Industry 4.0 breathes new life into cybersecurity
Dave Sutton for IT Pro Portal: A technical evolution has taken place, which has made cyberthreats more potent than at any other time in our history. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, over half of British businesses will suffer cyberattacks by 2018. As businesses seek to embrace Industry 4.0, cybersecurity protection must be a top priority for Industrial Control Systems (ICS). These attacks are financially crippling, reduce production and business innovation, and cost lives.
In years gone by, legacy ICS were developed with proprietary technology and were isolated from the outside world, so physical perimeter security was deemed adequate and cybersecurity was not relevant. However, today the rise of digital manufacturing means many control systems use open or standardised technologies to both reduce costs and improve performance, employing direct communications between control and business systems. Companies must now be proactive to secure their systems online as well as offline. Cont'd...
The Next Industrial Revolution - 3D Printing
The 3D printing field is expected to grow more than 14% annually to become an $8.4 billion industry by 2020
AREVO Announces $7M Series A Funding Round Led by Khosla Ventures
Innovator in 3D Printing of Lightweight and Ultra Strong Composite Parts for Industrial and Consumer Applications
German Switch Manufacturer, Berker, Improves Agility, Reduces Prototype Testing Time by 85% by 3D Printing Injection Molds
Average cost per mold reduced by a whopping 83% with 3D printing
Video: Watch how Berker makes a switch more efficiently with 3D printed injection molds
Printed Perforated Lampshades for Continuous Projective Images
From Haisen Zhao, Lin Lu, Yuan Wei, Dani Lischinski, Andrei Sharf, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen:
We present a technique for designing 3D-printed perforated lampshades, which project continuous grayscale images onto the surrounding walls. Given the geometry of the lampshade and a target grayscale image, our method computes a distribution of tiny holes over the shell, such that the combined footprints of the light emanating through the holes form the target image on a nearby diffuse surface. Our objective is to approximate the continuous tones and the spatial detail of the target image, to the extent possible within the constraints of the fabrication process.
To ensure structural integrity, there are lower bounds on the thickness of the shell, the radii of the holes, and the minimal distances between adjacent holes. Thus, the holes are realized as thin tubes distributed over the lampshade surface. The amount of light passing through a single tube may be controlled by the tube's radius and by its direction (tilt angle). The core of our technique thus consists of determining a suitable configuration of the tubes: their distribution across the relevant portion of the lampshade, as well as the parameters (radius, tilt angle) of each tube. This is achieved by computing a capacity-constrained Voronoi tessellation over a suitably defined density function, and embedding a tube inside the maximal inscribed circle of each tessellation cell. The density function for a particular target image is derived from a series of simulated images, each corresponding to a different uniform density tube pattern on the lampshade... (full paper)
New Plug and Play Motion System at IMTS
Visit Rollon at in the East Building at booth E-4528
Transcend Robotics and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Partner to Advance Robotic Mobility
Cooperative Agreement Focuses on Developing Robotic Mobility Technology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Manufacturing Demonstration Facility
Tripwire Announces Cyber Security Solution for Industrial Automation
Tripwire provides unified visibility for networks, endpoints and controllers in manufacturing environments
Altizon to Partner with Varroc on their Industry 4.0 Initiative
Altizon Systems, a pioneering Industrial Internet of Things company, today announced collaboration with Varroc to implement Industry 4.0 solutions across all its plants.
SAKOR TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES MOVE TO LARGER, UPDATED FACILITY
COMPANY'S ACCELERATING SALES GROWTH HAS CREATED A NEED FOR EXPANDED FACILITIES
Indiegogo - NEPTUNE Gives Users an Affordable Way to Print Their Imagination
PYI introduces the world's most affordable high quality consumer 3D printer via the 'NEPTUNE - The Big and Affordable 3D Printer' project on Indiegogo. The team behind this campaign is crowdfunding to bring the inspired NEPTUNE to market.
Altair and Airbus APWorks Team up to Make Additive Manufacturing a Reality for Customers
Partnership will provide added value for AM development chain
SME Launches High School Membership Program to Build the Manufacturing Workforce Pipeline
With an anticipated skills gap of 2 million jobs by 2025, the manufacturing industry needs to attract and inspire the next-generation workforce
New Industrial Supervision & Control Solution Combines Simplicity and Reliability
Just released this year, Juniper Systems Mesa 2 Rugged Tablet utilizes a full Windows 10 operating system to provide powerful functionality to users. The tablet features a sizeable 7-inch display with specialized IllumiView™ technology to enhance visibility, as well as all-day battery power for maximum use time.
Maker's Tool Works Announces Industrial-Level 3D Printer
While other 3D printer companies are shutting down, MTW continues to grow and innovate.
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