Control Engineering

MAY 4, 2023

Learning Objectives Learn about what additive manufacturers displayed and showcased at Rapid + TCT. Understand how the industry is changing and what this means for industrial manufacturers. Like other manufacturing industries, they continue evolving. That’s not new.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 29, 2023

High-mix, low-volume manufacturing insights A high-mix, low-volume (HMLV) manufacturing approach allows manufacturers to cater to individual customer needs and preferences while minimizing inventory costs. Manufacturers looking to take full advantage of this are embracing automation solutions.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Market Insights Machinery sector growth outperformed manufacturing in 2022. London, 31 st January 2023 – Updated research by Interact Analysis shows that Asia Pacific (APAC), Europe and the US have performed very differently in terms of manufacturing output growth during 2022. Americas region to grow by 3.1% for Europe.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 16, 2023

“Close human-robot interaction occupies a central position in solving pressing economic, societal and demographic challenges: from optimizing industrial assembly to increasing productivity in agriculture to supporting medical and nursing staff in the form of assistance robots,” said Prof.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 17, 2023

For many manufacturers, industrial transformation is about being more open from a product perspective and giving engineers more flexibility. Hannover Messe returned in a more subdued form than in previous years as the show tries rebounding after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Control Engineering

MAY 24, 2023

Manufacturing optimization insights Manufacturing technologies are getting more sophisticated in their capabilities, but they’re also getting easier to use so they’re more accessible. Manufacturing technologies are getting more sophisticated and are capable of performing more tasks than ever.

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Control Engineering

JULY 13, 2023

Learning Objectives Learn applications of CNC, robotic welding and metal-forming processes at the Freedman Seating Co. See examples of manufacturing training at Jane Addams Resource Corp. Automated manufacturing insights Applications of CNC, robotic welding and metal-forming processes were described during a Freedman Seating Co.

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Control Engineering

JULY 19, 2022

Safety comes in many forms and is a critical aspect of manufacturing operations. Engineering controls can be simple or complex, and they may take many forms. . Energy can take several forms: electrical mains power, electrical device power and most often missed is pneumatic energy and even hydraulic energy.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 11, 2023

How to automate insights Automation continues to enable manufacturing efficiency with fewer experienced workers available, Control Engineering explains in the “How to automate” August 2023 print and digital edition. With global diversity of rapid innovation, let’s think again about how to automate.

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iBASEt

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Complex manufacturing processes involve hundreds or even thousands of steps to make a finished product. It’s the science of analyzing data patterns to discover opportunities for optimizing manufacturing processes. Product launches are a key event for manufacturers, critical to revenue, growth, and reputation.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 17, 2022

The team’s results provide the first scalable manufacturing technique for producing detailed, large-scale materials with “structural color” — color that arises as a consequence of a material’s microscopic structure, rather than from chemical additives or dyes.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 27, 2023

This is the way of the future in manufacturing, warehousing and logistics. Even with the recent uncertainty in the economy due to recent bank failures and inflation, customers want their products, and some manufacturers struggle to keep up. Robots — industrial and collaborative — are being applied to more manufacturing applications.

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Control Engineering

JULY 30, 2022

Manufacturing Insights. And that’s when we noticed that 10-nanometer pinholes were forming because the oxide was bursting out of the substrate.”. During epitaxy, they saw that the thin film actually formed at these pinholes in the graphene. “We

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Control Engineering

MAY 16, 2023

Motor and drive insights Electric motors drive actuators and machines in manufacturing and other industries and keeping them constantly operating is critical. Electric motors are used to drive actuators and machines in manufacturing and other industries. Outputs may be normally open (form A) or form C with both NO and NC contacts.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

According to the analysis by FMI, the demand is increasing for robotic process automation in healthcare, as robotic process automation can mimic human interaction, allowing them to log in to applications, move files, fill forms, and more.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 23, 2023

As those films heated up, they began to warp, forming a cone that rose up until, suddenly and explosively, it flipped inside out—shooting the material up to a height of nearly 200 times its own thickness in just 6 milliseconds. As the cone forms, strain builds up in the film until, all at once—snap!

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 30, 2023

Competitive landscape During the projection period, the manufacturers in the aviation sensor market are engaging in activities that will fuel the industry’s quick growth. They are working together and forming strategic alliances with other well-known firms that are proliferating in the industry.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 18, 2023

Robotic grippers tend to be designed for delicacy or weight and this can give them added utility in manufacturing and other situations where the situation is constantly changing. lb) weight, dexterous enough to fold a cloth, and precise enough to pick up microfilms that are 20 times thinner than a human hair. graduate from NC State.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 15, 2022

Integrated stepper motors trim accurate metal forming costs. Data is king in today’s digital world, and businesses are turning to Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions to keep up with the demand for data. Three examples are highlighted.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 18, 2022

The junction is less than 10 nanometers thick and forms when tellurium gas is introduced while molybdenum metal forms a film on silicon dioxide in a chemical vapor deposition furnace. “This allows one to engineer materials in 2D to create device architectures that could be unique in electronic applications.”.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 19, 2023

Then for the second step, they reformulate that constrained optimization problem into a mathematical representation known as the epigraph form and solve it using a deep reinforcement learning algorithm. The epigraph form lets them bypass the difficulties other methods face when using reinforcement learning.

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Part of the Sandvik Group, Cimatron provides toolmakers with an end-to-end solution for designing and manufacturing tools including molds, dies and electrodes, as well as programming any CNC and EDM machine for molds, dies, plates and discrete manufacturing. Photo Credit: Cimatron Cimatron is celebrating its 40th birthday.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 17, 2022

Historically, vendors like ABB, WEG, Siemens and Nidec have had minimal difficulty securing supply of key raw materials used in the manufacturing of their motors. Electric steel is used heavily in the manufacturing of electric motors. million cars were produced between these three manufacturers alone. In 2021, 21.2

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Control Engineering

MARCH 2, 2023

Its integrated antibacterial and antiviral properties can also help prevent harmful pathogens from forming on the surface of the skin underneath the device during extended use. This is because people can feel about 20 kilopascals or more of pressure when something is stretched on their skin, and this material creates less pressure than that.”

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 4, 2022

Machine original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and system integrators are looking to build reliable connectivity platforms with automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and automated storage/retrieval systems (AS/RS). This is a trend that will only increase as automation becomes a necessity in manufacturing. Wireless Insights.

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Control Engineering

JULY 7, 2023

Many manufacturers today are working toward developing more cost-effective, compact LiDAR systems, and virtually all producers of self-driving cars consider LiDAR to be a key, enabling technology. This form of LiDAR is integrated onto a computer chip.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

In its most basic form, the robot is shaped like a square with one leg along each of its four sides. wide in its elongated form. “But that got me thinking: That’s one way to compress. What are others?” Which is where CLARI, made to squeeze through horizontal gaps, scuttles into the picture. wide in its square shape to about 21 mm (0.8

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Learning Objectives Learn the difference between discrete and continuous position sensors. Understand which applications they’re best-suited for and see examples of how they help manufacturers and end users. Tire manufacturing: Tire production demands extreme precision in shaping and curing processes.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 26, 2023

A sampling of exhibits covering automation, safety, logistics, robotics and other solutions that can be applied to motion control for manufacturing, warehousing, distribution centers and other applications. In 2019, employee-owned Burns & McDonnell formed a business and technology consultancy called 1898 & Co.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Don’t miss the chance to be inspired by industry experts, suppliers and your peers in the metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing sectors at FABTECH 2022. FABTECH is North America’s largest metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing event. FORMING & FABRICATING, METALFORM, FINISHING. Venue Information.

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Control Engineering

JULY 22, 2022

The researchers then utilized an empirical rule to piece together all the curves until they formed a complete picture. At room temperature, the charges that constitute disorder are free to shift around until they reach equilibrium, but when frozen in the cryostat, the disorder is frozen in place.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 6, 2023

For this reason, the motor and drive are often specified and sold as a set from the same manufacturer. Robotics maintenance Industrial robots are used in manufacturing and material handling tasks, and their physical configuration depends on the function that is required. Figure 3: Integrated servo example.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 23, 2023

MIT researchers used a form of generative AI, called a diffusion model, to solve this problem more efficiently. Some traditional methods tackle this problem sequentially, guessing a partial solution that meets one constraint at a time and then checking to see if any other constraints were violated.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 10, 2022

To support this increase in data, infrastructure in the form of data centers is continuing to be built and leased out to companies in need of server space. According to the United States International Trade Commission , the amount of new data expected to be created in 2025 will be 175 ZB.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 12, 2022

Export to a.csv file – allowing the user to have a specific set of points already constructed, usually in the form of two columns. Export to a.yss file – the file extension to use the cam profile within the software for the correct motion profile.

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Automation Mag

JULY 2, 2024

Manufacturing AUTOMATION’s annual Lifetime Achievement Award program celebrates long-serving members of Canada’s discrete manufacturing and automation sectors by recognizing workers who have been employed in the industry for at least 25 years and who have made significant contributions to advance it.

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Automation Mag

JUNE 26, 2023

Manufacturing AUTOMATION’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award program celebrates long-serving members of Canada’s discrete manufacturing and automation sectors by recognizing workers who have been employed in the industry for at least 25 years and who have made significant contributions to advance it.

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