February, 2022

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Feeds and Folders

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

If you’ve popped into Feedly today, you might notice something’s…different. We are introducing a new naming convention: we are calling RSS feeds and all the other streams of content you can follow in Feedly (Twitter, Reddit, Newsletters) feeds and we are calling the object you use to organize/group your feeds folder. Add the TechCrunch feed to one of your folders.

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VTTI, NIST Provide Tool for Quantifying Automated Driving Conditions

NIST Manufacturing

A new online tool, the Operational Design Domain Element Quantification Prototype, was developed and made available for use by Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI).

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Progressive Die Stamping Process: The Advantages And Solutions For Manufacturing High Volume Precision Parts

Donlouco

Progressive Die Stamping Parts. Overview Of Progressive Die Stamping For purchasing managers, engineering managers, and other key decision-makers within an OEM, sourcing parts and components that meet quality standards while also being competitively priced is crucial. Depending on the specification of the part required and the application in which it will eventually be used, they will decide upon a manufacturing partner that has the capabilities and the expertise to make the parts.

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Want to Fill Your Job Openings? Hire Those With “Unique Abilities”

NIST

This blog is part of a monthly series brought to you by the America Works initiative. As a part of the MEP National Network’s goal of supporting the growth of small and medium-sized manufacturing companies, this series focuses on innovative approaches and uncovering the latest trends in manufacturing workforce development. What if I told you that there is an untapped pipeline of hundreds of thousands of workers available to fill your positions?

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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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Galaxy Sivtek

อุตสาหกรรมผลิตภัณฑ์นมในประเทศไทยมีการขยายตัวขึ้นอย่างต่อเนื่อง โดยประเทศไทยได้มีการแปรรูปน้ำนมดิบเป็นผลิตภัณฑ์นมและอาหารประเภทอื่น ๆ อย่างหลากหลาย เช่น นมพร้อมดื่ม นมเปรี้ยว โยเกิร์ต เนย นมข้นหวาน ฯลฯ อีกทั้งยังมีการส่งออกผลิตภัณฑ์นมหลายชนิดไปยังประเทศเพื่อนบ้านและภูมิภาคอื่น ๆ ทั้งนี้ ในปีที่ผ่านมา จะเห็นได้ว่ามีการส่งออกผลิตภัณฑ์นมไปยังต่างประเทศมากขึ้น เนื่องจากผู้ประกอบการในตลาดพาณิชย์มีการผลิตเพิ่มขึ้น อีกทั้งภาครัฐและเอกชนมีการร่วมมือกันขยายตลาดส่งออกผลิตภัณฑ์นมออกสู่ประเทศเพื่อนบ้านมากขึ

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3 Common Capital Project Scenarios You Might be Facing in 2022

Polytron

Since the beginning of 2020, manufacturers have responded to unexpected market conditions with resilience. They proved it is possible to respond quickly to situations that impact our workforce, infrastructure, and production to meet high demands. The lessons that we have learned from these changes are setting the trajectory of our future, and these trends will continue to impact our workplace and the application of technology for years to come.

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Strobe Light for 5G: NIST Imaging System Spotlights the Tiny Mechanical Hearts at the Core of Every Cellphone

NIST Manufacturing

Inside every cellphone lies a tiny mechanical heart, beating several billion times a second. These micromechanical resonators play an essential role in cellphone communication.

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We want to create cobots our customers love

Universal Robots

As part of its commitment to every customer’s success, Universal Robots aims to make products and services that customers love. As with really good food, love is the secret ingredient when UR develops and produces its cobots. Love is the fine red line in all the company does, from research and development to user experience, production, and customer care.

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6 Tips for Simplifying Digital Work Instructions

eFlex Systems

The power and potential of simplifying digital work instructions. From the earliest days of modern manufacturing, work instructions have played a part in helping operators complete their work correctly and efficiently. As manufacturing tasks and environments have grown exponentially more complex, work instructions have become correspondingly more complex—and significantly more important.

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Donlouco Ireland Ltd Is OMNI Certified: EN 1090 & ISO 9001

Donlouco

Updated Certifications for 2022 Donlouco Ireland Ltd was pleased to announce that it has obtained OMNI Certification for EN 1090 and ISO 9001 for the CE Stamping of parts. EN 1090 - Structural Steel CE Marking About EN 1090 EN 1090 is a European standard requiring a Factory Production Control system for the production of steel and aluminium components.

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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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Aligning Domestic Sourcing Efforts with Business Success

NIST

Disruptions in the global supply chain have led to a new dynamic for many small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) – the need to be more strategic about “second sourcing” and reshoring. The biggest increase is in what’s referred to as second sourcing, which adds redundancies such as a second source of a supply to minimize risk while increasing options.

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Self Cleaning Filters for Dairy Industry

Galaxy Sivtek

Self Cleaning Filters for Dairy Industry. In the past couple of years, the dairy industry has drastically expanded and become proficient in creating a wide range of products. From creating dense and sweet concoctions to bringing a myriad combination of cheeses, the potential of the dairy industry has risen multiple folds with technological innovations.

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Commerce Department Awards $54 Million in American Rescue Act Grants to Increase Access to Advanced Manufacturing Opportunities

NIST Manufacturing

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded nearly $54 million in grants for 13 high-impact projects for research, development and testbeds for pandemic response.

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Know Your Machine: Traditional Industrial Robots vs. Cobots

Universal Robots

Businesses know that automation is the future of manufacturing and that being able to introduce it effectively is an important part of remaining competitive in the coming years. But understanding that you need automation is not the same as knowing what solution is right for your operations. With so many options on the market, committing to one can be a difficult choice.

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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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Have You Seen This Palletising Video?

Granta Automation

This video shows the GA15 palletiser in action! Picking and placing slip sheets and using row gripping to palletise boxes. [link] If you would like to know more, feel free to contact us on 01223 499488 . Contact us for … Continue reading → The post Have You Seen This Palletising Video? first appeared on Granta Automation.

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Reducing Our Global Carbon Footprint Requires Us to Rethink the Building Materials We Use

21st Century Tech

Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2020 totalled 50 billion tons when measured in carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalents. Cement and concrete are big contributors, as much as 7% of total emissions. Since the beginning of the 20th century, humans have produced hundreds of billion tons of Portland cement. Portland cement is by far the number one building material in global construction.

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What Is Benchmarking? (and How It Benefits Your Manufacturing Operations)

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

Continuous improvement is an essential part of staying competitive in the global marketplace; it entails regularly seeking new ways to be efficient in your operations while maintaining or increasing productivity. This mentality enables your operations to gradually incorporate more streamlined processes over time rather than trying to tackle massive change all at once.

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Metal Fabricator’s Future Shines Brightly With Updated Quality Management System

NIST

Founded in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, in 1876, Hendrick Manufacturing provides custom metal solutions to a wide range of industries. As a family-owned and operated business, Hendrick has come a long way from its origin as the first commercial manufacturer of perforated metal screens. During the past 140 years, its perforated metals market has expanded to a myriad of industries that benefit from its products’ filtration/separation properties.

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Mastering Digital Transformation: Your Guide to a Successful MES Implementation

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.

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NIST Researchers Receive Award for Manufacturing Cybersecurity Guidelines, Achieving Wider Use

NIST Manufacturing

On January 12, 2022, NIST presented the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal to Keith Stouffer, Timothy Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael Pease, and Jeffrey Cichonski for developing and disseminating the first, detailed cybersecurity guidelines for

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Types of Grippers Used in Manufacturing

Universal Robots

In the simplest terms, grippers are devices that enable robots to pick up and hold objects. When combined with a collaborative (or 'cobot') industrial robot arm, grippers enable manufacturers to automate key processes, such as inspection, assembly, pick & place and machine tending.

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4 Smart Manufacturing Trends to Look for in 2022

Polytron

The start of the roaring 20s didn’t quite go as planned for most of us. Instead of celebrating economic growth, many manufacturers have been struggling with the ongoing logistical effects of the COVID-19 pandemic – supply chain issues, transportation problems, and even worker shortages! This year will be filled with its new set of obstacles, but like each year, it will result in new innovative solutions and new industry trends.

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Rubber-like Programmable MetaMaterial Invented With Unique Phase Change Properties

21st Century Tech

Phase change refers to a shift in the way a material responds when subjected to external inputs. A good example is ice turning into water and then into steam. We witness this phase change as the seasons change here on Earth. What actually happens occurs when photons from the Sun convert to heat energy when passing through the atmosphere. That heat loosens the electromagnetic molecular bonds in the material.

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Future Focus: Constructing Unshakeable Stability in Your Manufacturing Supply Chain

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.

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Setting Operators Up for Success with Digital Work Instructions

eFlex Systems

For decades—even generations—innovators in manufacturing have worked hard to find ways to minimize the chaos and complexity of manufacturing and production environments.

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4 things to consider when adopting AI in your manufacturing organization

Seebo Manufacturing

Choosing the right production line as a first step to AI deployment in manufacturing is critical since it will influence […]. The post 4 things to consider when adopting AI in your manufacturing organization appeared first on Seebo Blog.

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NIST Researchers Resurrect and Improve a Technique for Detecting Transistor Defects

NIST Manufacturing

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have revived and improved a once-reliable technique to identify and count defects in transistors, the building blocks of modern electronic devices such as smartphones and

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Photoelectric Sensor with Separate Digital Amplifier (Laser-type)

Omron

Variable Laser Beam for Spot, Line, or Area Detection(E3C-LDA[]N)

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A Low-Risk, Incremental Approach to Smart Manufacturing for Small & Medium Manufacturers

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.

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Bioplastic Packaging

The Consultiger

Eco-friendly Packaging.

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How to Use Continuing Education to Remain Competitive in Moldmaking

Mold Making Technology

Integrating and learning how to use digital tools can help shops practice predictive maintenance and improve tool performance. Photo Credit, all images: Sandvik Coromant Today, there are many innovations in cutting tool technology. Whether a seasoned pro or novice, these technologies are new for everyone. New edge preps, coatings, cutting materials, digital capabilities and application methods are differentiators that help shops remain competitive if their moldmakers know how to use them properl

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Digital Work Instructions Made Easy

eFlex Systems

I want to digitize work instructions, but do I have to start from scratch?

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The proven strategy for successfully adopting AI in manufacturing

Seebo Manufacturing

Industrial AI is rapidly defining the future of manufacturing, and manufacturers that adopt it now will gain a competitive edge […]. The post The proven strategy for successfully adopting AI in manufacturing appeared first on Seebo Blog.

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Best Practices to Boost Marketing Efficiency while Decreasing Cost Per Sale

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?