Automation World
MARCH 13, 2023
Being aware of social engineering practices is the first step in protecting you, your team and network, as well as being a good starting point for a holistic cybersecurity approach.
Design World
MARCH 17, 2023
ABB has announced that construction is starting on the expansion of its existing North American robotics headquarters and manufacturing facility in Auburn Hills, Mich. The project is expected to be completed in November 2023 and represents an investment of $20 million. The expansion will create 72 highly skilled new jobs in the area and is… The post ABB to expand robotics factory in U.S. appeared first on Design World.
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Robotics Automation News
MARCH 11, 2023
Knowledge management is the process through which an organization collects, organizes, shares, and analyzes its knowledge to make it simple for employees to access and use. This knowledge encompasses a variety of domains, such as training papers, commonly asked questions, technological resources, and people skills.
The Fabricator
MARCH 14, 2023
Artificial intelligence could be used to enhance our existing knowledge or prevent us from needing to learn anything in the first place. The latter is the nightmare scenario for the future of metal manufacturing.
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
MARCH 17, 2023
Developed for military/defense applications, the Mission Secure cybersecurity platform aims to reduce access and, therefore, risk to industrial operations technologies.
Design World
MARCH 15, 2023
With ACOPOS 6D, B&R heralds a new era of manufacturing. Shuttles carry individual products freely through the machine, powered by magnetic levitation. Gone are the days when conventional transport systems imposed rigidly defined timing on the production process. ACOPOS 6D enables economical small-batch production with frequent changeover between products of different designs and dimensions.
Manufacturing Technology Today brings together the best content for manufacturing technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Fabricator
MARCH 13, 2023
Industrial Succession Group purchased a small California sheet metal operation in 2020. It wasn’t a strip-and-flip affair. Instead, it streamlined information management and doubled its head count and overall revenue.
Plastics Today
MARCH 14, 2023
Chromatics’ 3D-printing technology fabricates parts reportedly as durable as injection molded components in a fraction of the time and at a more competitive cost.
Design World
MARCH 16, 2023
Semiconductor products were more affected than any other by COVID-induced supply-chain issues felt around the world. International political tensions have only prolonged and exacerbated the problem. By Lisa Eitel | Executive editor Every modern gadget, vehicle, smart device, and appliance is peppered over with semiconductors galore — offering that singular function of processing power that… The post 15 industry experts on relentless semiconductor woes — and fixes appeared first on Des
E&T
MARCH 17, 2023
The development of flexible electronic skin could greatly help innovation in the fields of rehabilitation, healthcare, prosthetic limbs and robotics. The team at Pohang University of Science and Technology (Postech) and the University of Ulsan in South Korea, was inspired by the qualities of crocodile skin to develop a new type of stretchable pressure sensors, which can detect various types of touch and pressure.
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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
MARCH 16, 2023
Desktop abrasive waterjet cutting is one process among a growing number of technologies in what’s become known as desktop digital manufacturing. The concept has created new possibilities for product designers. The time spent going from an initial design concept to a final product is no longer the hurdle it once was.
Robotics Business Review
MARCH 17, 2023
The aerospace industry has begun paying more attention to the hazards of humans working closely with hazardous chemicals. The post How robots can reduce aerospace workplace hazards appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
Plastics News
MARCH 16, 2023
A profit warning on the Shanghai Stock Exchange says preliminary figures indicate the machine builder lost up to $275 million in 2022, including a goodwill impairment of at least $108.6 million.
Robotics Automation News
MARCH 17, 2023
A huge transition is currently taking place in the retail sector. In order to provide individualized shopping experiences, merchants are blending physical and digital interactions thanks to the development of cutting-edge technology. Customers are no longer restricted to shopping in-store, so they may now do so whenever, from anywhere.
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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.
The Fabricator
MARCH 15, 2023
A plant manager and a press brake operator at Merrill Technologies Group, Alma, Mich., discuss what needs to happen to make the right bend on a 2,000-ton brake. It has even bigger bending plans in store this summer when it gets its new 4,400-ton brake up and running.
E&T
MARCH 16, 2023
Nasa is retiring the iconic big, puffy spacesuits worn by the first men to walk on the Moon. Instead, the agency has unveiled a new line of space fashion, more form-fitting and comfortable for men and women astronauts. The new spacesuits were displayed at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, during an event hosted for the media and students hosted by Axiom Space, the company that designed the garments.
Metrology
MARCH 14, 2023
AMETEK has opened a new state-of-the-art Customer Solutions Center in Weiterstadt, Germany where visitors can find the latest news concerning the company’s many brands, and experience product demonstrations of technologies The post AMETEK Opens Customer Solutions Center In Germany appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.
Canadian Manufacturing
MARCH 13, 2023
ST. THOMAS — On Mar. 13, Volkswagen, Europe’s largest automaker, announced that its subsidiary PowerCo will establish an electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing facility in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. Following this announcement, François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, and Vic Fedeli, Ontario’s Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, issued the following joint statement: “Earlier today, Volkswagen announced that it has sele
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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.
Plastics News
MARCH 15, 2023
An EPA proposal for the first national drinking water standards for PFAS chemicals is being hailed by public health groups but is meeting with concern from the chemical industry.
E&T
MARCH 16, 2023
The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has told the organisation’s member states that 10 drums containing uranium “were not present as previously declared” at the location in Libya. The missing uranium stockpile could pose radiological risk and security concerns, the agency has said. The IAEA sounded the alarm after a visit by its inspectors to the undisclosed site earlier this week, where it found less uranium than originally reported.
Metrology
MARCH 13, 2023
Desktop Metal, a leader in additive manufacturing technologies for mass production, has announced the launch of Live Suite — a package of premium software applications with all-new functionality for users The post Desktop Metal Launches Additive Manufacturing 2.0 End-to-End Software Hub appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.
Automation Mag
MARCH 16, 2023
ABB is expanding its existing North American robotics headquarters and manufacturing facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The company is investing $20 million in the expansion project, which is currently underway. ABB expects the construction to complete in November 2023. The company received a $450,000 Michigan Business Development Program performance-based grant for this project.
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.
Plastics News
MARCH 13, 2023
Hoffer Plastics Corp. has only continued to grow since it won the Processor of the Year award in 2012. Now it has been honored with the Sustained Excellence Award.
E&T
MARCH 15, 2023
The artificial muscles have been optimised so that the robot can better isolate defects and overcome minor damage, such as tiny holes in its actuators. A novel laser-repair method was also developed to help the robot recover from severe damage, such as a fire that scorches the device. Using their techniques, a damaged robot was able to maintain flight-level performance after one of its artificial muscles was jabbed by 10 needles, while the actuator was able to operate even after a large hole was
Metrology
MARCH 15, 2023
The switch to electromobility has put many manufacturing processes in the very automotive conservative industry to the test. The pressure to innovate has never been greater, and the number of The post Automotive Manufacturing Digital Twin Replicates Real Production Processes appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.
AU Manufacturing
MARCH 12, 2023
Minister for Energy and Resources Lily D’Ambrosio has released the Victorian Offshore Wind Energy Implementation Statement 2, which outlines how Victoria will leverage industry-led investment in offshore wind for the first tranche of projects that will deliver at least 2 gigawatts (GW) by 2032. The Andrews Labor Government said the strategy formally establishes the Port of Hastings as the site of the Victorian Renewable Energy Terminal.
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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.
Plastics News
MARCH 16, 2023
Environmental groups in Illinois want to limit a chemical recycling pilot program in an industrial corridor where major plastic makers say they could build, while in Utah, industry lobbyists pick up a win.
E&T
MARCH 17, 2023
Rolls-Royce's Micro-Reactor programme aims to develop technology that will provide the energy needed for humans to live and work on the Moon. The project will receive £2.9m of new funding from the UK Space Agency, following £249,000 provided for an initial study in 2022, and will aim to develop a lunar nuclear reaction by 2029. Nuclear power has the potential to dramatically increase the duration of future Lunar missions and their scientific value, as it can provide the energy necessary t o su
Control.com
MARCH 17, 2023
Let’s explore the challenges facing women in science, technology, mathematics, and engineering, the organizations supporting these women, and some modern-day, influential role models.
Canadian Manufacturing
MARCH 17, 2023
Businesses expect subdued sales in the short term as they face continued cost and labour pressures, despite slowing inflation, according to a survey by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. The chamber’s Business Data Lab released the results of its first-quarter poll on business conditions on Mar. 16, which found one-third of companies expect to raise prices next quarter.
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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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