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How to get a free STEM education

Design World

Teschler on Topic. Leland Teschler • Executive Editor. lteschler@wtwhmedia.com. On Twitter @ DW_LeeTeschler. If you are a kid living in the UK and want an engineering degree, you can get a free one by attending the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology. James Dyson—probably best known for his invention of the bagless vacuum cleaner—set up the Institute in 2017.

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Artificial Intelligence Autonomously Controls JSR Chemical Plant

Automation World

Using reinforcement learning AI developed by Yokogawa, along with other Yokogawa automation technologies, a distillation column at a JSR Corp. plant was autonomously operated for 35 days.

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Lean speakers, Lean tool users and Lean Thinkers

Chris Hohmann

Since awareness about Lean has spread, it seems that Lean experts are plentiful. However, when paying closer attention to those ‘experts’, they can broken down into 3 main categories, according to my opinion: Lean speakers, Lean tool users and Lean Thinkers Lean speakers Lean speakers use a lot of Lean jargon and Japanese words they … Continue reading Lean speakers, Lean tool users and Lean Thinkers.

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Beyond Imagination receives order for 1,000 humanoid robots

Robotics Automation News

Robotics innovator Beyond Imagination has entered into an agreement with SELF Labs to provide at least 1,000 humanoid robots for use in agricultural “grow boxes”. This is believed to be the largest deal of its kind. SELF and Beyond are announcing a partnership to develop automated off-the-grid grow boxes. Each box will be equipped with […].

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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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FANUC America nearly doubles Michigan campus to accommodate automation demand

Design World

FANUC America , a supplier of CNCs, robotics and ROBOMACHINEs, announces a West Campus expansion that will push its operational space in Oakland County, Michigan, to nearly two million square feet. The construction will include a 655,000 ft 2 state-of-the-art facility to house manufacturing, engineering and R&D projects. This investment in Michigan’s growing manufacturing area includes the purchase of 67 acres of land as well as the site of the former Thomas M.

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How Advanced Simulation Drives Digital Twin Implementation

Automation World

The distinct advantage of digital twins is their ability to collect and analyze authentic real-time data from an asset’s continual operation across its lifecycle.

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Autonomous Machine Vision Inspection Now Easier and More Powerful

Metrology

Inspekto has launched a new software version of its INSPEKTO S70 Autonomous Machine Vision. Based on accumulated customer feedback from numerous field deployments, the INSPEKTO S70 offers smart features such. The post Autonomous Machine Vision Inspection Now Easier and More Powerful appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.

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Self-contained actuator for a variety of applications

Design World

Bosch Rexroth has expanded its range of standardized self-contained actuators by adding the CytroMotion system solution. With the help of the new compact actuator, linear movements involving forces of up to 110 kN can be achieved in a range of machines and systems in smaller spaces, more efficiently and more sustainably. These benefits can be seen over the entire life cycle.

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Robotics Help Small Potato Producer Get a Grip on Growth

Automation World

Using robotics to fuel growth while staying competitive, a leading North American grower, shipper, and packer of bite-sized potatoes is keeping costs down and employment and production up.

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Sustainable Plastics Live Aug. 2022: Decarbonization a hot topic in the plastics supply chain

Plastics News

With climate change in the public spotlight, plastics companies – especially in Europe -- are focused on their greenhouse gas emissions. Sustainable Plastics Editor Karen Laird covers why the plastics supply chain has a growing interest in being carbon neutral, what’s involved, and some of the hurdles in the way.

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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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Press brake tooling: Planer or precision-ground?

The Fabricator

A metal fabrication shop has used American planed tooling for three decades for its press brake operations. Should it upgrade to precision-ground New Standard tools? That depends on the parts being produced.

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Multiple mounting options for modular enclosures

Design World

Multiple mounting options are now available for OKW’s ART-CASE modular plastic enclosures for modern desktop, mobile, wall and ceiling electronics. Elegant, ergonomic ART-CASE is ideal for IoT/IIoT, medical devices, building services management systems, computer peripherals, security technology, sensors and optoelectronics. These modern ABS enclosures are available in four uniquely contoured shapes: round, square, oval and rectangular.

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Google Cloud and Litmus Co-Develop Data Connectivity Platform

Automation World

New platform unifies factory data connectivity with cloud analytics and artificial intelligence for smart manufacturing.

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5 Trends Dominating the Robotics Sector

Robotics Business Review

What is the state of the robotics and automation sector at 2022's midpoint? ABI Research’s Lian Jye Su has a few thoughts, five in fact. The post 5 Trends Dominating the Robotics Sector appeared first on Robotics Business Review.

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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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Earning a high school diploma and welding certification at the same time?

The Fabricator

Two Illinois high schools in close proximity to one another provide their welding students with a rare opportunity to earn AWS certification before they graduate.

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Helping Navy destroyers complete their missions

Design World

Ameridrives Couplings was selected to provide a variety of custom coupling solutions for use aboard the U.S. Navy’s fleet of Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers. The ship’s propulsion drive consists of four General Electric LM2500 gas turbines which produce 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW) via a dual propeller shaft design. The drive configuration allows the ships to achieve 30+ knot speeds on open seas.

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July LCV market down despite increasing demand for electric vehicles

SMMT

Britain’s light commercial vehicle market falls -20.7% in July, the seventh consecutive month of year-on-year decline, with 18,722 new units registered. Battery electric van (BEV) registrations rise 21.2% in the month and 55.7% in year to date amid industry investment towards Net Zero, but sector’s transition still two years behind cars. 1. Industry outlook revised downwards, now expecting year to finish -13.7% behind robust 2021.

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Injection molder Tribar named in contamination spill into Michigan river

Plastics News

Michigan health and environmental authorities have issued a warning to residents in communities northwest of Detroit about the release of a harmful liquid into the Huron River by an automotive supplier with a history of contaminating the waterway.

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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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DMG MORI building Africa’s first machine tool factory

Robotics Automation News

DMG MORI, a manufacturing technology company with 12,000 employees in 87 countries and $2 billion in annual sales revenues, is building what it says is “Africa’s first machine tool factory” in Cairo, Egypt. The decision was formally made at a meeting with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. In the presence of Prime Minister Dr Mostafa […].

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SICK and Aeva partner to bring 4d LIDAR to industrial sensing applications

Design World

Aeva (NYSE: AEVA), a leader in next-generation sensing and perception systems, and SICK announced a strategic multi-year collaboration to bring Aeva’s Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) 4D LiDAR to a variety of industrial sensing applications including long-range sensing, starting with Aeries II. “We are pleased to partner with Aeva and work closely together to bring its FMCW technology to high performance industrial sensing applications,” said Dr.

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Air Canada announces acquisition of two Boeing 777 freighter planes

Canadian Manufacturing

Air Canada plans to increase its full year 2022 ASM capacity by about 150 per cent from 2021 ASM levels (or about 74 per cent of 2019 ASM levels). MONTREAL — Air Canada reported its second quarter 2022 financial results on Aug. 2. Jason Berry, Vice President, Cargo, at Air Canada also provided the following statement: “It has been another exciting quarter for Air Canada Cargo as we continue to strategically build our business and invest in our future.

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Case study: Redesign the process, then the control system

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives. A system integrator was tasked with fixing a control system flaw for a pilot plant at a large pharmaceutical company. The integrator had to make several changes to the temperature control unit (TCU) to compensate for different variables with the liquid nitrogen flow. Thorough initial design and investigation helps prevent a scramble at the end of a project end to patch design holes.

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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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Addverb Technologies launches new ‘automated and dynamic shuttle system’ for warehouses

Robotics Automation News

Addverb Technologies, the leading automation solutions provider for warehouses and distribution centers, announced the launch of Medius, its new multi-level shuttle system. Medius is an automated and highly dynamic shuttle system that performs the function of storage and retrieval on multiple levels and is designed for businesses that want to increase storage density or establish […].

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AMW showcases exciting times for Australian manufacturing

Manufacturer's Monthly

The Australian Manufacturing Week was a week of celebrating and highlighting the full spectrum of industry. Billy Friend attended the event and spoke to industry leaders about emerging trends and highlights from the conferences and trade floor. There was a buzz of activity on all four days of the Australian Manufacturing Week in Sydney’s International Convention Centre. 170 exhibitors across a myriad of sectors presented their latest technology and services to 6099 attendees from every state acr

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Exhaust supplier merges into new lane as hot stamper

The Fabricator

The fischer group, which has established itself firmly as a producer and supplier of stainless steel tubing for automotive exhaust systems, assessed the global transition to vehicle electrification and determined that it needed to merge into a new lane—stamping high-strength, lightweight, aluminum body components.

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Polyolefin prices slump in Europe on weak demand, rising imports

Plastics News

In June, a combination of weak demand and improving supply led to a further decline in European standard thermoplastic prices, despite little change to monomer 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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15 benefits to using Automation in High-Pressure Die Casting

Robotics Automation News

Die casting is a process that has been used for many years to create products from metal using die casting mould. It is often used when there is a need for mass production of parts, as it can be done quickly and relatively cheaply. In recent years, however, die casting has begun to be replaced […].

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Downer invests in asphalt manufacturing for sustainable roads

Manufacturer's Monthly

Downer is investing $10 million in construction of a state-of-the-art asphalt manufacturing facility in northern Tasmania, in a demonstration of its commitment to a long-term future in the state. The new facility will replace an existing asphalt plant that’s reaching the end of its service life. “Our two asphalt manufacturing facilities in Tasmania currently produce thousands of tonnes each year that is used to build and maintain roads right across the state,” Downer general manager Tasmania, Ma

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Calm resolve wins the day for tube fabricators and machine manufacturers

The Fabricator

By just being there the week of Tube 2022, the thousands of exhibitors and attendees that poured into the Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre each day said something with their hands and feet more powerful than they could have otherwise: “We’re here, and we’re ready to do business.

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Swinburne research team seeks to spearhead metal production on Mars

AU Manufacturing

A group of researchers led by a professor from Swinburne University of Technology has published a study that focuses on metal extraction on Mars, the first-ever detailed paper on the topic. . The team, led by Professor Akbar Rhamdhani, is developing a method that would take processed air, dirt, and sunlight on Mars to create metallic iron. The process will use concentrated solar energy as a heat source and carbon, which is produced by cooling carbon monoxide— a by-product of oxygen production in

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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.