Design World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

By Darren Conway, Global Product Line Director, Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Many industrial sectors, including aerospace, semiconductor, automotive, and biopharmaceutical, require rotary seals as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) switch from hydraulic to electric motor systems for greener solutions and improved product performance. Globally, the industrial sector is responsible for 33% of greenhouse gas emissions, and in the… The post Advantages of high-performance rotary seals for

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Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

• SCADAfence will integrate into the Honeywell Forge Cybersecurity+ suite providing expanded asset discovery, threat detection, and compliance management capabilities. SCADAfence extends Honeywell’s OT cybersecurity portfolio to build upon its comprehensive professional services, managed security services, and software solutions. With the announcement of this major cybersecurity acquisition, Honeywell communications offered me the opportunity to talk with Michael Ruiz, the new VP/GM Cyber Innova

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Design World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

By Renishaw The problem: Machine tools can produce significant vibration during operation and high levels of machine vibration can adversely affect the enclosed position encoders installed on these machines, leading to measurement inaccuracies. The quality of axis position measurement can directly impact aspects of process quality, such as feature accuracy and surface finish.

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Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Last winter the hype cycle concerned metaverse, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR). I wrote about a conversation with GridRaster Co-Founder Dijam Panigrahi about his company’s take on “immersive mixed reality for enterprises.” That was in January this year. Not long after came ChatGPT and the hype cycle went into overdrive on Artificial Intelligence.

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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?

Plastics News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Plastics News, Rubber News and Sustainable Plastics are teaming up to host a livestream all about PFAS. Read all about the event and more about PFAS in today's Kickstart.

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E&T

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The tool, named SynthID, will embed changes to individual pixels in images, creating a watermark that can be identified by computers but remains invisible to the human eye. Nonetheless, DeepMind has warned that the tool is not “foolproof against extreme image manipulation”. The beta version of SynthID is currently available for select users of Vertex AI (Google’s platform for building AI apps and models) and can only be applied to Imagen, Google’s AI image generator.

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E&T

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Electric scooter operators have removed all their 15,000 vehicles from the streets of Paris following a controversial public vote. Five years after it become the first city in Europe to open to the e-scooter market, the French capital has also become the first to end the experiment after r esidents voted to ban e-scooters in an April referendum with a 7.5 per cent turnout.

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Robotics Automation News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Harnessing the Power of the Atmosphere for a Sustainable Tomorrow Water Crisis: The Rising Global Challenge Water scarcity has rapidly escalated into a global challenge, with approximately 2.2 billion people lacking safe drinking water access as of 2021. Traditional water sources are strained, and the need for innovative, sustainable solutions is more pressing than ever.

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E&T

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Honor In the first keynote of the show, Honor announced its latest foldable – the Honor Magic V2 – which, according to the Chinese firm, is the slimmest of its type at just 9.9mm thick when closed. The device was announced just six months after the Honor Magic Vs , although it is not expected to be released commercially until early next year. Image credit: jack loughran Boasting a triple lens camera setup on the back and two front-facing cameras, the Magic V2 is powered by Qualcomm’s latest flag

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Cisco Smart Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was written by Annika Mammen, former User Experience Engineer at Cisco There are so many areas to consider when dealing with protecting and detecting threats, unfortunately cognitive… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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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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E&T

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The new school year is beginning, but many students in England will not return to their classrooms after the Department of Education (DfE) ordered more than 100 schools to shut some of their buildings, citing the risks of crumbling concrete. The reason for the measure was the detection of dangerous levels of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), a material described as “80 per cent air” and “like an Aero Bar”, which could cause buildings to collapse.

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Plastics News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Materials firm Washington Penn is investing more than $100 million on an expansion in Kentucky that will create 88 jobs.

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The Fabricator

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

When welder or operator performance suffers, the worst thing your supervisors can do is pretend the problem doesn’t exist.

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The Guardian Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Signs of distress from very different parts of economy will add to Bank of England’s dilemma over interest rates Policymakers in the UK have been put on recession high alert after surging interest rates triggered a slump in factory output and the biggest annual drop in house prices since the global financial crisis of the late 2000s. Amid growing evidence that the 14 successive increases in the Bank of England base rate have been slowing the economy, the monthly health checks of manufacturing an

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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.

SMMT

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As summer draws to a close, news this week that UK car manufacturing notched up a sixth month of growth in July, and CV output a fourth, should help prolong the warmth. For CV production in particular, the year is turning into a real success story with soaring exports and a steady, stable domestic market driving volumes above pre-pandemic levels. With the worst of recent supply chain difficulties behind us and plants ramping up production of electrified vehicles, the future is looking more optim

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Plastics News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Medical supplier SiO2 Materials Science rapidly expanded in 2020 to help meet the increased demand in medical testing supplies amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The company has since declared bankruptcy and was acquired by Oaktree Capital.

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Cisco Smart Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Did you ever want to run Cisco Modeling Labs but did not have the hardware or software to do so?

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Plastics News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Prosecutors in the Dominican Republic have asked for a one-year prison sentence for one of the alleged owners of a plastics recycling facility where a massive explosion and fire claimed several dozen lives. They also want his wife and daughter, said to be co-owners, to be fined and banned from leaving the Caribbean island while investigations continue.

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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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Automation Mag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Canadian manufacturing continued its downward trend in August. The seasonally adjusted S&P Global Canada Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), remained stuck below the crucial 50.0 no-change mark for a fourth successive month. Dropping to 48.0, from 49.6 in July, the index registered its lowest reading since June 2020 and was consistent with a modest deterioration in operating conditions.

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Plastics News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The futures of materials firms Covestro and DuPont have drawn commentary from market analysts. Analyst Philipp Stuelken of financial website Seeking Alpha is bullish on Covestro, which in July rejected a buyout bid of more than $12 billion from Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC). "Even though these rumors have a high influence on the share price, I also see a compelling investment case regarding the fundamentals, which started improving," he wrote in a recent research note.

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The Fabricator

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Exair has published Catalog 35, a technical guide offering products to help solve common industrial conveying, cooling, cleaning, blowoff, drying, coating, and static electricity problems.

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Plastics News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

FRX Polymers and global specialty chemicals maker Lanxess AG are reviewing a deal under which Lanxess would make and sell FRX's Nofia-brand flame retardants.

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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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NIST Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

NIST’s Industrial Wireless Systems Lab is developing research testbed capabilities to support the IEEE standardization effort, P3388, the Standard for Radio Frequency Channel Specifications for Performance Assessment of Industrial Wireless Systems

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Plastics News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

ID Additives Inc. is showcasing its purging products line at IMD Expo, Sept. 20-21 in Novi, Mich. At the event, technical manager Dave Denzel will be addressing best practices for molders to improve their purging process. In addition to purging products, LaGrange, Ill.-based iD will show its foaming agent molding solutions, mold cleaning systems and coolant products.

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NIST Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In August 2023, representatives from NIST, U.S. organizations, and Korean organizations, including the Korea Automotive Technology Institute (KATECH) and the Korean Standards Organization (KSA), met in the South Korea-U.S.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Automation insights Automation and sustainability are become more linked together as companies look to be more efficient while using less power. Several tools and technologies support the integration of automation in the pursuit of sustainability such as digital twins, advanced analytics and the Internet of Things. The integration of automation and sustainability is a pivotal step towards creating a more resilient and eco-friendly world.

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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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NIST Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

NIST’s Rick Candell and Mohamed Hany met with representatives from the Ohio Laborers' Training Center (OLTC), serving the Ohio Valley Southern States Region (OVSSR), to discuss opportunities for collaborating on the safe and effective use of wireless

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Foley

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A recent opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reinstates allegations against McDonald’s that no-poach provisions in the company’s franchise agreements violate the antitrust laws, holding that such provisions may be per se illegal. Until 2017, McDonald’s franchise agreements included so-called no-poach provisions barring franchisees from hiring or soliciting another franchise’s employee until six months after the employee left the other franchise.

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NIST Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In a presentation to the standards development organization Object Management Group (OMG), NIST’s Charlie Manion and Conrad Bock proposed a way to expand the capabilities for modeling physical interaction in complex systems design and testing by

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Control.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

OMRON recently released its new H5CC digital timer. Combining features from five OMRON designs, the Industry 4.0-ready device offers an easily accessible programming interface and predictive maintenance functionality in a compact package.

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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.

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