Control Engineering

DECEMBER 20, 2022

MIT engineers have developed ultralight fabric solar cells that can quickly and easily turn any surface into a power source. They found an ideal material — a composite fabric that weighs only 13 grams per square meter, commercially known as Dyneema.

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Plastics Today

MARCH 4, 2024

MTM 49-3 resin contains 30% bio-sourced monomers composite material and responds to sustainability goals in automotive.

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MESA

MAY 26, 2023

The project call is also seeking innovative solutions for robotic AM process planning for continuous fiber-reinforced composite structures. Advancing AM Processing for Continuous Fiber Reinforced Composites Topic Area 10: Innovations in robotic additive manufacturing process planning. AM is of significant interest to the U.S.

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Canadian Manufacturing

JULY 10, 2024

TRANSTEX acquires US Liner Company to expand manufacturing capacity (CNW Group/TRANSTEX) MONTREAL — TRANSTEX acquires Pennsylvania-based US Liner Company, a manufacturer of fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composites widely used as protective or structural components in vehicles, recreational vehicles, and agricultural applications. ”

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Source | Walter USA LLC Walter USA LLC offers the MP060, MP160 and MP260 milling cutters with brazed PCD cutting edges for machining aluminum, aluminum-silicon alloys, magnesium alloys, plastics and fiber composite materials (ISO N and ISO O, or other material groups).

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Modern Machine Shop

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Source: Vericut Vericut announces the release of two AI-powered tools: Vericut Intelligence (VI) and Vericut Assistant (VA). VI is an AI-driven solution designed to serve as a knowledge hub for all of Vericut’s software offerings, including Vericut, Composites, Vericut Optimizer and a variety of other modules and features.

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Mold Making Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Source (All images) | Gardner Intelligence The Gardner Business Index (GBI) is an indicator of the current state of moldmaking considering survey responses regarding new orders, production, backlog, employment, exports and supplier deliveries. Over 50 is expansion. Under 50 is contraction.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 11, 2024

Source | Century Tool and Cheto Century Tool , a Tooling Tech Group company and a composites tooling specialist, has announced it has invested in a Cheto IXN 3000 — a seven-axis CNC deep-hole drilling and milling machine tool and one of only five in the U.S.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Source: Stäubli Sales of professional service robots have increased by 30% worldwide, according to the International Federation of Robotics, or IFR. Source: IFR IFR identifies leading countries supplying medical, service robots The U.S. Its sample composition varies each year. It described humanoids as a potential disruptor.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 11, 2024

Source | Ellwood Specialty Metals Ellwood Specialty Metals showcases its EllCast 2 aluminum plate. This modified Alloy 2618 is designed for high-temperature applications up to 300°C (575°F). EllCast 2 offers machinability properties with dimensional stability, which Ellwood claims makes it suitable for a wide range of industries.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 18, 2024

Source: International Mold Steel With staff shortages prevalent, mold builders are searching for new efficiencies that allow them to provide timely service to their customers. International Mold Steel (IMS) claims to answer this call by providing its DCMX cold-work tool steel as a time- and money-saving alternative to S7 in plastic molds.

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Mold Making Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Source | FPT North America Inc. FPT North America Inc. highlights its TUDX head as one of the most versatile, interchangeable, cost-effective heads on the market. The design includes the bi-rotary axes that stay with the Z-axis RAM and the spindle automatically interchanges with different applications.

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E&T

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This analysis on the Winchcombe meteorite gives insight into how the Earth came to have water – the source of so much life. Dr Ashley King, of the Natural History Museum and author on the paper, said the analysis offers scientists “a tantalising glimpse back through time to the original composition of the solar system 4.6

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E&T

MAY 31, 2023

At Hanimaadhoo, a measuring station in the northernmost Maldives off the coast of India, researchers have been measuring the atmospheric composition and radiation for two decades. The measuring station is strategically placed to capture air masses from the Asian subcontinent and located in an area with few regional emission sources.

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E&T

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Unfortunately, the practical side of compiling a continuous time series of gas compositions represents a major challenge. Stationary monitoring equipment often fails to record representative data on gas compositions, mainly due to changing wind directions.

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Mold Making Technology

MAY 17, 2024

Source | Soraluce Inc. The Dynamic Line comprises three machine models tailored to applications in sectors such as aerospace, mold and die and mechanical engineering, with solutions designed for specific materials like composites, light alloys and steel-based components.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 7, 2024

Source: Soraluce Inc. The Dynamic Line comprises three machine models tailored to applications in sectors such as aerospace, mold & die and mechanical engineering, with solutions designed for specific materials like composites, light alloys and steel-based components.

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Mold Making Technology

AUGUST 18, 2024

Source | Alpine Advanced Materials Alpine Advanced Materials (Alpine), a custom-engineering and part manufacturer in industries like aerospace and defense , space and emerging transportation, leveraged a new prototyping process utilizing a dissolvable mold for high-performance injection molded composites.

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Modern Machine Shop

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Source: AMT - The Association for Manufacturing Technology The world’s leading additive manufacturing (AM) trade show is launching a U.S. AMT is the organizer behind IMTS and Gardner Business Media is North America’s leading media company focused on discrete part production in metals, plastics and composites. The new U.S.

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Fastener News Desk

JANUARY 27, 2024

In fact, Trex Company is the world’s leading manufacturer of wood-alternative composites made from recycled materials. Their composite decking is very popular, but they make a variety of outdoor building products. We can divert waste while helping supply the materials needed to create more composite products.

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E&T

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Argonne National Laboratory have identified particular 17-4 steel compositions that, when printed, match the properties of the conventionally manufactured version.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2024

Source: ARM Institute The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM, Institute today selected six new technology projects for funding. A prior project, called Rapid Welding of Thermoplastic Composite Structures, showed that robotic continuous ultrasonic welding can increase the speed of induction.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JANUARY 16, 2023

In the early iterations of Sentinel, most small components were made of aluminium, and many were sourced as ready-made items. To overcome this problem we literally ‘reinvented the wheel’, using a composite material including a percentage of carbon fibre, producing wheels that, after months in use, show no discernible signs of wear.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Source: Omnirobotic Omnirobotic Inc. “We plan to widen our product line in the metal transformation and composite sectors in the near future.” AutonomyOS is designed to help automate manufacturing tasks. today said it has closed on $500,000 in funding. “That is why we recently moved to a new 6,500 sq.

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E&T

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In order to increase the technology's efficiency, the HZB team used an advanced perovskite composition with a smart interface modification. Over the last few years, researchers have made significant improvements to tandem solar cell technology, with a view towards achieving more sustainable energy sources. .

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E&T

OCTOBER 4, 2022

However, this has been challenged by measurements of lunar rocks showing their composition is like that of Earth’s mantle. These calculations were performed using the SWIFT open-source simulation code, run on the DiRAC Memory Intensive service, hosted by Durham University.

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21st Century Tech

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Instead, the heat source falling on the object gets bounced back into the atmosphere and space. They also noted that cellulose produced from non-petroleum sources was widely abundant because it can be harvested from trees. Passive radiative cooling does not. Airborne dust interference.

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Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 5, 2024

“Across all our brands, which serve part producers in metal, plastics and composites, we have come to see that it is not enough to inform audiences just by reporting on the ideas and technologies most closely associated with them today. ” GBM is manufacturing’s media company. left to right) Julia Hider and Hannah Mason.

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Fastener News Desk

AUGUST 9, 2023

the world’s leading manufacturer of wood-alternative composite decking, railing, and other outdoor building products made from recycled materials. The entire portfolio of Trex composite decking is made from 95% recycled and reclaimed materials, including a mix of polyethylene (PE) film and industrial wood scrap.

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AU Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In the early iterations of Sentinel, most small components were made of aluminium, and many were sourced as ready-made items. To overcome this problem we literally ‘reinvented the wheel’, using a composite material including a percentage of carbon fibre, producing wheels that, after months in use, show no discernible signs of wear. .

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Modern Machine Shop

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Source: GrayMatter Robotics 1. Source: Additive Manufacturing 2. Source: Getty Images 3. Source: Innovakote 4. Source: Alliance Finishing and Manufacturing 5. AI, machine learning and IoT solutions Much like other areas of manufacturing, finishers and coaters are seeking ways to streamline their processes.

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3D printing Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Automotive 52

Manufacturer's Monthly

AUGUST 28, 2023

These projects also have a strong sustainability and circular economy focus, including the generation of fibres from new and sustainable sources, as well as fibres that can be recovered and reused. Australians will be able to wear clothes and buy products made from materials that they know have far less environmental impact,” Razal said.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Source: Waymo Autonomous vehicles need to be able to anticipate and react to people entering streets. Source: VERSES AI Predicting the future trajectories of nearby objects, especially under occlusion, is a crucial task in autonomous driving and safe robot navigation. VERSES AI Inc. How does the framework operate?

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

JUNE 14, 2023

Using open-source software has several benefits, including access to the source code, cost savings, flexibility, customization, community support, and availability of cutting-edge technology. However, each of these technologies can become an attack vector that hackers can exploit to penetrate the cloud system.

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Additive Manufacturing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Implantable Devices with Resorbable Polymer Composites. 3D printing bioresorbable polymer composites, which incorporate calcium phosphate salts for enhanced osteoconductivity and improved scaffold strength, accelerates the healing and recovery process with a reduced long-term foreign body reaction. Mahrokh Dadestan, PhD, Evonik.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Source: ABB Robotics ABB Robotics today launched Ultra Accuracy, a new feature for its GoFa collaborative robot line. They include gluing and sealing in consumer electronics production, laser welding of car parts, composite material layers in aerospace manufacturing, and precision laser cutting in metals fabrication processes.

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AU Manufacturing

AUGUST 3, 2022

It will also explore electric and hybrid-electric propulsion, batteries, and composite manufacturing that will create new innovations in urban mobility. . “We Image source: [link].

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