Manufacturing Disruption with Software
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The next logical step in automation is to make great software, designed specifically to solve problems for customers. Software and AI really just adds new, powerful tools to the toolbox.
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Industrial Automation Aurora ☄️
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AUTOMATE 2024 showed spectacular displays of Industrial Automation not to be eclipsed by the aurora borealis overhead in Chicago. New foundation models are expanding Industrial AI and Autonomy.
Pulling Back the Curtain on Automation
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AUTOMATE 2024 kicks off in Chicago. Battery multilayer curtain coating, sodium-ion production, and how battery chemistry affects supply chain disruption vulnerabilities. In-stream task assistance XR.
Walking Around the Messe Blinded by AI
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Edge DataOps, Cloud, and AI solutions were at the forefront of the manufacturing community this week in Hannover. Innovation back in America remains eyes wide open in 3D printers and 6G.
Messe Around and Find Out about AI
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Hannover Messe 2024 kicks off this week! Find out about AI, machine learning, carbon-neutral production, energy for industry, Industrie 4.0, and manufacturing-X from leaders like Exponential Industry
Manufacturing Service Capability Prediction Just-in-Time
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Find the right supplier to make specialized parts including golf clubs. You may need to do a little buffing and sanding after quality assurance to make them conform.
LLM Agents Plan Autonomous Production
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Autonomous cycle time estimation, process chaining, resource allocation, and integrated planning are made possible through large language model agents.
AI Ranks as Top Capability for Manufacturers
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GenAI is coming for operations in 2024, but first networks, systems, and data must be ready for autonomy.
$1 Million per Hour on Industrial R&D to Produce ‘Something Minimalistic’
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We had fun spending it. Extremely high-paced, iterative trial-and-error bears fruit.
Record Efficiency in Renewable Energy Production
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Reducing environmental impact will require new materials, chemistries, and production methods. Governments and companies are unleashed to do just that.
Defining the Future of Supply Chain
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Moving from CapEx to OpEx helps companies with limited access to capital access equipment without a large upfront investment. Handy guide to MODEX 2024 kicking off this week in Atlanta.
Discovering a Love for Industrial Controls
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A deep pride in knowing the machines that we’ve programmed make something that people buy and enjoy from basketballs, fine art, ice cream, airplanes, and everything in between.
Leverage Software for Frontline Collaboration
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Connected worker technology has been proven to help companies meet frontline workforce challenges. Electron Beam Welding breakthrough uses a traveling vacuum seal to create EB welding conditions.
Automation Provides Life and Energy
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Retail innovation from BOPIS, in-store, to warehouse starts and ends with automation. Automotive still accounts for half of new robot sales. AI capabilities are driving M&A activities.
Robot Picking Shining Discs and Water Balloons
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Robotic grippers are getting more tactile. AI-enabled at every place in the industrial technology stack: data modeling, in-orbit factories, machines for chips, quoting to delivery.
A Great Manufacturing Transformation
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Standing on the shoulders of giants, industrial operations have moved from a pure focus on cost reduction to a more extensive scope around profitability, sustainability, and collaboration.
AI Partnerships Advance Industrial Automation
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OT + IT + AI/ML = 🧠🦾 is the equation for Industrial Automation in 2024. AI is improving quality, throughput, and worker safety.
Manufacturing is Cool Again
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Launching products with videos of the manufacturing process is in vogue. Apple Vision Pro and Cadillac CELESTIQ get a look inside the factory.
Faster Turnaround Times, Constraints, Time, and Money
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The theory of constraints drives manufacturing decision-making with everything being a function of burn rate. Manufacturing technology founders train on popular video games.
Higher Yield through Simulation of Physical Properties
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Leading-edge electronics, semiconductors, and tennis rackets utilize simulation and machine learning to determine physical and electrical properties improving production yield.