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Realizing Industry 4.0

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

Written by Carlos Rojas, Global Industry Solutions Leader, Cisco Systems, Inc. What is Industry 4.0? As such, the world of manufacturing is betting on new technologies and data analytics to obtain “maximum optimization”; and these things neatly fall under the business strategy known as Industry 4.0.

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How industry can realise the benefits of advanced technology

Manufacturer's Monthly

Author: Geoff Crittenden, CEO, Weld Australia But, with the advent of automation, robots, cobots and a range of other advanced welding technologies and techniques, this perception is becoming more and more outdated. The power of Industry 4.0, robots and cobots Automation, Industry 4.0, Industry 4.0

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Innovation on a Larger Scale

Fabricating & Metal Work

The advantages promised by Industry 4.0 Digital twin” machine design simulation, higher robotic intelligence, and complex motion are the essential tools here. Those tools are making large-scale mold production, part machining, and process automation accessible to the broader aerospace, marine, and other industry sectors.

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The gold standard for automation technology

Manufacturer's Monthly

Beckhoff believes cross-promotion can help grow industry towards its vision of continued innovation. As a modular automation suite that has been successful for over 25 years, TwinCAT seamlessly combines standard control functions with additional functionalities such as robotics, machine vision and artificial intelligence.

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Streamlined control system and hardware design

Manufacturer's Monthly

Based in Rivervale, Western Australia, Nonlinear Solutions is an industrial automation, robotics, and engineering company catering to Industry 4.0 They possess the resources to facilitate design concepts, CAD modelling, fabrication, and rapid prototyping using large-scale 3D printers.

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Scape Technologies, Danish Technological Institute, and AMT join in a new EUROSTARS Project: Just in Time 3D Printing Production

i4.0 today

Although the terms “3D printing” and “rapid prototyping” are casually used to discuss additive manufacturing, each process is a subset of additive manufacturing. Currently the industry uses post-processing methods that are labour intensive, dusty, energy-inefficient and environment-polluting.

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Desktop Metal and Henkel Announce the Onboarding of Loctite Branded Formulations on the Xtreme 8k Machine

i4.0 today

based in Burlington, Massachusetts, is accelerating the transformation of manufacturing with an expansive portfolio of 3D printing solutions, from rapid prototyping to mass production. Desktop Metal, Inc.,