2021

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Will autonomous car racing change your business? It just might

Cisco Industrial Automation

Some days I really get excited about my job. A self-driving race car challenge? That’s just cool any way you look at it. For entertainment, for innovation, and for demonstrating the move to automation that’s already underway across industries.

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Easily follow websites that don’t have RSS feeds

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

New Feature. No RSS? No problem. You can now build your own feeds in Feedly for websites without RSS. You already follow your favorite blogs, news sites, research journals, and more in Feedly. But when you come upon a site without an RSS option, what do you do?

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Kinaxis and LevaData bringing supplier risk insights into supply chain planning

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Kinaxis Inc., the supply chain management software provider, and LevaData, the company that delivers applied AI to transform strategic sourcing and procurement, have entered into a new partnership to enable manufacturers to gain deeper insight into supplier risk and build greater supply chain resiliency

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How to: Embrace Industry 4.0 in Your Factory

Cisco Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the core driver of economic growth in many countries across the world, including the Asia-Pacific region. In my home country of South Korea, it accounts for 27.7% of the GDP.

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Innovations in Manufacturing: How to Become Your New Tech's Master

Speaker: Gary Mintchell, Founder of The Manufacturing Connection

This presentation with Gary Mintchell, founder of The Manufacturing Connection, will provide insight on some lessons learned from working with new technology - in other words, what you should and shouldn’t do with new tech!

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NIST Names Joannie Chin as Director of Its Engineering Laboratory

NIST Manufacturing

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected Joannie Chin to lead its Engineering Laboratory. Chin has been at NIST for 26 years, most recently serving as acting director of

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Two Industry 4.0 Technologies Primed for the Food Manufacturing Industry

NIST

This is an exciting time in the food manufacturing industry. The innovations and technology associated with Industry 4.0 are making it easier for small and medium-sized manufacturers to overcome obstacles in ways that at one point would not have been considered.

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What Efficiency Increases Do You Get With Automated Palletising?

Granta Automation

This is a question that is well worth answering before you commit to investing capital in an automated palletising solution.

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Defense Manufacturer Wins $1.4B Army Contract

Manufacturing.net

The company will produce an advanced wartime control system for the Army. Operations

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Using the Cost of Quality to Guide Manufacturing Improvements

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

Delivering high-quality products and experiences for your customers is usually the top priority for manufacturers. But how can you improve your operations to deliver better results while reducing costs along the way?

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How Collaborative Robots Power Sustainable Manufacturing Practices

Universal Robots

Sustainability ranks high on the global and political agenda as countries and regions set out energy and emission targets as part of climate change-related commitments. Universal Robots, like many other companies, is working to make its own working practices and production more sustainable.

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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.

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Event Highlights from Rockwell Automation Fair 2021 in Houston

Cisco Industrial Automation

Another strange year for the world didn’t stop the success at Rockwell Automation’s 2021 Automation Fair ® , in Houston! By the numbers: We had approximately 10,000 virtual and in-person attendees and more than 100 interactive exhibits featuring the newest products, solutions, and services.

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Maintenance on March 27th 2021 from 9-11:30am PT

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

Hello everyone, We are planning a scheduled downtime Saturday (March 27th) from 9:00am PST until 11:00am PST. We are polishing the infrastructure for an important new beta launch in April. You can follow live updates on Twitter: [link]. Thank you for your patience. Have a wonderful weekend!

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Surviving to thriving: The digital transformation of SMBs

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

As a result of the pandemic, SMBs are investing increasingly more time and money in their digital transformation efforts. While some implemented digital capabilities for the first time as a matter of survival, others accelerated their journey to cloud adoption in order to remain nimble in light of ongoing disruption

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Hannover Messe 2021: The Journey to Industry 4.0

Cisco Manufacturing

There’s an adage in the world of race car drivers: the car goes where the eyes go. They don’t focus on the immediate obstacle, or the driver next to them. Being clear-eyed about where you want to go gives you the visibility you need to circumvent any challenge that may arise.

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SAP S/4HANA SYSTEM CONVERSION: cool things that have happened in 2021

Techedge Group

Introduction. I began posting a series of blogs here about the conversion to SAP S/4HANA back in Apr 2019.

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Supply Chain Chaos: How Companies Are Responding and Adapting to the New Reality

21st Century Tech

Please welcome a new contributor to 21st Century Tech Blog, David Madden. David is an efficiency expert, and the founder and President of Container Exchanger.

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Kontron introduces its new SMARC module fA3399 with Arm® processor Rockchip RK3399K

Expo21xx

Kontron, a leading global provider of IoT/Embedded Computing Technology (ECT), launches the new SMARC module fA3399 with Arm® processor Rockchip RK3399K. In the benchmark of Arm®-based modules, the new Kontron module has […].

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Upcoming Exhibitions

Galaxy Sivtek

Upcoming Exhibition - 2022. To leverage our reach and to extend our footprints across India, we will be participating in multiple exhibitions from December 2021 to February 2022.

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Defense Manufacturer Wins $1.4B Army Contract

Manufacturing.net

The company will produce an advanced wartime control system for the Army

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Small Footprint Palletiser Cell

Granta Automation

With space being at a premium in many manufacturing facilities, automated palletising systems have often been unviable in the past due to space constraints.

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4 ways to install internet in the workshop

Picomto

It should be said that internet has become an fundamental communication channel for large companies as well as for small and medium size ones. In fact, this information and communication tool offers exceptional growth prospects.

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Knowing Cellular Manufacturing!

The Consultiger

Layout Optimisation! Manufacturing

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Feedly is hiring a Marketing Automation Manager

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

Work at feedly. We’re looking for a hands-on Marketing Automation Manager with Hubspot expertise to help us level up our B2B marketing efforts.

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Accenture acquires Advoco

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Accenture has acquired Advoco, one of the largest systems integrators for Infor EAM, the software-as-a-service suite for enterprise asset management (EAM

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Hannover Messe 2021: What’s next for Manufacturing?

Cisco Manufacturing

An Industry Changed. It’s no secret that manufacturing was one of the hardest hit industries by COVID-19. The mass shuttering of factories tanked businesses, disrupted supply chains, and put millions out of work around the world. The numbers are quite staggering.

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The 5S Method for Workplace Organization

DSIMN

It’s a competitive world out there, but for Sheet Metal Fabrication and CNC Machining shops like Decimet Sales Inc. DSI), it’s more than just a competitive space - it’s crowded!

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Steps to Smarter Solutions

Polytron

Manufacturers look to Smart Manufacturing to solve business problems and show an ROI to fuel future phases. To help ensure early success for smart manufacturing initiatives, you must find the highest value opportunity in the first phase of the implementation.

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Murrelektronik presents its new decentralized installation solutions designed for industrial image processing

Expo21xx

Vision systems are becoming increasingly important in industrial manufacturing and logistics. When it comes to Industry 4.0 or AI of Things, industrial image processing cameras can’t be missing. With its vision installation […].

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Design Upgradation of Sivtek Super Gyro Separator®

Galaxy Sivtek

The design engineers at Galaxy Sivtek have recently upgraded the design of the Sivtek Super Gyro Separator®. Sivtek Super Gyro Separator® is a circular vibratory separator used for sieving, sorting & filtration of any powder, granular or liquid material.

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No M.net Newsletter Until Jan. 3

Manufacturing.net

We'll resume regular deployments on Monday, Jan.

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Robots Sanding Furniture? No Way!

Universal Robots

That’s a common reaction in the furniture industry when manufacturers try to envision bringing robots into sanding and polishing applications.

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How to manage your work instructions in time?

Picomto

Work instructions are the major guarantee of quality and safety at work in industry. In fact, applying operating modes helps the different actors to act in compliance with quality, productivity and security standards.

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The new Data Center of the European Weather Center has been inaugurated at the Bologna Technopole

Smile Hub

The new Atos supercomputer system will come into operation in mid-2022 at the new European Weather Center, hosted in Bologna at the Tecnopolo (Ex Manifattura Tabacchi), together with the European supercomputer Leonardo.

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How a top 10 pharma company tracks drug innovations and more with Feedly

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

Case Study. This medical librarian team monitors diseases, drug pricing, innovations, and major political decisions affecting healthcare.

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Gartner announces Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

With limited budgets at their disposal, and CEOs demanding to focus on cost optimisation while also improving resilience, chief supply chain officer(CSCO) investments must be split in-between capabilities of different maturity, according to Gartner, Inc