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Accelerate Program of Pittsburgh Robotics Factory opens applications for its third cohort

Robotics Business Review

Sector-specific programming includes understanding how to manufacture at scale and cost, developing a bill of materials, and designing for manufacturing and assembly. The participants will also have access to mentorship opportunities with successful robotics executives via the Pittsburgh Robotics Network.

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The Benefits of Early Engineering Involvement in an Automotive Build

MEM

This ensures that the parts selected for use in the prototype phase have been produced with the necessary quality certifications and prevents the requirement for the revalidation of parts when moving from prototype to serial production, thus eliminating the need to re-align the bill of materials as a result.

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3 ways visualization software can align operations across enterprise layers

Control Engineering

Three examples spanning various organizational areas include: OT sources: process data, quality data, alerts/events, key performance indicators (KPIs) and energy consumption IT sources: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), including financials, orders, shipments, suppliers, bills of material and others; analytics; weather and environmental data; market (..)

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Embrace Disruption: The Supply Chain

Fabricating & Metal Work

In response, metalworkers continue to invest in automation, robotics and machinery to speed up their processes, manufacturing highly precise and accurate components and parts. For example, a custom manufacturer sends a metal fabrication supplier a design-to-order project.

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Systems integrators support end user self-service

Control Engineering

In addition, any bill of material or schematics required for the work order can be generated by the system automatically. This is becoming easier as wireless connectivity and industrial communications protocols improve in performance and cybersecurity, while simplifying installations.

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Discrete Manufacturing Guide

ATS

Discrete manufacturing produces distinct items from standardized parts or components. This sets it apart from process manufacturing, which combines multiple components to create a homogenous result. Think of it this way: In a discrete manufacturing system, parts are connected but not combined.

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Mixed Mode Manufacturing

ATS

Mixed mode manufacturing refers to any production environment that uses more than one manufacturing mode and does so under the same roof or within the same system. For example, carrying out discrete manufacturing in one facility and process manufacturing in another is not mixed mode.