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Mercedes-Benz becomes ‘world’s first’ automotive company to certify SAE Level 3 system for US market

Robotics Automation News

Mercedes‑Benz claims to have become the world’s first automotive company to bring SAE Level 3 conditionally automated driving to the US, with Nevada being the first state to confirm the compliance of the system with state regulations.

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A Fond Farewell to My Additive Friends

Modern Machine Shop

All good things must come to an end, as they say, and so it is for my column — but not for additive manufacturing (AM) by any means. If anything, AM is on more solid footing now than it was six years ago when I wrote my first column, and its future looks brighter than ever. The changes over the last six years have been remarkable. AM systems are bigger and faster , and prices on machines and materials continue to fall.

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Electric Future: Stalled car revolution

Robotics Automation News

How green are electric vehicles? Believe it or not, if you had been walking through Manhattan in 1900, there is a good chance you would have seen an electric car. Roughly one third of cars on the road in New York back then were electric, while the city’s taxi fleet had 30 electric vehicles (EVs).

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How to Polish Ribs for Proper Part Release

Mold Making Technology

Structural rib areas in injection mold cavity that will form a speaker grill or cover for a watercraft stereo system. Once the mold is CNC machined, it goes to the EDM department to remove the final material, creating fine detail areas. This process creates scaling or a rough finish that must be benched or polished out. Using the right polishing tools and process is vital to the final finish.

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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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Universal Robots reports record annual revenue of $326 million

Robotics Automation News

Universal Robots, the Danish collaborative robot company, has reported Q4 revenue of $85 million, bringing 2022 annual revenue to $326 million, up 5 percent on 2021. On a constant currency basis, growth over the year was 12 percent.

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EOS seeks green light as Ukraine weapons systems provider

AU Manufacturing

Defence and space company Electro Optic Systems (EOS) said it has engaged in active contract negotiations on the prospective supply of a significant number of Remote Weapons Systems (RWS) and related components and spares for Ukraine. In the business update released by the ASX-listed company, EOS said that the contract discussion includes opportunities for direct supply to Ukraine, and to other countries providing support to Ukraine.

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Calix received funding to produce sustainable fuels from captured CO2

AU Manufacturing

Calix Limited announced its participation in an Australian-German consortium to produce sustainable fuels from renewable energy , green hydrogen, and captured process CO2 emissions. According to the recent announcement by Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen MP, the “HyGATE” Solar Methanol Project has received funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the amount of €13.2 million (roughly AU$20.19 million) and the Australian Renewable E

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Aerones demonstrates ‘first’ robot for wind turbine maintenance and repair

Robotics Automation News

Aerones has demonstrated for what it claims is the “first robot that offers full-service leading edge wind turbine blade maintenance and repair”. The robot performs maintenance 5x faster than humans, and makes use of various attachments to perform different tasks, including refinishing blades with RELEST coatings from AkzoNobel.

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Austal secures $25m command deck contract for US Navy submarines

AU Manufacturing

ASX-listed shipbuilder Austal has received a $25 million time and material (T&M) contract from General Dynamics Electric Boat for structural assembly fabrication in support of the US Navy Virginia Class submarine initiative. This award is a continuation of previously announced efforts to support Electric Boat in work for the US Navy submarine industrial base.

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2023 Predictions & Forecasts: Five challenges for warehouse management, according to AutoStore

Robotics Automation News

AutoStore has launched a new benchmark report with insights from more than 300 C-level business leaders in warehouse management and fulfillment. Survey participants identified the top three current challenges facing organizations as: rising energy costs (32 percent), increasing labor costs (27 percent), and supply chain and shipping constraints (26 percent).

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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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Nutritional Growth Solutions expands US market presence through Walmart

AU Manufacturing

Nutritional Growth Solutions (NGS), an ASX-listed manufacturer of pediatric nutritional products, is rolling out its new Happy Tummies supplement in Walmart stores across the United States. NGS CEO and Managing Director Liron Fendell said t he increased availability of NGS products through Walmart marks a significant achievement for the business and reflects the rising demand for the company’s clinically tested supplements.

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Electric Future: Two-wheels good, four wheels not so much

Robotics Automation News

If you want to get anywhere fast in any developing country in the world, the best way is by motorbike. While most European and North American countries have relatively good-quality road networks that cover most if not all their regions, the same cannot be said of countries in Asia and elsewhere.

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Schneider Electric Completes Take Over of Industrial Software Company AVEVA

Control.com

Schneider Electric has completed its acquisition of AVEVA. Together, the two companies will provide a holistic approach to customers’ digital transformation journeys.

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Mining robotics company Nabors acquires digital twin developer MindMesh

Robotics Automation News

Oil and gas drilling robotics builder Nabors has acquired engineering technology firm, MindMesh. The acquisition includes the downhole simulation and modeling technologies that the MindMesh team has developed. Additionally, MindMesh co-founder and chief technology officer Raju Gandikota joined Nabors as a Director in the Controls and Automation group.

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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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Australia, Germany team up for multi-million renewable hydrogen initiative

AU Manufacturing

In a bid to boost research into renewable hydrogen production, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced conditional funding of up to $35 million (AUD $50 million) and €40 million (AUD $60 million) to Australia and Germany across four projects as part of the German-Australian Hydrogen Innovation and Technology Incubator (HyGATE). This round sees ARENA, on behalf of the Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water (DCCEEW) , contributing $50 million.

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Electric Future: Battery production facilities bloom on both sides of the Atlantic

Robotics Automation News

Battery production plants are popping up and blooming on both sides of the Atlantic, with one or two exceptions, such as BritishVolt, which went into administration recently Viridi Parente, a developer of battery storage technology, has selected Bright Machines to digitally transform the company’s US electric battery manufacturing facility.

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Engineers in Victoria called on to begin registration

AU Manufacturing

Engineers Australia has called on electrical and electronics engineers in Victoria to register now in order to continue their operations in the state. In an upcoming state requirement slated for roll-out on 1 June, electrical and electronics engineers practising in Victoria must be registered, including engineers living in other states and territories with projects in Victoria.

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Electric Future: Siemens providing software platform to support nascent electric airplane market

Robotics Automation News

Swedish electric airplane maker Heart Aerospace has selected the Capital product lifecycle management suite from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of software and services to support its design, development, and certification of zero emission electric aircraft.

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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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Dronamics taps Quickstep for manufacturing, delivery of Black Swan drones

AU Manufacturing

Quickstep Holdings ’ Aerostructures business has secured a contract to manufacture and deliver Black Swan unmanned cargo aircraft for Europe-based cargo drone airline Dronamics. The Black Swan is a large, unmanned aircraft designed to carry up to 350kg of cargo in excess of 2,500km. Work on the aircraft’s production will begin in March, Quickstep said in an ASX announcement.

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Scythe Robotics secures $42 million new financing to accelerate production of zero-emissions autonomous mower

Robotics Automation News

Scythe Robotics, a startup company developing advanced, commercial-grade autonomous solutions for the professional landscape industry, has raised $42 million in Series B financing. The round was led by Energy Impact Partners and included additional new investors ArcTern Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and Amazon’s Alexa Fund alongside participation from existing investors True Ventures, Inspired Capital and more.

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January 2023 Metrology News Magazine

Metrology

Editors Message: Heading into 2023 this will be the seventh year of publication for Metrology News. We look forward to once again bringing our readership the very latest in everything The post January 2023 Metrology News Magazine appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.

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Unlocking the Benefits of Static Residential Proxies for the AI revolution

Robotics Automation News

Most savvy internet users may already be aware of residential proxies. A proxy is often a solution to hide an IP address by masking it with a residential IP. While relatively reliable and block-free, residential proxies are slower than datacenter proxies. However, what if there was a solution that offered both validity and speed?

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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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Sixth Sense Summit To Showcase Manufacturing Technology Innovations

Metrology

3YOURMIND has been selected to participate at the Sixth Sense Summit, powered by Hexagon, on February 1st, 2023, in The Hague, Netherlands. Held at Titaan Innovation Hub, 3YOURMIND will be one The post Sixth Sense Summit To Showcase Manufacturing Technology Innovations appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.

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Electric Future: MIT showcases electric autonomous boat technology

Robotics Automation News

If you like the idea of zero-emissions travel on the water, an electric autonomous boat might be the right mode of transportation for you.

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European Operation Clean Sweep certification program launches

Plastics News

In 2020, the European Plastics Converters association and Plastics Europe jointly committed to developing a certification scheme by 2022 that would further formalize compliance with the requirements of the Operation Clean Sweep program in Europe.

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Mikron Tools Experiences Leadership Change

Modern Machine Shop

Photo Credit: Mikron Tool Markus Schnyder, head of division of the Swiss tool specialist Mikron Tool , recently handed over the management of the company to his long-time companion, Elio Lupica. After 24 years at the forefront of Mikron Tool, Schnyder is retiring, but will still be available to the company in a consulting function. Lupica graduated in business administration from the University of Lugano.

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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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BluGlass launches new GaN laser products at Photonics West

AU Manufacturing

BluGlass Limited, an ASX-listed global semiconductor developer, unveiled its first suite of gallium nitride (GaN) laser products available for customer purchase at the SPIE Photonics West conference in San Francisco, US. The new products suite offers lasers ranging between 405nm, 420nm, and 450nm wavelengths in both single-mode and multi-mode devices.

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GROB Offers New Pallet Storage Automation Solution

Modern Machine Shop

Photo Credit: GROB Systems Inc. GROB Systems Inc. , a global leader in the development of manufacturing systems and machine tools, announces a customizable automation solution which is said to improve machining productivity on a range of GROB machining centers. The PSS-T300 Tower Pallet Storage System, which enables automation and increases part production throughput, is the latest entry to the wide range of GROB automation solutions for creating flexible manufacturing cells.