Automation World
JULY 12, 2022
Advances in additive manufacturing are moving the technology in the direction of making production-ready parts. But before investing in 3D printing, take some time to understand the different types of equipment and materials.
Gary Mintchell
JULY 12, 2022
I’ve written recently about what process automation suppliers have released in the area of carbon capture, methane leak detection, and other sustainability efforts. Today, I address a project that a few hundred people have worked on for a year. It’s called The Carbon Almanac. The book launches today. I’ve purchased a few. Do yourself a favor and get one.
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The Fabricator
JULY 15, 2022
When people just do what they’re told and are cut out of the decision-making process, shop culture at any manufacturing company suffers. Good leadership and culture can’t exist in an environment that doesn’t protect employees.
i4.0 today
JULY 11, 2022
Challenge: Rauland , a subsidiary of AMETEK, is an American manufacturing company based in Mount Prospect, Illinois that produces workflow and life-safety solutions for hospitals and schools worldwide. Constantly growing as an organization, they recently set internal mandates to increase manufacturing capacity by 30%, while initiating a more data-driven approach across their business.
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.
Automation World
JULY 14, 2022
End users and integrators offer their insights into industry’s growing use of industrial robots, collaborative robots, and autonomous mobile robots.
Gary Mintchell
JULY 14, 2022
Technology pundits have extolled hydrogen as an energy source that makes sense from environmental and sustainable points-of-view for many years. Emerson recently hosted an online conference focused on what it is doing to help customers develop hydrogen production. We are finally on the cusp of a breakthrough. One problem hydrogen shares with electricity is dirty generation.
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Plastics Today
JULY 15, 2022
Interdisciplinary research team seeks to develop thermoformable thermoplastic composites using renewable bast fibers as reinforcement.
Automation World
JULY 12, 2022
Using a connected automation architecture anchored by Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk software enables Oxford Landing winemakers to specify process streams, crushing speeds, and fermentation schedules.
Gary Mintchell
JULY 13, 2022
Two product trends flow into my inbox the past few months. One that I’ve recently devoted space concerns open automation. The other reveals constant activity in the general robot market. Whether cobots or Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs), energy and innovation abound. This news comes from Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) who recently introduced a new software foundation that enables more robust and scalable AMRs for faster missions, tighter integration with other systems, and enhanced cybersecurit
Robotics Automation News
JULY 15, 2022
ABB and Red Hat have agreed a global partnership to enable industries using ABB’s process automation and industrial software to scale rapidly and flexibly leveraging Red Hat’s industry leading enterprise platforms and application services built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The collection, management and analysis of industrial plant data is critical to improve the efficiency […].
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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.
The Fabricator
JULY 12, 2022
In today’s digitally connected world, manufacturers should do themselves a favor and pay attention. Machine and tooling manufacturer Wilson Tool Intl. experienced a cyberattack, and it wants to share its story in the hopes of helping others in the industry.
Automation World
JULY 11, 2022
The convergence of IT and operations technology requires specific skills associated with roles in both departments, which sometimes requires integrators to act more as change facilitators than engineers.
Gary Mintchell
JULY 13, 2022
OK, I could use scare tactics like a mass market “journalist” talking about Russia and threats nuclear warfare. On the other hand, how would the control system on your critical infrastructure withstand a high altitude nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) blast? If you are using a controller from Bedrock Automation, this video documents tests of high voltage EMP resistance.
Robotics Automation News
JULY 15, 2022
Plex Systems, a Rockwell Automation company and provider of cloud-delivered smart manufacturing solutions, has released the results of its 7th annual study, The State of Smart Manufacturing Report. The research reveals that smart manufacturing adoption accelerated by 50 percent globally in 2021, and these new technologies are now solving the industry’s critical challenges.
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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.
E&T
JULY 15, 2022
Visitors to two of Turin’s most popular galleries have had the opportunity to experience how 5G communications technology could be used to bring smart robots and virtual reality into museums. The demonstration, hosted by the Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GAM) and City Museum of Ancient Art (Palazzo Madama) in the Italian city during May, was the result of collaboration between public and private organisations that have been working together for three years to demonstrate the pote
Automation World
JULY 14, 2022
The Festo Motion Control Package can add up to four axes of motion beyond the six axes of motion provided by Universal Robot’s collaborative robot products.
Gary Mintchell
JULY 12, 2022
Governmental agencies or think tanks that seek to influence governmental agencies may bear some fruit in the end. People like me who are predisposed toward getting things done hold skeptical views. But enough voices could cause something good to happen. This news concerns a policy center on industrial strategy for the US economy. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) , the leading think tank for science and technology policy, launched a new policy center called the Hamilton
Robotics Automation News
JULY 14, 2022
Fused deposition modelling (FDM) is a 3D printing technology that uses melted plastic filament to build up objects layer by layer. FDM parts are typically made from thermoplastic materials such as ABS, PLA, or PC. Once the object is printed, it can be finished using various methods, such as sanding, painting, or machining. CNC machining […].
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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.
Control Engineering
JULY 15, 2022
A strain-sensing smart skin developed at Rice University that uses very small structures, carbon nanotubes , to monitor and detect damage in large structures is ready for prime time. The “strain paint” first revealed by Rice in 2012 uses the fluorescent properties of nanotubes to show when a surface has been deformed by stress. Now developed as part of a non-contact optical monitoring system known as S4, the multilayered coating can be applied to large surfaces — bridges, buildings, ships and
Automation World
JULY 15, 2022
Lenze offered an overview of its cloud offerings as well as its hardware portfolio at Automate 2022 in Detroit.
Gary Mintchell
JULY 11, 2022
“In more than 25 years in the automation and energy business, I have never experienced more exciting times, albeit with more existential challenges,” says Peter Terwiesch, President, ABB Process Automation. Terwiesch spoke with me several times back when he was CTO of ABB process automation. He has always had marvelous insight into technology trends and process applications.
Robotics Automation News
JULY 15, 2022
Cross Company, a 100 percent employee-owned industrial technology company, is partnering with Doosan Robotics Americas to bring its collaborative robot (cobot) technology to the south-eastern United States. Doosan Robotics was founded in South Korea in 2015 and following three years of research and development they developed a range of four cobot models that use their […].
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.
Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing
JULY 12, 2022
San Antonio, TX — 12 July 2022 — Recently, Frost & Sullivan researched the Malaysian hospital industry and, based on its analysis results, recognizes Subang Jaya Medical Centre (SJMC) with the 2022 Company of the Year Award. The company is accredited by Joint Commission International (JCI) and the Malaysian Society for Quality in Health (MSQH), and its medical laboratories are certified by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Automation World
JULY 11, 2022
See how software providers are continuing to move towards SaaS models for developing, delivering, and monetizing their work, and how that trend is breaking into the manufacturing space.
Control Engineering
JULY 12, 2022
Fireflies that light up dusky backyards on warm summer evenings use their luminescence for communication — to attract a mate, ward off predators, or lure prey. These glimmering bugs also sparked the inspiration of scientists at MIT. Taking a cue from nature, they built electroluminescent soft artificial muscles for flying, insect-scale robots. The tiny artificial muscles that control the robots’ wings emit colored light during flight.
Robotics Automation News
JULY 14, 2022
An IT security audit is an important process that should be performed regularly in order to protect your business from potential cyber threats. In this blog post, we will explore what an IT security audit is, why it’s important, and the top 5 IT security audit companies. We’ll also take a look at the steps […].
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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.
Seeburger
JULY 12, 2022
Did you know that procurement processes have a particularly important role in a company’s digital transformation to an industry 4.0 organisation? However, for their digital transformation to be successful and for ?procurement 4.0’ to reach its full potential as an innovation driver, prompting cost and efficiency savings and opening up new opportunities for the company, […].
Automation World
JULY 12, 2022
By providing low-risk training, always up-to-date cybersecurity, and no need to manage on-site technology, Emerson’s DeltaV Simulation Cloud illustrates why more industrial companies are moving to cloud-based operations technology software.
The Fabricator
JULY 12, 2022
A pilot program that gives employees much-desired latitude in their schedules has yielded wonderful results. It is now seen as a critical benefit for workers—and a competitive advantage.
Robotics Automation News
JULY 15, 2022
Columbia Engineers build a robot that learns to understand itself, rather than the world around it As every athletic or fashion-conscious person knows, our body image is not always accurate or realistic, but it’s an important piece of information that determines how we function in the world. When you get dressed or play ball, your […].
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