Plastics News

AUGUST 11, 2022

An industry group has challenged Canada's single-use plastics ban in court, arguing that the government hasn't shown products like bags and foodware meet the definition of toxic that it's using to regulate them.

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Donlouco

MAY 12, 2023

Hydraulic Cylinder Options: Single vs Double Acting Single-Acting Cylinders A single-acting hydraulic cylinder has only one port at the end of the cylinder. A single-acting hydraulic cylinder has only one port at the end of the cylinder.

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Canadian Manufacturing

JANUARY 2, 2023

Customers may notice takeout containers, straws and other items being swapped for greener alternatives in the new year as Canada’s food service industry adjusts to the phase-in of a federal law that aims to eventually remove many single-use plastics from the market altogether.

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Gary Mintchell

APRIL 26, 2024

Their new groov product along with partnerships with Inductive Automation (Ignition software) and Cirrus Link (MQTT) has offered a proven solution for many industrial (and other markets) automation challenges. You can count on high-quality Opto products and continued support for all your automation and IIoT applications.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 10, 2024

Verbotics addresses this accuracy through path finding, a process of using sensing technology to adjust the as-programmed welding path to be in the correct location. This process involves the production of a high variety of products in small quantities. Short said, “critically, we also include path finding.” “The

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Gary Mintchell

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Here is one of my favorite companies—using “waste” bioplastic to mold those plastic eating utensils ubiquitous in fast food restaurants and picnics. They have a small operating plant and just closed an $8 million round to increase production.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 1, 2024

What is lights-out manufacturing and who are the Tormach customers who would use it? The phrase describes fully automating production runs of machined goods, so no one is needed to oversee the CNCs producing them. Modular and user-serviceable designs are also hallmarks of Tormach CNC machines, making them expandable and easy to own.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 14, 2024

Connected solutions minimize errors, boost competitiveness, expedite time to market and enhance control over product quality throughout the entire process. Connected systems are also a productivity boon to shops with different departments that work simultaneously on the same projects because connected solutions enable seamless data sharing.

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Gary Mintchell

MARCH 19, 2024

Controlled by Modicon motion controllers, which unify PLC, motion, and robotics control functionality on a single hardware platform and integrated into of EcoStruxure Machine Expert software, it offers a complete robotic solution. They can be easily applied to existing or new production lines in a variety of different industries.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 30, 2024

. | Credit: WiBotic WiBotic today unveiled a new 1kW wireless charging product for larger-capacity battery systems. The prior product link included 150-watt, 250-watt, and 300-watt wireless charging options. The prior product link included 150-watt, 250-watt, and 300-watt wireless charging options.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 25, 2024

UR cobots are can now use SRCI, a standard interface between PLCs and robots. Source: Universal Robots Collaborative robots are designed to be easy to use, but they also need to work with other systems. or higher using the URcap software add-on. It can be installed and activated with PolyScope Version 5.15

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 28, 2024

Contact surface finish measurement uses a diamond-tipped probe that moves across the part. A skid gage has an LCD readout to display the measurement as a single numerical value. Optical surface finish is typically done with a confocal microscope using light to detect the surface contours. Source: Mahr Inc.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have become more widespread and accessible, manufacturers have become increasingly interested in this new capacity to increase productivity (use less, waste less), precision (drive quality and specification), and performance (use workforce and equipment resources better and more flexibly).

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 22, 2024

All these steps have been part of automation, getting us to where we are today.” “It’s no longer about a company completing individual steps (of production), it’s everywhere – within machines, within product and external to product,” Eelman adds.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 1, 2024

From events such as MODEX and GTC to exciting new deployments and product launches, there was no shortage of news to cover. SMC adds grippers for cobots from Universal Robots SMC recently introduced a series of electric grippers designed to be used with collaborative robot arms from Universal Robots. Read More 9. has raised $3.5

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 22, 2024

The PUDU T300 mobile robot dis designed for use in tight aisles with heavy payloads. There is a huge demand from industrial clients for automated, flexible robotics solutions that can operate continuously to meet high production rates and improve operational efficiency,” stated Felix Zhang , founder and CEO of Pudu Robotics. “As

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Design World

JUNE 21, 2023

After presenting the entirely plastic igus:bike last year, igus is now presenting an additional product line made of high-performance plastics for bicycle manufacturers. Other lines include frames made from a single mold or several components, impellers, and cranksets.

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Gary Mintchell

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I wish I could try out all this software like I used to many years ago. This has always struck me as counter-productive, as both architectures lean heavily on one another to be successful. We have been able to dramatically speed our time-to-production by building a single solution for both Cloud and Edge with Akka.”

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Design World

JANUARY 12, 2023

OneBlade connector’s single housing can be used interchangeably as a vertical or right-angle header consisting of only three components, which mitigates the risk of material shortages. This also means less production tooling… The post Heilind Electronics now stocks Molex OneBlade 1.00 hmm Wire-to-Board Connector System.

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Canadian Manufacturing

APRIL 23, 2024

Negotiators must streamline the existing treaty draft and decide its scope: whether it will focus on human health and the environment, limit the actual production of plastic, restrict some chemicals used in plastics, or any combination of the above. Production is at the center of everything, it’s the reason why this is moving slow.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 11, 2024

Schneider Electric Lexium Cobot product line (L to R): RL3, RL5, RL7, RL12. mm (+/- 0.00079″), and the product offers a wide range of payloads from 3kg to 18kg (coming soon). Automation systems, machines, and robots work together using a centralized architecture and open-standard programming platform.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 19, 2024

More than 15,000 attendees filled the arena in anticipation of CEO Jensen Huang’s annual presentation of the latest product news from NVIDIA. GR00T uses the new Jetson Thor As part of its robotics announcements, NVIDIA unveiled Jetson Thor for humanoid robots, based on the NVIDIA Thor system-on-a-chip ( SoC ).

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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Advances in abrasives technologies and tools result in faster metal removal and fine finishing in a single step, as well as extending the life of these products. Use the inflatable pneumatic wheel for finishing work surfaces of virtually any shape, contour, or material; excellent for finishing stainless steel and other metals.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Applications everywhere According to Francois Sieberhagen, SEW-EURODRIVE National Product Engineer – Product Management, MOVIMOT advanced displays all the characteristics of a true all-rounder. He said that with a high overload capability, and options such as brakes and encoders, the drive units have a multitude of uses.

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i4.0 today

APRIL 18, 2024

V7 Go uses generative AI to understand how to automate tasks reliably and at scale. Its first areas of focus are back office tasks like data entry and administrative where it reaches human performance within the first hours of use.

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Automation Mag

APRIL 25, 2024

UR explains that the SRCI is a new standard for robotics manufacturers that aims to create a single interface between PLCs and robots. This allows for easier and quicker setup and simplifies the deployment of UR robots into existing and new Siemens ecosystem-based production lines, explains the company. “We

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Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 23, 2024

Test results indicate that using these bricks in the construction of a single-storey building could reduce household energy bills by up to 5 per cent compared to regular bricks, due to improved insulation. trillion bricks were used in construction projects globally every year.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2024

ToF sensors have a similar application to lidar technology in that both use multiple sensors for creating depth maps. These 2D cameras have been used for decades in industrial settings to guide robot arms in pick-and-pack applications. In comparison, ToF cameras use a sensor, a lighting unit, and a depth-processing unit.

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Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 10, 2024

Before 2020, the shop used what it thought was a traditional method: small to large, imperial to metric. Shift Tie-In is for more day-to-day use, with James Marzilli calling it the digital equivalent of a sticky note. This visibility has better equipped the shop to plan out its production schedule.

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Plastics News

APRIL 17, 2023

Bioplastics material and products maker NantBioPlastics is investing in an expansion to meet compostable single-use products demand. Teknor Apex acquired PVC recycler Nu-Pro Polymers and Mocom Compounds adds a new extrusion line in South Carolina.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 29, 2024

Machine tending is crucial for realizing complete automation in manufacturing production. It facilitates the connection of your robot arm with various CNC or automation devices to interact with each other by using the drag-and-drop building blocks of operations to customize your manufacturing process. Caron Engineering’s MiConnect HMI.

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Automation Mag

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

System integrators, machine builders and professional end users looking to use computer vision will reportedly have easy access to innovative, automated and easy-to-integrate solutions. This will allow them to streamline their production process, increase efficiency, lower costs, as well as improving transparency and quality control.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 2, 2024

combines 3D vision, motion planning, and control algorithms into a single platform. Advances in ‘black-box’ AI algorithms for text and image generation have garnered a great deal of press lately, with some companies exploring their use within industrial automation,” stated Jared Glover, CEO of CapSen Robotics. CapSen PiC 2.0

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 24, 2024

The socialProduction product family enables intuitive monitoring of the injection molding machines, the production process and the condition of the machine components. With processSupport, the process is monitored autonomously using artificial intelligence.

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