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How Do You Assess IoT Platform Software for Vertical Industry Applications?

Automation World

Learn about IoT platforms, how they're applied across different industries, what operations technology professionals need to be aware of during IoT platform assessments and lessons to be learned from industries that have a high level of IoT platform adoption.

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Introducing a new generation of POSITAL kit encoders

Design World

POSITAL has announced a major upgrade to its family of 36 mm kit encoders for motion control applications. For these new devices, introduced as part of the company’s NEXTGEN initiative, upgrades include higher resolution and refined packaging that provides more compact form factors, better protection from solid particles, and simpler installation procedures.

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2024: The Year Manufacturing Tech Matures

Automation World

With manufacturers’ initial investments in digital transformation behind them, they’ll soon be looking to mature their systems to derive even more value using AI, the cloud, containers and cyber-physical risk management.

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The Sparkplug Specification Is Now an ISO/IEC Standard 

Gary Mintchell

I’ve had many conversations with Arlen Nipper of Cirrus Link, co-developer of MQTT, and Benson Hougland of Opto 22, early adopter of MQTT and Sparkplug, at the Inductive Automation Ignition Community Conference over several years about the demand for lightweight communications. OPC UA has a place in the toolbox, but many engineers desired a lightweight alternative.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

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?

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Gen Z and Industry

Automation World

As the manufacturing industries continue to face an ongoing worker shortage, addressing Gen Z’s concerns about industry could go a long way toward reducing the problem.

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Omron Automation Americas announces Hawk Technology as a new partner

Design World

Omron Automation Americas recently announced Hawk Technology as a new partner in its Certified Systems Integrator program. Based in Rock Island, Illinois, Hawk has been providing superior services and products that maximize their customer’s productivity and success. Hawk Technology has been collaborating with Omron in developing machines and systems for end users for many years.… The post Omron Automation Americas announces Hawk Technology as a new partner appeared first on Design World.

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ProSense fixed range, head-mounted temperature transmitters

Design World

AutomationDirect has added more ProSense XTH2 series fixed range, head-mounted temperature transmitters to their lineup of temperature transmitters/signal conditioners. The XTH2 series fixed-range transmitters are for Type Pt100 3-wire RTDs and are ready to use out-of-the-box with pre-configured measuring ranges up to 500°F (260°C). These new convenient head-mounted temperature transmitters are ideal for a variety… The post ProSense fixed range, head-mounted temperature transmitters appear

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Unified Namespace: Real-World Applications and Challenges

Automation World

Though Unified Namespace provides a single, standardized naming convention for all data points, there are a number of factors to address when connecting systems.

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Hydrogen manufacturing getting underway

Manufacturer's Monthly

Energys Australia is leading the way in hydrogen fuel cell generators with some of the first rolling off the production line in Victoria to some major clients and to support regions particularly vulnerable to power outages. Energys has proudly unveiled the first of five cutting-edge Hydrogen Fuel Cell Generators being manufactured for Telstra as part of an alternative energy backup pilot program.

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What is Industrial Data Ops?

Automation World

With system integrator and technology supplier insights, we take a look at the rise of industrial data ops—how it differs from historical data storage and trending activities and how it can be used to predict future trends to optimize supply chains and derive strategic business insights.

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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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Bisalloy wins contract for SSN-AUKUS hull steel qualification

Manufacturer's Monthly

The Australian Submarine Agency has entered into a contract with Bisalloy Steels, for the qualification of Australian steel for use on Australia’s SSN-AUKUS conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarines. The contract is for a term of approximately 16 months. The comprehensive qualification process, involving more than 4500 tests, is expected to be completed in the first half of 2025.

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ETH succeeds in printing robot parts with different polymers and new laser scanning technique

Robotics Automation News

Scientists at ETH have succeeded in printing a robotic hand with bones, ligaments and tendons made of different polymers using a new laser scanning technique. It is believed this is the first time such materials and techniques have been used.

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Breathing underwater made cheaper and more accessible

Manufacturer's Monthly

The Australian brand SCORKL has launched SCORKL 2.0 – Electric, its new and improved underwater breathing device – built upon the previous SCORKL design – providing even more accessibility, affordability, and fun to divers and water lovers. SCORKL creator and founder, David Hallamore, was inspired by movies like James Bond and his love of the ocean to produce portable and fun underwater breathing devices that are accessible for everyone.

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CFR Thermoplastic Plate a Step Change in Running-Shoe Engineering

Plastics Today

The carbon-fiber-reinforced (CFR) thermoplastic plate in the sole of the shoe combined with a novel processing method enabled Brooks to develop a proven performance-enhancing running shoe.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

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.

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Safe I/O Integration Made Easy, Thanks to New Balluff CIP Safety Module

Control.com

Balluff eases the stress of design, build, and troubleshooting time for safety-rated I/O devices with a new CIP safety module, engineered for rugged, on-machine installation.

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Assured success

Manufacturer's Monthly

With 3D printing beginning to finally have the impact on manufacturing that was expected some 30 years ago, manufacturers remain wary of truly capitalising on it. Additive Assurance is looking to change that. While the growth of additive manufacturing is exciting for the industry, manufacturer Additive Assurance has identified a way to ensure the quality of 3D printing is up to the standards needed.

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Implementing an OpenPLC Visual Annunciator Flasher Using an Arduino

Control.com

A flasher can easily be implemented using interlocking timers in a PLC environment on an Arduino Uno using OpenPLC, UiFlow Blockly Code, and a programmable HMI-based LCD unit.

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Building Tasmania’s largest solar farm

Manufacturer's Monthly

Tasmania ’s biggest solar project has passed another hurdle, after the Northern Midlands Council approved the development application last night. Minister for energy and renewables Nick Duigan has welcomed the council’s decision to support the Northern Midlands Solar Farm development at Cressy. “This is great news and another big step in growing Tasmanian’s renewable energy resource,” Duigan said.

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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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Cisco Duo and ISE: Better together in the cybersecurity battlefield

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

The world of cybersecurity never stops changing. Every day bad actors grow bolder and more devious as they try to break your security, steal your data, and offer it back to you for ransom.

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World economy on brink of ‘cold war two’, IMF official warns

The Guardian Manufacturing

Gita Gopinath says global economy’s fragmentation into power blocs risks wipeout of trillions of dollars in GDP The world economy is on the brink of a second cold war that could “annihilate” progress made since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a senior International Monetary Fund official has warned. Gita Gopinath, the IMF’s first deputy managing director, said the accelerating fragmentation of the world economy into regional power blocs – centred around the US and China – risked wiping out tri

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Security Series: Protecting the Edge Against DDoS Attacks with a Simplified Integrated Solution

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

An unprecedented increase in distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in recent years has resulted in lost revenue and productivity, increased ransomware costs, and impacted service-level… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Heather Mills’s VBites vegan food firm collapses into administration

The Guardian Manufacturing

Mills says factors including ‘corporate greed’, Brexit, and utility and ingredients prices played a part Heather Mills’s vegan food business, VBites, has collapsed into administration after failing to secure fresh funding amid rising cost pressures. The entrepreneur and former model, who founded the company in 1993, said the collapse was “extremely distressing” and had been forced upon her by a “combination of corporate greed and poor management, the cost of living crisis, price rises in the glo

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

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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Happy Holidays and Happy New Year Cisco Distributors

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

We have found ourselves in this wonderful season again. A season of giving, sharing, and remembering—a unique opportunity to slow down and be with those who bring you immense joy and peace.

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Toymaker Hasbro lays off 1,100 staff as holiday season fails to lift sales

The Guardian Manufacturing

Manufacturer of Monopoly, Play-Doh and Transformer cuts workforce by almost one-fifth as ‘last resort’ The toymaker behind Monopoly, Play-Doh and Transformers action figures is laying off 1,100 employees as lackluster sales dragged into the holiday trading season. Hasbro will cut its workforce by almost a fifth, having already cut 800 jobs earlier this year.

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Lincoln Electric's Next CEO Charges Ahead

Industry Week

Steve Hedlund talks about his shift from COO to CEO in the New Year and plans for the welding company's EV charging business.

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Biden-Harris Administration and BAE Systems, Inc., Announce CHIPS Preliminary Terms to Support Critical U.S. National Security Project in Nashua, New Hampshire

NIST Manufacturing

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce and BAE Systems Electronic Systems, a business unit of BAE Systems, Inc.

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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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Updated: Hackers Publish Stolen Boeing Data

Industry Week

Failing to pay out might risk the release of stolen data that could potentially include military industries.

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Ontario government funds Bobaek America’s expansion into North American EV supply chain

Automation Mag

Bobaek America, a Korean electric vehicle (EV) parts manufacturer, is investing $35 million to build a new manufacturing facility in Windsor, specializing in battery insulation panels and cell sheets for EVs. As part of this investment, the Ontario government is providing $1.5 million in funding through the Regional Development Program’s Southwestern Ontario Development Fund.

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ADF Group Inc. announces new orders totalling $234M

Canadian Manufacturing

TERREBONNE — The management of ADF GROUP INC., a manufacturer involved in the fabrication of steel superstructures, announces the signing of a series of new orders in the U.S. totaling $234,0 million. Firstly, last May, ADF Group announced the award of a large-scale contract for the first phase of a major construction project in the pharmaceutical sector in the Midwest region.

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Manufacturers slow to adopt AI, report finds

The Fabricator

As advancements in generative AI attract attention across industries, the manufacturing industry is slow to adopt AI technologies, according to the latest Sikich Industry Pulse report.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

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.