interconnected devices worldwide.

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Aerospace Composites launches $16.8M expansion in Kentucky

Plastics News

Due to the growth ACS is expected to have within the next 12 to 18 months, it needs a bigger facility to meet higher demand, officials said.

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Stepping on a graphene mat could power sensors

Drives & Controls

Scottish researchers have produced a pressure-sensitive mat containing a graphene-based material that generates power when humans walk on it. They suggest that the low-cost, energy-efficient technology could be used to power sensors, to monitor building occupancy, or to reduce energy use by, for example, controlling temperatures as people or enter or leave a room.

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Fabricating stainless kitchen countertops for an old house

The Fabricator

Barnes MetalCrafters had some unique fit-up challenges when fabricating stainless kitchen countertops for a 200-year-old house.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Sustainability 101: What are virgin plastics?

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

Do you feel a bit lost when people refer to certain environmental sustainability topics and aren’t sure where to start when it comes to learning more?

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Unraveling the U-Curve of robot deployment productivity

Robotics Business Review

University of Cambridge researchers found that robots can decrease productivity in the short term but can increase it in the long term. The post Unraveling the U-Curve of robot deployment productivity appeared first on Robotics Business Review.

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Major UK gas boiler maker to start electric heat pump production in Hull

The Guardian Manufacturing

Exclusive: Ideal Heating’s £50m investment aims to build 60,000 pumps and train 5,000 installers a year One of Britain’s biggest boiler makers is to start manufacturing electric heat pumps to keep pace with what it describes as the biggest transformation since the switch from coal to gas devices in the 1930s. Ideal Heating has invested £50m in transforming the manufacturing facilities at its Hull headquarters, which have produced fossil fuel boilers for more than a century.

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TRUMPF fires mega laser to mark 100th anniversary

The Fabricator

This year marks the 100th anniversary of fabricating equipment manufacturer TRUMPF, based in Stuttgart, Germany. To mark the occasion the company fired one of the world’s most powerful show lasers on the evening of Aug. 3, 2023.

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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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Manufacturing Technology Orders Continue Downward Trend in U.S.

Metrology

New orders of manufacturing technology totaled $365.9 million in May 2023, according to the latest U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by AMT. The post Manufacturing Technology Orders Continue Downward Trend in U.S. appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.

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Harbour Results, AutoForecast Solutions Release Battery-Electric Vehicle Market Study

Mold Making Technology

Photo Credit: Getty Images Harbour Results Inc. (HRI) has collaborated with AutoForecast Solutions (AFS) to develop “Electrifying Mobility: BEV Impact on the Automotive Supply Chain,” a market study that looks at the automotive industry’s electrification transformation and its impact on all automotive suppliers, from Tier 1 to Tier 3. “The effects of this BEV transformation will ripple through the industry from automakers to suppliers, service provider and tool and die sh

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Guidelines Issued For Safe Use of Artificial Intelligence of Spot Weld Quality Control at Audi

Metrology

As part of a collaboration at the Audi site there were three project stages in which possible hurdles in the introduction of AI and possible solutions for these were worked out based on the application 'Welding of car bodies'. The post Guidelines Issued For Safe Use of Artificial Intelligence of Spot Weld Quality Control at Audi appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.

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MMT Chats: Developments at Dynamic Tool

Mold Making Technology

This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently. Here Steve Eberle, President and John Berg, Director of Business Development/Marketing of Wisconsin-based Dynamic Tool chat with me about the shop’s commitment to working with its educational community, the technology and processes that are essential for achieving the repeatable accuracy delivered by the Dynamic team and the new facility and how it will extend the manufacturing development and launch servic

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.