Automation World

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

New sensors and greater incorporation of artificial intelligence are not only improving machine vision capabilities, they’re also making them easier to implement and operate.

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Gary Mintchell

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

No sooner had interest in wireless sensors developed batteries were identified as a weak point. Sending maintenance crews out routinely to replace batteries became a sticking point. For every difficulty lies an opportunity. Technologies to harvest energy from equipment vibrations and other sources went into development. Here we are many years later and a notice of more kinetic energy harvesting came my way thanks to an exhibit at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in January.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Kuka has released a new delta robot, the KR 3 D1200, which is specially designed for pick-and-place of foodstuffs, among other applications, and carries up to 6 kg at high speed.

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The Fabricator

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

With all the money dedicated to infrastructure improvement, unions and trade associations are not pleased that a larger-than-normal share might be spent on iron and steel sourced from outside the U.S.

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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.

Manufacturing

Modern Materials Handling

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Our annual reader survey finds that many are looking to implement or improve their systems across numerous areas, and when it comes to decision factors for evaluating systems, total cost of ownership and integration gained in importance, while concern over parts availability declined.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Two professors in the agricultural and biological engineering department of the University of Florida have been researching the potential of 3D printers to print food. Adam Watson and Ziynet Boz have used the 3D printers in their lab to make edible designs made from a viscous food substance like mashed potatoes. Although the process would not be a solution to world hunger, the scientists have pointed out how it could make a significant impact on different communities.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

BP revealed it earned $28bn (£23bn) in 2022, following the sharp increase in fuel prices brought about by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The company also announced it would be scaling back on its plans to reduce the amount of oil and gas it produces by 2030. BP now expects its fossil fuel production to fall by 25 per cent by 2030, compared to a previous expectation of 40 per cent.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Airobotics and Sky Go Transport of Goods, a UAE-based company with commercial license to provide unmanned aerial transport of goods and services across the city of Abu Dhabi, have agreed a joint venture to provide aerial drone services to the city of Abu Dhabi.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Electric flying taxis and hydrogen-powered aircraft are just some of the projects that will receive a share of the funding, which was announced by the business and transport secretaries. While aviation is only responsible for around 2 per cent of anthropogenic carbon emissions, this is expected to rise as the number of passengers is expected to double by 2037.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Rapid Robotics has agreed a new integration with Yaskawa Motoman that will bring industrial capabilities to Rapid Robotics’ Rapid Machine Operator (RMO).

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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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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Allied Machine and Engineering, a leading manufacturer of holemaking and finishing cutting tools for the metal-cutting industry, announces the addition of new sizes to the AccuThread T3 thread mill line. Because of the success of the current line and customer demand for larger sizes, the AccuThread T3 is now available in larger UN and ISO sizes up to 1”-8 and M24x3.0.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Hannover Messe, one of the world’s largest trade shows for industrial technologies, is planning to make this year’s event a “showcase for artificial intelligence”. From 17 to 21 April 2023, Hannover Messe, held in Germany, will be shining a spotlight on the topic of “AI in manufacturing”.

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Artificial Intelligence Manufacturing 98

Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Pneumatic sensor insights Pneumatic products such as cylinder sensors are getting smaller, but they can still be improved upon and made to last a long time, but installation can be a challenge. The final setting and adjustment of cylinder sensors takes a considerable amount of time, but final set-up can make a big difference to long-term reliability and operating lifetime.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Article contributed by BlueBotics A roundtable discussion with three industry experts’ answers some of the pertinent questions about investing in automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) The market and interest in Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and Automated Mobile Robots (AMRs) are growing rapidly.

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Plastics News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Plastics industry efforts to become more sustainable aren’t moving fast enough – even for PET – according to new reports from the Minderoo Foundation and Systemiq. In Sustainable Plastics Live, Karen Laird summarizes the new reports and talks about the impact extended producer responsibility will have on plastics.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Nidec Leroy-Somer has signed an agreement with Airbus, the worlds largest airplane manufacturer, to develop an electric motor for its hydrogen-powered fuel cell engine prototype, as part of Airbus’ ambition to bring the first zero-emission commercial aircraft to market by 2035.

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MRPEasy

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Whole and Free Foods, the Chicago-based manufacturer of Every Body Eat® wellness snacks, achieves healthy growth by using manufacturing resource planning software to cut down on waste and improve its production processes. A small business on the road to success Whole & Free Foods LLC – Every Body Eat® is a Chicago-based manufacturer of allergy-friendly […] The post Success Story: Health Snack Maker Whole & Free Foods Gets Fit with Manufacturing Software appeared first on Blog for

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The loss of pollinators, such as bees, is a huge challenge for global biodiversity and affects humanity by causing problems in food production. At Tampere University, researchers have now developed the first passively flying robot equipped with artificial muscle. Could this artificial fairy be utilised in pollination?

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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.

Manufacturing

Control.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

PassiveLogic has released and will showcase their "industry first" building automation ecosystem of hardware and software solutions to make building systems more efficient and autonomous.

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Modern Materials Handling

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Power transmission equipment is not only starting to look different, but operate differently, too. This is a time when sustainability, decentralization and digitalization are all having a far reaching impact.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Before anyone seriously thinks about building a city on Mars – and Elon Musk has already stated that we’ll see a settlement of a million people there by 2050 – there are two competing ideas to address. First, is simply that we can’t do it. It’s tens of millions of miles away. The Red Planet has less than half of Earth’s gravity and the same amount of sunlight.

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Plastics Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) films market is forecast to expand at a CAGR of 6.5% during the forecast period of 2022 to 2030.

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Modern Machine Shop

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“Made in the USA” is a documentary-style podcast that investigates big-picture topics facing U.S. manufacturing with a special focus on the metalworking and machine tool industries. The central charge of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is to protect American consumers and the public at large from deceptive business practices, including but not limited to “unfair methods of competition,” according to the agency’s mission statement.

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Schöttli medical mold. Photo Credit: Husky Technologies Husky Technologies , a technology provider in the medical injection molding industry, is exhibiting at MD&M/Plastec West in Anaheim, California this week from Feb. 7-9, 2023. Booth visitors will have the opportunity to experience Husky’s latest technologies and services engineered to deliver world-class quality, reliability, precision, efficiency and sustainability to medical device manufacturers.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A robot built by 4Ocean is cleaning up Florida beach as part of the startup company’s mission to clean up the entire world’s oceans.

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iBASEt

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Despite economic uncertainty, manufacturers are investing more in technology than ever before. As manufacturers try to compensate for supply chain issues, inflation, labor shortages and increasing ESG pressures, technology promises to provide agility to better react to market demands. Whether it is IT or operational technology (OT), too many manufacturers will focus on the implementation costs although some smarter manufacturers will look at the total cost of ownership (TCO), But even those ma

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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.

Manufacturing

AU Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Chevron Australia is set to jointly invest AUD $38 million to research initiatives on carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Western Australia and Victoria to advance knowledge of the critical emissions technology for a lower carbon future. In a media statement , the company said Barrow Dampier CCS Regional Study, led by global technology company SLB, has received AUD $22 million in funding to support a three-dimensional seismic and storage assessment to identify new CCS opportunities in the Carnar

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Manufacturing 85

Modern Materials Handling

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Widely used inside the four walls, wireless mobile devices from scanners and printers to tablets are a strong player in facility productivity. Recent advances ensure that they’ll become increasingly valuable to workflows and throughput efficiencies.

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AU Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Undergraduate engineering students in UC San Diego’s Yonder Deep student organisation are seeking to develop and 3D-print a completely autonomous, low-cost, modular underwater vehicle (AUV) that will make it possible for scientists to affordably collect oceanographic and climatic data. According to an article published in UC San Diego Today, the organisation said it aims to create a torpedo-shaped AUV housing.

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Modern Materials Handling

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Technology like assistive picking mobile robots, intuitive mobile devices and LMS can help overcome labor management challenges. But it also takes best practices like structured goal setting, in-person communication and employee engagement to be best positioned to maximize labor resources.

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