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Land Forces set for massive event

Manufacturer's Monthly

The Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition, set for 4-6 October at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, is on track to become the largest defence industry event ever held in Australia. Even with that extra space in the mix, 93 per cent of available space is now spoken for.

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Integrated and distributed safety for motion control

Control Engineering

Motion control insights Mobile automation can help manufacturers improve their safety operations, which have become more automated with the robots of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and automated guided vehicles (AGVs). For example, there was substantial growth in the mobile robot industry in 2021. Look at mobile robots.

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AI technique helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies

Control Engineering

AI and robotics insights MIT researchers have developed a method using AI smoothing techniques to simplify contact-rich manipulation planning for robots. Humans are generally good at whole-body manipulation, but robots struggle with such tasks. The research appears this week in IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

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Insight Series: Pick Optimisation

Breathe Technologies

A lack of effective prioritisation or route planning for picking operatives and/or picking robots creates huge inefficiencies and lowers the volume that can be picked over a given period. With the perfect storm of rising demand and tight labour supply, optimised order picking prioritisation and routing is now a business-critical factor.

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Shopify dives deeper into AI with new products, including chatbot for merchants

Canadian Manufacturing

Shopify’s AI tool kit is now expanding to include Sidekick, a chatbot the company’s merchant customers can use to ask questions about business operations. “Technology has advanced so much in the last year that this is now possible.” “Are we going to bring back a large, in-person event?”

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Automation Plus Capabilities Beyond Machining Featured at Mazak Event

Modern Machine Shop

I raised this subject with Dan Janka, president of machine tool maker Mazak Corporation during a conversation at the company’s Discover 2023 event at Mazak’s North American headquarters in Florence, Kentucky. The item about electrification and its effect on machine tool use is one detail of this current time. Hard Times?

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Research to commercialisation with ManuFutures

Manufacturer's Monthly

It’s time and resource-consuming, which is why our we lay out the roadmap for start-ups through our training programs,” Curnow said, adding that the ManuFutures training programs were for both individuals and organisations. A total of 14 successful and emerging global manufacturing businesses now call Deakin’s ManuFutures home.”