Plastics Today
JANUARY 28, 2024
An NSF-funded think tank gathered dozens of researchers, industry leaders, policymakers, and investors to brainstorm novel ways of making materials more sustainable.
Robotics Business Review
JANUARY 29, 2024
Nala provides automation for food bowls and other meals. Source: Nala Robotics Since the public debut of generative artificial intelligence and large language models in late 2022, robotics developers have been working to take advantage of the latest AI capabilities. Nala Robotics Inc. said that ChatGPT enables its autonomous chefs to prepare almost any recipe.
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Control.com
JANUARY 29, 2024
Electrical and mechanical measurements are often labeled with "RMS" and "True RMS." Aside from the simple math definitions we learned in electronics class, why is this distinction actually important?
The Fabricator
JANUARY 27, 2024
Josh Welton tells the story of the Keller brothers and their fascinating rise from running a small welding shop to making the world’s first skid-steer loader and growing the Bobcat brand.
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.
Design World
JANUARY 30, 2024
Alec Abkemeier is taking on a new challenge at Beckhoff USA as a software product manager focused on test and measurement technologies. With a background in measurement software and hardware, Abkemeier will grow Beckhoff’s test and measurement market share in rapidly evolving industries that require next-generation data acquisition and power monitoring capabilities.
SMMT
JANUARY 24, 2024
UK vehicle production tops one million units, up 17.0% in best year since 2019. 905,117 cars and 120,357 commercial vehicles made, with record electrified model output. £23.7 billion of private and public investment commitments announced in 2023. UK must now ramp up EV supply chain and deliver return on investments. UK vehicle production hit 1,025,474 units in 2023, according to the latest figures published today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
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Robotics Business Review
JANUARY 10, 2024
The world set a record with 3.9 million operational robots in 2022, according to the new World Robotics report from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). The report also included information about robot density worldwide. Robot density measures the number of operational industrial robots per 10,000 employees in a country. “Robot density data reveal the state of automation worldwide and allow us to compare regions and countries,” Marina Bill, President of the IFR, said.
Control.com
JANUARY 2, 2024
Doosan Group will be unveiling its latest innovations at CES 2024. The company will showcase its green-centric, future-thinking technology from Doosan Robotics, Bobcat, Enerbility, and HyAxiom.
Robotics Automation News
JANUARY 25, 2024
After two years of intense competition, five international finalists have travelled to Abu Dhabi for the final live demonstration phase of the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC).
Canadian Manufacturing
JANUARY 11, 2024
GreenPower’s EV Star Cab and Chassis SOUTH CHARLESTON — GreenPower Motor Company Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of purpose-built, all-electric, zero-emission medium and heavy-duty vehicles serving the cargo and delivery market, shuttle and transit space and school bus sector, announced that the company delivered 10 EV Star Cab and Chassis at the end of the quarter ended December 31, 2023. “GreenPower delivered 10 EV Star Cab and Chassis to the Canadian unit of a global retailer
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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.
SMMT
JANUARY 5, 2024
New car registrations reach 1.903 million in 2023 – up 17.9% as fleet investment accelerates. Battery electric vehicle volumes reach record high but market share slips to 16.5%. Industry calls on government to halve EV VAT, to put more than a quarter of a million extra zero emission vehicles on the road and cut five million tonnes of CO2 by end of 2026.
The Guardian Manufacturing
JANUARY 20, 2024
The country’s net zero transition may not be short of funds. But it desperately requires many more skilled engineers, electricians and workers than it has In recent years, Britain has been busy setting up the scaffolding of the country’s future low-carbon economy. But beyond the Westminster pledges and white papers lies a very practical challenge: where are the workers who will bring the government’s green agenda to life?
Robotics Business Review
JANUARY 3, 2024
An MIT research team, led by Nataliya Kos’myna, recently published a paper about its Ddog project. It aims to turn a Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped into a basic communicator for people with physical challenges such as ALS, cerebral palsy, and spinal cord injuries. The project ‘s system uses a brain-computer interface (BCI) system including AttentivU.
The Fabricator
JANUARY 12, 2024
Implementing smart manufacturing is a slow process that can create confusion and distrust among employees. Here’s how to encourage acceptance among staff.
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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
JANUARY 7, 2024
Seasony, a provider of mobile robotics for vertical farming, has closed its latest funding round, securing €1.5 million in investment from a group of high-profile investors. The round was led by North Ventures and EFIO (Export and Investment Fund of Denmark).
NIST Manufacturing
JANUARY 16, 2024
Natcast, the expected operator of the CHIPS for America National Semiconductor Technology Center ( NSTC ) once established, today announced that industry veteran Deirdre Hanford will serve as the organization’s first chief executive officer.
SMMT
JANUARY 19, 2024
Grey is Britain’s most popular new car colour for the sixth consecutive year, topping half a million registrations. Black and white complete trio of best-selling colours, marking sixth year of an identical monochrome podium. Green cars reach highest share of market since 2004. Cream, pink and maroon are Britain’s rarest colours, comprising just 0.03% of all registrations.
E&T
JANUARY 25, 2024
The UK government has announced the recipients of four grants for green heating projects, including one aiming to keep Bolton homes and businesses warm with waste heat from the local sewer.
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70% of digital transformation projects fail (BCG, 2020). In an industry where most large software implementations falter, we recognize the importance of planning, optimization, and execution. With over 25 years of industry experience and countless successful implementations, MASS Group is opening the vault of tips and tricks to provide a complimentary step-by-step guide in implementing a Work-In-Progress (WIP) tracking software.
Robotics Business Review
JANUARY 25, 2024
Jacobi Studio is a web app designed to ease robot project setup. | Credit: Jacobi Robotics Jacobi Robotics Inc. today came out of stealth with the launch of a new software product using artificial intelligence to improve the programming time and performance of robot applications. The Berkeley, Calif.-based startup also announced a partnership with Formic Technologies Inc.
Plastics Today
JANUARY 25, 2024
A digital twin can play an essential role in designing a device that aligns with current standards and regulations while anticipating future market needs.
Robotics Automation News
JANUARY 6, 2024
Making truly plug-and-play robotics technologies accessible to every company is the goal of Paderborn, Germany-based start-up Unchained Robotics. The automation platform covers over a dozen robotics manufacturers, finally offering SMEs broad-based access to standard robotics. The new €5.5 million of capital will continue to fuel their global expansion and deepen their services and partnerships.
Dinesh Mishra
JANUARY 16, 2024
Omega Seiki Mobility and Kissan Mobility (OnEv) deal is worth INR 20 Crores and the companies to deploy all 500 vehicles by June 2024 New Delhi, 16 th Jan. 2024: Omega Seiki Mobility (OSM) and Kissan Mobility Pvt. Ltd., a zero-emission logistics provider, have today announced a strategic partnership to deploy Electric Three Wheeler Cargo Vehicles for last-mile delivery across India.
Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive
We’ve all heard the buzzwords to describe new supply chain trends: resiliency, sustainability, AI, machine learning. But what do these really mean today? Over the past few years, manufacturing has had to adapt to and overcome a wide variety of supply chain trends and disruptions to stay as stable as possible. Stability has become key in this post-COVID world, and will remain key moving forward.
Modern Machine Shop
JANUARY 7, 2024
Photo Credit: Siemens Siemens is expanding focus on additive manufacturing (AM) initiatives in the United States to help accelerate the transformation of the U.S. AM industry through serial additive manufacturing. Siemens says it focuses on supporting the domestic AM machine builder community by bringing motion control, automation hardware, digitalization software and technology capabilities to assist machine builders.
E&T
JANUARY 30, 2024
Apple has criticised UK proposals that would give the government power to veto tech companies’ new security features ahead of their release.
Robotics Business Review
JANUARY 8, 2024
The Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) has released a new version of Open-RMF that is available on Iron Irwini, the ninth release of ROS 2, and ROS 2 Rolling Ridley. The Open Robotics Middleware Framework (Open-RMF) is a free, open-source, modular software system that enables interoperability between multiple fleets of robots and physical infrastructure.
The Fabricator
JANUARY 4, 2024
Las plegadoras flexibles que forman una parte única tras otra abren la puerta a la manufactura basada en kits. Cuando los trabajos fluyen como kits, las piezas de trabajo en proceso disminuyen de golpe, los tiempos de entrega se acortan y la producción total puede dispararse.
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This guidebook discusses how small/medium manufacturers have implemented Smart Manufacturing initiatives and realized benefits such as increased productivity as well as higher levels of coordination and speed within the enterprise and supply chain.
Robotics Automation News
JANUARY 7, 2024
Brightpick, a provider of warehouse automation solutions for order fulfillment, has unveiled new details about the proprietary machine vision and AI that are “critical for the seamless operation of its Brightpick Autopicker robots”.
Control.com
JANUARY 31, 2024
This article investigates the basic qualities that make up a safety PLC, what distinguishes a safety PLC from a standard model, and the reasons for which a safety PLC may be critical.
Modern Machine Shop
JANUARY 30, 2024
Photo Credit: Way of the Mill LLC Reader Question: Our shop has grown from primarily aluminum machining to now working in a diverse range of materials. Some we’ve figured out quickly, but stainless steel seems to be the most difficult for us to master. Can you offer some advice on managing tool wear in stainless? Miller’s Answer: Your struggles are understandable.
E&T
JANUARY 2, 2024
The head of the national Border Force has told the Times that – inspired by advanced border control technology in use elsewhere in the world – new eGates will be installed which allow arrivals into the UK using only facial recognition.
Speaker: Kristin Hess - Senior Product Marketing Manager, Drift; Will Lyon - Head of Vertical Marketing, 6sense
The past three years have forced nearly every industry to rethink their prospect and customer engagement strategy. But while we’ve all been thrust into digital transformation, we haven’t all made the transition efficiently. Now that we know digital selling is the new norm, how can we ensure our website is doing as much of the leg work as possible for us - even in the midst of economic challenges?
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