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Know Your Würth: CEO AJ Strandquist on How Würth Additive Can Change 3D Printing

Fastener News Desk

They may be dull as dirt, but they’re also in everything: “What makes us a unique fit is two things,” began Strandquist. One is fasteners, which make up a huge percentage of the components in a bill of materials, but only five percent or something of a manufacturer’s total spend, on average.

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Precision Meets Innovation at IMTS 2024

Mold Making Technology

Automation and Smart Manufacturing Automation was a central theme, with exhibitors like System 3R , Hurco and Hermle showcasing solutions that enable unattended operations and easy scalability. 3D Printing: New applications and materials in both metal and resin printing are now more affordable, inspiring new implementation ideas.

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Comment: Why technological transformation matters in manufacturing

E&T

Industry Wales is taking the lead on promoting the Smart Manufacturing Data Hub (SMDH) to Welsh businesses. Using sensors to track materials through the production process can identify inefficiency so manufacturers can eliminate waste or unnecessary spend.

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Perpetual Wisdom

Dinesh Mishra

with a focus on digitization and smart manufacturing. Additionally, there is growing interest in additive manufacturing (3D printing), which is gaining traction for producing complex, lightweight components, especially in aerospace and defence industries.

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5G’s role in the adoption of enterprise augmented reality

Control Engineering

To smart manufacturing enterprises, the ratio is 1 to every 4. This gap reflects a reality that enterprises, especially those in the smart manufacturing segment, have not yet advanced in their trials to combine big data sets and AR. For example, for every enterprise who is testing digital twin with AR, there are 3.7

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Manufacturing in America 2023: Digitalization, automation, sustainability, productivity

Control Engineering

Raj Batra, president of Siemens Digital Industries USA and of the Siemens Foundation, an organization designed to help fill skills gap, opened the 2023 Manufacturing in America Summit by discussing how digitalization is helping automation advance manufacturing and other industrial applications. Courtesy: Mark T. Courtesy: Mark T.