Automation World

JANUARY 8, 2024

To navigate Interroll’s multi-level production facility in Switzerland, the company developed a light conveyor platform for MiR’s mobile robots.

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Design World

JANUARY 8, 2024

By Shannon VanDeren, AMUG President, and Ed Graham, AMUG Director, Education and Conference The 2024 AMUG Conference is rapidly approaching. The five-day event opens on March 10, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois, to host additive manufacturing (AM) users in ways that advance their skills, broaden their horizons and ignite new collaborations. On the surface, the AMUG… The post AMUG Conference: AM Users Sharing Experiences and Initiating Collaborations appeared first on Design World.

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Gary Mintchell

JANUARY 8, 2024

WePower introduced itself to me (and the world) at CES 2023. Way back when process instrumentation companies were developing wireless sensors (remember the “wireless wars”?) the big question was battery life. I was just searching for the first energy harvesting company I interviewed. I guess it was published at Automation World rather than my blog. Technology progresses.

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Design World

JANUARY 8, 2024

A new design ensures high contact reliability with lower insertion force Connectivity is an intrinsic part of today’s industrial automation and robotic applications. An ever-increasing number of devices and peripherals depend on stable connections to transmit power and signals to the printed circuit board (PCB). Managing these connections is labor-intensive, leading many OEMs away from… The post Omron’s systematic approach to a better PCB connector appeared first on Design Worl

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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?

Gary Mintchell

JANUARY 8, 2024

I’m catching up on December press releases. Many go a little afield of my normal topics, but with the changing market I tend to go where tech trends take me. This relates to a deeper use of data and data analysis for materials development. MaterialsZone and Kafrit Group, a global masterbatches and compounds producer, announced their long-term commercial agreement enabling Kafrit Group to better utilize their data to develop improved products and provide an unparalleled customer experience to its

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Design World

JANUARY 8, 2024

Growth in the IIoT mobile electronics segment is set to further boost demand for OKW’s BODY-CASE (IP 65) wearable plastic enclosures. Ergonomic BODY-CASE is ideal for IoT/IIoT, automation, measuring and control, data recording/transmission, geo-location, emergency call/notification, safety technology, mobile stock/sales logging, digital communications, medical, sports, and wellness electronics.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2024

The Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) has released a new version of Open-RMF that is available on Iron Irwini, the ninth release of ROS 2, and ROS 2 Rolling Ridley. The Open Robotics Middleware Framework (Open-RMF) is a free, open-source, modular software system that enables interoperability between multiple fleets of robots and physical infrastructure.

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Automation World

JANUARY 8, 2024

Intelligent instruments, along with digital networking technology optimized for typical machine applications, are bringing front-line features to discrete manufacturing applications.

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Canadian Manufacturing

JANUARY 8, 2024

WALTER Surface Technologies acquires Greenfield Industries to expand line products MONTREAL — WALTER Surface Technologies announces the acquisition of Greenfield Industries, a USA based manufacturer of branded and private label cutting tools. WALTER and Greenfield Industries share a strong focus to provide solutions answering the needs and challenges facing industrial end-users.

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Automation World

JANUARY 8, 2024

With insights into the key differences between cobots and robots as well as the tasks where cobots tend to excel, Tim Paton of ABB Robotics provides an update on collaborative robotics for industrial use.

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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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The Fabricator

JANUARY 8, 2024

OSH CEO Caleb Chamberlain recalls his experience, and ultimate success, in writing production, inventory, and shipping software for his metal fabrication business.

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Plastics Today

JANUARY 8, 2024

The most efficient manufacturing technologies ever imagined are at our fingertips. So, what can we learn from the past that got us here?

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Control.com

JANUARY 8, 2024

In a step toward ecological resilience, Bosch Rexroth has announced a partnership with TotalEnergies to develop a water-based, biodegradable hydraulic fluid with similar properties to traditional oil.

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Canadian Manufacturing

JANUARY 8, 2024

LAS VEGAS — BlackBerry Limited announced general availability of its new QNX® Software Development Platform (SDP) 8.0. Combined with the next generation QNX® OS 8.0, the platform delivers a an operating system available for today’s embedded computing industry. BlackBerry also announced the launch of QNX® Sound, a development platform that decouples audio and acoustics software from the vehicle hardware to give audio designers and engineers complete creative freedom to deliver sound e

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2024

Waymo will begin testing its robotaxis on highways in Phoenix without a human safety driver. This will be available only to company employees, and their guests, to start. Waymo’s vehicles have been allowed on highways but required a human safety driver in the front seat to handle any issues. The program will start outside of rush-hour periods and could eventually ramp up to 24-hour service.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JANUARY 8, 2024

Researchers from UNSW have developed a cutting-edge and scalable solution to overcome the rechargeability challenges of aqueous rechargeable zinc battery (AZB) technology. The innovation can potentially redefine energy storage for homes and grids, emphasising safety, cost-effectiveness, extended life cycle, and robust power capability. The team of researchers from the School of Chemical Engineering, Yuan Shang, Dr.

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Dinesh Mishra

JANUARY 8, 2024

Pune, 9 th January 2024 : Smartsters, the premium children’s furniture and home décor brand is all set to debut at Kopa Mall Pune as a standalone store. This exciting venture follows years of unprecedented success in the online marketplace. The new Smartsters store at KOPA Mall promises to redefine the shopping experience for parents seeking innovation and give them a comprehensive awareness of the needs of developing children.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JANUARY 8, 2024

University of Adelaide researchers have confirmed that a new product manufactured for the company SilkSurface is a true and silica free alternative to engineered stone. SilkSurface began investigating quality kitchen stone benchtop alternatives which are safe to manufacture as the future of engineered stone became unclear. “Today we can confirm that this product has been proven 100 per cent silica free through independent testing undertaken by the University of Adelaide’s School of Public Health

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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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Control.com

JANUARY 8, 2024

Through its Community Defense Program, Dragos is offering small utility providers free access to Neighborhood Keeper, Dragos Platform, Dragos Academy, and membership in OT-CERT.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JANUARY 8, 2024

The Australian Government is investing almost $22 million in three key research projects which will support the growth of Australia’s critical minerals industry and help supply materials which will be crucial to lowering carbon emissions. Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Madeleine King said funding has been awarded to innovative research projects to members of the Critical Minerals Research and Development Hub – the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), CSI

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Manufacturing Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

Yunex Built is Yunex Traffic's new brand for manufacturing services, extending beyond the company's established focus on traffic and transport.

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E&T

JANUARY 8, 2024

The government has confirmed it will invest £300m into a new programme to produce advanced nuclear fuel suitable for next-generation reactors.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2024

Noah Medical’s Galaxy is a fully integrated surgical robotics system for navigated bronchoscopy. | Credit: Noah Medical Medical robotics continues its impressive march forward within mainstream medicine. From new applications to new technologies, the field demonstrated impressive growth over the last year. But there’s still incredible room to grow, and looking ahead to 2024, there are a few clear areas of opportunity.

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MRPEasy

JANUARY 8, 2024

In the last quarter of 2023, we conducted a short survey among MRPeasy users about their experience with MRPeasy. Now, the responses have been analyzed and the results are in. What we asked As part of our yearly customer survey, we reached out to our users with a set of essential questions designed to assess […] The post MRPeasy Users Report a 54% Average Improvement in Operational Efficiency appeared first on Blog for Manufacturers and Distributors.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2024

Generative AI can help build warehouse scenes such as this one created in NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac Sim. Credit: NVIDIA Last year, generative AI received a lot of attention, but the challenge in 2024 is to apply it to industrial technologies and commercial use cases. NVIDIA Corp. and its partners are working with generative AI to make robots more capable, said Deepu Talla, vice president of robotics and edge computing at NVIDIA.

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Cisco Smart Manufacturing

JANUARY 8, 2024

The future of retail is coming into focus, and consumers want it fast. They want a convenient, personalized journey that accommodates their lifestyles and preferences.

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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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E&T

JANUARY 8, 2024

Investigators looking into the recent incident involving an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 have said that design flaws are not currently suspected as the reason why a door panel blew out of the plane shortly after take-off.

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Canadian Manufacturing

JANUARY 8, 2024

MILPITAS — Electronic System Design (ESD) industry revenue increased 25.2% to $4,702.4 million in the third quarter of 2023 from the $3,756.3 million logged in the third quarter of 2022, the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community, announced in its latest Electronic Design Market Data (EDMD) report. The four-quarter moving average, which compares the most recent four quarters to the prior four, rose 13.8%. “Electronic design automation (EDA) reported record revenue growth in Q3 23,”

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2024

Valiant TMS is integrating robot motion optimization as a service. Source: Realtime Robotics Realtime Robotics today announced that Valiant TMS will integrate its Optimization-as-a-Service offering with customers’ manufacturing operations. The companies said the combination of Realtime’s proprietary software and engineering expertise with Valiant TMS’s manufacturing industry experience will improve the efficiency and productivity of automated operations.

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The Fabricator

JANUARY 8, 2024

Grill and cookware maker Crown Verity USA Inc., a subsidiary of Brantford, Ont.-based Crown Verity Inc., has announced plans for a $9.7 million expansion in Bowling Green, Ky., creating 73 jobs.

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