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An insider’s guide to Cisco Live 2022: don’t miss these top 7 IoT highlights

Cisco Industrial Automation

Much has changed since the last in-person Cisco Live, in 2019. Hybrid work is a household term. Some of us are better cooks. And the industrial internet of things (IoT) has taken giant leaps, transforming industries like manufacturing, ports, mining, transportation, utilities, and governments. We’re excited to share the latest innovations in industrial IoT at Cisco Live 2022, to be held in Las Vegas from June 12-16, 2022.

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Is Lean Always Futile If Customers Come Last?

Chris Hohmann

This post was inspired by an article published June 1, 2022 by Rick Bohan and Ron Jacques on [link] , titled “Lean Is Futile If Customers Come Last”. The article is a critical view on some bad practices “ignoring the experience of existing and prospective customers as they try to work with you” while pretending … Continue reading Is Lean Always Futile If Customers Come Last?

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Continuous Emphasis on Food Safety for Health and Well Being

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

This year’s theme for World Food Safety Day – ‘Safer food, better health’ , underlines the need for continuous efforts toward keeping food safe that is accessible to people from all walks of life. The theme emphasizes the golden rule of “Safety First”, which has a direct connection to ensuring food safety and security that aids in ensuring health and wellness but also influences a nation’s economic prosperity and sustainable development.

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Track funding events effortlessly

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

Market Intelligence. Quickly discover the latest funding rounds in your sector with Feedly’s AI Engine. Do you track the growth strategies of your competitors, customers, or partners? We have added Funding Events to the list of strategic moves Leo understands. This new machine learning model will help you: Track your competitors’ growth Identify potential partners Discover investment opportunities.

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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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A Quick Guide to Circuit Breakers

Marshall Wolf Automation

Circuit breakers, we’ve all seen one… Whether the application is in your home or an industrial factory, breakers have become the standard. Until now you may have never had to learn more about them besides what to do when one is tripped, but let’s take a look at some of the details of a circuit breaker and how that will guide your purchase. Starting with the basics, we know a circuit breaker is a device that will interrupt the flow of current in an electrical circuit.

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Sustainability Driven Innovation

WMEP

By Mark McDermid, Sustainability Consultant Mark Twain once quipped “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”. Similarly, reports of the demise of sustainability are also quite exaggerated. Sustainability-driven innovation may be a key to both the recovery and resiliency of many businesses as well as growth and competitive prowess. Consider that 62% of [.].

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Have You Seen the Inside of Our Warehouses?

HGR Inc.

Have you had a chance to visit the inside of an HGR warehouse? All of our industrial surplus inventory is available, 24/7 online, but if you get a chance, our locations are an experience that is not to be missed. . Read more to find out what the inside of our warehouses are like and how you can visit! . Meet the Sales Team . Anyone entering our facility will meet the sales team first.

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Is MES Holding You Back? The 9 Risks of Legacy Solutions

Machine Metrics

Business agility was once something manufacturing companies could work toward incrementally. But highly volatile disruptions, unpredictable business climates, and increased demand and competition have forced companies to address business agility as an imperative.

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Promega’s Corporate Responsibility Journey

WMEP

Questions by Mark McDermid, Sustainability Consultant, WMEP & WBSC Answers by Corey Meek, Corporate Responsibility Lead, Promega Corporation Why and how did you get started on your sustainability journey? Environmental stewardship has been part of Promega since the early days of the company. From restoring a native prairie on the Fitchburg campus to becoming the [.].

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Investments in Global Contactless Services Spike to Improve Customer Satisfaction

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

San Antonio, Texas –June 10, 2022– To ease people’s fears regarding personal hygiene and safety and return to pre-pandemic stability, businesses across all industries are incorporating contactless/no-touch solutions in existing operating models. Adopting these practices will lower personal proximity, minimizing the chances of virus transmission. Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Global Contactless Services Industry , finds that organizations’ need to reduce avoidable contact among individu

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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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NCMS President and CEO Lisa Strama Receives 2022 International Honor Award from SME

NCMS

Ann Arbor, MI, June 8, 2022—National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) President and CEO Lisa Strama has been recognized with a 2022 International Honor Award from SME, the nonprofit association of professionals, educators, and students committed to promoting and supporting the manufacturing industry.? Strama received the Donald C. Burnham Manufacturing Management Award, which recognizes exceptional […].

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Kontron releases new Computer-on-Modules designed for the Internet of Things

Expo21xx

Kontron, a leading global provider of IoT/embedded computer technology (ECT), announces new Computer-on-Modules featuring the Intel Xeon D-2700 and Xeon D-1700 processors for the Internet of Things (IoT). Kontron extends the current […]. The post Kontron releases new Computer-on-Modules designed for the Internet of Things appeared first on EXPO21XX.com NEWS.

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Prioritizing Sustainability Topics

WMEP

By Michelle Miller, Senior Sustainability & Product Stewardship Specialist, Appvion Operations, Inc. With so many different topics in sustainability, it’s hard to know where to start sometimes. You have water usage, energy efficiency, pollution prevention, employee training and education, community engagement, wellness programs, product life cycle assessment, responsible sourcing… and that is just to name [.].

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CLEPA 2022 Aftermarket Conference: “Dataplaces – The Future Epicentre of Mobility Services”

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

For those who weren’t able to attend, I have put together my five key takeaways from the event: The Aftermarket Wants a Level Playing (Data) Field. There is a real fear amongst the independent aftermarket community that automakers have created a position that currently feels like near-unsurmountable dominance when it comes to the vehicle data they control and can access.

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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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VFD Troubleshooting Flowchart

DO Supply

A Variable Frequency Drive (VFD), also known as a Variable-Speed Drive (VSD), Adjustable-Frequency Drive (AFD), Frequency Converter (FC), Adjustable Speed Drive (ASD), Microdrive, AC drive, or an Inverter driver, is an electronic controller used to regulate the rotational speed of induction or synchronous electric motors. The VFD controls motor speed by varying the frequency of… The post VFD Troubleshooting Flowchart first appeared on Do Supply Tech Support.

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Peppol Message Level Response: More security for status tracking

Seeburger

Imagine you have sent an important invoice which, through a series of unfortunate events, does not reach the sender. While you wait endlessly for the invoice to be paid, the customer is still waiting to receive the invoice. Failure to communicate here can have unpleasant consequences. The e-procurement network Peppol solves this problem through status […].

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Right approach crucial to maximize international sales

WMEP

ExporTech™ program can help Author: Dan Steininger, Milwaukee BizTimes, Reprinted from 10/11-24, 2010 Every business leader knows the number one task is to continue to grow revenues on a profitable basis. Larry Page, the cofounder of Google, famously said: “We understand the need to balance our short- and longer-term needs because our revenue is the engine [.].

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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Newsight Imaging with the 2022 Technology Innovation Leadership Award for Its Ground-breaking Image Sensor Technology

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

San Antonio, TX — June 9 th , 2022 — Based on its recent analysis of the European automotive image sensors industry, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Newsight Imaging with the 2022 Technology Innovation Leadership Award. Newsight Imaging specializes in developing high-performance complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors for three-dimensional (3D) machine vision systems and spectral analysis applications, offering superior image quality and cost-effective solutions to its custo

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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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3 Ways Digital Systems Can Boost Manufacturing Productivity

iBASEt

As the UK emerges from the pandemic, there has never been a more important time to relinquish paper-based systems and spreadsheets and leverage the power of digital technologies to gain a productivity advantage in manufacturing. Our new Digital Manufacturing Productivity report , supported by the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), reveals that 94% of highly engineered industrial UK manufacturers believe a lack of digital investment has caused UK manufacturing to fall behind the US.

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Incremental encoders offer 16 quadrature resolutions from 96 to 4,096 PPR

Motion Control Tips

CUI Devices’ Motion Group has introduced a new series to its AMT incremental encoder family. Based on the existing AMT11 series package, the new AMT11A series is not subject to silicon related lead-time constraints and can serve as a drop-in replacement for AMT11 encoder models. AMT11A encoders offer 16 quadrature resolutions from 96 to 4,096 […].

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Solutions For Workforce Challenges In Manufacturing

WMEP

For many years, Wisconsin manufacturers struggled to find qualified workers. Now, they are having difficulty finding merely attracting any employees. “This issue really started to build in the mid to late 1990s. At that time, the cry was manufacturers were having trouble and problems finding skilled workers,” WMEP Manufacturing Solutions Vice President of Consulting Services [.].

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Mobile-first Communications Solutions to Empower Diverse Hybrid Workforces

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

San Antonio, Tx. –June 09, 2022– Organizations have shifted to hybrid work models and adopted new mobile communications strategies due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Evaluating Mobile Communications Solutions for the Hybrid Workforce , finds that companies’ increasing adoption of mobile-first communications allows them to address work from anywhere at any time.

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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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3D Printing in Medical Devices: Leveraging a Digital Manufacturing Partner

iBASEt

When you think of a hospital printing organ implants and creating custom joint replacements in a matter of hours, you might be picturing a scene decades from now. Thanks to 3D printing, that reality is only a handful of years away. This is just one example of the potential impact of 3D printing. From one-of-a-kind human joints to mass-produced customized prosthetics, 3D printing could revolutionize medical device manufacturing.

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Safety Meeting Basics for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

Whether you are tasked with managing a small or medium-sized manufacturing facility or own one, safety must always be one of your highest priorities. While there are many ways to enhance workplace safety, holding regular safety meetings is one of the most effective strategies. However, many leaders are not sure where to begin when it comes to incorporating safety meetings into their overall safety plan.

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Roxanne Baumann appointed to the U.S. Department of Commerce Trade Finance Advisory Council

WMEP

Roxanne Baumann, Director of Global Engagement for WMEP Manufacturing Solutions, has been appointed to the U.S. Department of Commerce Trade Finance Advisory Council. Baumann’s appointment is effective immediately and will run through Aug. 7, 2022. Baumann’s experience and advice will be helpful to the U.S. Department of Commerce in effectively addressing and enhancing a full range of [.].

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Distribution Management Basics for SMEs

MRPEasy

Distribution management is an integral part of any well-functioning business that sells physical products. Although the actual shipping of goods takes a central role in the process, distribution management includes many other processes that support timely and cost-effective deliveries. What is Distribution Management? Distribution management is the systemic organization and tracking of the distribution of […].

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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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Sensata Technologies and its Aftermarket TPMS Brand Schrader Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Its Strong Market Presence and Leadership in the Tire Pressure Monitoring System Industry

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

San Antonio, TX — June 7, 2022 — Based on its recent analysis of the North American Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) Aftermarket Industry, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Sensata Technologies and its Aftermarket TPMS brand Schrader with the 2021 Market Leadership Award for offering a broad portfolio of sensors, power protection components, and sensor-rich solutions to the automotive, heavy and off-highway vehicle, and aerospace industries.

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What are the classifications of automotive plastic moulds?

Min-Hui

There are numerous ways to classify automotive plastic molds according to the different plastic corridor molding, and processing styles can be divided into the following orders. – Injection Mold The molding process is characterized by placing the plastic material in the heated barrel of the injection machine. The plastic is heated and molten, pushed by … What are the classifications of automotive plastic moulds?

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iBASEt Recognized as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems

iBASEt

iBASEt Recognized as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems. Lake Forest, Calif. – June 6, 2022 – iBASEt, the company that simplifies how complex products are built and maintained, has been positioned by Gartner as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems for its offering, iBASEt Solumina iSeries.

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Technology Transfer Acceleration by the MEP National Network

WMEP

By: Brian A. Weiss From my standpoint, technology transfer is not easy, especially when attempting to introduce a new capability or technology into the manufacturing sector. Smaller manufacturers in particular present unique environments and challenges that must be appropriately understood if the transfer is to be successful. NIST researchers have an ally that makes technology transfer [.].

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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.