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2.4 mm and 2.92 mm connectors and adapters cover DC to 40 GHz

Design World

Linx Technologies has introduced 2.4 mm and 2.92 mm connectors and adapters to its continually expanding product portfolio. Ideal for precision applications, these connectors and adapters combine superior performance, compact size, and a convenient threaded mating interface to provide a heavy-duty, easy-to-use connector. Frequently used in radar, satellite communications, experimental and test and measurement applications, […] The post 2.4 mm and 2.92 mm connectors and adapters cover DC to

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AI and the future of metal manufacturing

The Fabricator

Artificial intelligence could be used to enhance our existing knowledge or prevent us from needing to learn anything in the first place. The latter is the nightmare scenario for the future of metal manufacturing.

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Ewellix launches e-MOVEKIT to reduce design, validation time for mobile machinery

Design World

The new e-MOVEKIT from Ewellix is aimed at helping designers and manufacturers of mobile machinery simplify the specification, assembly, and testing of electric linear actuation systems. The e-MOVEKIT has been developed in response to the growing trend towards electrification of motion systems in mobile and off-highway equipment. In particular, the demand to replace traditional hydraulic […] The post Ewellix launches e-MOVEKIT to reduce design, validation time for mobile machinery appeared

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Rapid Manufacturing of Polyurethane Parts Sidesteps Supply Chain Bottlenecks, Reduces Waste

Plastics Today

Chromatics’ 3D-printing technology fabricates parts reportedly as durable as injection molded components in a fraction of the time and at a more competitive cost.

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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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Emerson selected to automate golden triangle polymers facility

Design World

Emerson will provide automation technologies, software, and analytics from its Plantweb digital ecosystem for the Golden Triangle Polymers Project, a world-scale integrated polymers facility on the Texas Gulf Coast. The total installed cost of the project is expected to be $8.5 billion and is a joint venture between Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP and an… The post Emerson selected to automate golden triangle polymers facility appeared first on Design World.

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AMETEK Opens Customer Solutions Center In Germany

Metrology

AMETEK has opened a new state-of-the-art Customer Solutions Center in Weiterstadt, Germany where visitors can find the latest news concerning the company’s many brands, and experience product demonstrations of technologies The post AMETEK Opens Customer Solutions Center In Germany appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.

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Smart homes offer solutions for seniors aging in place

E&T

The luxury apartment has a collection of devices to die for. The smart lights, plugs, blinds and smarter coffee maker are voice-activated by Alexa on an Amazon Echo Show and linked up to the Withings bed sensor via an If This Then That app. “When you go to bed at night and it feels your weight going on the sensor, it will turn the lights off for you,” explains Kerry Stack, research and innovation lead at ExtraCare.

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Bitcoins’ public and confidential keys are critical

Robotics Automation News

The outstanding assessment of the cryptocurrency in creating a cryptographic ecosystem by pairing several digital keys that keep the recording confidential is impressive. The principal cryptocurrency, an excellent investor in the league, has a public key that works with essential identification.

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ISO 20022: The Corporate Journey Starts Now

Seeburger

The messaging format ISO 20022 is poised to become the global payments standard of the future. While Swift’s projected migration deadline of November 2025 only applies to banks for now, this does not mean that corporates are unaffected by the migration.

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Thira Robotics launches new generation of autonomous mobile robots

Robotics Automation News

Thira Robotics, a South Korean autonomous mobile robots (AMR) developer and a subsidiary of smart factory solutions leader THiRA UTech, has officially launched in the US market, providing AMR to navigate facility conditions previously not fit for automation.

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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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Technology Roundup: Featured Mold Builders

Mold Making Technology

Photo credit from top left, clockwise: StackTeck Systems, Accede Mold & Tool, B A Die Mold and Cavalier Tool & Manufacturing Mold builders are the people and businesses that make the moldmaking industry go round. Better put by Crescent Industries, “Tool and die-makers are expert workers or precisely put, artisans of a manufacturing unit.” As such, each business provides its customers with a unique range of in-house services and capabilities to meet specific demands and requir

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Effective Methods to Buy and Trade Bitcoin

Robotics Automation News

Bitcoin created its business late in 2019 with its automatic networking on the internet with the introduction of blockchain technology. Satoshi Nakamoto decided to engage with the investors by identifying the market’s needs. The digital currency-oriented unit is stored in the blocks of Technology for the ordinary individual who struggles to visit the banks.

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Kickstart: Child care and a tight labor market

Plastics News

Alpla to offer child care benefits to U.S. workers; U.S. Department of Justice indicts the CEO of a medical device company that knowingly sold "dummy" plastic components; a toy retailer competes with a run on the bank to survive.

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Importance of bookkeeping in Surrey and London

Robotics Automation News

Bookkeeping is an essential part of any business, regardless of its size or location. The accurate and timely recording of financial transactions is crucial for any organization to make informed decisions, comply with tax laws, and track their financial performance.

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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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Machine-learning system sorts compostable from conventional plastic waste

E&T

Compostable plastics, which are engineered to biodegrade under controlled conditions, have been increasing in popularity in recent years, but often look identical to conventional plastics and therefore get recycled incorrectly. Conventional plastic samples included PP and PET, often used for food containers and drinking bottles, as well as LDPE which is often used for plastic bags and packaging.

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Ambi Robotics and OSM partner to automate parcel sortation systems

Robotics Automation News

Ambi Robotics, a provider of AI-powered robotic solutions for parcel sorting operations, has agreed a commercial partnership with OSM Worldwide, a global parcel and logistics services company.

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South Australia confirmed as build site for next-gen nuclear-powered submarines

AU Manufacturing

Defence Minister Richard Marles and Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy , together with Senator Penny Wong and South Australia Premier Peter Malinauskas have confirmed that Osborne will become the home for Australia’s nuclear-powered submarine construction efforts. In a joint media release, the officials said this historic announcement is a “unique opportunity” for South Australia, which will deliver jobs and benefit the economy for generations to come.

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Will Ethereum 2.0 Kill Mining?

Robotics Automation News

Therefore, as a mine, you are considering mining Eth 2.0. You’ve been hearing a lot of excitement about it, so you’re interested to find out whether it’s worthwhile for your money and your time. We’ll discuss the benefits and drawbacks of mining Ether 2.0 in this post so you can decide for yourself.

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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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Ground-breaking Low-cost Molecular Diagnostic Tests Will Be Delivered Using Festo Automation Technology

i4.0 today

The recent pandemic taught us that rapid and reliable tests at low cost are key to future prevention and control of transmissible diseases. High throughput testing for many upper respiratory tract pathogens is now possible, using automation technology. Fast MDx is the first fully automated, high-throughput, near-patient testing system. It can detect many pathogens with unrivalled speed without the need for expensive biosecure laboratories.

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Green movement creating new markets for automation sector

Robotics Automation News

It is no doubt necessary to achieve the CO2 reduction goals that the UN and numerous manufacturing companies have set for themselves. The implementation of measures is ambitious and expensive.

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Ineos Pigment Workers in Ohio Go on Strike

Plastics Today

The union claims that the subsidiary of the chemicals giant has engaged in unfair labor practices and gutted workers’ healthcare benefits.

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What Are the Ethereum Network’s ERC-20 Tokens? 

Robotics Automation News

You may be familiar with Ether, a distributed platform for consensus mechanisms. But what exactly are ERC-20 tokens for Ethereum? On Ethereum, there are ERC-20 tokens because they are simple to make and follow a set methodology. Because of this, they are easier to utilize than other tokens.

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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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How to Eliminate Bottlenecks in Manufacturing?

MRPEasy

Manufacturing bottlenecks are points in the production process that are constrained by inefficiency. Finding and eliminating bottlenecks allows you to use more of your production capacity, minimize WIP inventory, reduce lead times, improve quality, and increase the overall efficiency of your manufacturing business. What is a bottleneck in manufacturing?

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Polymath Robotics and Hard-Line unveil autonomous bulldozer for construction industry

Robotics Automation News

Polymath Robotics and Hard-Line are proud to announce their collaboration on a solution for autonomous dozing. In line with this collaboration, Hard-Line has been added to Polymath’s network of hardware integration partners, and Polymath has joined Hard-Line’s software integration ecosystem. Hard-Line is a leading supplier of automation, teleoperation, and remote-control technology.

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SA gov’t in talks with Singapore-based firm for new Australian hydrogen manufacturing hub

AU Manufacturing

Trade and Investment Minister Nick Champion has met with Singapore-headquartered Trafigura – the company that owns Nyrstar , the operators of the Port Pirie multi-metals facility – to explore plans for a green hydrogen manufacturing facility in South Australia. The full-scale facility would be able to supply both the domestic and foreign markets with 100 tonnes of green hydrogen per day from a 440-megawatt electrolyser, the SA government said in a news release.

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Making high tech medical gels with Australian spinifex grass

Manufacturer's Monthly

Uniseed and Bulugudu will invest $2.6 million into Trioda Wilingi, a University of Queensland /UniQuest spin-out company, to develop innovative medical gels from cellulose nanofibres extracted from spinifex harvested in north-west QLD. Trioda Wilingi has the exclusive global rights to develop novel injectable spinifex medical gels, which have many potential applications including osteoarthritis, drug delivery and cosmetic treatments.

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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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UCLA claims its humanoid robot footballer is ‘better than Messi’

Robotics Automation News

Mechanical engineers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have developed a full-sized humanoid robot with “first-of-its-kind technology”.

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Bacteria-Based Bioink 3D Prints Bone-Like Composites

Plastics Today

A novel bioink can be used in standard printing processes and has potential for application in biomedicine and marine biology.

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Lower carbon aluminium for Australian Manufacturers

Manufacturer's Monthly

In November last year, Capral introduced LocAl®, its own lower-carbon primary aluminium option. Manufacturers’ Monthly investigates why the aluminium expert has invested in providing Australian manufacturers and their customers access to cleaner, greener, more sustainable aluminium for different projects. In 2022, Capral committed to reaching Net Zero emissions by 2050 – a significant step change – driving rapid innovation and cultural evolution throughout the business, most notably within procu

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Wittmann Projects 10% Sales Increase in 2023

Plastics Today

The Wittmann Group’s company report echoes optimistic outlooks for the global injection molding equipment market.

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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.