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Enhanced Allen-Bradley Micro800 Controllers save time and costs

Design World

Machine builders can save engineering time and costs with the enhanced Allen-Bradley Micro850 and Micro870 2080-Lx0E controllers using the latest Connected Components Workbench software from Rockwell Automation. The improved 2080-Lx0E controllers offer greater connectivity and design efficiency through the new Class 1 implicit messaging capability with up to eight EtherNet/IP devices support.

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Small Steps to the Cloud

Automation World

As more industrial companies migrate data and operations technology to the cloud, there can be concerns over the effect this might have on operations. By starting small or with something new, users can more easily overcome these issues.

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New 3/8 liquid nozzle provides a hollow cone spray pattern for pressurized liquids

Design World

EXAIR’s new 3/8 NPT HollowStream liquid atomizing spray nozzle provides a hollow cone spray pattern for pressurized liquids. They are applied to solve cooling, cleaning, foam breaking, rinsing, and dust suppression applications for industry. The tangential flow design is vaneless, with wide open internal features to resist clogging, and works well with liquids containing particulate.… The post New 3/8 liquid nozzle provides a hollow cone spray pattern for pressurized liquids appeared first

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What excess tonnage does to a press brake and tooling

The Fabricator

Excess tonnage can damage a metal fabrication shop's press brake and embed tools into the bed and ram. The best practice is to avoid excess tonnage in the first place.

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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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Heilind Electronics expands its portfolio with the addition of Positronic

Design World

Heilind Electronics, a global distributor of electronic components, has expanded its global connector portfolio with the addition of Positronic, an Amphenol company. The distribution agreement includes both Heilind Electronics and Interstate Connecting Components (ICC), the mil-aero division of Heilind. Positronic product lines apply to a variety of industries worldwide including military, aerospace, telecommunications, medical, industrial,… The post Heilind Electronics expands its portfol

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Material Insights: Rail strike would create supply chain disruptions, higher prices

Plastics News

The U.S. plastics industry is warning that a rail strike will cause lost jobs, supply chain disruption and higher resin prices in coming weeks. Also, Amcor is boosting its recycling goals, and Australian supermarkets are trying to save plastic film recycling.

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Ontario unveils plan to strengthen food manufacturing supply chain

Canadian Manufacturing

PHOTO: Supply chain/Nick Saltmarsh via Flckr. TORONTO — The Ontario government announces the publication and announcements of its Grow Ontario Strategy. The strategy outlines the province’s plan to try and strengthen the agri-food sector, ensure an efficient, reliable, and responsive food supply and address ongoing vulnerabilities through new innovations.

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What’s the outlook for chemical sensors?

Design World

The current emphasis on providing products and materials with fewer environmental effects will have a direct impact on the chemical industry and chemical sensors. Obviously, this starts with, but is certainly not restricted to, reduced CO2 emissions. Chemical sensors have a wide range of applications, including healthcare, industrial, biotechnology, and household sensing requirements such as […].

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Know Your Phase: How and When to Use a Motor and Phase Rotation Tester

Control.com

Connecting a new motor without knowing the phase rotation of the electrical supply can cause damage to expensive equipment. By using a 3-phase rotation meter, you can save yourself time and money.

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To Attach or Not to Attach Thy Cap, That Is the Sustainable Question

Plastics Today

Heinz’s new recyclable monomaterial ketchup cap is good news, right? In a dramatic turn of phrase, the Bard of Boulder waxes poetic about what is a well-intentioned misfire.

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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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As plastics treaty talks open, a diplomatic push to 'restrain' virgin resins

Plastics News

As U.N. global plastic treaty talks get underway in Uruguay. some countries and consumer brands are pushing for an agreement that limits virgin plastic production.

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Specialty Acrylic Polymer Perfects Screen Visibility

Plastics Today

Annoying birefringence — the rainbow effect — could be a thing of the past for increasingly content-intensive in-vehicle displays thanks to a new resin from Asahi Kasei.

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UK pledges £1bn to insulate middle-income homes

E&T

The government's recently announced Eco+ scheme could see hundreds of thousands of homes across the country receive loft and cavity wall insulation , saving consumers around £310 a year, according to the energy secretary. . The £1bn scheme will run for three years from Spring 2023 and target households that do not currently get support to upgrade homes.

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Tank Holding buys Solar Plastics

Plastics News

Tank Holding Co., North America's largest rotational molder, has made its 20th deal in the last three years, this time acquiring rotational molder Solar Plastics LLC of Delano, Minn.

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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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UK Automotive commits to workforce diversity and inclusion with landmark industry Charter

SMMT

UK automotive industry launches new Diversity & Inclusion Charter in collective commitment to make workforce reflective of wider society and attract more talent to fill critical skills gaps. Major brands representing a fifth of Britain’s automotive manufacturing workforce pledge to shift the dial as Auto Council report highlights scale of the sector’s diversity challenge and calls for faster progress.

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Giving Australian Made a new heartbeat

Manufacturer's Monthly

Space Tank Studio is a business makerspace and manufacturing incubator helping local designers and innovators build new to-market products with global potential. Billy Friend spoke to Scott Anderson and Holger Dielenberg about the makerspace ’s ambitions for the near-future after successfully pivoting through the COVID-19 pandemic. New ideas and start-ups inject excitement into Australia’s manufacturing ecosystem.

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Allied Electronics adds Schneider Electric’s Altivar ATS480 soft starters to product lineup

Automation Mag

Allied Electronics & Automation has added Schneider Electric’s new Altivar ATS480 soft starters. According to an Allied press statement, the product is designed to support widespread digitization efforts in the industrial automation industry. Soft starters are solid-state devices that enable a gentle ramp-up to full-speed motor operation to protect AC motors from the damage that can be caused by the initial inrush of current associated with motor startup.

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Empowering people through automation and robotics

Manufacturer's Monthly

This month marks a major milestone for OMRON , a global automation giant with a proud history spanning nearly 90 years. The company has announced a striking new name and unveiled an innovative plan for the future to drive its operations in Australia and New Zealand over the next decade. . OMRON Oceania will now be known as OMRON Automation and Robotics to better reflect the company’s core business.

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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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Canoo to acquire vehicle manufacturing facility in Oklahoma

The Fabricator

Canoo has entered into an agreement to acquire a vehicle manufacturing facility in Oklahoma City for producing its LDV and LV vehicles.

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Total Commitment to Recycled PP Compounds for Automotive

Plastics Today

TotalEnergies announces the construction of a new production line for high-performance recycled polypropylene in France.

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Novel coating system to boost critical minerals processing

Manufacturer's Monthly

A $585,000 research collaboration between the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC) , Callidus Welding Solutions (CWS) and the Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) at Deakin University will deliver longer-life seated ball valves for critical minerals processing. . The valves, which are manufactured from high-performance alloys and can cost upwards of $250,000 each, play a key role in the hydrometallurgy production of critical minerals like nickel, cobalt, and gold, and a

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Recycled PET at Core of Honeycomb Panels

Plastics Today

EconCore bets on sustainability with its honeycomb panel technology for automotive, transport, and construction applications.

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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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Lockheed Martin agreement to revolutionise space education

Manufacturer's Monthly

Lockheed Martin Australia has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra Space to contribute to a comprehensive space education program. The two-year agreement is part of Lockheed Martin Australia’s commitment to developing the capabilities, training and educational opportunities Australia needs to strengthen and diversify its future space workforce.

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KION Group to expand production site in Germany

Modern Materials Handling

In explaining the rationale for a 60% production capacity gain for the site in Reutlingen, KION leadership notes "sustainable market growth" in the field of narrow aisle trucks and vertical order pickers.

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Probiotec consolidates manufacturing operations to NSW site

Manufacturer's Monthly

Pharmaceutical manufacturer Probiotec Limited will be consolidating its current NSW pharmaceutical and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) packing businesses to a new 30,000-square-metre facility in Kemps Creek, New South Wales. The project is expected to deliver material, financial, and operational benefits to the company, with cost savings of $3 million to $5 million per annum as well as increased capacity, capabilities and efficiency.

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SMI hires executive director

The Fabricator

The Spring Manufacturers Institute (SMI), Oak Brook, Ill., has appointed Gary McCoy as executive director.

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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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National Grid calls off emergency plan to prevent imminent blackouts

E&T

Earlier today (Monday), National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) said it was considering activating the Demand Flexibility Service for the first time in order to prevent blackouts on the UK grid. Fears were stoked that energy supplies this evening and tomorrow evening would not be enough to satisfy demand, due to a combination of factors including insufficient nuclear power coming from a French interconnector and low ambient temperatures.

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Canada invests in E3 lithium battery production

Canadian Manufacturing

CALGARY — The Canadian Government is investing $27 million in E3 Lithium Ltd. through the Strategic Innovation Fund’s Net Zero Accelerator initiative. This investment will support E3 Lithium’s $87 million project for the construction of a demonstration plant specializing in lithium production. This facility will produce up to 20,000 tonnes of battery-grade lithium.

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Consortium aims to speed progress on smart field devices

Drives & Controls

A group of automation, semiconductor and Web companies – including Schneider Electric, B&R Industrial Automation, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analog Devices, Arm, Texas Instruments and Lattice Semiconductor – have come together to develop an open-source OPC UA over TSN (Time Sensitive Networking) stack that runs on the FreeRTOS open-source, real-time operating system for microcontrollers and microprocessors.

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Plastics in Politics Live - December 2022

Plastics News

Join us December 13 at 2PM EST for a Plastics In Politics Livestream. In our first livestream since the U.S. midterm election, we’ll discuss what a divided Congress could mean to plastics issues, and how EPR debates and more could be getting attention in states. We’ll also discuss California’s move to ask bag makers to prove they’re meeting state recycling requirements, plus an update from the United Nations plastics treaty talks.

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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.