Automation World
JULY 27, 2022
How the German city of Oberzent connects decentralized measurement points using LoRaWAN and Endress+Hauser’s Netilion IIoT technologies.
Design World
JULY 27, 2022
Heilind Electronics, an authorized distributor for Brady and a premier distributor of electronic components worldwide, is now stocking Brady’s Wraptor A6200 Wrap Printer Applicator. A compact and lightweight printer applicator, the Wraptor A6200 is designed for flexible work environments like cellular manufacturing. Its compact design moves easily to different workstations and takes up minimal space, which allows more room to work — and ultimately, to increase productivity.
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Automation World
JULY 27, 2022
From reducing the amount of data that needs to be sent to the cloud for analysis to improving condition-based monitoring applications, edge computing devices are the local devices enabling an on-site industrial Internet of Things.
Gary Mintchell
JULY 27, 2022
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced advances to its GreenLake flagship Software-as-a-Service platform at its Discover 2022 user conference. Below are the update summaries: Unified experience across edge to cloud Deepens security Extends developer tools Strengthens capabilities to run workloads at scale Transformed and modern private cloud experience with automated, flexible, scalable pay-as-you-go private cloud for traditional and cloud-native workloads Eight new cloud services including
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.
Automation World
JULY 27, 2022
With the help of Mitsubishi Electric technologies, automation and engineering company Versatech has developed a system to collect and visualize real time plant-wide energy consumption that can be accessed remotely.
Robotics Automation News
JULY 27, 2022
Rapid Robotics says it has developed a robot with the “fastest setup time in the industry”. The Rapid Machine Operator (RMO) from Rapid Robotics is “the first industrial robot that can get up and running in a matter of hours”, according to the company. It’s also the first manufacturing robot that can move between jobs […].
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Robotics Automation News
JULY 27, 2022
Multiverse Computing, a quantum computing solutions provider, is collaborating in a research project with the Bosch Automotive Electronics plant in Madrid to leverage the power of quantum computing in the virtual replica or “digital twin” of a factory. Multiverse is implementing quantum-based optimization algorithms at Bosch, delivering cutting-edge electronics components to several original equipment manufacturers […].
Automation World
JULY 27, 2022
A renewed focus on usability is required for today’s technologies to become tomorrow’s solutions.
Robotics Automation News
JULY 27, 2022
Amazon is preparing to start deliveries of its retail products to its customers by drone. The first areas chosen are Lockeford, in California, and College Station, in Texas. The world’s largest online retailer says “hundreds of residents have expressed interest in receiving their Amazon orders via drone”, and the company has built new facilities to […].
Metrology
JULY 27, 2022
Waygate Technologies has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC), a national manufacturing development facility providing battery manufacturing scale-up and skills for the battery. The post CT Agreement To Accelerate Electrification and Battery Deployment appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.
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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.
Robotics Automation News
JULY 27, 2022
More than 100,000 Husqvarna robots are preparing to sing the traditional “Happy Birthday” song to NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover robot in the weirdest birthday party ever. Husqvarna says its robots will shout at the top of their voices – or whatever it is they use to communicate – from Earth to Mars, which is a distance […].
Canadian Manufacturing
JULY 27, 2022
Manufacturing Trends Report (CNW Group/Info-Tech Research Group). TORONTO — Info-Tech Research Group’s latest research report says the manufacturing sector is often the slowest to recover from labour shortages and disruptions. In its recent report titled The Durable Goods Manufacturing Industry 4.0 Trends Report, Info-Tech dove into four key trends that may help manufacturers adopt digital ecosystems in order to help them endure labour shortages. “In almost all industries, there are
Robotics Automation News
JULY 27, 2022
Avidbots, a maker of commercial robotic cleaning systems, and Maplesoft, a provider of modeling and calculation software for engineering and research, have agreed a strategic partnership to “bring more innovation to autonomous cleaning robot design for commercial customers”. Warehouses and retail businesses are frequently turning to tech to provide efficient, cost-effective cleaning options for essential […].
Metrology
JULY 27, 2022
Cyber security experts from opposite sides of the world are collaborating to map cyber security risks in advanced manufacturing and minimise the threat of cyber criminals extracting data from 5G-enabled. The post Cyber Security For The 5G Manufacturing Floor appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.
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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.
Robotics Automation News
JULY 27, 2022
Hexagon’s manufacturing intelligence division has signed a partnership agreement with ESAB, a fabrication specialist, to create a “streamlined welding solution” combining Hexagon’s simulation software with ESAB’s InduSuite solutions to help fabricators perform more efficient and successful welding operations. Hexagon’s simulation intelligence, embedded within ESAB’s software and automation portfolio, will ensure that users have the tools […].
Plastics Today
JULY 27, 2022
Covert markings for medical packaging enable vital benefits from factory floor through end-of-life recycling including consumer engagement, sustainability, and traceability.
Robotics Automation News
JULY 27, 2022
Figuring out how to meet rising production demand can be deceptive. On the surface, it’s a simple math problem. If you have one machine on the floor and it makes eight parts per day, and you need to produce 16 parts per day, just add another machine, right? Meeting demand in a consistent, cost-effective manner […].
The Fabricator
JULY 27, 2022
How can a company’s culture makes a difference in keeping employees safe in manufacturing facility? The safety director of a welding equipment manufacturer explains.
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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.
Robotics Automation News
JULY 27, 2022
Shanghai-based Elite Robot says it has raised “tens of millions of dollars” in its Series C funding round. Founded in 2017, Elite Robot says its robots give retailers and factories more choice, control and flexibility over their productions by managing the back-end of the production. The robots present programming options, securely processing units, and mitigating […].
The Guardian Manufacturing
JULY 27, 2022
Customs checks and border queues cited as leading barriers, as only 29% of firms say sales increased in Q2 Britain’s exporters have seen their overseas trade stagnate over the past year despite strong growth in domestic demand for their products and booming export markets, according to a survey. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said that a survey of 2,600 exporters found a quarter had suffered a fall in exports and another 46% reported no change.
Robotics Automation News
JULY 27, 2022
Geekplus, a manufacturer of autonomous mobile robots, has expanded its collaboration with electronic components manufacturer Siemens Switchgear Shanghai with the second phase of a smart manufacturing automation project. The expansion introduces more of Geekplus’s goods-to-person picking and materials handling robots to the multi-robot configuration and opens up a further 3,000 sq m of automated warehousing […].
Additive Manufacturing
JULY 27, 2022
CHONGQING, China and BOSTON, July 26, 2022 — Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF) announced the successful closing of a Series C round of funding, totaling $43 million to drive micro additive manufacturing. The round was led by Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd. (SCGC). Since its founding in 2016, BMF has been addressing the need: small, high precision parts made with additive manufacturing.
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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.
Robotics Automation News
JULY 27, 2022
By Ritukar Vijay, CEO at Ottonomy Retailers are feeling the heat from rising labor costs, and are increasingly looking to automated solutions to keep worker costs down. According to a February 28, 2022 story in The Wall Street Journal, US retailers spent 4 percent more cash on labor costs in the fourth quarter of 2021, […].
Control Engineering
JULY 27, 2022
Bundy Group , an investment bank and advisory firm, provides an update on mergers & acquisitions and capital placement activity in the automation market. Fifteen transactions were reported for the month of July. The first half of 2022 continued to demonstrate strong demand from strategic buyers, financial sponsors (i.e. private equity groups) and special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).
Robotics Automation News
JULY 27, 2022
ABB has launched a new five-axis Delta robot which it claims is “the fastest for lightweight product picking, packing and reorientation”. The new machine is part of the FlexPicker Delta robot portfolio and is called the IRB 365. With five axis and 1.5 kg payload, the IRB 365 is both flexible and the fastest in […].
Additive Manufacturing
JULY 27, 2022
Monday, July 25, 2022. Special-Guest: Michael Papish, VP of Marketing at Markforged. Guest-Host: Tyler LeBrun, PhD. – Additive Manufacturing Lead, Principal Member of Technical Staff Additive Manufacturing Lead, Sandia National Laboratories. Segment: ‘Talking Technical with Tyler’. News: Nano Dimension Announces 12.12% Ownership of Stratasys Ltd.
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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.
Plastics News
JULY 27, 2022
If the research project is successful, the company plans to sell pellets recovered from fishing nets to processors looking for a source of recycled material.
Manufacturer's Monthly
JULY 27, 2022
The Australian government is taking immediate action to address the urgent skills crisis by introducing legislation to establishSkills Australia Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA). . Jobs and Skills Australia will be a new independent agency, responsible for providing advice to government to underpin Australia’s response to current, emerging and future labour market and workforce skills and training needs, to improve employment opportunities and economic growth. .
Plastics News
JULY 27, 2022
The move away from green PET for Sprite and other brands is part of a larger overall push to increase recycled content for the company's beverage containers.
Plastics Today
JULY 27, 2022
New products include a more sustainable coffee capsule liner, a recyclable monomaterial substrate, and micro-embossed lightweight film.
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