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Protolabs is being showcased as part of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) State of Manufacturing Tour, which highlights manufacturing’s digital transformation, the job opportunities created by this transformation, and the skills required now to work in the industry. The cross-country tour takes place in late February. NAM’s President and CEO Jay Timmons and Manufacturing Institute Executive Director Carolyn Lee…
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A new light-based 3D printing technique developed at the University of California at Berkeley can create objects from a viscous liquid in just a few minutes. The technique avoids layering, and can create flexible object as well as encasing existing objects in the material. “I think this is a route to being able to mass-customize objects even more, whether they…
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Vanderlande has signed a strategic partnership with Fizyr to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technology for its automated order picking, storage, unloading and palletizing robotic solutions. The results will be integrated into Vanderlande’s existing product portfolio, such as Smart Item Robotics (SIR), which has been designed to handle the large variety of items common to the warehouse, parcel and airports markets.…
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Kijenzi, a start-up formed at Penn State’s University Park campus, is helping medical facilities in Kenya access CAD files and manufacture medical devices and replacement parts for medical equipment using 3D printing. Kijenzi was originally formed to create a mobile 3D printer that could be used to quickly produce equipment like braces, clamps and vacuum pumps at remote hospitals in…
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Researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering have developed 3D-printed rubber material that can repair itself, potentially increasing the longevity of items like tires, shoes, and other items that are frequently fractured or punctured, while decreasing manufacturing time. Assistant Professor Qiming Wang led the research team. The new material is manufactured with a 3D printing method…
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Brexit and Supply Chains As the biggest decision in many of our lifetimes, the UK’s departure from the European Union (Brexit) will have consequences – good and bad – that will ripple through decades to come. In recent weeks, one prominent concern has been the impact a Brexit “no deal” scenario could have on imports, particularly for the food and…
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Applied Automation Technologies (AAT) and DMG MORI have set up a partnership for on-machine measuring software. The companies will offer this software technology as a solution within the DMG MORI Qualified Products (DMQP) program. Having the ability to perform CMM (coordinate measurement machine) measurement and metrology tasks is an important part of ‘smart machining’ manufacturing processes. CappsNC provides capabilities to…
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Siemens PLM Software announces an expansion of the Digital Innovation Platform with the introduction of the latest version of NX software, which has been enhanced with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. These new features can update the user interface to help users more efficiently use software to increase productivity, Siemens says. The ability to automatically adapt the…
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Automation and Artificial Intelligence The Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program released new research that analyzes the impacts of automation on the American workforce, examining data focused on the mix of industries, geographies, and demographic groups across the U.S. The report, titled Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How machines are affecting people and places, offers projections for how automation and artificial intelligence will…
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The new FELIX Pro L and Pro XL additive manufacturing systems from FELIXprinters have been designed to perform at scale. These are manufacturing tools for every stage of the product development and manufacturing workflow. The FELIX Pro L and XL 3D printers have been developed with increased build volumes, up to 144 Litres (the Pro L can build parts up…
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Robotics are making their way into warehouses and DCs around the world, but it’s not an end-all. It takes a complete end-to-end solution, which means investing in the right type of robotics combined with a holistic approach to integration into your operations. Focused on developing fast, efficient fulfillment operations that meet the needs of today’s e-commerce customer, more companies are…
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GEODIS Indianapolis, Ind. Size: 250,000 square feet Products: Apparel and fashion Stock Keeping Units: 30,000 Throughput: 20,000 units per day Shifts: 1 shift per day/7 days a week Read more about the GEODIS e-fulfillment center in the feature article from February 2019 Modern Material Handling Magazine. GEODIS is one of a handful of third-party logistics (3PLs) providers that have embraced…
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More than 6.5 million. That’s how many units GEODIS, the global third-party logistics (3PL) provider, had picked to a fleet of mobile collaborative robots (Locus Robotics, locusrobotics.com) as of mid-December 2018. 175 and counting. That’s the number of cobots GEODIS had deployed across its North American facilities as of that date. 2x. That’s the productivity improvements that GEODIS realized since…
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Developing and certifying new materials are ongoing challenges in the additive manufacturing (AM) space. The same material may perform differently depending on which 3D printing process is used, and different applications may require unique material properties. In January, St. Petersburg, FL-based Jabil announced it was offering a new solution for creating and validating custom engineered materials for AM, and opened…
Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
Cybernetix Ventures’ event kicks off Robotics Tech Week 2026 slate of events
Preview the manufacturing and warehouse components that will be on the…
Preview the manufacturing and warehouse robots and software that will be on…
