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For fifth time, Emerson is named Industrial IoT Company of the Year

Design World

Technology and software company Emerson has been named the IoT Breakthrough 2023 “Industrial IoT Company of the Year” for the fifth time — an honor the company also received in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022. This year’s award recognizes the power of Emerson’s industry-leading Plantweb digital ecosystem, which now includes the AspenTech suite of plant… The post For fifth time, Emerson is named Industrial IoT Company of the Year appeared first on Design World.

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Advantive Acquires DataNet and PQ Systems

Gary Mintchell

[Updated headline: darn autocorrect, anyway.]. I’ll be honest, the main reason I’m picking up this news is that I know PQ Systems located on the south side of Dayton, Ohio. Back in the early 80s I interviewed for a position there. It was not a fit for me, and I was not a fit for them. But it was an interesting company. I’ve never heard of Advantive.

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How smart is the layout in your metal fabrication plant?

The Fabricator

Facility layout affects how everything—people, products, and information—flows through your company. It’s the foundation of an effective production system that, in turn, is the foundation of a smart factory and the technology within it.

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ARC Advisory Group Again Acknowledges ABB as Global DCS Market Leader

Gary Mintchell

In the “I’m not surprised” category, the ARC Advisory Group conducts market studies in the industrial and manufacturing market. For the 23 rd consecutive year it has calculated ABB as the global DCS market share leader. In a Distributed Control System market worth more than $15 billion, the official ARC Advisory Group report confirms that ABB has maintained its number one position with a leading share of 19%, as it continues to support the acceleration of digital transformation

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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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Ford Partners With Rockwell Automation to Advance EV Program

Modern Machine Shop

Photo Credit: Unsplash. Rockwell Automation Inc. has announced that Ford Motor Company has selected Rockwell as its vehicle operations primary controls and solutions provider for its next three electric vehicle assembly sites. By jointly collaborating on assembly tooling designs and architectures that will increase speed to market, Rockwell can help machine builders to meet production customer demands and achieve on-time successful launches. “We are strengthening the commitment to build wo

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Are Big Tech hiring or firing?

E&T

Redundancies are an inevitable consequence of tough economic times. Some 70 per cent of business costs are typically spent on staff, so it makes sense that people are the first to go when cutbacks are being made. It came as no surprise, then, that as the current economic crisis came starkly into view, news of layoffs began trickling in. What was surprising, and somewhat unprecedented, was just how far those mass layoffs would spread.

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Satellite data detects hidden waste sites leaking into waterways

E&T

Every year, millions of metric tons of plastic waste end up in oceans, harming hundreds of species and their ecosystems. Most of this waste comes from land-based sources that leak into watersheds. Writing in the journal Plos One , researchers said that efforts to address this issue require better understanding of where people dispose of waste on land.

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Infographic: Training: Responding to the Skills Gap

NIST

There aren’t enough workers to meet U.S. manufacturers’ needs. A 2021 survey by the National Association of Manufacturers found that 80% of companies say their top challenge is the inability to attract and retain a quality workforce. The situation will worsen as baby boomers continue to retire. Adding to the challenge, the “great resignation” has resulted in people looking for more flexible and rewarding work.

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Thousands of US flights grounded over database mishap

E&T

As of last night, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was still trying to determine the root cause of the 'Notice to Air Missions' (NOTAM) system outage. NOTAM is used to alert aircraft pilots of potential hazards along a flight route or at a location that could affect the flight. It includes data on a raft of different hazards such as rocket launches; flights by important people, such as heads of state; closed runways; military exercises, and a whole host of other events which could disru

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Arcane buys PolyTech Plastic Molding to create new platform

Plastics News

Little Rock Ark.-based investment firm Arcane Capital Partners has acquired injection molder and extruder PolyTech Plastic Molding Inc. in Prairie Grove, Ark., with plans to build a new platform under the brand.

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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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View from India: Research to improve daily lives

E&T

The frontiers of research could probably reach a higher realm with some doses of encouragement. The research fraternity requires funding to work on solutions for the betterment of people. The UN’s 'Sustainable Development Goals' (SDG) are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and improve the lives and prospects of everyone, everywhere.

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Comparing Parallel Circuits: Practical vs Theoretical Electrical Systems

Control.com

We are taught that parallel circuits maintain equal voltage across all branch resistors, equally sharing the source voltage. But reality is often far from ideal, and individual devices certainly impact the rest of the circuit.

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Ocular lens could detect early-stage Alzheimer's

E&T

The team is based at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) in collaboration with Yonsei University. . The lens is considered Korea's first smart intraocular lens technology, capable of diagnosing Alzheimer's, a degenerative brain disease, at its early stages. It works by being inserted into the eye to detect biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease, as well as other neurological and degenerative brain diseases. .

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Control.com is Headed to ATX West 2023 - Meet Us There

Control.com

The Automation Trade Expo (ATX) West, hosted by IMEngineering West, is happening in Anaheim, CA, on Feb 7-9. Control.com is excited to attend and share news about products, stories, and innovations from the front lines!

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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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Fossil fuels firms should pay to have their emissions cleaned, study says

E&T

Requiring fossil fuel companies to pay to clean up their carbon emissions could help curb dangerous global warming at a relatively affordable cost, a group of scientists from Oxford, the US and the Netherlands have suggested. . To do this, the firms should be required to offset emissions from all fossil fuels extracted or imported into a region, country or bloc by storing the same amount of carbon back underground.

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Go Digital: How to Succeed in the Fourth Industrial Revolution With Additive Manufacturing

Modern Machine Shop

There is no denying that change is afoot in manufacturing. Whether it is additive manufacturing (AM), advanced manufacturing or smart manufacturing, we have entered what many are calling the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0 for short. While the jury is still out on what specific technologies make up Industry 4.0, it is clear that the digitalization of manufacturing is set to transform production and global supply chains as we know them.

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James Webb Telescope gives insights into the formation of the first stars

E&T

The image shows a young cluster of stars named NGC 346, which is located the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way more than 200,000 light-years from Earth. NGC 346 is interesting to astronomers because it resembles the conditions of the early universe when the majority of stars formed. . For this reason, a stronomers believe studying this region could help shed light on how the first stars formed during the “cosmic noon”, which is only two or three billion years after

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Inside the modern vertical farm

Modern Materials Handling

Through the use of automation, software and sensor technologies, Bowery Farming is disrupting the traditional agriculture supply chain.

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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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Extrusion Technology in Spotlight at Plastec West

Plastics Today

Conair and Guill Tool are among dozens of companies showcasing their newest extrusion-related innovations at the advanced manufacturing event.

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Stay on top of innovations in your industry with Feedly

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

Market Intelligence. Track the latest technological and scientific breakthroughs across the web with Feedly’s AI Engine. We heard from our market intelligence teams that staying on top of innovations in their industries is challenging and time consuming. We are excited to announce our new Leo Model: ‘Tech & Scientific Innovation’, a machine learning model that allows you to keep up with the technological and scientific breakthrough innovations of your competitors.

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Extrusion Cooling

Plastics Today

After the plastic is hot enough to come out of the die, the heat has to be taken out without distorting product dimensions. Here’s how.

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AMGC calls on NT manufacturers for upcoming AMW Melbourne 2023

AU Manufacturing

The Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre (AMGC) has called for a delegation from the Northern Territory for the upcoming Australian Manufacturing Week (AMW) Melbourne 2023. . Hosted by the Australian Manufacturing Technology Institute Limited, AMW is an industry exhibition that seeks to showcase innovations across all aspects of manufacturing in the country. .

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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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Toyota Material Handling’s Kim Douglass places with gold in global skills competition

Modern Materials Handling

Toyota Material Handling associate Kim Douglass became the first woman to ever medal in the Toyota Material Handling Group (TMHG) Global Skills Competiton, finishing 1st, at even recently held in Japan

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Kickstart: Reading the Tesla tea leaves

Plastics News

Tesla Inc. filed paperwork with Texas officials that includes a $58 million facility merely labeled as "plastics" with no other details.

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Revealing the hidden resource potential of Tasmania

AU Manufacturing

Media Release by Department of Industry, Science and Resources. New data will put the spotlight on the hidden geology beneath the feet of Tasmanians, as part of the Australian Government’s Exploring for the Future program. Last year, a helicopter carrying radiometric and magnetic surveying equipment flew across nearly 10,000 square kilometres of south-eastern Tasmania, as part of a survey undertaken by Geoscience Australia and Mineral Resources Tasmania.

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ABC Polymer pleads guilty to federal charge in fatality

Plastics News

The Department of Justice said the fatality could have been prevented, and is recommending the company pay over $400,000 in fines and restitution, and serve two years probation.

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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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Energy Minister Chris Bowen opens Australian Centre For Excellence in PV

AU Manufacturing

Minister for Climate Change and Energy, the Hon Chris Bowen MP, has backed Australian industry’s part in the renewable energy transition as he opened the Australian Centre For Excellence in PV (ACEPV) in Adelaide today and announced that Adelaide has been selected as the host city for the 2024 International Renewable Energy Conference (IREC). The ACEPV is Tindo Solar ’s $11 million solar panel manufacturing and innovation facility which has the capacity to produce 150 megawatts of Australia-made

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Panel bending upgrades aid metal fabricators with labor shortages

The Fabricator

Panel benders were developed to reduce labor requirements by simplifying bending. Upgrades in the technology expand the types of components that can be bent, automate material handling, and improve consistency.

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UK economy grew by only 0.1% in November

The Guardian Manufacturing

Figure comes as people began Christmas shopping, while World Cup gave pubs and bars a boost UK may avoid recession for now but it won’t feel like it for many Business live updates: UK may avoid 2022 recession The UK economy unexpectedly grew by 0.1% in November as consumers headed to the shops in the run-up to Christmas and pubs and bars enjoyed a boost from the men’s World Cup.

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OPEX partners with Transitic to provide warehouse automation solutions across France

Modern Materials Handling

Transitic is designer and integrator of connected intralogistics solutions, with a strong customer base in the fashion, health, and beauty products industries

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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.