Gary Mintchell

MARCH 11, 2025

By extending coverage to PostgreSQL, Rubrik ensures that one of the world’s most popular open-source databases thrives in the face of evolving digital threats. According to a recent Rubrik Zero Labs report, attackers are targeting backups in 96% of cyberattacks. Rubrik Cloud Vault (RCV) for Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Automation 130

Automation Compliance Sourcing Manufacturing 130

Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Source: Rethink Robotics Six years after closing its doors, Rethink Robotics Inc. Lorenz was previously responsible for corporate development and compliance at HAHN Automation Group, United Robotics Group, and Schenck Process Group. CEO Julia Astrid Riemenschneider (left) and COO Franziska Lorenz of Rethink Robotics.

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Robotics Robotics Compliance Automation 94

Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

TradeBeyond announced that it has acquired Pivot88 , the trusted SaaS provider of quality, compliance, and traceability solutions to brands and retailers around the world. The company orchestrates quality and compliance processes across more than 50,000 supply chain partners in 112 countries.

Supply Chain 130

Supply Chain Compliance Function Sourcing 130

Robotics Business Review

JUNE 21, 2024

Source: Neya Systems Neya Systems yesterday announced that it is partnering with the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International, or AUVSI. In March, Neya said it is working with the Embodied AI Foundation to update the CARLA open-source simulator for autonomous driving research to Unreal Engine 5.

Compliance 122

Compliance Robotics Robotics Sourcing 122

Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Makersite’s sustainability and cost data will now be available to Autodesk Inventor users, enabling engineers to analyze their products’ design, sustainability, and compliance factors during the design phase. Makersite has expanded its strategic partnership with product design software developer Autodesk.

Supply Chain 130

Supply Chain Compliance Sourcing Manufacturing 130

Gary Mintchell

APRIL 16, 2024

Currently, manufacturers struggle to translate compliance initiatives into making informed decisions during the product design phase due to outdated data systems and data silos. Here is one by a company called Makersite who touts their new approach called product lifecycle intelligence (PLI). Oops, many still do that, too.

Supply Chain 147

Supply Chain Compliance Sourcing Manufacturing 147

Foley

JUNE 7, 2023

As a sign of things to come, Germany’s Supply Chain Diligence Act and Norway’s recent Transparency Act impose affirmative human rights due-diligence obligations on companies and create an enforcement structure with severe penalties for non-compliance.

Supply Chain 98

Supply Chain Compliance Sourcing Composites 98

Robotics Business Review

MARCH 26, 2025

Source: Flexxbotics Flexxbotics today announced the latest release of FlexxCORE, the patent-pending technology at the center of its Flexxbotics system. FlexxCORE has been updated for longer unattended production, increased capacity, and improved product quality.

Robotics 76

Robotics Robotics Artificial Intelligence Process control 76

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

MARCH 4, 2025

Meanwhile, raw material shortages and regulatory pressures are pushing businesses to rethink sourcing, production, and value creation at every level. However, challenges related to scalability, cost efficiency, and regulatory compliance remain, requiring strategic adaptation to drive long-term sustainability.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Composites 3D printing Compliance 52

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

MARCH 3, 2025

Automated procurement and logistics, ensuring cost-effective material sourcing. Immutable records of compliance with environmental and quality standards. Key benefits include: Accurate demand forecasting, reducing material shortages and excess inventory. Improved trust and accountability between manufacturers, suppliers, and customers.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain 3D printing Compliance Logistics 52

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Leveraging Digital Transformation Digital transformation enhances ESG performance by improving transparency and compliance. Committing to Regulatory Compliance and Transparency Staying compliant with environmental regulations is crucial for sustainable manufacturing.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Compliance Artificial Intelligence 52

MEM

JULY 17, 2023

With skeleton food safety crews, a leaner post-Brexit quality control workforce and Food Factory Managers wearing multiple technical hats, JentonDimaco Director Dr Russ Sion explores how a ‘belts & braces’ approach to label verification can save overtasked technical professionals sinking under the compliance and cost controls pressures.

Compliance 52

Compliance Automation Sourcing Food Production 52

Mold Making Technology

MAY 7, 2024

Source | Hasco The requirements for the marking of plastic parts are increasing all the time. In addition to date and batch identification, information on food safety, recyclability and European conformity (CE) marking is becoming increasingly important.

Compliance 52

Compliance Sourcing 52

Gary Mintchell

MAY 24, 2023

Cyber Insights is designed to integrate information from multiple OT data sources in order to provide a customer with actionable insights into their facility’s cybersecurity vulnerabilities, threats and compliance, thereby helping reduce their overall cybersecurity risks.

Compliance 130

Compliance Form Sourcing Automation 130

Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Source: M.R. Regulatory compliance remains a challenge, but technology is providing solutions. Mold builders can seize opportunities in medical manufacturing as demand for precision molds grows, driven by miniaturization, LSR use and auto-injectables, to name a few, requiring advanced machining, automation and tight-tolerance molding.

Manufacturing 64

Manufacturing Lead Time Cycle time Value chain 64

Robotics Business Review

JULY 16, 2024

Source: Simbe Robotics Simbe Robotics Inc. The majority of retailers experience significant challenges in managing business functions such as pricing and promotional execution (96%), planogram compliance (93%) and out-of-stocks (92%), reported Coresight Research. Simbe Mobile is a new management feature in the Store Intelligence suite.

Compliance 110

Compliance Robotics Robotics Artificial Intelligence 110

Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Cybersecurity threats, from both external and internal sources, can cause significant disruptions at your plant, resulting in unplanned downtime, operational chaos, and most importantly, lost revenue. This new secure, cloud-based platform assists in ITAR regulatory compliance for aerospace and defense manufacturers who serve the U.S.

Compliance 98

Compliance Aerospace Fit Sourcing 98

Automation Mag

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

When looking at supply chains, for example, almost all (98 percent) manufacturers are considering geographic strategies to optimize supply chain resilience, opting for closer or politically stable sourcing destinations. On the topic of carbon footprints, manufacturers are particularly hopeful about the impact of ESG on their businesses.

Supply Chain 57

Supply Chain Manufacturing Compliance Lead Time 57

Manufacturer's Monthly

MARCH 20, 2023

Most accidents can be avoided through simple measures – knowing the sources of hazards in the workplace will thus reduce accidents to a minimum. The SOS will teach your operators the importance of a pre-operational inspection and ensure they are conducted correctly to ensure compliance with AS 2550.1-2011

Compliance 98

Compliance Sourcing Manufacturing 98

MEM

JULY 17, 2023

As well as facing the need to replace ingredients due to the supply shortages, more manufacturers are beginning to adopt near sourcing – moving away from a single global supply to multiple suppliers at a regional level.

Sourcing 52

Sourcing Supply Chain Beverage Compliance 52

Canadian Manufacturing

JANUARY 30, 2025

The LSC (Leached Spodumene Concentrate) produced during the operation of the planned Converter in Guben represents an interesting and regionally available source of secondary raw materials,” says Johann Trenkwalder, Member of the Management Board SCHWENK Germany. The certification process is expected to take up to 1.5

Compliance 59

Compliance Sourcing Manufacturing Supply Chain 59

Manufacturer's Monthly

AUGUST 15, 2023

A clean work environment is essential for product quality, worker safety, and regulatory compliance in any manufacturing premises. Employees are often the best source of information about potential inefficiencies and limitations. It improves product quality, worker safety, regulatory compliance and employee morale.

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing Compliance Automation Sourcing 98

MEM

JUNE 15, 2023

The power controller regulates the power output to minimize energy waste, and the possible integration with renewable energy sources provides a complete power solution that spans from element design to recycling. As Industry 4.0

Compliance 52

Compliance Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 52

Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

TRI says it aimed to combine the precision of a traditional robot with the compliance, impact resistance, and sensing simplicity of soft robotic systems. Each bubble can also be individually pressurized to a desired stiffness, and add around 5 cm of compliance to the surface of the robot’s arms.

Robotics 126

Robotics Robotics Compliance Sourcing 126

Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2024

By processing edge AI workloads on-premises and closer to the source of data generation, it allows AGV and AMRs to operate in real-time, minimize bandwidth utilization, enhance safety and security, and provide live telematics.

Robotics 115

Robotics Robotics Compliance Agile manufacturing 115

i4.0 today

MARCH 25, 2025

Harbor Pilot Documentation Q&A provides rapid, AI-driven responses, delivering relevant documentation with source links. With AI-driven decision-making accelerating, enterprises must ensure that AI agents adhere to the same security and compliance standards as human and machine identities.

Compliance 52

Compliance Automation Sourcing 52

Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Source: Universal Robots The latest advances in artificial intelligence promise to improve robot capabilities, but engineers need to bring the technologies together. The UR AI Accelerator toolkit includes reference hardware and software. “We are hopefully enabling customers to go further into the physical side.”

Robotics 115

Robotics Robotics Artificial Intelligence Sourcing 115

Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2024

Source: Wing Aviation The Federal Aviation Administration has authorized multiple operators to fly commercial drones without visual observers in the same airspace. Wing said updated FAA exemptions for its detect-and-avoid approach open the door for it to safely scale in the U.S.

Compliance 116

Compliance Robotics Robotics Sourcing 116

Robotics Business Review

MAY 25, 2024

thesis work, and he has open-sourced the gripper design and all of the code so that others can continue to help evolve the AI diffusion policy work. Compliance can be built into the robot mechanism itself, and this can make it safer. The UMI gripper was part of his Ph.D. AI innovation accelerates How did you get your start in robotics?

Robotics 142

Robotics Robotics Benchmarking Artificial Intelligence 142

iBASEt

MAY 31, 2024

This approach ensures that only users with the appropriate certifications are able to do any work on the operation, improving quality and compliance. This enables Source Inspectors to participate in the new workflow queues you create. A user is prevented from signing on due to missing certifications at the operation level.

Compliance 105

Compliance Sourcing Quality Management System Form 105

Robotics Business Review

APRIL 22, 2024

Source: Pudu Robotics Pudu Technology Co. Safety compliance: PUDU T300 adheres to ISO 3691-4 industrial safety requirements and includes lidar, depth camera, collision-protection edges, and emergency stop buttons. Source: Pudu Robotics PUDU T300 will work with PUDUlink platform What’s the new robot ‘s payload capacity?

Robotics 122

Robotics Robotics Supply Chain Logistics 122

ATS

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Share Facilities management is rarely considered a source of competitive advantage, but manufacturers adopting an integrated facilities management strategy benefit from lower costs and higher operational efficiencies. IFM sharpens the focus on organizational goals and eliminates ambiguity over responsibilities.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Compliance Function Form 52

ATS

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Implementing MRO data management best practices The key to harnessing MRO information is to establish a single source of master data accessible by the people and systems that need it. Maintaining the MRO master data as the single source of truth requires following good data governance principles.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Sourcing Compliance Form 52

Manufacturer's Monthly

MARCH 18, 2024

In a world where mining supply chains are incurring more disruptions than ever before and sourcing locally has never been more important, hire options have become increasingly popular – and necessary. Through their in-house engineering team, CAPS has custom modified the entire rental range to ensure mine-site compliance.

Supply Chain 111

Supply Chain Compliance Sourcing Manufacturing 111

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Engaging with policymakers to streamline compliance processes and create business-friendly environments is essential. Navigating Compliance Standards Companies will need to ensure their operations meet both domestic and international compliance standards.

Supply Chain 100

Supply Chain Warehousing Logistics Manufacturing 100

Foley

MARCH 29, 2023

Compliance and Reputational Risks Both enforcement agencies and consumers are increasingly focused on manufacturers’ supply chains. Managing Risk in Your Supply Chain These paradigms highlight an important fact: It’s not good enough to just check the compliance boxes to show stakeholders that your company is socially responsible.

Supply Chain 69

Supply Chain Compliance Sourcing Manufacturing 69

ATS

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Digital assets include software, particularly source code, along with videos, instructional material and some designs. This provides a single source of truth, integrates with other business systems, is easily updated and allows retention of information related to the condition and maintenance needs of individual assets.

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Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Form Function Sourcing 52