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  • Cimetrics announces start of Secured by Cimetrics Early Access Program

    Cimetrics announces start of Secured by Cimetrics Early Access Program

    The Secured by Cimetrics Early Access Program (SbC-EA) is designed to deploy BACnet/SC and the Secured by Cimetrics (SbC) security management framework to the building automation industry.
    03 February, 2020 | 1 minute
  • National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2020 inductees

    These innovators, whose landmark inventions range from the hard hat to the sports bra, will be celebrated as the newest class of Inductees during the NIHF Induction Ceremony.
    09 January, 2020 | 3 minutes
  • Exploring Technology in the Food and Beverage Industry

    By Darcy Simonis, ABB food and beverage Many manufacturers are turning to new technology to help them keep up. This article discusses the technology being used and the impact it is having on the industry.
    By: ABB
    07 January, 2020 | 3 minutes
  • AddUp and Oak ORNL announce collaboration to advance metal additive manufacturing tooling applications

    AddUp and Oak ORNL announce collaboration to advance metal additive manufacturing tooling applications

    A $2.7 million cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) between AddUp Group, a global machine and solutions provider for metal additive manufacturing (AM), and the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) aims to advance laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) technology for the manufacturing of metal molds with complex geometries for the tooling industry.
    06 January, 2020 | 2 minutes
  • Siemens announces partnership with Arm to to help automakers deliver electronic design and automotive solutions

    This partnership was formed to address the challenges facing the industry in developing platforms to realize active-safety, advanced driver assistance, in-vehicle infotainment, digital cockpits, vehicle-to-vehicle/vehicle-to-infrastructure and self-driving vehicles.
    By: ARM
    06 January, 2020 | 1 minute
  • Inside Augmented Intelligence

    Inside Augmented Intelligence

    By Mark Howard, EU Automation Augmented intelligence is one of the few technologies named on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2019 that are predicted to reach expectations, over the next two-to-five years. This article explains how augmented intelligence could assist with human and machine collaboration.
    06 December, 2019 | 2 minutes
  • Genius Garage announces slot car STEM program in Detroit

    Genius Garage announces slot car STEM program in Detroit

    Applicants must write a minimum one-page paper as to why they like cars and racing and what they think they will learn from the program that will be meaningful to their lives. Also, why they would be a good person to be accepted into this Genius Garage program.
    03 December, 2019 | 1 minutes
  • Siemens announces launch of Additive Manufacturing (AM) Network

    Siemens announces launch of Additive Manufacturing (AM) Network

    Siemens’ AM Network is designed for enterprises, suppliers and partners that are looking to accelerate the adoption of AM for industrial processes and applications.
    By: SIEMENS, SIEMENS
    21 November, 2019 | 2 minutes
  • MakerBot announces METHOD Materials Development Program

    MakerBot announces METHOD Materials Development Program

    A growing list of partners starting with Jabil, KIMYA, Polymaker, and Mitsubishi Chemical are working to qualify filament for use with the MakerBot METHOD platform.
    19 November, 2019 | 2 minutes
  • Rockwell Automation and PTC announce results of first year of digital transformation partnership

    Rockwell Automation and PTC announce results of first year of digital transformation partnership

    This performance includes a year of achievements spanning customers and use cases, innovations designed to accelerate the integration OT and IT systems, and industry recognition for the two companies’ combined industrial software suite, FactoryTalk InnovationSuite, powered by PTC.
    By: Rockwell Automation
    18 November, 2019 | 1 minutes
  • Intelligent Automation - A Big Winner in Product Engineering

    Intelligent Automation - A Big Winner in Product Engineering

    Intelligent Automation will help these companies and their engineers to beat the competition and make an impact in this highly competitive and evolving digital trend of integrated Cyber – Physical world of manufacturing, called Industry 4.0.
    07 November, 2019 | 8 minutes
  • Can Augmented Reality Improve Manufacturing?

    Can Augmented Reality Improve Manufacturing?

    Virtual reality is an established technology which has been deployed in various industries including gaming, marketing and manufacturing. But, what about augmented reality?
    04 November, 2019 | 3 minutes
  • Bentley Systems announces winners of Year in Infrastructure 2019 Awards

    Bentley Systems announces winners of Year in Infrastructure 2019 Awards

    Bentley Systems acknowledged 18 Year in Infrastructure Awards winners and nine Special Recognition Awards winners at a ceremony and gala on October 24 at the conclusion of the Year in Infrastructure 2019 Conference in Singapore.
    28 October, 2019 | 3 minutes
  • German student uses igus products to design functional furniture

    German student uses igus products to design functional furniture

    Vysozki’s furniture piece, called Frida, has a soft-padded design on the upholstered sofa with two backrests and an armrest. A plate integrated in the armrest can be converted into a writing desk. She used igus products for bearing and adjustment on the table.
    By: igus, Inc.
    25 October, 2019 | 2 minutes
  • Bentley Systems announces digital cities intiatives

    Bentley Systems announces digital cities intiatives

    Digital twin cloud services provide an intuitive and immersive 4D environment converging digital context and digital components with digital chronology for “evergreen” infrastructure digital twins over asset lifecycles. For infrastructure professionals, BIM and GIS are effectively advanced through 4D digital twins.
    25 October, 2019 | 1 minutes
  • How Viable is Additive Manufacturing?

    How Viable is Additive Manufacturing?

    By Mark Howard, EU Automation Additive manufacturing (AM) is drastically altering a range of industries, from manufacturing to the medical sector. But what are the limitations of the technology? This article shares some insights behind the manufacturing and legal issues surrounding additive manufacturing.
    17 October, 2019 | 2 minutes
  • Collegiate Inventors Competition names 2019 finalists

    Collegiate Inventors Competition names 2019 finalists

    Established in 1990, the Collegiate Inventors Competition is a program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame and is sponsored by the USPTO, Arrow Electronics (People’s Choice Award), Merck, Hologic and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
    27 September, 2019 | 4 minutes
  • The Digital Twin Enabling Realtime Closed Loop Manufacturing Optimization

    The Digital Twin Enabling Realtime Closed Loop Manufacturing Optimization

    By Bill Lydon, Automation.com The Digital Twin has become one of the most powerful concepts of Industry 4. 0. The implementation of model-based, real-time, closed-loop monitoring, control, and optimization of the entire manufacturing and production process, the Digital Twin concept is helping organizations achieve real-time integrated manufacturing.
    17 September, 2019 | 3 minutes
  • Industrial Internet Consortium announces IIC Accelerator Program

    Industrial Internet Consortium announces IIC Accelerator Program

    The IIC Accelerator Program encompasses several initiatives for users of IoT technology who want to discuss challenges with their peers, get advice from IIC experts, or seek guidance to solve complex technical problems.
    12 September, 2019 | 2 minutes
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