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With the rise of AGVs in industrial automation, added flexibility to production flow is a growing need. But no longer do supply chain and logistics operations need to limit their processes to just indoors. SICK’s outdoorScan3 revolutionizes the world of AGVs, allowing you to take your automation processes outdoors to connect multiple production sites. As the first-ever outdoor certified safety…
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At the RAPID + TCT 2019 event, Stratasys is unveiling a supplier agreement with the New York Yacht Club, American Magic, a challenger for the 36th America’s Cup. American Magic is the combination of three racing programs and a leading yacht club—joining forces to win the America’s Cup, the highest prize in sailing and the oldest event in international sports.…
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Desktop Metal has announced today a strategic partnership with Indo-MIM, a large supplier of metal injection molding (MIM) precision-engineered products with over 100 million metal parts produced annually for global original equipment manufacturers. Together, Desktop Metal and Indo-MIM will offer solutions to enable companies around the world to design and produce metal additively manufactured parts at scale and shorten time…
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AMT’s Executive VP Americas, Luis Folgar, will be presenting at the RAPID + TCT 2019 conference on May 22 on the importance of automated post-processing for industrial applications of 3D printing/additive manufacturing. The 3D printed production process chain often consists of a series of unconnected digital manufacturing processes, which require manual intervention that can slow down production rates and add…
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Optomec, a supplier of production-grade metal, directed energy deposition (DED) systems, will demonstrate simultaneous five-axis additive manufacturing at its At RAPID+TCT 2019 booth (#517). The technology is said to enable new capabilities for building, repairing and coating mid- to large-size complex metal parts. The new Optomec LENS additive plugin is toolpath generation software that enables simultaneous five-axis control. When combined…
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SPEE3D, makers of a metal 3D printer leveraging supersonic 3D deposition (SP3D) technology, is kicking off its inaugural “SPEE3D Supersonic 3D Printing Design Challenge” at RAPID + TCT 2019. SPEE3D will be printing continuously throughout RAPID + TCT at booth #1941. The contest challenges the 3D printing communities to present application designs using SPEE3D’s LightSPEE3D and large format WarpSPEE3D printers.…
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At RAPID + TCT 2019, Impossible Objects announced two advances in composite 3D printing for the factory floor. The company’s latest 3D printing system, the CBAM-2, and a new partnership with BASF on PA6-carbon fiber composites extend Impossible Objects’ composite based additive manufacturing process (CBAM) to a range of industrial applications. “It’s been exciting to see how our customers are…
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Ultimaker announces that Heineken is using its solutions to produce a variety of custom tools and functional machine parts to aid in manufacturing at the company’s brewery in Seville, Spain. Using a set of Ultimaker S5 printers, engineers at Heineken now design and print safety devices, tools and parts on-demand rather than outsourcing the job to external vendors, increasing production…
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The Perfect Warehousing Storm The unabated rise in distribution costs and resulting profit squeeze has become prominent in the corporate commentary on financial results. Retailers such as Home Depot and Target are blaming high supply chain costs for margin deteriorations, amplified by the move to online sales as digital revenues grow 20-40% annually for most major retailers. The trend of…
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Arctic Offshore Farming is developing a new concept for salmon farming using remote-controlled and submersible fish pens based on offshore technology. ABB will have system responsibility for electrical, automation, instrumentation and telecom solutions. Arctic Offshore Farming is a Norway Royal Salmon (NRS) project. NRS has received development permits that allow the company a total of up to 5,990 tons of…
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Titan Robotics, Ltd. will debut its latest production 3D printer with dual pellet extruders at the RAPID + TCT Event, May 21 – 23, 2019 in Detroit. The new Atlas-H product line features dual retracting pellet extruders combined with an industrial closed-loop motion control system that enable print speeds reaching 30,000mm/minute, according to the company. Titan says the dual pellet…
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Adding a new page to its high-performance, additive manufacturing playbook, Stratasys today inked an agreement with Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, which competes in the NTT IndyCar Series. The team is leveraging Stratasys’ Fortus 450mc 3D Printer—capable of printing carbon fiber-reinforced FDM Nylon 12—and F370 3D Printer as part of its manufacturing process. The Fortus 450mc 3D Printer offers FDM Nylon…
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Robots are slowly working their way into a variety of applications, from moving goods in warehouses to delivering packages. An increasing shortage of healthcare workers is also prompting the use of caregiving robots. Right now, these robots are limited to activities like asking questions and monitoring patient safety. They aren’t designed to provide the type of hands-on care a nurse…
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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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