ABB introduces the IRBT 2005, a flexible and compact medium track motion platform for both robot and transfer applications
Designed to accommodate rapid product changes, the new track provides greater accuracy and up to 50% shorter cycle times.
Volvo Construction Equipment Digs Up Prototype Savings Of 18 Weeks And 92% Of Costs
Since 3D printing the prototype cost $770 and took only two weeks, including both design and development, VCE completed its testing much sooner than traditional methods would have allowed.
New Cryptosoft Release Provides Enterprises With a Reliable, Cost-Effective Security Solution for the Internet of Things
Announcing latest version of the Cryptosoft data-centric security platform: Version 4.0 provides the cost-effective enterprise security solution needed to enable the rapid growth of the Internet of Things
Festo Showcases Advanced Automation Solutions for High Throughput Screening Laboratory Devices at SLAS 2016
Festo modular automation systems help laboratory equipment manufacturers lower engineering costs and bring products to market faster. (Festo SLAS Booth #537)(Festo AquaJellies - the bionic artificial jellyfish - also at SLAS)
Laser-based micro processing on the road to success
Ultrashort pulse laser production systems on the advance / Manufacturers of laser production systems for micro material processing will demonstrate their competence at LASYS 2016
U.S. official sees more cyber attacks on industrial control systems
Jim Finkle for Reuters: A U.S. government cyber security official warned that authorities have seen an increase in attacks that penetrate industrial control system networks over the past year, and said they are vulnerable because they are exposed to the Internet.
Industrial control systems are computers that control operations of industrial processes, from energy plants and steel mills to cookie factories and breweries.
“We see more and more that are gaining access to that control system layer," said Marty Edwards, who runs the Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, or ICS-CERT.
ICS-CERT helps U.S. firms investigate suspected cyber attacks on industrial control systems as well as corporate networks.
Interest in critical infrastructure security has surged since late last month when Ukraine authorities blamed a power outage on a cyber attack from Russia, which would make it the first known power outage caused by a cyber attack. Cont'd...
mPrest Raises $20M to Expand Industrial and Commercial IoT Solutions
GE Ventures and OurCrowd lead Series A investment in Iron Dome software provider
Mouser Electronics and Grant Imahara Announce Another Exciting Year of Empowering Innovation
Global distributor Mouser Electronics will continue its popular Empowering Innovation Together(TM) Program with celebrity engineer Grant Imahara in 2016. To learn more about the exciting topics, visit www.mouser.com/empowering-innovation. (Graphic: Business Wire)
Manufacturers Continue to Look to Courts on Clean Power Plan
Impacts of Clean Power Plan Could Devastate Growth
Ambienta buys Mikrotron
And takes a further step towards growing its European machine vision platform
3D-Printing Milestone: Puris 3D Prints Largest Titanium Part
Puris, LLC (www.purisllc.com) announced today that it recently achieved a major 3D-printing milestone: Puris successfully produced the largest, complex, 3D-printed titanium part for commercial use.
Liquidmetal Technologies and ENGEL Host Advanced Manufacturing Symposium in Stuttgart
Liquidmetal® Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: LQMT), the worlds leading developer of amorphous alloys, announced today that it would be co-hosting an advanced manufacturing symposium in Stuttgart, Germany, on January 19-20, to inform product developers, production managers and managing directors in the metal and plastics processing industries about the advanced capabilities currently available and in use by Liquidmetal Technologies at its Manufacturing Center of Excellence.
D3 TECHNOLOGIES Hosts the Future of Making Things in Manufacturing
D3 TECHNOLOGIES, the Leader in Autodesk manufacturing solutions, hosted an educational seminar this week at the premier TopGolf entertainment venue in Overland Park, KS. This event was aimed to help clients better understand how technology is driving disruption into all aspects of manufacturing.
French Develops New Composite Molding Hydraulic Press for Aerospace Components
French Oil Mill Machinery Company recently developed a hydraulic press system to improve the part quality of critical composite aerospace components while dramatically reducing production cost, energy consumption and noise emissions. The downacting, sideplate hydraulic press system is designed with an Integrated RTM Package, a Precision Control Motion Package, specialized Uni-Temp platens for advanced temperature control, and the Edge II Control System, a specialized recipe and data collection system programmed to monitor critical processing data, insuring consistent results.
Factory Automation Will Speed Forward with A.I., Says Bernstein
By Tiernan Ray for Barron's: Bernstein Research’s Alberto Moel, who follows tech-industrial companies such as Corning(GLW) and AU Optronics (AUO), this afternoon offered up a thinks piece on robotics andfactory automation, arguing that some of the costs of automation beyond the basic cost of the robot are about to get dramatically cheaper, thanks in large part to artificial intelligence akin to what Alphabet (GOOGL) and others are doing.
Moel notes that the basic components of factory robots are only falling by perhaps 6% per year, their cost reduction bounded by things such as casings and servomotors and reduction gears that don’t rapidly fall in cost.
But, writes Moel, the cost to install and adjust these machines on a factory floor is ten times their component cost and that stuff can be reduced more dramatically:
How much this integration costs varies widely. An often-cited rule of thumb is that a $50,000 robot will need $500,000 of integration costs before it is all said and done. Of course, these integration costs can be amortized over many robots, so perhaps a better estimate would be 3-5x the robot cost [...] But I do believe we are at an inflection pointthat will materially increase the capability of automation systems and substantially reduce programming, setup, and fixturing costs which are the largest cost element in most automation efforts. So instead of a measly 6% YoY cost reduction , we get 25-30% YoY declines, and automation Nirvana. Cont'd...
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