Automation World

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Jim Toman of system integrator Grantek explains the overall equipment effectiveness formula, how to apply the results and why the metric remains relevant.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Source: IFR The International Federation of Robotics, or IFR, today listed its picks for the top five global robotics trends of this year. The Frankfurt, Germany-based organization attributed growing demand for automation to technological innovations. The IFR noted that the stock of operational robots around the world attained a new record of about 3.9 million units in 2022.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

ZenRobotics, a specialist in robotic recycling, has launched ZenRobotics 4.0, its fourth generation of waste sorting robots. The company says the latest robots have new features and upgraded Artificial Intelligence to optimise and improve the efficiency of waste sorting operations.

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Control.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

AAEON has released a new industrial PC (IPC), the BOXER-6711-ADN, designed for machine builders and ruggedized and outfitted with communication protocols for heavy industrial use.

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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?

Automation World

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Jim Toman with system integrator Grantek shares three key ways manufacturers can implement OEE results for improved performance.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Hello Robot today launched the third edition of its Stretch mobile manipulator robot. The company described Stretch 3 as a refinement over the previous edition, which was popular as a research platform. Hello Robot said it has improved the manufacturability and the usability of the robot. New features in Stretch 3 include a rotating 3D camera at the top of the mast, designed for perception functions and observing the environment around the robot.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Advances in abrasives technologies and tools result in faster metal removal and fine finishing in a single step, as well as extending the life of these products. Proper techniques by your operators improve your shop’s efficiency, while reducing wear and tear on belts, discs and wheels. Abrasive Belt Machines Ideal for Coated and Non-woven Nylon Belts Dynastraight abrasive tool from Dynabrade.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

International Graphite announces progress to commercialisation, driving the production of Australia’s graphite industry. The company has installed and commissioned a new qualification-scale graphite micronising plant located in Collie, Western Australia, to produce graphite that will be tested by future national and international customers. The process of micronising is one of the first steps in producing anode material which is crucial in the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries.

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Fig. 1 : Unitized with the hot runner, heat pulses are transferred into the cavity wall to avoid the knit line where the melt flows merge. Source, all images: Incoe Corp. Incoe Corp. introduces Heat-Inject technology, a solution for reducing knit lines about holes and openings on a part, and improving melt flow through cold runner fan gates or thin-wall sections of the cavity.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When the Estonian company HOOB was asked to build a new assembly line for a global company, they looked to LINAK to meet the ergonomic goals of the project. HOOB was founded in 2014 by two engineers, Tanel Sildnik and Priit Raid. In their previous careers, they both worked with product design and often struggled with machine shops being bottlenecks for realising their innovative projects.

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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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E&T

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Google has partnered with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) on a project to use satellite imagery to identify and monitor sources of methane emissions.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The landscape of production facilities is evolving rapidly, demanding flexible, functional, and ergonomic workstation layouts that suit every individual. MZR, a company based in the west of France, specialises in the development of ergonomic industrial production equipment that not only adapts to the operators, but also enhances overall productivity.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A ‘meaty’ rice containing beef muscle and fat cells could serve as an affordable, sustainable source of protein, researchers have said.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Vention and Flexxbotics are partnering to deliver a combined offering for advanced robotic machine tending. | Source: Flexxbotics Vention, which offers the cloud-based Manufacturing Automation Platform, or MAP, yesterday announced a partnership with Flexxbotics, which supports robot-driven manufacturing. The companies said their combined offering for robotic workcell digitalization in next-generation machining environments is now available.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Organizations these days face the daunting challenge of effectively prioritizing and responding to security risks and incidents.

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Industry Week

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Who was the "father of the videogame cartridge"? The first Black carmarker? Manufacturing and Black History intersect.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Enacted by Congress in 2021 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) aims to mitigate money laundering, tax fraud, and other illicit activities by capturing more information about the ownership of specific entities operating in or accessing the U.S. markets. Effective January 1, 2024, the Corporate Transparency Act requires millions of small businesses to report ownership information to FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) which falls under

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SMMT

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Tell us about the new partnership with Clayton Power? We have been aware of Clayton Power and the LPS II product for a few years now and always saw it as an interesting product and an alternative auxiliary onboard power solution to the more ‘conventional’ generator or battery/inverter system setup. FP UK’s company focus has always been about combining industry leading equipment brands into a single supported system solution, so when the opportunity presented itself to work with Clayton Power, we

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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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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

1X, an AI and robotics company producing androids to “meet the world’s labor demand”, has raised $100 million in Series B funding with participation from EQT Ventures and other notable global investors. The company intends to utilize the new capital to bring to market its second generation android NEO.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The TMINI robotic surgical system features a wireless handpiece that assists surgeons in performing total knee replacements. | Source: THINK Surgical THINK Surgical Inc. has announced two new collaborations involving surgical robotics and implants for total knee arthroplasty, or TKA. The company signed deals with Maxx Orthopedics and b-ONE Ortho Corp. over the past week.

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Canadian Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

SAULT STE. MARIE — Algoma Steel Group Inc., a Canadian producer of hot and cold rolled steel sheet and plate products, advised the repair and restart of its blast furnace is complete and steel production resumed on Sunday, February 11, 2024. Algoma says they have strengthened their operations while advancing essential repair work required after a structure supporting utilities piping at Algoma’s coke-making plant collapsed on January 20, 2024.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Banque de France, or Bank of France, has launched a large-scale project to build a new plant in Vic-Le-Comte, France, which already houses a paper mill, creating a global banknote production hub at the cutting edge of technological innovation. The new, highly secure building will house both printing and logistics activities.

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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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Manufacturing Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As part of its ongoing drive to encourage more young people to begin a career in automation and engineering, FANUC UK is inviting the country’s brightest young minds to take part in the WorldSkills UK Industrial Robotics competition.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Automated warehouses have revolutionised the way we handle and store goods, significantly improving efficiency and productivity. However, with the introduction of advanced machinery and automated systems, new safety challenges have emerged that require innovative solutions.

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Modern Machine Shop

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Photo Credit: Big Daishowa Inc. Big Daishowa Inc. has expanded its lineup of Fullcut Mill FCM tools to include larger diameters and additional lengths. The Big-Plus BBT series now offers a 63-mm diameter cutter. The 25-mm and 32-mm diameter series feature an expanded length to 105 mm (4"). The larger-diameter cutter and new lengths both boost the Fullcut Mill FCM BBT line’s already-considerable versatility, enabling machinists to tailor their tool selections for many different applicat

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under the impetus of the France 2030 plan and the impact of the various crises, French manufacturers are accelerating the automation of their production lines to gain productivity, efficiency and working conditions.

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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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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (RLL) announces that two-time Indianapolis 500 champion, Takuma Sato, will return to the team for the 108th running of the Indianapolis 500. AMADA AMERICA, Inc. a leading global machine tool manufacturer and supplier in the sheet metal industry, will be the primary sponsor for 2017 and 2020 Indy 500 winner Sato’s No. 75 Honda-powered entry in the May 26 event.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Seegrid, a developer of autonomous mobile robot (AMR) solutions for material handling, is thrilled to announce the debut of its latest lift AMR, the Palion Lift CR1, at MODEX 2024 booth #C7685. This new autonomous lift truck addresses evolving challenges in autonomous material handling for warehousing, manufacturing, and logistics customers.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

BUSINESS WIRE )–Airgas, an Air Liquide company, has been featured on two of Newsweek’s prominent lists: America’s Greatest Workplaces for 2023 and America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity 2024. The America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity 2024 list, by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group, features the top large and mid-size companies recognized by their employees for respecting and valuing individuals from different walks of life.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

AutoStore, a specialist in automated storage and retrieval systems, has unveiled what it says is “the world’s first in-store solution equipped with an AutoStore PickUpPort”. The system enables “fully automatic delivery of goods to customers”, and is now operational at thansen’s brand-new store in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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