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Siemens introduced the PAVE360 pre-silicon autonomous validation environment—a program established to enable and accelerate the development of innovative autonomous vehicle platforms. PAVE360 provides a comprehensive environment for multi-supplier collaboration across the automotive ecosystem for the development of next-generation automotive chips. PAVE360 also extends digital twin simulation beyond processors to include automotive hardware and software sub-systems, full vehicle models, fusion of…
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Moxa Inc. is helping companies more easily connect their serial devices to cloud systems for IIoT applications by offering Moxa NPort IA(W)5000A-I/O Series wired or wireless serial device servers and MGate 5105-MB-EIP Series protocol gateways with ready-to-run cloud connectivity capabilities. Moxa's integrated connectivity solutions can collect multiple different field data structures, including serial, I/O, Modbus and EtherNet/IP, transforming IIoT manufacturing…
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Protolabs is celebrating its 20-year anniversary with the grand opening of its advanced manufacturing facility in Brooklyn Park, MN. The 215,000- sq.-ft. CNC machining facility, which currently houses nearly 300 mills and lathes, is Protolabs’ eighth manufacturing plant in the United States, and 12th globally. The new facility is the centerpiece of Protolabs’ 20th anniversary—a milestone the company reached in…
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The Motion Research Group at the University of Waterloo’s Centre for Automotive Research (WatCAR) has been contributing to the body of research around autonomous vehicles by working on a project related to self-driving vehicles, led by Professors Krzysztof Czarnecki and Steven Waslander. The project, known as Autonomoose, is an autonomous drive-by-wire vehicle project that operates within WatCAR. Its objectives include…
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Report from IoT World 2019 With attendees estimated at 12,500, IoT World 2019 took place in Santa Clara, California—the heart of the Silicon Valley. Many keynote presentations revolve around upcoming 5G connection. Some speakers express concerns that the U.S. is not doing enough to adopt and implement 5G, losing an edge in the global tech competition. Others point out 5G's…
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RightHand Robotics, a leader in integrated robotic piece-picking solutions, has announced its first put wall integration with Capacity LLC, a leading provider of technology-driven order fulfillment and e-commerce solutions. RightHand’s newest RightPick product platform will be integrated with existing warehouse material handling systems from Lightning Pick, a provider of light-directed and advanced order fulfillment systems. RightPick is an autonomous robotic…
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As robots, automated equipment, artificial intelligence (AI) and other advanced technologies continue to make their way into the world’s warehouses and DCs, the number of companies using them is also proliferating. Driven by the need to manage high-velocity operations with limited labor resources while meeting the ever-changing needs of their customers, more companies are looking to automation to help them…
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HP unveils a series of partnerships and innovations to complement its new Multi Jet Fusion 5200 3D printer. Together the new partnerships and products make the 5200 the center of a volume printing solution for production 3D manufacturing. The printing system counts BASF, Materialise and Siemens as strategic partners, creating what HP calls “a new global community of proven large-scale…
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The RIA R15.06 Standards Committee has finalized Technical Report (TR) R15.806-2018 to address the test methods and metrics for measuring pressure and force associated with quasi-static and transient contact events of collaborative applications. A collaborative robot, or cobot, is a type of robot intended to physically interact with humans in a shared workspace. Collaborative robots are experiencing rapid market growth.…
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Sintavia, LLC, has officially opened the new 55,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility, located in Hollywood, FL. The new plant, which also serves as the company’s headquarters, celebrated its grand opening on May 9 at an event with over 150 customers, industry partners and government officials. “This new facility is the first of its kind in North America to offer large-scale AM…
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Bryan Knott and Crystal Parrott, MHI Titles: Chair and vice chair, The Robotics Group (TRG), MHI. Knott is the logistics solutions business manager for ABB. Parrott is vice president of the Robotics Center of Excellence for Dematic. Location: Charlotte, NC Modern: Robotics is often news today in warehousing and distribution. Yet, robots have been in manufacturing for decades. What has…
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As reported by Bloomberg, an offshoot of Alphabet Inc.’s Google has become the first drone operator to receive government approval as an airline, an important step that gives it the legal authority to begin dropping products to actual customers. The subsidiary, Wing Aviation LLC, now has the same certifications that smaller airlines receive from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and…
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Zebra Technologies Corporation is celebrating its 50th anniversary, half a century after the inception of its first printing prototypes in the late 1960s. “We are proud to celebrate our half century milestone with our customers across the retail/ecommerce, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, healthcare, government and other industries,” said Anders Gustafsson, CEO, Zebra Technologies. “While Zebra has changed its stripes over…
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In the automotive industry, additive manufacturing has become a high priority, according to German RepRap. Different car parts and prototypes are developed with the help of additive manufacturing and thus a faster achievement of the series maturity is possible. In prototyping, fixtures, production and assembly aids, the technology has become the standard and allows the use in end products through…
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3D printing has expanded from primarily being used to make quick physical prototypes to a solution for short-run manufacturing, bespoke offerings and complex parts that just can’t be economically made via traditional methods. “By 2030, the number of production-ready additive manufacturing platforms that ship each year will increase more than tenfold (more than US$325 billion in hardware and related systems…
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