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GE Digital Adds 3D Digital Twin, Accelerators to Asset Performance Management

Automation World

A partnership with Visionaize adds 3D digital twins to operational use cases, and a new Accelerator product line speeds time to value for its asset performance software in energy industries.

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CIONIC CEO Jeremiah Robison Discusses Bionic Clothing That Augments Human Movement

Robotics Business Review

In Episode 81 of The Robot Report Podcast, Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman are joined by Jeremiah Robison, CEO of CIONIC, a developer of bionic clothing that enables the body to move with more freedom and control. The post CIONIC CEO Jeremiah Robison Discusses Bionic Clothing That Augments Human Movement appeared first on Robotics Business Review.

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Fiber laser marking parts anywhere with growing portable technology

The Fabricator

Laser marking, long relegated to a stationary, tabletop setup, now can be portable thanks to fiber laser technology advancements. This enables metalworkers to bring laser marking directly to metal parts like steel, aluminum, copper, and more.

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Is it back to the 1970s for the UK economy? Yes, but not in the way you think

The Guardian Manufacturing

When Marc Bolan was urging us to Get It On, life in the UK was very different but now, as then, pitiful levels of business investment make us all poorer Britain is suffering a catastrophic economic shock that resembles the one that knocked the economy sideways in the 1970s, but strike action by workers offered below-inflation pay rises ranks low on the list of similarities.

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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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Heineken’s Event-Driven Connectivity Strategy

Automation World

Central to its global systems connectivity approach, Heineken uses a publish/subscribe approach to connect disparate technologies such as ERP, CRM, and MES, as well as shipping, payment, and cloud-based data lakes.

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Guide to UR cobot implementation

Universal Robots

Collaborative robots (cobots) are a cost-effective way to increase production and delivery time, optimize your processes and boost quality. But even though a cobot is much simpler and faster to set up and get working than a traditional industrial robot, there is still some preparation that needs to be done.

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Folding technology finds its place in the modern job shop

The Fabricator

Folding machines are now emerging as a modern parts-forming tool for metal fabricating and manufacturing companies.

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Revenue Management for Manufacturers

Automation World

Read about the 4 levers of revenue management: pricing basis, inventory allocation, product configuration, and duration control.

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Decision on sale of UK’s biggest chip maker to Chinese-owned firm delayed

The Guardian Manufacturing

New national security legislation used to allow more time to scrutinise £63m deal for Newport Wafer Fab The British government has delayed the decision on whether the UK’s largest producer of semiconductors can be bought by a Chinese-owned manufacturer by another month and a half. The business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, had been expected to make a decision by Tuesday on the purchase of Newport Wafer Fab by Nexperia , a Dutch firm wholly owned by China’s Wingtech.

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The 5 key robotic palletizing principles

Universal Robots

Implementing a robotic palletizing solution using a collaborative robot (cobot) can not only help your production operations run as smoothly as possible, but also help increase speed, output and reduce costs.

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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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The challenges of taking a new product to market

The Fabricator

Nick Martin discusses the challenges of taking a new product to market with his aftermarket auto accessories side business.

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Industrial Ethernet Protocols and Time-Sensitive Networking

Automation World

How Time-Sensitive Networking enables Ethernet to merge multiple traffic types on the same network.

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‘It’s hot’: UK interest in solar power heats up as energy bills soar

The Guardian Manufacturing

Boom clouded by supply chain disruption, a fragmented industry as well as ethical issues “It’s hot,” says Steve Springett, a director of the renewable energy brand Egg, cheerily assessing the solar market. “There’s two key factors: people are understanding the environmental benefits of it better, and energy is really, really expensive at the moment.

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Will the 21st Century See an End to Human Labour?

21st Century Tech

Katie Brenneman is a frequent contributor of content here at 21st Century Tech Blog. Her interests include writing about sustainability, lifestyle, and mental health. You can follow her on Twitter. In this contribution, Katie talks about how robotics is changing the composition of what we call the labour force. The modern industrial production line today has seen assembly line workers and those working in warehousing replaced by machines.

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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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Novarc Technologies presents its collaborative welding robot in Australia

Automation Mag

Vancouver-based Novarc Technologies recently introduced its Spool Welding Robot (SWR) at the Australian Manufacturing Week in Sydney from June 7 to 10. The SWR increases productivity and shop capacity, delivering required weld quality and improving welder ergonomics. “We’re very excited to have a presence at Australian Manufacturing Week for the first time.

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Quality Management Gets an Industrial Transformation Update

Automation World

Learn how quality management can be improved by integrating quality across the complete value chain.

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Procurement Planning – A Simple Guide

MRPEasy

A thoroughly planned procurement process helps to ensure that a company’s purchases arrive in a timely manner and in the right quantities, from the best vendors and with good prices. A well thought out procurement plan helps businesses stay in control of the product manufacturing cycle and avoid last-minute surprises. What is Procurement Planning? Procurement […].

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What to Consider Before Moving Operations Into the Cloud: The Perfect Cloud Service Contract

Seeburger

Businesses and their products and services are constantly evolving. More than ever, this is being driven by the digitalization of their processes. The complexity of the technological and organisational design of these business processes, paired with the need for scalability and agility, have significantly increased the demand for cloud service contracts.

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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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Leveling the Technology Playing Field for A&D SMEs

iBASEt

In the Aerospace & Defense value chain, the large tier-one OEMs have made significant investments in IT to both comply with customer and governmental requirements and Togo-defined productivity (productivity, relative to the U.S.). They have invested in technology that drives the business across the entire product lifecycle, from design, through manufacturing to sales and delivery, as well as after-delivery service.

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Sepasoft Batch and Procedure Model

Automation World

By using the various tools in the Ignition toolbox, it is possible to create dynamic views that represent the ISA-88 objects of a process cell.

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Advantech releases new embedded computing solutions equipped with Intel® Xeon® D-1700/2700 processors

Expo21xx

Advantech, a leading provider of IoT solutions, announces a range of embedded computing solutions featuring Intel® Xeon® D-1700/2700 processors. This range comprises the AIR-500D, the ARK-7060, MIC-790 edge AI servers, and the […]. The post Advantech releases new embedded computing solutions equipped with Intel® Xeon® D-1700/2700 processors appeared first on EXPO21XX.com NEWS.

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The recent chess robot incident should never have happened

Universal Robots

Universal Robots’ Global Technical Compliance Officer Roberta Nelson Shea explains why the recent and widely publicized chess robot incident in Moscow should never have happened.

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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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Message From C.O.O

Galaxy Sivtek

In the first message of this year, I am pleased to report that 2021 was very successful in spite of ongoing challenges. We have excel in all the domains of sales, customer satisfaction, market capture and employee satisfaction. First and foremost, I would like to thank you for what you have contributed to the weather this crisis and to get our company prepared to cope for higher growth.

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Fastener Pop Quiz: METRIC FASTENERS

Fastener News Desk

FASTENER POP QUIZ: METRIC FASTENERS. [SPONSORED CONTENT]. EUROLINK FASTENER SUPPLY & SERVICE “Hard-to-Find Metric Fasteners Delivered”. . Eurolink is the premier US D istributor of metric fasteners and fastener lines with hard-to-find metric fasteners manufactured to both DIN and ISO standards. As the nation’s leading source for hard-to-find metric fasteners, Eurolink offers access to more than 100,000 quality C-class parts from countries such as Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Sp

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Portescap expands brushless motor portfolio with new 32-mm offering

Motion Control Tips

Portescap has unveiled the 32ECF brushless slotted flat motor, the latest addition to the company’s motor portfolio. This new motor has a diameter of 32 mm and an overall body length of 17.6 mm. With an 8-pole design and high-power density in a flat architecture, the 32-mm motor uses an outer rotor configuration with an […]. The post Portescap expands brushless motor portfolio with new 32-mm offering appeared first on Motion Control Tips.

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Skyhook Pro positioners from Pemamek made for assembly, arc welding applications

The Fabricator

Pemamek Oy and Pemamek LLC have introduced Skyhook Pro positioners. Controlled by a RC32H wired remote control and intelligent software, the positioners can lift loads up to 15 tons. They can be rotated +/-180 degrees for optimal positioning.

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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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Introducing Galaxy Sivtek’s Supreme Roto Sifter : The Sivtek Pneumatic Roto Sifter

Galaxy Sivtek

From horizontally vibrating sifters to centrifugal screening machines, the screening industry has evolved in multi-faceted ways to optimize our sifting process and assure the optimal quality of our raw materials. With a wide range of applications and screening facilities, these advanced sifting machines have made it possible to efficiently purify our products, without losing their rich quality.

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New isolation and transport eLearning platform from EpiGuard

i4.0 today

Today, the Eker Group company that gave you the EpiShuttle, launched an eLearning platform to build knowledge, skills, and confidence on safe isolation and transport of infectious and contaminated patients. “ Ensuring the safety of healthcare professionals is at the core of everything we do. That’s why we have committed to training solutions and designed a training that goes far beyond traditional product information, ” Ellen Cathrine Andersen, CEO of EpiGuard said.

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The Value of Machine Data for Your MES

Machine Metrics

Manufacturers have long used Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) to help manage production. And whether standalone or as part of a broader ERP system, MES has played a significant part in managing and improving production.

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Guantes que ofrecen protección transpirable A4 contra cortaduras

The Fabricator

Brass Knuckle introdujo los guantes SmartCut BKCR4420, los cuales ofrecen resistencia al corte A4 con protección de doble recubrimiento que combina resistencia contra el deslizamiento y protección contra la infiltración.

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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.