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ABB helps iconic Maid of the Mist boats go green

Design World

Anyone who’s visited Niagara Falls in the summer has surely watched the famed Maid of the Mist boats ply the waters of the Niagara Gorge. The ships, which appear tiny from above, seem to get perilously close to the thundering water from both the American and Canadian falls, crashing down roughly 200 feet. Now, the… The post ABB helps iconic Maid of the Mist boats go green appeared first on Design World.

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Four Ways to Build a Culture of Honesty and Avoid ‘Productivity Paranoia’

Gary Mintchell

Trust seems to be a commodity in short supply these days—if we are to believe all the media we might be consuming. My personality type tends to trust most people upon first meeting allowing them time to prove themselves either worthy of trust or someone to avoid. Many people default to distrust allowing another to perhaps overcome the distrust—if ever they can.

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WAGO tabs Amy Harlan as new business development manager

Design World

With an extensive background in electronics and device connectivity, Amy Harlan has been named WAGO’s new Business Development Manager for Device Connection Technology. After spending time in the field as a sales representative and regional sales manager, Amy has spent over 8 years in a similar role preparing herself for her new position with WAGO.… The post WAGO tabs Amy Harlan as new business development manager appeared first on Design World.

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New van market maintains growth in May

SMMT

New light commercial vehicle registrations reach 25,359 units in May, up 15.3% on last year in the fifth consecutive month of rising demand. Deliveries of new battery electric vans grow by a fifth (19.8%) to 1,041 units, as more businesses enjoy the benefits of the latest green tech. 135,296 vans now registered in 2023 thanks to easing supply chain disruptions and sustained demand for larger vehicles.

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5 Ways CMMS Software Transformed Broderick's Manufacturing Plant: A Case Study

Discover how CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) transformed and revitalized Broderick's manufacturing plant in 5 productive ways. Before the CMMS, the plant faced challenges such as reactive maintenance due to staff shortages, inefficient inventory management, and poor team communication. With the CMMS, the plant experienced increased equipment uptime, streamlined maintenance processes, enhanced inventory management, improved communication, and better decision-making through real-

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IDS: A reliable eye on health

Design World

Rigid endoscopes are used in medical diagnostics and therapy to examine body cavities and hollow organs and to perform minimally invasive procedures. In order to avoid risks for patients and medical staff, it is essential that the devices function perfectly. Reliable quality testing is intended above all to exclude risks from infections and injuries, but […] The post IDS: A reliable eye on health appeared first on Design World.

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Collaborative Engineering in the Cloud

Automation World

Veolia Water Technologies standardized more than 260 global engineering accounts in the Aveva Unified Engineering platform to enable collaborative access to all its engineering applications via Aveva Connect.

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Kickstart: A more complicated Pride Month

Plastics News

While recent years have heard complaints about "rainbow washing" by corporations during Pride Month, this year, companies are facing a very different atmosphere.

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Getting the Greenfield OT Experience Right

Automation World

Building a large greenfield (new plant) and implementing operations technology innovations is a great opportunity for a manufacturer.

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Caltech team achieve wireless energy transfer in space

E&T

The achievement was made by MAPLE (Microwave Array for Power-transfer Low-orbit Experiment), an array of flexible lightweight microwave power transmitters with precise timing control. MAPLE is one of the three experiments carried out by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as part of its Space Solar Power Project (SSPP), an ambitious plan to deploy a constellation of space solar panels that could harvest solar power in space and beam the energy back to Earth.

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Plastics leads growth at Palmer Holland, new CEO says

Plastics News

Vince Misiti was named CEO of Westlake, Ohio-based Palmer Holland in January. He joined the firm after a 28-year career at specialty chemicals supplier Lubrizol Corp. of Wickliffe, Ohio.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Global fungi network could store a third of fossil fuel carbon emissions

E&T

Mycorrhizal fungi are responsible for holding up to 36 per cent of yearly global fossil fuel emissions below ground - more than China emits each year. The fungi make up a vast underground network all over the planet underneath grasslands and forests, as well as roads, gardens, and houses on every continent on Earth. Researchers are now calling for fungi to be considered more heavily in conservation and biodiversity policies, and are investigating whether we can increase how much carbon the soil

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Closing the Loop: Feedback, Feedforward, and Adaptive Control

Control.com

Process automation relies on precise control systems to operate production equipment for everything from lumber to pastries. Using control algorithms produces stable, accurate, and often delicious results.

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Air quality stations accidentally collected valuable DNA samples for decades

E&T

An international team of researchers has discovered that thousands of ambient air quality monitoring stations around the world are unwittingly recording environmental DNA (eDNA). Global warming has been known to cause severe loss of biodiversity, but researchers have struggled to quantify its effect due to the lack of infrastructure for tracking extinction rates - until now.

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Clinical results of Vaxxas needle free vaccine technology

Manufacturer's Monthly

Vaxxas announced positive interim results from a Phase I human clinical trial with the first needle-free COVID-19 vaccine candidate delivered using its proprietary high-density microarray patch (HD-MAP) technology. The COVID-19 vaccine involves HD-MAP delivery of HexaPro, a second-generation version of the spike protein used in all major U.S. approved COVID-19 vaccines, which was modified to be more stable and immunogenic than its predecessor, giving potential coverage of all known SARS-CoV-2 va

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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Celebrating nature-based solutions this World Environment Day

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

For World Environment Day we wanted to add to the global celebration by lifting up the stories of several of our Cisco Foundation Climate Impact and Regeneration Portfolio grantee partners working in… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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PakTech brings recycled plastics manufacturing to Australia

Manufacturer's Monthly

PakTech has announced its official launch in Australia, through which its technology, manufacturing and products will enable the food, beverage, and consumer goods industries to respond to the growing ESG pressures and consumer demand for sustainable packaging and practices. Embracing an entirely circular economy model, PakTech is a manufacturer of 100 per cent recycled and recyclable secondary packaging.

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Wrong Bearing Causes Fire; Master Lock Closes Factory; Neuralink Approved | Today in Manufacturing Ep. 121

Manufacturing.net

Also on the podcast, Impossible Foods accused of spying on Motif, workers aren't using PTO, Stellantis invests in new EV battery tech, Gulfstream sets speed record and another ship tips over.

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Toronto Transit Commission awards NFI a contract for up to 621 New Flyer EV buses

Canadian Manufacturing

Toronto Transit Commission awards NFI a contract for up to 621 New Flyer EV buses WINNIPEG — NFI Group Inc., a bus and coach manufacturer and company involved in electric mass mobility solutions, announced that the Toronto Transit Commission has awarded its subsidiary New Flyer Industries Canada ULC a new five-year contract for 40-foot battery-electric buses.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Belmont Timber modernises compressed air system with ELGi’s EG series

Manufacturer's Monthly

A new compressed air system featuring two ELGi EG series oil-lubricated screw air compressors delivers reliability and energy efficiency gains to a building product manufacturer in Sydney. ELGi Equipments , one of the world’s leading air compressor manufacturers, together with its authorised partner Pulford Air & Gas, have assisted Belmont Timber, a manufacturer of engineered frames and trusses for the building industry, in improving the reliability and energy efficiency of its compressed ai

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Cisco Black Belt Fire Jumper Training for Cisco Partners

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

Black Belt Fire Jumper Training for Cisco Partners is the foundational Cisco security portfolio training program, identical to the Fire Jumper Academy for Cisco Employees.

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Material Insights: Paris treaty talks conclude; what's next?

Plastics News

This round of the United Nation's global plastics treaty negotiations concluded with plans to create a draft of the treaty but questions and hurdles remain.

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Developing an ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 implementation plan

Manufacturer's Monthly

Implementing ISO Management Systems Standards builds a competitive advantage through a modern business framework, focussed on customer outcomes and improving operations. Join us for this webinar, where ComplianceLab director, Hazel Smirlis and SAI Global technical scheme manager, Saeid Nikdel, will discuss a practical plan for implementing ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001.

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Modernizing MES: A Guide for Complex Manufacturers Adapting to Industry 4.0

As engineers push the boundaries of innovation with groundbreaking hardware products, their success depends largely on the speed and efficiency of production. The challenge? Manual processes and disparate systems lead to multiple versions of documents, incomplete records, and duplicated work, creating a chaotic system of records that is difficult to manage.

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How Australian fashion fell to pieces: a timeline

The Guardian Manufacturing

In the 1990s and 2000s Alannah Hill, Alice McCall and Sass & Bide became household names. Now Australians buy more clothes than ever but few are made or even designed locally. Where did it come undone? Continue reading.

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Saunders secures $42 million contract for bp WA project

Manufacturer's Monthly

Engineering and construction company Saunders International Limited announced the contract will provide tank refurbishment and modification services for bp at its Kwinana energy hub in Perth. The fixed price Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract forms part of bp’s Kwinana Renewable Fuels project. The scope involves 25 tanks at the bp Kwinana energy hub being repurposed for feedstock or biofuel storage.

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New CHIPS Report Describes Metrology Grand Challenges for the Semiconductor Sector

NIST Manufacturing

The CHIPS Research and Development (R&D) Office has released a document that will serve as guidance for researchers supported with CHIPS R&D Metrology Program resources to develop project plans, including research activities and outcomes, with

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Delivering large scale project solutions

Manufacturer's Monthly

Pilot Air is a trusted brand in the large-scale project space. The company has successfully completed complex compressed solutions for a number of major customers over its forty-year history including the design, manufacture, installation, and commissioning of high-performance air compressor solutions. At Sydney’s Luna Park, two of the theme park’s major ride attractions, the Boomerang and the Big Dipper required updated and future-proofed air compressor systems and pipework solutions.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Recycled PET Prices Trending Down Amid Weak US Demand

Plastics Today

Current economic headwinds have led some buyers to delay or limit orders of higher cost recycled resin.

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Stelray boosts capabilities by adding its largest press

Plastics News

Custom injection molder and mold maker Stelray Plastic Products Inc. has expanded its plant to accommodate a new 620-ton press that it will use to open doors to large-part molding.

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Celebrating Excellence: Our 2023 CX Customer Hero Award Winners

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

Cisco Live is an incredible time to celebrate and learn, but for the CX team, the true highlight of Cisco Live is the opportunity to celebrate our customers whose innovations and successes have… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Canada invests in youth jobs-training across clean technology and sustainable resource sectors

Canadian Manufacturing

OTTAWA —The Government of Canada is investing over $30 million for job-creation and training opportunities over the next two years for youth in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and other related fields in the natural resource sectors that have positive environmental outcomes. Participating organizations will create 960 green jobs and training opportunities for young people to gain on-the-job experience and to continue careers in the fields of energy, forestry, minin

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5 Ways New Manufacturing Companies Are Accelerating Innovation

Next-gen manufacturers are redesigning factories to enable agility at every stage of production. From more timely communication between engineers and technicians to technologies that empower real-time collaboration, they’re getting ahead by making iterations and improvements during a build, across the production line at scale. This level of flexibility means they can develop more quickly than their legacy counterparts.