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New, Highly Customizable Industrial Monitors Released by Rockwell Automation

May 17, 2022

Rockwell Automation announced the release of a new line of highly customizable industrial monitors that can help machine builders better differentiate their machines and meet a wider range of application needs. The new Allen-Bradley ASEM 6300M industrial monitors, part of...

Top 8 predictive analytics tools compared

May 17, 2022

Do you want to know what the future may bring? Predictive analysis tools have an answer. Are they right? Sometimes. But sometimes can often be more than enough if the prediction can help your enterprise plan better, spend more wisely,...

Want to Transform Your Factory? Cut That Cord.

May 17, 2022

Where it’s difficult to hardwire industrial operations to ensure time to market, industrial wireless LANs (WLANs) provide an ideal alternative to traditional wired Ethernet LANs. Indeed, recent advances in wireless technology have contributed to industrial WLANs becoming commonplace solutions in...

“Smart Screws” Could Save Collapsing Bridges, Wind Turbines Using a Warning Signal

May 17, 2022

Over the last few decades, we’ve seen multiple catastrophic events — including a collapsed traffic tunnel, an airplane crash, and a ship fire — all blamed on nuts and bolts. Though it seems hard to believe that something so small...

Intel’s Habana Labs Launches Second-Generation AI Processors for Training and Inferencing

May 17, 2022

Today at Intel Vision, Intel announced that Habana Labs, its data center team focused on AI deep learning processor technologies, launched its second-generation deep learning processors for training and inference: Habana® Gaudi®2 and Habana® Greco™. These new processors address an...

Robotic Goods-to-Person Solutions Are Ready for DCs of All Sizes

May 17, 2022

A decade after Amazon created headlines when they purchased Kiva Robotics, third-generation autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are taking the market by storm. These latest goods-to-person (G2) solutions store and retrieve products and SKUs in a more efficient way in high-speed...

How to Pick the Right Technology to Enable the Remote Workforce

May 17, 2022

corporate firewall. However, in the new world of cloud computing and hybrid workforces, some basic practices and assumptions need to be revisited. For example, more people now need access to sensitive business data while working from home, on public computers,...

How to Write a Business Plan for Your Machining Company

May 17, 2022

Writing a business plan forces machining company operators to focus on the details of the business, understand the risks, and establish a roadmap for future growth. It can also be used to attract and secure funding. The document should include...

How to Be a Human-centered Leader

May 17, 2022

In recent years, there has been a shift in the way businesses and organizations operate. Previously, the focus was on profits and numbers, with little regard for the people who worked within those systems. Today, we are now beginning to...

Progressive bridges skills gap with internal coding bootcamp

May 17, 2022

Having spent several years in various roles at Progressive Insurance, Kerry Hirz always had her eye out for new opportunities. After a friend in Progressive’s IT department suggested Hirz consider joining a programming bootcamp to make a bigger career change,...

SAP trials meeting-free Fridays

May 10, 2022

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Focus: That will be the new work week for SAP in Germany beginning May 20, 2022. Many companies encourage employees to set aside blocks of time each day for “deep work,” and some even automate that...

The Loneliness of the Hybrid Worker

May 10, 2022

Unprecedented levels of hybrid work seem likely to persist beyond the pandemic conditions that revolutionized employers’ attitudes toward flexible working arrangements. Even as offices have reopened, many employees are loath to give up the benefits of working from home at...

Manufacturer of Ultra Short Pulse Laser Systems, Photon Energy, Acquired by Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems

May 10, 2022

Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd. announced that it has acquired 100% stock of Photon Energy GmbH. Founded in Germany in 2001, Photon Energy has a reputation as technology leader in the development, research, and sales of Ultra Short Pulse...

Maxpro Technologies Inc. is Pleased to Announce The Acquisition of Maximator Test, LLC, Located in Gurnee, IL.

May 3, 2022

Maxpro Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce the acquisition of Maximator Test, LLC, located in Gurnee, IL. Maximator Test offers a full range of high-pressure testing services, including leak, impulse, and proof testing with pressures to 65,000 psi and burst...

Manufacturer of Ultra Short Pulse Laser Systems, Photon Energy, Acquired by Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems

April 26, 2022

Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd. announced that it has acquired 100% stock of Photon Energy GmbH. Founded in Germany in 2001, Photon Energy has a reputation as technology leader in the development, research, and sales of Ultra Short Pulse...

Bentley Systems to Extend Nonlinear Simulation Throughout Infrastructure Engineering with Acquisition of ADINA

April 19, 2022

Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced it has acquired Watertown, Massachusetts-based ADINA R & D Inc., a leading developer of finite element analysis software applications used in a comprehensively diverse range of engineering fields. ADINA was founded in 1986 by Dr. Klaus-Jürgen...

JBC Technologies Acquires HST Materials, Inc.

April 12, 2022

JBC Technologies, a leading flexible materials converter, today announces the purchase of HST Materials, Inc., an ISO-9001 certified converter located in the Chicago, Illinois suburbs. The acquisition strategically expands JBC’s geographic footprint while adding additional market presence in the automotive...

Extended Reality Solution Provider, The Wild, to Be Acquired by Autodesk

April 5, 2022

Autodesk, Inc. has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire The Wild, a cloud-connected, extended reality (XR) platform, which includes its namesake solutions, The Wild, and IrisVR. The Wild Extended Reality Solutionenables architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals...

Green Bay Shop Does Championship Machining with CAD/CAM

May 17, 2022

Green Bay, Wisconsin, was built on paper and paperboard manufacturing and is known as “the toilet paper capital of the world.” Wisconsin’s paper industry accounted for 30,000 jobs and $18.2 billion in economic output in 2018, according to a report...

Apple’s New iPhone Subscription Service

May 17, 2022

It’s never too early to start planning for the year’s end — and you might be able to ring in 2023 with a new iPhone or other device paid piecemeal through an upcoming hardware subscription service from Apple. It’s set...

The little guys are doing automation right

May 17, 2022

2020 changed virtually everything, and it’s the dawning of a new era for e-commerce companies. In a survey of small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) conducted by BizTechInsights on behalf of Zebra Technologies, nearly 70% of respondents said they’ve experienced a significant...

Robotic Welding, Extensive Automation Drive GE Appliances’ South Carolina Water Heater Plant

May 17, 2022

GE Appliances today opened a plant in Camden, South Carolina, designated as the company’s Center of Excellence for water heater manufacturing. The $70 million plant features several advanced technologies and a workforce with over 50 team leaders that participated in...

Labor Shortage Hampering Digitalization Efforts

May 17, 2022

Everyone is on the bandwagon when it comes to digital transformation. In the third annual study by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and ToolsGroup, 93% of companies are actively engaged in digital transformation. What’s standing in the way of...

Juniper’s enterprise networking business on a roll

May 17, 2022

Enterprise networking has never been so prominent for Juniper Networks as it is right now. For the first time in Juniper’s history, its enterprise networking business was the largest of its three core divisions – cloud, service provider and enterprise...