Fri.Dec 08, 2023

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Pepperl+Fuchs announces the newest addition to the Tab-Ex family of hazardous area tablets 

Design World

Pepperl+Fuchs, a maker of hazardous area mobile devices, announces the expansion of its groundbreaking Tab-Ex tablet series — with the Tab-Ex 04 Pro D2, developed by its subsidiary ECOM Instruments. Based on the rugged Samsung Galaxy TabActive4 Pro, the tablet features a brighter, 550 nit 10-in. touch screen paired with the latest hardware and connectivity… The post Pepperl+Fuchs announces the newest addition to the Tab-Ex family of hazardous area tablets appeared first on Design World.

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Belden Announces Horizon: New IT/OT Software Suite For IIoT Solutions

Control.com

Belden expands data engineering software with a new suite of IT/OT applications designed to simplify the user experience for advanced IIoT data workflows, easily integrated into AWS.

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PTDA welcomes four new members

Design World

The Power Transmission Distributors Association (PTDA), the association for the industrial power transmission/motion control (PT/MC) distribution channel, welcomes one distributor and three manufacturers to its membership. Distributor Top Industrial Service & Supply Inc. is an MRO supply distributor of power transmission products including conveyor belts, motors, ball and roller bearings, gearboxes/ gearmotors, v-belts, and AC/… The post PTDA welcomes four new members appeared first on

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Synchronizing Inventory: A Look at E-commerce and Inventory Management Integration

Robotics Automation News

How can businesses synchronize inventory between their online stores and inventory management systems? This article will tell you everything about it. To be able to keep inventories in sync often means better accuracy and efficiency in the supply chain.

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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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Omron launches V460 handeld barcode reader

Design World

Leading automation solution provider, Omron Automation, launches its latest innovation for barcode reading technology for manufacturers in a variety of industries such as automotive, aerospace, life sciences, and logistics. This advanced barcode reader sets a new standard in reading all types of barcodes, including small labels and direct part marks on difficult surfaces.

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How Robots in Manufacturing Are Engineering the Future

Robotics Automation News

Regardless of your imagination, one fact remains unequivocal: robots are an enduring part of our reality. Thankfully, it’s anticipated that their main function will be to handle repetitive or hazardous tasks rather than usurping absolute authority. Here’s how robots in manufacturing are engineering the future.

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How Eco-Friendly Composites Businesses Can Use Digital Solutions to Grow in Profitability

Robotics Automation News

The many ways that composites manufacturing businesses can grow their operations and profits by using the latest technological solutions The eco-friendly composites industry, pivotal in driving sustainable innovation, is at a crossroads where digital integration can significantly enhance profitability.

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The basics of preparing a welding documentation

The Fabricator

Welding procedures and qualifications play important roles in welders being able to deliver quality fabrications in a consistent manner.

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6 Benefits of Incorporating Generative AI in Manufacturing

Robotics Automation News

The manufacturing industry is experiencing a significant transformation driven by the adoption of advanced technologies. Among these, Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI) stands out as a powerful force in this change. It’s a groundbreaking aspect of AI with the potential to reshape conventional manufacturing processes.

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Cisco Partners and Purpose are Greater Together

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

Last year, Cisco introduced Partnering for Purpose , where innovation and business goals with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives were highlighted to benefit partners and their… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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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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Bike Lane Enforcement Cameras

Robotics Automation News

Automated bike enforcement laws are spreading across US cities like wildfire. New AI camera technology is now being used to help identify drivers who are breaking the laws. Unfortunately, the number of drivers being caught blocking biking lanes is on the rise.

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Taking the Air Out of Tires Isn’t a Bad Thing

Plastics Today

Michelin continues to lead efforts to introduce airless, puncture-proof traction, with other tiremakers in the fray.

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AI powered stablecoins – the future of crypto?

Robotics Automation News

As we approach the 15th anniversary of the first Bitcoin being mined, change has been the only constant in the world of crypto.

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Dutch canals found to be unlikely source of climate-warming methane emissions

E&T

City canal networks in the Netherlands output a surprisingly large amount of methane emissions, researchers from Radboud University have found.

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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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FastLane Helps Triangle Precision Increase Capacity With Automation

NIST

Triangle Precision, located in Kettering, Ohio, provides close tolerance precision machining, forming, and fabrication to many vital industries including aerospace, defense, high-speed printing, electronics, racing, medical, and automotive. Triangle Precision contacted FastLane , part of the Ohio MEP and the MEP National Network™ , to see how it could leverage automation to improve efficiency and provide more capabilities to new and existing clients in the U.S.

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Tips for Being Successful in Your New Business Venture

Robotics Automation News

Starting a new business can be exciting but also can bring a lot of dread and anxiety.

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Optimi Health and Sunshine Earth Labs form supply agreement

Canadian Manufacturing

Optimi Health Cultivation and Analytical Facilities VANCOUVER — Optimi Health Corp., a licensed Canadian drug researcher and formulator specializing in controlled psychedelic substances such as natural psilocybin and MDMA, announced the signing of a supply agreement with Sunshine Earth Labs Ltd., a fellow British Columbia-based biosciences company licensed by Health Canada.

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Metalworks expands capabilities with Flairwood acquisition

The Fabricator

Ludington, Mich.-based Metalworks Inc. has announced its acquisition of Flairwood in a transaction that will expand manufacturing capabilities, industries served, and the customer base of both family-owned companies.

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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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Ont. investing heavily in mining to try and strengthen electric vehicle supply chain

Canadian Manufacturing

TIMMINS — The Ontario government says they are investing close to $9 million to help junior mining companies finance early exploration projects to find critical minerals used in electric vehicles, smart phones, laptops, medical equipment and renewable energy. The funding is being delivered through the Ontario Junior Exploration Program (OJEP) , which helps boost growth and job creation in the province, particularly in northern and Indigenous communities.

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NASA selects contractors for ground support equipment fabrication

The Fabricator

NASA has selected the following companies for a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to fabricate ground support equipment at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Nvidia CEO suggests Malaysia could be an AI ‘manufacturing’ hub

Canadian Manufacturing

The CEO of advanced technology manufacturer Nvidia said on Dec. 8 that he views Malaysia as a potential hub for artificial intelligence “manufacturing,” though he did not confirm the chipmaker is in talks with a local conglomerate to set up AI data centers in the Southeast Asian country. Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s founder and CEO, told reporters in Kuala Lumpur that the Malaysian conglomerate YTL Corp. could play an important role in setting up AI data centers.

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Fortifying Your Business: Essential Cybersecurity Tips for a Digital Age

Robotics Automation News

In an era dominated by digital advancements, businesses are becoming increasingly reliant on technology in their day-to-day operations. While these innovations have undoubtedly streamlined processes and increased efficiency, they have also introduced many new challenges, especially in the area of ​​cybersecurity.

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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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Proposal to extend UK-EU EV trade rules is major breakthrough but plan must be adopted urgently  

SMMT

After a lengthy period of campaigning for a solution to the challenge of tougher UK-EU rules of origin on EVs, this week delivered a breakthrough as the European Commission responded with a proposal that would edge our respective automotive industries back from the brink. Its 11th-hour plan to extend the current rules for electric vehicles until 2027 is a simple and sensible approach.

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How Cisco Black Belt Academy Learns from Our Learners

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

Cisco Black Belt Academy offers the latest in technology enablement to our partners, distributors, and Cisco employees.

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KUKA Next-Generation Mobile Robotics Come to MODEX 2024

Fabricating & Metal Work

The KUKA KMP 600-S diffDrive mobile platform automated guided vehicle, which advances industrial logistics with laser scanners and 3D object detection to meet the highest safety requirements, will be on display at MODEX 2024. KUKA Robotics will spotlight a pair of innovative mobile robots March 11-14 in booth B4003 at MODEX 2024 in Atlanta. The KUKA KMP 1500P autonomous mobile platform revolutionizes automation for intralogistic optimization.

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Department of Defense Awards 6K Additive a $23.4 million Grant as Part of a More Than $50 Million Investment Program for Upcycling Critical Metals for use in Key Defense Applications

Manufacturing Tomorrow

6K Additive to double capacity and expand domestic upcycling capability to create, maintain, protect, and restore U.S. industrial base capabilities that are critical to the Department and the American Warfighter.

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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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New Cloud-based App for CNC Machining Optimization

Fabricating & Metal Work

Productive Machines , a spin out from the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre ( AMRC ) unveils Essential Optimization; a powerful web application that prevents chatter vibrations and provides engineers with a simple-to-use solution to select optimum, stable spindle speeds and feed rates. The Essential Optimization app, powered by Productive Machines’ innovative machining dynamics algorithms, promises to turbo charge machining operations by mitigating chatter vibrations

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Thrust Capital Partners acquires DCM Group, a Que.-based aerospace mfg. company

Canadian Manufacturing

MONTREAL — Thrust Capital Partners (TCP), a Canadian private equity firm dedicated to the aerospace industry, announces that it has acquired DCM Group Inc. (DCM) a Quebec manufacturer primarily serving the aviation and aerospace sectors. This transaction is the second platform acquisition of Thrust Capital Partners Fund I L.P. TCP completed this acquisition in partnership with Desjardins Capital.

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Productive Machines Launches Web App for Force Optimization

Fabricating & Metal Work

A smart cloud-based application designed to enhance machining strategies by offering cutting forces predictions and feed rate optimization for the $96 Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machine tool market is being launched today by Productive Machines, one of just ten ambitious start-ups around the world to have been invited to the Boeing innovation accelerator program.

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Annual AMBA Report Highlights Wages, Workforce and Trends

Mold Making Technology

Photo Credit: AMBA The American Mold Builders Association (AMBA) has announced the release of its “2023 Wage and Salary Report ,” a leading compensation study in the U.S. mold building industry. Now in its 13th year, AMBA’s report contains comprehensive analyses on more than 50 job classifications from mold manufacturers who serve a variety of end-use markets.

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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.