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KUKA to educate on robotic automation at ACTE 2022 in Las Vegas

Design World

To address the ongoing challenge of attracting talented employees to the manufacturing workforce, KUKA Robotics will bring its educational and software simulation technologies to the Association for Career & Technical Education (ACTE) CareerTech VISION 2022 conference at the Las Vegas Convention Center Nov. 30 through Dec. 3. Visitors to booth 327, will experience KUKA’s ready2_educate… The post KUKA to educate on robotic automation at ACTE 2022 in Las Vegas appeared first on Design Wo

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Skilled Workforce Recruitment Proves Difficult for Manufacturers

Automation World

The search for skilled workers is pushing manufacturing companies to look to technology and automation.

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Big Quit Reloaded – Don’t Let Knowledge Walk Out the Door or Escape Through the Window

Chris Hohmann

In November 2018 I wrote a post on this very blog titled Don’t Let Knowledge Walk Out the Door or escape through the window. At that time I was helping a startup to scale-up into an industrial manufacturing company, which was losing significant knowledge through employee turnover. November 2022, we are amid the Big Quit, … Continue reading Big Quit Reloaded – Don’t Let Knowledge Walk Out the Door or Escape Through the Window.

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Industrial Metaverse—Dream or Real?

Gary Mintchell

Just over a year ago, Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined a vision for the future of the social media giant—the metaverse. “We believe the metaverse will be the successor to the mobile internet, we’ll be able to feel present – like we’re right there with people no matter how far apart we actually are,” he said. He bet a huge amount of money.

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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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How Pfizer and Shell Are Digitally Transforming Their Operations

Automation World

From data centralization to digital twins, Aveva World 2022 featured presentations from more than 100 industrial users highlighting adoption of Aveva software for data visualization, analytics, collaboration, energy savings, and new revenue generation.

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How is Robotics Shaping Up to Impact the Car Manufacturing Industry?

Robotics Automation News

The world of car manufacturing has experienced significant changes over the years. Robotics and automation are slowly fine-tuning industries to the point where they can streamline operations, increasing production efficiency, and this is naturally, going to improve bottom lines all across the industry. When it comes to car manufacturing, there are a number of exciting […].

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5 Crucial Lessons to Learn from Successful Digital Transformation Stories

Robotics Automation News

Transform. Transform. Transform. That’s what most organizations have been doing since the Covid-19 pandemic struck and made digital transformation a necessity. Companies are working hard on digital transformation projects, but some are experiencing digital transformation fatigue and giving up–because they’ve spent large amounts of money with no ROI.

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Greenbushes lithium mine drives global green energy future

Manufacturer's Monthly

The Greenbushes Lithium Operation in Western Australia has seen an increase in global demand with record production numbers, creating significant local job opportunities. . In the September 2022 quarter, Greenbushes achieved record production of 361,227 tonnes of spodumene concentrate, an increase of seven per cent from the June 2022 quarter. This has resulted in an uplift of 190 new jobs in the past year, bringing the local operations workforce to over 900.

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Plastic Bank seeks market at K for ‘social plastic'

Plastics News

The social enterprise Plastic Bank comes to K 2022 looking to build ties in the industry for its recycled, ocean-bound plastic collected by a network of more than 600 collection centers in developing countries.

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Choosing Optimal Superabrasive Grains and Coatings

Modern Machine Shop

Matching applications to their optimal superabrasive grinding wheels can reap dividends through improved part quality and throughput, making deep knowledge of grain, bond and coating properties vital for grinding machine users. Photos courtesy of Norton | Saint-Gobain Abrasives. Proper superabrasive wheel selection is vital to efficient grinding processes.

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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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World’s First Biodegradable Water Bottle Set for US Debut

Plastics Today

Made of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), the industrially compostable Cove bottle will be sold in Erewhon stores in Los Angeles starting December 1.

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Roadmap for Australia to be global leader in net zero alumina refining

AU Manufacturing

Media Release by ARENA. Australia’s alumina refining industry has a credible pathway to achieving net zero emissions by 2050, outlined in an industry roadmap report published by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) today. The report titled ‘ A Roadmap for Decarbonising Australian Alumina Refining ’ (Roadmap) was commissioned by ARENA and prepared by Deloitte in consultation with Australia’s three major alumina producers: Alcoa, Rio Tinto and South32.

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Save costs with onsite inventory management solutions

Manufacturer's Monthly

Without effective inventory management in place, an industrial business can haemorrhage money in misplaced or overconsumed parts. More importantly, a smart inventory solution provides round-the-clock access to essential parts, consumables, or PPE – with automated controls in place – reducing supply chain costs and downtime. According to Brenton Finch, B2B eCommerce manager at Motion Australia, an inventory management system – such as a vending solution – can reduce product usage by up to 50 per

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Step-by-step process for rebuilding a mechanical stamping press gearbox

The Fabricator

Sometimes, when parts are not stamped properly, it's not the die that's at fault; it's that the press has become out of square or alignment. There are at least 60 steps and checks to completing a mechanical press gearbox rebuild.

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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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Hexagon Partners With Additive Manufacturing R&D Centre

Metrology

Hexagon has partnered with Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), a national research and development (R&D) centre, to provide software that will help meet a Swedish initiative to advance the use. The post Hexagon Partners With Additive Manufacturing R&D Centre appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.

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Benefits of AMG wheels Mercedes: What is AMG Mercedes wheels?

Robotics Automation News

G-class cars and many other models of the German brand Mercedes are equipped with high-quality and beautiful AMG wheels Mercedes, which are produced by the Mercedes-AMG division. AMG is a division of Daimler AG, which specializes in the production of auto parts for serial and exclusive models of Mercedes-Benz premium segment. Its products leave far […].

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News from the Trenches: Highlighted Tech at Automation Fair 2022

Control.com

Last week, we went boots on the ground and hit the streets in Chicago (ok, hit the show floor) to find out what exciting trends and technologies will be addressed by the leading manufacturers in 2023.

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What are CNC machining services and what are they useful for?

Robotics Automation News

Over the past few years, CNC machining services have become a vital part of the modern manufacturing world. They offer a wide range of benefits, including efficiency, scalability and enhanced personal safety. But what is CNC machining, exactly? What are the various types? And more so, what benefits does it offer? This post will cover […].

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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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How to Use Inventory Tags and Labels to Organize Inventory?

MRPEasy

Inventory tags and labels are an essential tool for organizing your inventory. From increasing efficiency in the stockroom to improving traceability in the supply chain, tagging and labeling your items and equipment can bring your company many benefits. What are Inventory Tags and Labels? Inventory tags and labels are slips of paper, plastic, or other […].

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Why the Automotive Future is Electric

Robotics Automation News

With the global automotive market shifting towards electrification at an unprecedented rate, electric cars or EVs are slated to become the next generation of personal transportation. By 2040, an estimated 40 million units of EVs are expected to hit the roads, essentially replacing the IC engine. Several manufacturers have already shifted their focus on EV […].

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KUKA to Educate on Robotic Automation at ACTE 2022 in Las Vegas

Fabricating & Metal Work

A modular training cell utilizing the KR AGILUS small robot and KR C5 micro controller, ready2_edcucate prepares tomorrow’s automation specialists with the optimal training in robotics. To address the ongoing challenge of attracting talented employees to the manufacturing workforce, KUKA Robotics will bring its leading educational and software simulation technologies to the Association for Career & Technical Education (ACTE) CareerTech VISION 2022 conference at the Las Vegas Convention Cente

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PLC Program Commands: Performing Array Functions Part 2

Control.com

Learn about multi-dimensional arrays and how to work with them to perform math operations such as the AVE (Average) instruction in the Rockwell (Allen-Bradley) Studio 5000 programming software.

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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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The Future of Automation: Meaningful Blockchain Use in Digital Process Automation.

Seeburger

Once you start looking into topics like data processing, digitalization or automation, it doesn’t take long until you inevitably come across blockchain. Whether we are already in a metaverse, and how far in, is not particularly clear to most of us yet. The same applies to all the associated big data, as well as concepts […].

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How the labor shortage is killing aerospace composites manufacturing

Plataine

With a rising skills gap and an emphasis on attending university over learning a trade, the manufacturing labor shortage is not a new problem. However, it is one that the pandemic has supercharged. Post-covid workers are looking for flexibility in where and when they work and higher pays - something at odds with today’s manufacturing landscape that requires physical in-person shift work and the need to meet tight deadlines.

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Australian made components bound for orbit

Manufacturer's Monthly

Brisbane start-up company Valiant Space is sending locally-made components into orbit, onboard SpaceX, from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. The company has been supported by the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub, which is funded by the Queensland Government, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Urban Arts Project and the Innovation Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC).

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EAB Insight: Maintenance, Management and Money

Mold Making Technology

Medline Industries’ Engineering Manager Rick Seaberg looks through MoldMaking Technology at work. Photo Credit: Medline Industries. Rick Seaberg has 10 years of experience as an injection mold designer, 15 years as a tooling engineer, 12 years as an engineering manager and two years as a plant manager across the consumer packaging, medical, automotive and optical industries.

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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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Ericsson to open multi-million-pound UK research centre for 6G tech

E&T

The Swedish telecommunications firm said it would invest “tens of millions of pounds” over the next decade in the new centre. The programme will employ 20 dedicated researchers with additional support for PhD students who will focus on research areas including network resilience and security, artificial intelligence, cognitive networks and energy efficiency.

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A concierge service for new manufacturing businesses

Manufacturer's Monthly

Manufacturers’ Monthly explores the three pillars behind recent manufacturing investment attraction in the Hunter Valley’s Greater Cessnock. Cessnock City Council is playing its part in supporting local manufacturing. A new initiative means investors to the region will be provided with economic data, a business concierge service for projects that create 10 or more jobs and an efficient planning approval service and planning advice and guidance.

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The Highlight Reel: Watertown, WI Grand Opening Event

HGR Inc.

That’s a wrap on our Wisconsin Grand Opening! We’d like to thank everyone who attended for joining our celebration at the brand-new HGR showroom in Watertown. Our team had the pleasure of connecting with local residents, businesses, and community leaders during the event. Check out our highlight reel below. This past Friday and Saturday we welcomed over 100 attendees to see our showroom in Watertown for the first time.

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Australian women set to power Volvo Group’s next 50 years

AU Manufacturing

Media Release by Volvo Group Australia. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Milton Dick MP, along with Queensland Labor’s Jess Pugh MP attended a site tour of Volvo Group Australia’s Wacol operations, located close to their communities of Oxley and Mount Ommaney. The company is celebrating 50 years of operations in 2022, and Mr Dick was impressed with Volvo’s production facility, which he visited four years ago, especially the company’s progress in job creation at the plant.

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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.