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America Makes Announces IMPACT Project Call Worth $11.7M in Funding

MESA

The project call is also seeking innovative solutions for robotic AM process planning for continuous fiber-reinforced composite structures. We are thrilled for the opportunity to deliver longer-term strategic investments to scaling AM technologies.” The request for proposal (RFP) includes 10 topic areas of focus.

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Tata Steel and ABB to Explore Technologies To Help Reduce Carbon Footprint of Steel Production

Gary Mintchell

Sustainability is one of the bigger topics in my professional life these days. This project will target improvements in energy efficiency, decarbonization and circularity in plants and production facilities. There are industries that generate more carbon than others.

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Siemens Have Made Many Interesting Automation Announcements

Gary Mintchell

This will enable engineering teams to find the right help topic and to generate a basic visualization and code faster for programmable logic controllers (PLC). This in turn reduces development times and boosts quality and productivity over the long term.

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Molex Explores the Potential of the Industrial Metaverse

Gary Mintchell

This is an interesting topic for discussion. Questions remain: How much of the term metaverse is simply marketing covering a vacuum? From the release: Manufacturers among first to benefit from convergence of physical and virtual processes to improve product-design cycles and factory of the future initiatives.

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OMAC and ei3 Release New Manufacturing Data Governance Guide 

Gary Mintchell

The organization did drive a number of initiatives benefiting users, especially PackML, a uniform way of describing processes of a machine to an operator. The plan should be adaptable to changing capabilities to ensure its long-term success.” Glad to see Mark Fondl still active and looking at how to use new technologies.

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How to Utilize AI in Asset Management

ATS

Effective asset management can improve performance, reduce costs and significantly extend the lifespan of equipment. Whether it’s short-term catch up or long-term maintenance relief, the key issue AI addresses is downtime. Predictive Maintenance One of the key roles of AI today is predictive maintenance.

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Survey: How to use AI to identify, improve manufacturing production goals

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand data from an Augury survey that explains how artificial intelligence can identify and improve manufacturing production goals. The resulting study also covers manufacturing production topics include challenges, roadblocks, sustainability, workforce, technology among others. Optimism continues, however.