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NPE 2024: Additive Manufacturing Assisting, Advancing the Plastics Industry

Mold Making Technology

NPE: The Plastics Show returned for the first time in six years, bringing plastics manufacturing technology to Orlando, Florida, May 6-10, 2024. Metal 3D printing offers a faster way to obtain injection mold inserts, such as this mold slide for an automotive trim tool 3D printed with Mantle’s technology.

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Inside NAIT’s School of Manufacturing and Automation: A conversation with Dean Stephen McMillan

Automation Mag

The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) recently announced a newly designed seven-school structure for the 2024-2025 academic year. Automation is now a staple in most manufacturing subsectors, including CNC machining, 3d printing, robotic welding, and automated assembly line production methods.

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Electrification Brings Changing Demands to Automotive Manufacturing

Modern Machine Shop

The electronic components of EV motors require a clean environment for assembly, which means greater attention to HVAC systems and air filters, as well as enclosing spaces, to control airborne particles. Current assembly lines at ZF are about 33% automated; Lillard says that for the EV products, lines will be closer to 70% automated.

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Lighting manufacturer to open new R&D facility

Manufacturer's Monthly

VAILO founder and CEO Aaron Hickmann said VAILO would relocate from its current Kent Town home to the new Wayville facility in early 2024. The Wayville facility will expand VAILO’s production output, with more than five times the manufacturing floorspace while incorporating automation and robotics on the assembly line.

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Building Bridges: The Power of Connection at IMTS 2024

Modern Machine Shop

This “interconnectedness” between technology providers and forward-thinking shop leaders represents the theme of IMTS 2024 as the hub of those connections. Visitors to IMTS 2024 can learn about Apollo in the Emerging Technology Center. But at its core, IMTS is and always has been about fostering vital industry connections.