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Innovative Medical Application Winner: Double Hand and Face Transplant

Additive Manufacturing

The medical additive manufacturing and 3D printing community is always working to use technology to improve patient care and change lives. Rodriguez, MD and the NYU Langone plastic surgery team, clinical engineers from Materialise 3D printed models and surgical guides for both the donor and recipient based on the surgeon’s plan.

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Can Connecting ERP to Machine Tool Monitoring Address the Workforce Challenge?

Modern Machine Shop

That is the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. And it has radio frequency sensing, offering the ability to detect and identify RFID tags. An RFID tag, seen here affixed to the upper right corner of a job traveler. The RFID tags are a notable element. Can ERP and machine tool monitoring be brought together?

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Lockout/Tagout for Industrial Maintenance: 7 Steps to Ensure Safety

ATS

In manufacturing and industrial maintenance , it is a safety measure designed to prevent equipment from being powered on while an employee is in a potentially hazardous position or location, such as cleaning the machine or performing repairs on it. Keep the information in this article in mind when developing a LOTO process of your own.

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What machine vision is and its application in Industry 4.0

Nexus Integra

Artificial vision was born as one of the most recent Artificial Intelligence technologies to provide industrial equipment with the ability to see, analyse and manage manufacturing, quality control and asset safety tasks. In other words, any company that can implement an improvement plan, including a digitalisation strategy.

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In tune with times, software application provider focuses on frontline workers

Control Engineering

Augmentir CEO Russ Fadel’s rich and varied career within the industrial software space began as a co-founder at WonderwareNorth, a regional VAR for manufacturing operations software and hardware. That helped us penetrate the manufacturing intelligence space and simplify synchronizing with SAP, which eventually acquired Lighthammer. .

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Blockchain could help drive ethical EVs

E&T

Without knowing the provenance of goods or minerals, it is difficult for carmakers to ensure that materials used in the manufacturing process comply with social and environmental standards, which are increasingly important to a growing number of eco-conscious consumers. Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar.