Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.23
…we'd collect puzzle pieces of iconic landmarks of the Motor City. Kicking off the Event Bryan Crutchfield, vice president and general manager of Materialise North America, opened the evening with a Materialise highlights video, followed by some Detroit city history that setup up Materialise Founder and CEO Fried Vancraen’s insights on the current state of 3D printing and Materialise’s role in the future of additive manufacturing. “Build an organization built to last,” Vancraen said. “This company is built on the core strong foundation of core competencies. We are always asking: What can we do in a meaningful way with these…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.15
3D Systems has announced June 2019 general availability of its Figure 4 Modular, as well as five new materials that will roll out over the coming months and will extend the company’s production workflows. The Figure 4 platform is a production system with configurations designed to allow customers to grow as their needs and businesses require. Figure 4 Modular is a digital light printing (DLP) production solution capable of producing parts with high surface quality and fidelity, according to the company. 3D Systems says the Figure 4 platform helps accelerate time-to-market with up to 100 mm/hr production and six sigma…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.24
…Freight Division, in a statement. And Jim Hoffa, Teamsters General President said: “This contract should improve the livelihoods of our YRCW Teamsters for the next five years. Freight is the backbone of our great union and this contract recognizes our members for their hard work.” The main components of this new contract include: $4.00 in wage increases over five years for the vast majority of workers (an 18% increase for most drivers and dockworkers) including a $1.00 wage increase retroactive to April 1, 2019 (a 4.5% increase for most drivers and dockworkers); significant increases for dock-only, clerical, maintenance employees, janitors…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.29
…collected may be flawed, unreliable or questionable? Tony Zarola, general manager of Analog Devices, thinks it’s imperative that we build sensors that way. After all, in the coming era of autonomous vehicles, we’ll be relying on them to navigate our cars and our loved ones to safety. He calls the integrity-like characteristic in sensors “sensor robustness.” “We’ve been making sensors for a long time, so we understand how our sensors detect and measure information,” he says. “We design and calibrate [the sensor] so that it can reject data like vibration from a gravel road, for example. That translates to sensor…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.56
…BigRep, Bosch in North America, Dentsply Sirona, EOS, Formlabs, General Motors, Mimaki Engineering Company, Protolabs, Renishaw and Volkswagen Group. New Outlet for Research ADAPT is just one of several industry initiatives or consortia focused on 3D printing. America Makes, the 3MF Consortium, and EWI’s Additive Manufacturing Consortium, among others, have similar aims. What makes ADAPT different, according to Quinlan, will be the ability to leverage MIT’s research facilities and educational resources. According to Quinlan, initial efforts of ADAPT will include providing seed funding for new research projects at MIT and establishing a new advanced additive manufacturing laboratory there. Membership fees…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.05
…Waymo/Google/Alphabet, working out kinks in the technology. Lyft and General Motors are combining efforts. And of course, Tesla and its innovative CEO Elon Musk, the peripatetic Canadian-American business magnate, investor, engineer, and inventor are bullish. The U.S. chip-making giant Intel announced Monday that it had reached a deal to acquire an Israeli company called Mobileye for $15 billion. The combination is expected to accelerate innovation for the automotive and trucking industry and position Intel as a leading technology provider for highly and fully autonomous vehicles. So What’s Happening in Trucking? Last October, a unit of Uber called Otto successfully produced…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 33.93
General Motors (GM), like other automakers, is using 3D printing technology to create parts for its new vehicles, and has already leveraged the technology for prototyping and other design-related activities. The company also plans to expand its use of the technology to improve manufacturing processes at its production facilities. According to an article in Automotive News, the company believes the technology could save them millions in annual production costs. During a press tour of GM’s Lansing Delta Township assembly plant, the company’s director of global manufacturing integration, Dan Grieshaber, said that the company has 3D printers in most of its…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.44
…2018. “No sector saw more change last year than motor freight,” the report notes. “Severe capacity pressures sparked sharp rate hikes, and carriers gained pricing power as demand rose and electronic logging devices [ELD] exacerbated driver shortages.” According to Joe Carlier, senior vice president for global sales a Penske Logistics and a member of the panel, says that his company is definitely feeling the capacity situation, noting that the average age of a truck driver is between 53 and 55 and that the newly enacted ELD rules will also add stress to the system. “Everything is about people, people, people,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.23
…money chasing them extends from Apple and Google to General Motors and Otto, to name just a few of the many. It’s entirely possible that autonomous vehicles are the best funded R&D project in the history of mankind. “Autonomous vehicles are a competition, a race. The quickest and best companies at it will make billions if not trillions from the technology,” says Kevin Lacy, director of the transportation, mobility and safety division for the North Carolina Department of Transportation. See “The Interview” in this edition of NextGen Supply Chain for Lacy’s state-level view of autonomous vehicles. Part of the shakeout…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.74
…Fata Automation Inc., Ferndale Laboratories Inc., Garden Fresh Gourmet, General Motors Global Propulsion Systems – Pontiac Engineering Center, GKN, Gonzalez Production Systems, Hirata Corporation of America, Hirotec America Inc., High-Tech Mold & Engineering, Inductoheat Inc., Kawasaki Robotics (USA) Inc., Lear Corp., Mahindra Automotive North America, Moeller Aerospace, Moeller Precision Tool, MPD Welding Inc., Roechling Automotive, Total Door and Wenzel America Ltd. As with any event, volunteers play a key role, with two adults accompanying students to each tour site. Paul Galbenski, dean of the Oakland Schools Technical Campus Northeast in Pontiac, said Manufacturing Day is an important component of career…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.16
…pick-to-light (PTL) workstations, notes Jim Bast, vice president and general manager of Matthews Automation’s Lightning Pick brand, which offers order picking solutions. “We see much of the advantage from mobile robots as coming from the flexibility of movement it allows for human operators,” says Bast. “When you start adding lots of automation to a DC, it can start looking like an expressway interchange in Southern California.” Fixed but modular While “fixed” automation like conveyor systems are seen as less flexible to change, flexibility is a relative thing. “Before flexible and scalable become an industry norm, we’d been using it as…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.45
…improves. According to Leonard, formerly a technology executive with General Motors, as sensors on trucks and trailers are becoming more numerous, they’re getting smarter and more capable of monitoring different conditions. Additionally, governments in places such as Ohio with its Smart Mobility Corridor program are embedding fiber optic cable and sensors right into roads to create “smart roads” that can help pinpoint congestion or weather trends. Final-mile evolution: Nebraska Furniture Mart shares “final-mile” visibility with customers Routing and scheduling for final-mile delivery of goods, along with real-time insight into delivery progress, can help retailers save on fuel costs and fleet…