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Navigating the future

Manufacturer's Monthly

In 2008, Xavier Orr was digging deep into the world of neural networks in his final year of artificial intelligence studies at the University of Western Australia. Today, the Australian-based company is making moves in the futuristic worlds of self-driving cars, aerial drones, space launch vehicles and robotics.

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Leading the way in automated monitoring with Kurloo Technology

Manufacturer's Monthly

Years into his career in measurement science as a consulting surveyor, the co- founder and CEO of Kurloo Technology, Lee Hellen, began his first commercial business in 2008. Three years later, Hellen’s team worked on the South Point project in Brisbane, with very heavily constrained tunnels and heritage buildings to deal with.

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J.L. Leclerc & Fils and Portes and FenĂŞtres Abritek receive federal funding

Canadian Manufacturing

Since 2008, the vice‑presidency of this family‑run SME has been assumed by Julie Leclerc. Thanks to the $1M repayable contribution from CED, the business will be able to acquire and commission a digital machining centre and robotic production equipment, including three welding cells, a laser cutter, and a folding press.

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Lifetime Achievement Award: Mark Dolsen’s legacy of problem-solving and automation excellence

Automation Mag

Dolsen recalls how in the 1980s there was a fascination with robots and automated guided vehicles. In the early days, a lot of robots were installed even when it may not have made any sense to add one,” he explains. The push, he says, was towards substituting direct labour with automation. “A

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Movers & Shakers – Edwin Olson, Co-founder & CEO, May Mobility, Inc.

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

We see the key components of a scalable and profitable autonomous vehicle business– regulatory, technology, and supply chain– coming together around the end of 2023. By which year do you think we will see the inflection point when all the external moving parts (regulation, technology, cost) fall into place?

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Building on analytics foundations to improve operations

Control Engineering

Analytics are going to be a key driver for manufacturers looking to get the most productivity and insight from their operations as they deal with supply chain and labor shortages. To address these and other issues, OPC UA (OPC Unified Architecture) was released in 2008. Analytics insights. Limited data type handling.

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Increase Your Productivity with Highly Precise and Accurate Solutions

Fabricating & Metal Work

For even greater manufacturing efficiency, we are able to provide our hydraulic press customers with turnkey, state-of-the-art robotic and other product handling solutions.” SmartView requires Windows 7 or newer versions (Windows 2008 Server or newer). s CEO Jerry Letendre.