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Machines-as-a-Service: This Trend Is Just Getting Started

Automation World

A new report from Bain & Company illustrates why machines-as-a-service is a growing trend that will change the familiar equipment manufacturer business model.

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Tech Tuesdays: Sorbothane marks 40 years of shock and vibration innovation

Design World

In our latest Technology Tuesday’s podcast, Design World’s Michelle Froese speaks with David Church, president of Sorbothane, about innovative shock and vibration solutions. Sorbothane has been developing materials and components that isolate vibration, attenuate shock, and damp unwanted noise for 40 years. In fact, the company is celebrating four decades in business this year!

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Rapid Robotics unveils robot with ‘fastest setup time in the industry’

Robotics Automation News

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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Coca-Cola eliminating green PET in North America

Plastics News

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.

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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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Cloud-Based Software Modernizes Cleaning System Reporting

Automation World

Sani-Matic worked with Rockwell Automation and PTC to develop a SaaS offering that replaces largely manual, paper-based data collection processes.

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PBC Linear launches miniature metric ball screw assemblies

Design World

PBC Linear, a Pacific Bearing Company and a global leader in linear motion solutions, has expanded its comprehensive portfolio to include Miniature Metric Ball Screw Assemblies. Building on the success of their lead screw technology, this combination of precision-rolled screw and compact nut is driving exceptional performance from an economical package.

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Top high school, college welders announced in national SkillsUSA competition

The Fabricator

High school and college students from across the country competed in three welding categories at this summer’s SkillsUSA Championships in Atlanta. Here are the results.

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Digital Transformation Lessons from a Smart Monitoring System for Potable Water Treatment

Automation World

How the German city of Oberzent connects decentralized measurement points using LoRaWAN and Endress+Hauser’s Netilion IIoT technologies.

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Rockwell Automation partners with Dragos

Design World

The incident response retainer program helps industrial organizations prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents in operational technology (OT) environments. The best-in-class incident response retainer program includes: * Dedicated Integrated Control System (ICS) incident responders from Dragos. * Local and trusted field service engineers and global network services resources from Rockwell Automation. * Coordination from Rockwell Automation project management to direct collaborat

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Multiverse Computing to develop quantum digital twin for Bosch manufacturing facility

Robotics Automation News

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 […].

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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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AWS awards Welding Workforce Grants to 11 schools

The Fabricator

The AWS Foundation recently awarded its Welding Workforce Grant to 11 secondary, postsecondary, and welder training facilities that seek to enhance and improve their welding education programs.

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Blockchain and artificial intelligence keep food, goods safe in supply chain.

Automation World

FDA takes closer look at food safety in e-commerce models; Alitheon’s optical AI combats counterfeiting.

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Winters pressure accessories from AutomationDirect

Design World

AutomationDirect has added new pressure sensing accessories from Winters. These accessories will protect delicate pressure measurement equipment from damage caused by pressure surges, superheated media, and more. Included in the new product release are siphons that protect pressure gauges, transmitters, and switches from the effects of high-temperature media such as steam.

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SLAMcore raises $16 million to give spatial understanding to robots and the metaverse

Robotics Automation News

SLAMcore, a developer of vision-based location and mapping for robots and autonomous machines, has raised $16 million in Series A capital. The company says the funding will allow the business to rapidly capitalize on its proven technology which combines AI with consumer-grade cameras, sensors and processors to solve the complex challenges of mapping and navigating […].

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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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Federal government announces new rules for recyclability and composting to reduce plastic waste

Canadian Manufacturing

TERREBONNE — On Jul. 25, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Steven Guilbeault, announced the next step in delivering on Canada’s commitments on plastic waste and pollution by launching two consultations to: Develop rules for recyclability and compostability labelling; and. Establish a federal plastics registry for producers of plastic products.

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Cloud-Based Software Modernizes Cleaning System Reporting

Automation World

Sani-Matic worked with Rockwell Automation and PTC to develop a SaaS offering that replaces largely manual, paper-based data collection processes.

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CSIRO R&D program to boost advanced manufacturing

Manufacturer's Monthly

The CSIRO is advancing Australia’s advanced manufacturing capability by providing free research and development support to help businesses develop new products or services through a new Innovate to Grow program. SMEs working on new advanced manufacturing solutions can sign up to the free, 10-week online Innovate to Grow program, to support their commercial idea by building their R&D knowledge, with 25 spots available.

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SafeAI and Obayashi demonstrate autonomous vehicle on a construction site in Japan

Robotics Automation News

SafeAI, a developer of autonomous solutions for heavy equipment, in partnership with Japanese construction giant Obayashi, has hosted nearly 150 visitors to view its retrofitted autonomous Caterpillar 725, operating on a construction site in Japan for the first time ever. The demos, which took place over a two week period, brought together delegates from nearly […].

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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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Manufacturer Survey Details Impact of Robotics Integration on Facilities and Workers

Robotics Business Review

Manufacturers must continue to automate to remain competitive, but the introduction of robotics systems will impact their facilities and human workers. The results of a recent survey by Veo Robotics of 500 manufacturers the US, UK, and Japan provides insights into the optimal path forward when introducing robotics systems, and challenges conventional thinking.

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Why Edge Devices are Essential to IIoT Applications

Automation World

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.

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NETL recognized for efforts to evolve advanced vehicle technologies

The Fabricator

NETL's work to evolve advanced vehicle technologies, including electric vehicles, and expand their use on U.S. highways has been recognized for excellence by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

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Carnegie Mellon develops robots that ‘learn household tasks by watching humans’

Robotics Automation News

By Aaron Aupperlee Novel method developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers enables robots to ‘learn in the wild’ The robot watched as Shikhar Bahl opened the refrigerator door. It recorded his movements, the swing of the door, the location of the fridge and more, analyzing this data and readying itself to mimic what Bahl had […].

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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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CT Agreement To Accelerate Electrification and Battery Deployment

Metrology

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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How Network Communications Drive the IIoT Revolution

Automation World

Internet of Things communication methods such as OPC UA, MQTT, and REST API make field level data available to the cloud, creating flexible production networks to support efficient manufacturing.

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Keep track of innovations in digital banking

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

Market Intelligence. With Feedly’s new Neobanks AI model, you can effortlessly keep up with the growth and strategies of the world’s top 350 neobanks. The new Feedly Neobanks Leo Concept is a handy list of the top 350 digital banks. This new Machine Learning model will help you: Track new trends and innovations across fintech Spot new investment opportunities Discover potential partners to work with.

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ABB joins Berkshire Grey’s tech alliance program to deliver AI-enabled robotic solutions

Robotics Automation News

Berkshire Grey, a developer of AI-enabled robotic solutions that automate supply chain processes, says that industrial giant ABB has joined Berkshire Grey’s Technology Alliance Program to provide more customers with AI-enabled robotic solutions that improve e-commerce fulfillment throughput and warehouse efficiency while driving down operational costs.

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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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DuPont expands US medical tubing production

Plastics News

Wilmington, Del.-based DuPont marked the opening of the Liveo Healthcare Solutions plant at its Cooper River site in Moncks Corners, S.C., on July 28.

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How Johnson & Johnson’s Secure Data Pipeline Helped Speed the COVID-19 Vaccine Production

Automation World

Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform and Cirrus Link’s MQTT modules are the heart of the secure data pipeline built for Johnson & Johnson by system integrator Automated Control Concepts.

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$4.45 million to boost advanced manufacturing in the NT

Manufacturer's Monthly

Manufacturers based in the Northern Territory will soon gain access to a multi-million-dollar advanced manufacturing facility housing robotic and bespoke automation products and services. This will support the implementation of technology such as robotic welders, automated pick and pack systems and product inspection services. The project will see Diverseco and Charles Darwin University (CDU) co-develop four new robotic and automation micro credential qualifications tailored to the region and bo

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Medical Microinstruments secures $75 million to advance robotic microsurgery

Robotics Automation News

Medical Microinstruments, a robotics company dedicated to improving clinical outcomes for patients undergoing microsurgery, says it has raised $75 million in Series B financing. Deerfield Management led the round with participation from new investors, RA Capital Management and Biostar Capital, as well as existing investors, Andera Partners, Fountain Healthcare Partners, Panakès Partners and Sambatech.

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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.