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A Day in the Life of a Manufacturing Elf

MRPEasy

Peasy the Elf is the Production Manager of Santa’s Workshop. Leaning on some software magic and his decades of experience in manufacturing, he makes sure the right presents reach the right people each holiday season. Morning routine of Peasy the Elf Like most elves, Peasy the Elf was born with a mission. A mission to […]. The post A Day in the Life of a Manufacturing Elf appeared first on Blog for Manufacturers and Distributors.

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Growing Pains in Direct to Consumer E-Commerce

Automation World

With direct to consumer e-commerce expected to grow in the near future, manufacturers need to consider automation advancements that can help ease the process.

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New Emerson valves deliver proportional flow control in exacting applications

Design World

Emerson introduced the ASCOTM Series 209 proportional flow control valves, which offer the highest standards of precision, pressure ratings, flow characteristics, and energy efficiency available in a purpose-built, compact architecture. With this combination of size and performance, Series 209 valves allow users to precisely regulate the flow of fluid in a wide range of devices that require… The post New Emerson valves deliver proportional flow control in exacting applications appeared fir

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AI Software for Robots and Flexible Automation

Gary Mintchell

AI gathers so much media hype that I must curtail my natural bent toward contrarianism. Artificial Intelligence in its various forms has advanced many applications. However, its hype often exceeds the actual applicability. Some new products offer more potential than immediate use. Industrial and manufacturing announcements are often more immediately accessible than the more general one.

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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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Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift

E&T

Faced with fuel shortages and rising energy prices, the nation has taken the step to end an 11-year prohibition on the building of new nuclear reactors. . The new policy establishes that Japan must maximise the use of existing nuclear reactors by restarting as many of them as possible, prolonging the operating life of old reactors beyond their 60-year limit, and developing next-generation reactors to replace them.

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How UNS Makes Different Systems' Data Sharable

Automation World

If you want to share data between systems, it does. To do so effectively, the data will need to be formatted so that it’s sharable and digestible. The good news is, there are multiple ways of doing this with unified namespace technology.

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2023 metal fabrication forecast: Reshoring gets real for manufacturers

The Fabricator

Although talk of a 2023 recession pervades mass media, metal fabricators don’t expect a significant slowdown. The data supports their view. Much of that has come from real evidence of reshoring and nearshoring across the manufacturing sector.

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Uber Eats and Cartken partner to offer sidewalk robot deliveries

Robotics Automation News

Uber Technologies, and Cartken, a delivery robots company, have formed a new partnership for food deliveries via automated robots in Miami, Florida. Uber Eats consumers in Miami will have the opportunity to have orders delivered by Cartken’s self-driving robot. Starting today, Uber and Cartken will begin operating with select merchants in the Dadeland area of […].

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Channel 4’s ‘Alternative Christmas Message’ to be AI speech delivered by robot

E&T

A human-shaped robot called Ameca will lead the programme which will cover the highs and lows of the year gone by. The broadcast, which will run after the King’s annual Christmas message at 3pm, will also see the robot being questioned about humans. According to Channel 4, Ameca says we should be “neither happy nor sad about 2022” and “take it as a learning opportunity, a chance to change the way we think about the world and a reminder to help those in need whenever we can.”.

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How To: Use the Arduino PLC IDE to Build Basic Ladder Diagrams

Control.com

Following the release of the official Arduino PLC IDE, this tutorial will introduce programming and understanding of the function blocks common to all IEC 61131 languages, starting with bit commands, timers, and counters.

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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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Metal fabricators benefit from government spending

The Fabricator

There’s a bright side to government spending. On Nov. 10, during the final morning of FABTECH, Omar Nashashibi, a founding partner at The Franklin Partnership, gave insight into how recent legislation could affect the industry and U.S. manufacturing overall.

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Manufacturing Software: Definition and Benefits for Your Business

Robotics Automation News

Today, IT solutions are just as necessary as the machinery and heavy equipment used to produce products. As such, it is used by large and new small and medium manufacturing companies. This software is also designed for those who have factory businesses such as import/export trade. Manufacturing IT solutions are designed to streamline a manufacturer’s […].

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Berlin scientists break tandem solar cells efficiency record

E&T

The current record for the efficiency of tandem solar cells has been broken at HZB, certifying institute European Solar Test Installation (ESTI) in Italy has confirmed. . Tandem solar cells consist of a silicon bottom cell and a perovskite top cell. In order to increase the technology's efficiency, the HZB team used an advanced perovskite composition with a smart interface modification.

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Material Insights: Seaholm asks for no limits on US resin production

Plastics News

In testimony to a Senate committee, the head of the Plastics Industry Association talked about recycled-content requirements, chemical recycling, limits on U.S. resin production and the need to improve recycling collection. Also, Texas is preparing for unseasonably cold temperatures, hoping to avoid a repeat of the 2021 winter storm that started supply chain problems that took months to resolve.

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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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How knowledge eliminates the grinding constraint in the metal fab shop

The Fabricator

Grinding remains one of the most manual processes on the metal fabrication shop floor. The more operators know, the safer and more effective they can be.

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ABB launches new industrial collaborative robot

Robotics Automation News

ABB has launched the Swifti CRB 1300 industrial collaborative robot, bridging the gap between industrial and collaborative robots. Combining “class-leading” speed and accuracy with expanded load handling capability of up to 11 kg, the Swifti CRB 1300 can be used in a wide variety of production and product handling applications – from machine tending and […].

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UK and Moderna cement 10-year partnership to build vaccine facility

E&T

The partnership will also create more than 150 jobs and “future-proof” the UK against potential pandemics, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said. Plans for the centre were initially unveiled earlier this year when a government spokesperson said Moderna would make a minimum R&D investment of £1.1bn. The centre, which will be able to produce up to 250 million vaccines a year, will see the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) working with Moderna to ensure early vaccine development,

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Environmentalists nab win on chemical recycling in federal budget

Plastics News

The $1.7 trillion spending plan that passed Congress Dec. 23 includes a victory for environmental groups in the policy fight over chemical recycling.

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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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The automotive industry’s ever-changing world revolves around EVs

The Fabricator

The automotive industry’s ever-changing world revolves around electric vehicles, and the Charger Daytona Banshee is a perfect example of that, writes Josh Welton.

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Outrider equips autonomous trucks with deep-learning driven robotic arms

Robotics Automation News

Outrider, the startup developing autonomous yard operations for logistics hubs, has releaseed TrailerConnect – a patented technology that robotically attaches the needed brake and electric lines from yard trucks to any of the over 10 million trailers and chassis circulating globally. A deep-learning based technology, TrailerConnect is now available as part of the Outrider System, […].

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EU countries agree on gas price cap

E&T

After months of negotiations and a succession of draft proposals, the 27 countries that form the European Union have agreed to impose a price cap on rising gas prices. . "Another mission impossible accomplished," said the Czech minister for trade and industry, Jozef Síkela, who chaired talks between energy ministers. "Most importantly it was our duty towards our citizens and businesses who were waiting for us to act," he added.

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Industrial Processes and Wireless Communications – Part III: Process Automation Monitoring

Cisco Manufacturing

The Internet is littered with articles about Industry 4.0. Adoption of digital industrial processes have accelerated since the German government led this initiative to maintain national industrial prowess. For example, with digital twins and modular flexible systems. One of the main features of Industry 4.0 is interoperability for mobile cyber-physical systems.

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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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Reflections on FABTECH 2022: Metal fabrication in a connected world

The Fabricator

Almost 30,000 people attended FABTECH 2022, North America’s largest metal fabrication event. With attendance up more than 20% from 2021, the tradeshow hosted an industry poised for growth through a connected world and digital transformation.

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Ag-tech startup Saga Robotics delivers ‘excellent results’ in ‘biggest season yet’

Robotics Automation News

Saga Robotics says it has delivered “excellent results” in the company’s “biggest season yet”. Last year, in what’s described as “a world-first”, the ag-tech company removed the requirement for fungicides to control strawberry powdery mildew. This season’s results consolidate the company’s status as a “stable and serious provider of automated integrated pest management”, according to […].

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UK and North Sea countries sign deal to build energy interconnectors

E&T

The deal is intended to foster greater collaboration on development of offshore renewable energy and grid infrastructure that will be needed for the to meet UK net zero carbon goals. The initiative could help to support the UK targets to increase offshore wind more than fivefold to 50GW by 2030 - up from 8.4 GW today. The agreement was signed with the North Seas Energy Cooperation (NSEC) which is an EU body overseeing an offshore energy grid that links nine countries in the North Sea region.

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H2 GO: Are Australians on board with hydrogen energy?

AU Manufacturing

Article by Chris McKay, CSIRO ECOS. With the hydrogen industry still in the early stages of development, community acceptance will be crucial to whether it succeeds. A new CSIRO report examines public attitudes around not just how hydrogen is used, but also its production, storage and transport. Picture a future where bus fleets, freight trucks and even family cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells are cruising side by side with battery-powered electric vehicles on our roads, leaving only water vap

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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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Packaging Trends: Balancing Sustainability with Profits

Plastics Today

How can brands sustainably improve packaging cost effectively while balancing consumer desires for inclusivity, convenience, and other essentials? Experts provide guidance and options.

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North American robot sales on track for another record year for 2022

Robotics Automation News

North American robot sales in the first nine months of 2022 reached record levels, with all indications pointing to 2022 ending with the highest number of robots sold in a year for the second year in a row. According to the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), from January to September 2022, North American companies purchased […].

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Report calls for end of ‘costly’ genetic modification prohibition

E&T

The IEA report has backed the government's proposed Precision Breeding Bill, which aims to update the regulatory framework related to precision-bred plants and animals developed through techniques such as gene editing. . The think tank - which influenced the policy ideas of former prime minister Liz Truss - also said that the UK must go further than current reforms and embrace genetic modification.

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Memjet comes back home with new manufacturing factory in Sydney

AU Manufacturing

Global printing technology manufacturer Memjet is slated to begin operating a new factory in North Ryde, Sydney, bringing the manufacturing of its engines back home. . The advanced manufacturing new facility will start locally producing the cores for Memjet’s commercial printing machines by the end of 2022. . The company is a pioneer of advanced digital ink-jet printing technologies, which serve as the brains of many of the world’s best-known printing brands, such as Canon, Konica Minolta, PCMC,

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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.