AU Manufacturing

JANUARY 23, 2023

Today, Minister for Energy, Renewables, and Hydrogen Mick de Brenni inspected construction work at the Woree Substation in Cairns and met with workers constructing the Queensland SuperGrid. That project has supported 250 jobs, and once complete this year will generate enough clean energy to power tens of thousands of homes,” Pitt said.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JUNE 15, 2023

There are six process zones in the Innovation SITE, each featuring the latest machines, some with electric servo drives, and automation technologies to solve the challenges of today and tomorrow. The process zones are split into two sites. Site 1 is comprised of the Laser Zone, the Welding Zone and the Punching & Combination Zone.

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i4.0 today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Because the rolls operate in an extreme environment, ensuring reliable operation is a challenging task: the heat and cooling water accelerate wear and tear, and performing regular inspections or installing sensors directly on the equipment is nearly impossible.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

AUGUST 14, 2023

REGO-FIX minimum quantity lubrication PG-MQL collets apply a light spray of an air and oil mixture directly to cutting zones. 3D-EdgeMaster is available in metric and inch sizes and with short or long probes, all individually serial numbered, with fully traceable inspection and performance certification for demanding industries.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 23, 2024

Coolant helps dissipate heat, lubricate the cutting zone and flush away chips. Likewise, regular tool inspection and maintenance are essential to ensure optimal performance. However, balancing high cutting speeds with the appropriate feed rates is essential to prevent excessive heat generation.

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E&T

MAY 18, 2023

Image credit: Catapult The Dare Centre includes a robotics assembly bay, an airborne robotics test zone, three dry docks with 20,000m 3 capacity, and test control rooms linked to the docks via a live environment monitoring system.

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Canadian Manufacturing

JULY 6, 2023

Inspections by Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development officers have shown that multiple temporary help agencies in Ontario are illegally paying people below the minimum wage and denying other basic employment rights to gain an unfair competitive advantage over law-abiding agencies by undercutting rates.

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Mold Making Technology

JUNE 25, 2023

As the mold actuates, Moldshield expands and retracts with it, keeping parts secure within the molding machine drop zone — and safe from damage or contamination. inspection applications. Made of heavy-gauge, chemical-resistant film, Moldshields are sold in pairs (one for each side of the mold). Photo Credit: Marposs Corp.

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i4.0 today

MAY 17, 2023

Organised by the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) & GTMA, Manufacturing Solutions Ireland is the nation’s key event for manufacturing technologies and engineering solutions, attracting over 100 of the most advanced providers of metrology, inspection, machine tools, workholding, cutting tools, and Cad/Cam/PLM manufacturing software.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 9, 2023

To read more content about 3D printing in moldmaking, visit the Additive Manufacturing zone page. To learn more about a specific product featured below, click the link in the respective product’s title.

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Additionally, our company is an active foreign trade zone with our own customs broker to ensure a quick and seamless import process. For example, in 2021, we purchased an ATOS ScanBox with an ATOS 5 high-speed 3D laser scanner that dramatically improved our reverse engineering and inspection capabilities. or at our overseas facility.

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E&T

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A model of the Valle de Aburrá’s topography sits prominently on a desk in Cabellos’ lofty headquarters, and the engineers and researchers know every ravine and canyon by heart; they even fly drones to inspect areas that are too dangerous to visit. During the rainy seasons, showers fall in the late afternoon and can turn the city into chaos.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 7, 2023

While the “zones and conduits” model may have served us well in the past, it is no longer adequate to meet the latest security standards. Different management privileges can be assigned to specific zones or roles, further reducing possible human errors. Moreover, it provides flexibility in authority delegation.

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Mold Making Technology

MAY 30, 2023

Feature control frames (see Figure 1 ) indicate which of the four attributes (location, orientation, size and form) of a feature is being controlled (see Table 1 ): tolerance zone shape, tolerance zone size and the datum features that direct the workpiece setup for inspection. Basic + Basic = Basic.

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Control Engineering

MAY 9, 2023

I began my career as a mechanical engineer writing custom inspection routines for coordinate measurement machines. If you’re ready to practice what I’m preaching, then you are ready to step out of your comfort zone and get to know some new people. The rest is up to you.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

MAY 11, 2023

This ensures safe (collaborative mode) operation in the presence of workers, while allowing the miniPAL to operate at maximum rates while individuals are not within the palletizing work zone. 

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

They are often used in inspection, sorting and other processes involving parts moving on conveyors. Figure 12: Functional safety prevents the robot from entering an interference zone. The same applies to assembly processes involving small part insertion, pressing, or even driving screws with the rotational axis.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 10, 2022

Figure 1: Cross-domain solutions (CDSs) have three core functional areas: Data flow restriction, hardware-enforced separation and content inspection and filtering. Most industrial facilities use firewalls to protect perimeters and provide zone segregation. Courtesy: Owl Cyber Defense.

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 30, 2024

Stability is largely a function of the weight of the machines and their materials of construction, which include high-strength steel frames with hand-scraped dimensions and significant use of structural ceramic components in work zones — including the entire table on sinker EDMs. executive VP, explains.

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Mold Making Technology

MAY 4, 2023

In that case, you may eventually feel frustrated as you try to figure out why some of your parts pass inspection but fail in use. Inspection based on conventional tolerances only addresses the size and poorly addresses location, not orientation or form. Angular tolerances create wedge-shaped tolerance zones ( Figure 4b ).

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Modern Machine Shop

JUNE 13, 2023

The automated cell at the heart of GF’s Medical Center of Competence includes a Form P 350 die-sinker EDM, a Mikron Mill S 400 U, inspection equipment, storage racks and a robot that manages it all. Company representatives say this feature saves an average of 27% of wire — but the demo part on the Cut P boasted 60% savings.

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E&T

JULY 28, 2022

Turning the pages of the August issue of E&T , I was intrigued to find a statement in an article on electrical wiring safety inspections : “It comes down to who’s allowed to call themselves an electrician and the fact that there’s no proper licensing.” My memories of this debate go back to first becoming an AMIEE in 1973.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2023

TM25S provides a keen eye in the factory In a very different example of industrial digitalization, electronics manufacturer Quanta is inspecting the quality of its products using the TM25S , an AI-enabled robot from its subsidiary, Techman Robot.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Unless the operator’s aim is excellent, the coolant stream could miss the mark entirely, resulting in poor chip evacuation, high tool temperature and an overheated cutting zone. Peripheral cooling with the coolant flush disk directs coolant to the cutting zone along the tool shank and is suitable for moderate cavities.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The significantly in- creased bandwidth compared to previous fieldbus systems and the suitability for hazardous areas, zones 2/1/0 offer the possibility to establish uniform digital communication in the entire plant. Applications up to SIL 3. With its increased performance, Ethernet-APL enables safety data exchange.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

APRIL 12, 2022

Point-of-operation guards , which keep workers out of the danger zone while the machine operates (examples include windows, shields, and doors). Employers should consult Appendix G for a self-inspection checklist to ensure they have all the proper machine guards installed and should include safe equipment handling in future safety meetings.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 10, 2023

So we had to transfer the technology and teach them how to do the machining of the part to Hardinge specification, how to inspect the part to Hardinge specification. A very good story was the first mill that we built last year, is we built a machine, and technically, the spindle was inspected. It's in Chinese.

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i4.0 today

JANUARY 30, 2023

Without effective cleaning and hygiene systems in place, inspection equipment could actually become a source of contamination. Some might not have dedicated dairy-free machinery and zones. As well as actively inspecting for allergen ID codes, these label systems also check product descriptions, bar codes, lot numbers and date codes.

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Marshall Wolf Automation

MAY 11, 2023

Quick List of New Products Takex BS-R80 Color Sensor LS Electric eXP2 Upgraded HMI Autonics SFD/SFDL Safety Door Switches Patlite LAN Controlled Wall Mount Tower Pepperl+Fuchs Modular HMI, VisuNet FLX Automate Your Visual Inspections! These HMIs are approved for use up to Zone 2/22 and Div. ″, 5.6″, ″, 7″, 10.1″

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Modern Machine Shop

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Automation pushed into new territories this year, including automated in-process part inspection, automated data solutions for quality control, and fully integrated and automated production environments. The vise and blank are loaded into the work zone via a zero-point clamping system. Automation Aplenty.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JULY 21, 2022

“But the icing on the cake for us was the incredible reception we received from early showings of our DoAll Light for robotic inspection and complex assembly applications. It gives users the flexibility and advanced control they need for solving complex assembly and inspection tasks, including deep learning solutions.”.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 16, 2022

This makes traffic inspection at the deepest levels much more difficult, especially by middlebox devices such as firewalls which classically relied on deep packet inspection of unencrypted traffic to make granular decisions on the permissibility of network traffic.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Gear Inspection and Gear Grinder Companies Form Technical Partnership. Our joint effort with WENZEL offers gear manufacturers the ability to automatically make corrections to the process based on inspection data.” The results for this customer are increased productivity, lower SiC wafer production cost, and consistent high quality.

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Modern Machine Shop

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Quality equipment for parts produced on these machines include a Zeiss O-Inspect CMM and two Keyence microscopes, which are also kept in this room. The machining process also does not generate heated zones within the machine. In fact, one laser can last five to 10 years. This setup process can take from one to several days to complete.

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Dinesh Mishra

JULY 24, 2023

Recognizing this gap, we at Aequs established a special economic zone in Belagavi, Karnataka, to develop such an ecosystem. They asked why this was not being implemented in Bangalore or some other state [other than Karnataka], suggesting that setting up a special economic zone was unnecessary.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 24, 2024

The new HPS-Physical Foaming screw has a longer three-zone area, which can be universally used for all plastics (with and without fiber reinforcement) and has a plasticizing capacity that has increased by up to 30%. KraussMaffei is highlighting its new universal screw for MuCell applications with 30% higher plasticizing performance.

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SMMT

MARCH 30, 2023

VEHICLE SECURITY Tell TVL’s Crime Prevention Zone is returning to the show on Stand 5D10, a year after the initiative launched at the same event. Its products include reversing cameras, vehicle CCTV and a range of AI and machine learning solutions designed to improve fleet safety and efficiency.

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