Siemens Advances Digital Twin Technology for Machining October 15, 2020 In a virtual event conducted over the internet on October 15, Siemens introduces new capabilities for its Sinumerik One control package.
Stratasys moving beyond tooling October 27, 2020 Rich, General Motors recently invested in 17 production-grade FDM printers, intending to use them for 3D-printed tooling. The term “tooling” is quite broad, however. Can you share details about what types of tooling GM and others are 3D printing, and why?
Improved Bucking Bars Speed Production, Increase Safety October 12, 2020 To speed production and increase worker safety in the aerospace industry, major manufacturers are willing to pay a higher price for quality equipment.
The Future is Electric for Aerospace Composites October 7, 2020 Composite materials consist of fibers—in the aerospace industry, they are typically glass, carbon or kevlar—suspended in a matrix of epoxy resin.
Embracing Digital Twins October 1, 2020 The concept of the digital twin in A&D was born in the 1970s, when NASA began employing full-scale virtual mock-ups of space capsules to forecast the performance of machines in outer space.
As process optimization grows up, it leads some big rescue missions October 22, 2020 Until 2017, Schneider Electric faced a factory bottleneck at its breaker box plant in Lexington, Kentucky. When the automation cell that welded the boxes went down, all production could be forced to stop.
AMRs strut their stuff during pandemic, beyond December 8, 2020 In August, Rob Sullivan had an installation scheduled for two of his autonomous mobile robots at the Deutsche Post DHL Group’s Innovation Center in Troisdorf, Germany.
Coping with Upheaval in the Supply Chain October 16, 2020 Risk-management technology is beginning to help manufacturers cope with the supply-chain upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, said Thomas Derry, CEO of the Institute for Supply Management: “We are a lot better at managing risk than even 10 years ago.”
Remotely Exploitable Industrial Control System Vulnerabilities on Rise August 19, 2020 New report from Claroty researchers finds latest ICS vulnerabilities most prevalent in energy, critical manufacturing, and water & wastewater sectors of critical infrastructure
Altair Releases New Version of Knowledge Studio Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics Solution July 17, 2020 Altair, a global technology company providing solutions in product development, high performance computing (HPC), and data analytics, has released a new version of Altair Knowledge Studio that it says brings greater speed, flexibility, and transparency to data modeling and predictive analytics.
