Design World

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The new CX5600 Embedded PC series expands Beckhoff’s workhorse machine control line with powerful AMD Ryzen processors, additional interfaces, and operating system options. Retaining the same form factor as previous generations, these DIN rail-mounted embedded PCs provide the flexibility to support an even greater range of applications that require PLC, HMI, motion control, and much… The post Beckhoff introduces CX5600 embedded PCs with powerful AMD Ryzen processors appeared first on Desig

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Gary Mintchell

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

I have been wondering where ThinkIQ is going to wind up. It’s a pretty cool startup in the smart manufacturing software space (aka, MES). The company has taken an investment by Mitsubishi Corporation and a collaboration agreement to jointly accelerate the growth of ThinkIQ’s digital manufacturing platform in Japan. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

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Automation World

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Tim Bailey of Rockwell Automation shares insights into how automotive manufacturers and suppliers are dealing with plant floor cybersecurity issues and the lessons learned there that can be applied by all manufacturers.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Small Robot Company (SRC) is shutting down as it failed to get the funding needed to reach its next phase. The company has entered liquidation after an extended battle for survival. Despite having a signed term sheet, the awaited investment failed to materialize before the company’s financial runway ran out. “We were the victims of the valley of death,” SRC told The Robot Repor t. “We just don’t have the funding ecosystem for hardware (or indeed any tech!

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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?

Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The industrial robot market size is anticipated to surpass $5,282.40 million in 2023 and is likely to attain a valuation of $25,828.99 million by 2033. The industrial market share is projected to rise at a CAGR of 17.20 percent from 2023 to 2033.

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Control.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Emerson releases a new pilot-operated relief valve with a redundant pilot system, for easy maintenance and increased safety in dangerous ammonia and liquid propane systems.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Canadian Robotics Council (CRC) in December 2023 entered into a $100,000 funding partnership with Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen) — Canada’s Global Innovation Cluster for Advanced Manufacturing. The CRC said this funding will play a vital role in helping it grow Canada’s robotics ecosystem and build visibility for Canadian robotics capabilities, both at home and abroad.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

ABB Robotics and Mettler Toledo, a supplier of precision instruments and services, have signed an agreement to offer an innovative solution that seamlessly integrates ABB robots with LabX, Mettler Toledo’s laboratory instrument management software.

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Cisco Smart Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Transforming the war room starts with Customer Digital Experience Monitoring (CDEM) to break down silos with correlated, cross-domain insights and efficiency for rapid resolutions.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed artificial muscles for robot motion. The researchers say their solution offers several advantages over previous technologies: it can be used wherever robots need to be soft rather than rigid or where they need more sensitivity when interacting with their environment.

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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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Control.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Setting its sights on next-generation AI-powered mobile robotics, ABB has acquired Sevensense. ABB will combine Sevensense's AI and 3D vision navigation technology with its mobile robotics portfolio.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Known for their high volatility, the crypto markets present unique challenges and opportunities. Implementing successful trading strategies requires robust tools, a demand met by MetaTrader. This is attributed to the volatility of price swings and market uncertainties in the industry. In this dynamic environment, MetaTrader emerges as a pivotal tool.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A radar system has been developed to improve the safety of vertiports ahead of the introduction of vertical take-off aircraft such as drones, multirotors and air taxis.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

AMP Robotics is rebranding and dropping the “robotics” from its name, the company announced today. Moving forward, the recycling automation company will simply be known as “AMP.” The Louisville, Colo.-based company was founded nearly a decade ago with the goal of proving AI, machine learning, and robotics can transform recycling.

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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.

Drives & Controls

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A Greek automation start-up has announced an IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) controller that can be programmed and monitored via a smartphone, and avoids the need for programming expertise. Erqos says that the €145 EQSP32 controller can be used for industrial or home automation applications, as well as for instrumentation and for remote monitoring and control.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The extended reach of the UR10e cobot, which is top-mounted on a gantry, means it can trim two parts per setup, cutting trimming time nearly in half compared to previous manual trimming. | Credit: Universal Robots Thermoforming, a technology that is more than a century old, uses sheet plastic that is heated to become soft so it can be vacuum-formed in or around a mold.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Astronauts will wear the new suit on spacewalks from the International Space Station.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

MassRobotics Executive Director Tom Ryden introduces Locus Robotics at RoboXchange. Credit: Eugene Demaitre BOSTON — MassRobotics last night hosted the first in its RoboXchange series of events intended to encourage collaboration among academia, startups, industry, and global partners around robotics and artificial intelligence. It included presentations by Opteran and Locus Robotics spanning research and development to use cases for mobile robots and software.

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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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The Fabricator

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Join The Fabricator for a one day table-top event to showcase your latest equipment and technologies to the local manufacturing community. This is the perfect forum for industry professionals to preview products and services while networking in a relaxed, no-pressure atmosphere.

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NIST

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As Director of the North Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NCMEP), located on the campus of North Carolina State University (NC State) in Raleigh, North Carolina, I drive outreach to North Carolina manufacturers, build relationships with federal and state leaders, and coordinate efforts to stimulate profitable manufacturing growth in the state.

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Enhanced.dfx format support. Photo Credit: SprutCAM CAD/CAM/OLP software company SprutCAM Tech announces the release of version 17.0.11 for SprutCAM X and SprutCAM X Robot, software that provides offline features for programming various CNC machines used for cutting, wire electrical discharge, as well as two-, three- and and multi-axial machining. Use of industrial robots can enable more efficient production of products and parts with complex surfaces, such as molds.

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Canadian Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The bargaining committee at Unifor Local 114 representing PWTransit workers in Comox Valley and Campbell River, B.C. communities. (CNW Group/Unifor) COMOX — Unifor Local 114 members at Pacific Western Transportation (PWTransit) in Comox Valley and Campbell River, B.C., have ratified a new collective agreement that addresses some fixes to the public transit system. “Congratulations to the bargaining committee and to the members for standing strong at the bargaining table and on the pi

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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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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Investments in contact center workforce optimization (WFO) solutions have increased exponentially in the last three years. Several reasons can be attributed to this shift including: The transcending role of the contact center as the centerpiece of customer experience (CX) and long-term profit centers with opportunities for cross-selling and upselling.

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Canadian Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Medline Canada Announces the Closing of the Acquisition of Sinclair Dental (CNW Group/Medline Canada, Corporation) TORONTO — Medline Canada Corporation, a healthcare supplies and equipment manufacturer and distributor, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Vancouver-based Sinclair Dental, Canada’s largest independent, full-service dental supplies and equipment distributor.

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Manufacturing Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A filling, packing and palletising robot is the latest investment made by a UK-based chemical manufacturer as it continues its journey towards increased automation and site modernisation.

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Canadian Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

GATINEAU — Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, and Steven MacKinnon, MP for Gatineau, announced an investment of more than $3.3 million in Gazifère Inc. for a clean fuels project in Gatineau, Quebec, for a total project cost of over $7.3 million. The investment will support Gazifère in conducting a hydrogen blending feasibility study.

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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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Manufacturing Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Pennine Pneumatic Services Ltd (PPS) has joined the Festo Official Partner network. Festo Official Partners are able to combine the convenience of local stock-holding and service with access to Festo’s 33,000 standard catalogue products and global expertise in automation to ensure class-leading supply for customers.

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i4.0 today

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solutions, today announced an enhanced partnership with Crestron Electronics Inc., a global leader in workplace collaboration technology, to elevate integration convenience across device management. Following the certification of ViewSonic’s ViewBoard IFP62 series of interactive displays and CDE30 series of presentation displays on the Crestron Connected® technology platform, the partnership will provide a more accessible and simplified approa

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E&T

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The UK will miss the ‘AI goldrush’ if the government does not boost opportunities for the sector rather than focus on the risks to society, peers have said.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

DFI, the world’s leading brand in embedded motherboards and industrial computers, is targeting the AI application market by launching the embedded system module (SOM) MTH968 equipped with the latest Intel® Core Ultra processor. It is the first product integrated with an NPU (Neural Processor Unit) processor, representing the official integration of AI with industrial PCs (IPCs).

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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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