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The Importance of Prototyping in Manufacturing: A Guide to the Product Development Process

Robotics Automation News

Prototyping is a critical step in the manufacturing process. It plays a vital role in product development, validation, and refinement. By using prototypes, manufacturers can test and validate their product designs before moving forward with full-scale production, which can save time and resources in the long run.

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Simulation Helps Solve Supply Chain Problems

Automation World

As supply chains become increasingly perceived as strategic tools for business performance and growth, simulation technologies can help govern logistical calculations among entities and help those entities adjust to changing circumstances.

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Hannover Fair preview: Lenze’s Nupano bridges IT and OT worlds

Design World

Mechanical and plant engineering is an important industry, many well-paid jobs depend on it in Europe. To be competitive in the long term, it needs knowledge of production processes, physics and digital tools for new business models. European machines sell all over the world. However, margins are low and often one-off. Mechanical engineering needs new,… The post Hannover Fair preview: Lenze’s Nupano bridges IT and OT worlds appeared first on Design World.

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UK car production stable in January as EV output charges ahead

SMMT

British car production stable in January, down -0.3% with just 215 fewer units made. Output for export declines -1.5% while volumes for UK market rise 5.6%. Electrified vehicle production charges ahead, up almost 50% to a total of 28,329 units. UK car production was stable in the first month of 2023, with output down just -0.3% to 68,575 units, according to the latest figures released today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).

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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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Tech Trends to Follow in 2023

Robotics Automation News

It is without a doubt that we live in a society that depends so much on technology. Therefore, it is really important to be aware of all the current tech trends so that you could keep up to speed as well.

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Automating Process Control Alarm Response

Automation World

With its D/3 Distributed Control System, NovaTech addresses the processing industry’s adoption of a standards-based approach to alarm management to avoid alarm flooding.

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Sheet metal nesting strategies and leveraging data for the job shop

The Fabricator

Columnist Caleb Chamberlain discusses lessons learned in sheet metal nesting and inventory management, and how high-product-mix job shops can better use data.

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How Digital Twins Could Protect Manufacturers From Cyberattacks

NIST Manufacturing

Detailed virtual copies of physical objects are opening doors for better products across automotive, health care, aerospace and other industries.

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The Hidden Benefits of Manageable Switches in OT Networks

Automation World

Why upgrading to modern, scalable, and manageable infrastructure should be considered as part of any smart manufacturing initiative.

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Hannover Fair preview: Holo-Light’s AR, VR speed up product development

Design World

XR expert Holo-Light will showcase the new, enhanced version of its Augmented Reality Engineering Space AR3S at Hannover Fair April 17-21, 2023, in hall 15, booth F71. In exclusive demos, visitors will experience how immersive technologies simplify and accelerate product development and how to collaborate across Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR).

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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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Thousands of new EV chargepoints to be installed across England

E&T

UK drivers will benefit from an additional £56m in public and industry funding for increasing electric vehicle (EV) charging points across the country. A total of 2,400 new chargepoints will be installed in locations such as Cumbria, Norfolk, Oxfordshire and West Sussex, the DfT has announced, as part of the 'Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure' (LEVI) pilot scheme.

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Turning IoT headwinds into tailwinds

Control Engineering

Today, the industrial internet covers multiple verticals from manufacturing (whose products are placed into every vertical) to retail (which is normally considered to be merely point-of-sale, but can be connected to global supply chains, changing the business requirements significantly). It is deep in that multiple layers—from control of actuators through connectivity via gateways to big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to the business application—are needed.

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British CV output up in best start to year since 2012

SMMT

January CV production increases 35.6% to 9,299 units, the best start to a year since 2012. Output rises for both domestic and overseas markets, up 36.2% and 35.1% respectively. Exports drive growth, with nearly six in ten CVs built for international markets. UK commercial vehicle (CV) production grew 35.6% in the first month of 2023, with 9,299 vans, trucks, taxis, buses and coaches leaving factory lines, according to figures published today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMM

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AMETEK Abaco Systems and Rockford Xellerix announce sales partnership at IDEX 2023

Design World

AMETEK Abaco Systems and Rockford Xellerix have announced a strategic sales partnership at IDEX 2023. The partnership combines Rockford Xellerix’s extensive Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) customer base reach with Abaco’s 30 years of international commercial open architecture computing and rugged embedded electronics innovation. The sales partnership focuses on commercial, as well as air, land, and… The post AMETEK Abaco Systems and Rockford Xellerix announce sales partnership at IDEX 2023

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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 value of talk in the job shop and how culture builds sustainability

The Fabricator

Conventional wisdom in lean manufacturing says that material handlers should stage tools and material for operators. The less wasted movement operators make, the better. Still, how does this affect shop culture and idea generation? It's worth putting more value in talking a communication in the metal fabrication job shop.

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How Automation is Changing the Landscape of Web Development

Robotics Automation News

The world of web development has undergone significant changes in recent years, with new technologies and tools constantly emerging to help streamline the development process. One of the most significant developments in this area is the growing role of automation.

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Top 5 Use Cases of AI in Manufacturing Value Chain

Dinesh Mishra

AI is a game-changer for enterprises. From risk analysis to operations, it has the potential to transform almost every aspect of how companies handle their business. However, when it comes to something as expansive and complicated as machine intelligence, it becomes important to make sure that the technology is deployed in the right way and only across areas where maximum value can be attained.

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HollowStream Liquid Atomizing Spray Nozzle wins awards

Design World

Exair’s HollowStream Liquid Atomizing Spray Nozzle won two 2022 New Product Awards from Occupational Health & Safety and Environmental Protection in their Dust Control and Pollution Control categories. Exair’s HollowStream Spray Nozzles provide a hollow cone spray pattern for pressurized liquids. They are applied to solve cooling, cleaning, foam breaking, rinsing, and dust suppression applications… The post HollowStream Liquid Atomizing Spray Nozzle wins awards appeared first on Design

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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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Maximizing efficiency in tube production

The Fabricator

During these days of climbing inflation, tube producers are looking at all aspects of the production process to possibly save costs. One area that deserves a closer look is the use of high-frequency welding.

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How to Improve Employee Experience Management

Robotics Automation News

EEM (Employee Experience Management) is a big warm hug for your employees. From onboarding to career development, it covers everything that makes your team feel appreciated and motivated. Unfortunately, many organizations need help to implement effective EEM strategies, leading to unhappy employees and high turnover rates.

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Injection Mold Manufacturer Offers Focused Expertise, Benchmark Performance

Mold Making Technology

Photo Credit: StackTeck Systems StackTeck Systems Ltd. is a global provider of integrated plastic molding solutions for the injection molding industry. From product and mold design to complete automation systems and systems integration, StackTeck develops injection molds and systems that provide effective and efficient production solutions. Through technical innovation in mold bases, quick product change (QPC) and multilevel stack molds, StackTeck differentiates itself by delivering high product

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Hannover Fair preview: Festo’s PhotoBionicCell and its automated cultivation of biomass

Design World

Algae are small climate savers. Even in their natural state they are extremely efficient photosynthesizers and absorb ten times more carbon dioxide (CO₂) than land plants. In bioreactors equipped with appropriate sensors, control technology and automation, the efficiency of algae can be increased to a hundred times that of land plants. This shows that they… The post Hannover Fair preview: Festo’s PhotoBionicCell and its automated cultivation of biomass appeared first on Design World.

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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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What welders and other metal fabricators should know about AWS D1.1

The Fabricator

Members of the AWS D1 Committee on Structural Welding try to dispel misconceptions related to the D1.1 Structural Welding Code.

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How to Best Optimize your Business Operations through Asset Management Software

Robotics Automation News

Assets, both tangible and intangible, are a major and valuable investment in your business. Asset management software provides you with a centralized platform that enables smooth asset tracking and allows you to have greater visibility of your assets. This helps improve asset management processes like maintenance, tracking, cost optimization, and more.

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‘Unlikely bedfellows' push national bottle bill

Plastics News

A coalition of industry and environmental groups could be finding common ground for a "difficult but not impossible" push for a bottle bill in Washington.

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Hannover Fair preview: OMRON uses AR glasses for digital twin assembly experience

Design World

In an evolution of its industry-renowned FORPHEUS AI-based table tennis robot, OMRON will show, for the first time at Hannover Fair, how the emerging concept of harmonized automation can be applied in an industrial context to help ease labour shortages. The highlight of OMRON’s booth, celebrating 90 years of innovation, will be a flexible assembly… The post Hannover Fair preview: OMRON uses AR glasses for digital twin assembly experience appeared first on Design World.

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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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For Manufacturers Fed Up with China, Some Roads Lead to Mexico

Plastics Today

Manufacturers trying to leave China increasingly view Mexico as an attractive base of operations to serve the North American market. Pulling out of China the wrong way, however, can have serious consequences.

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Schools found to be unprepared for impact of ChatGPT on education

E&T

Research conducted by BCS, the chartered institute for IT, found that 62 per cent of professionals believe that chatbots like ChatGPT will make it harder to mark students’ work fairly. ChatGPT is a large-language model (LLM) which can answer questions in a seemingly natural way and is trained on a massive data set. It has been shown to be able to create passing-grade answers at university level - including passing law exams at one university - but it is fallible.

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How to Pass the Job Interview as an Employer

Modern Machine Shop

Photo Credit: Thinkstock It seems that every time I turn around, companies are complaining that they are having difficulty finding skilled people to fill positions. This is a global issue with a shared root cause: We are not training enough people to fill our industry’s needs. But there may be another reason why many in the machining industry are not attracting potential employees: The employer failed the job interview.

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Hannover Fair preview: Pepperl+Fuchs’ innovative technology for 3D measurement

Design World

From industrial automation to autonomous vehicles to care robots, mastering the challenges of the future will require powerful 3D sensors that capture their surroundings quickly, comprehensively, and with millimeter precision. A technological innovation from Pepperl+Fuchs in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology ISIT enables maximum precision and performance — while remaining highly cost-efficient.… The post Hannover Fair preview: Pepperl+Fuchs’ innovative

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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.