Archives for June 28, 2018

EPHJ announces four winners of the ‘Watch Medtech Innovation’ challenge

June 28, 2018 by David Edwards

The first “Watch Medtech Innovation” idea development challenge, jointly organised by the EPHJ-EPMT-SMT Trade Show and Fondation Inartis, has honoured four winners who will be helped to complete their impressive projects.

The main aim of the “Watch Medtech Innovation” challenge is to foster, support and assist new transdisciplinary projects based on harnessing collective intelligence.

Following a call for projects in the medtech sector addressed to current and previous exhibitors at the trade show, the challenge jury, chaired by Benoìt Dubuis, the chairman of Fondation Inartis, assessed the many entries and selected the following four winners: [Read more…] about EPHJ announces four winners of the ‘Watch Medtech Innovation’ challenge

Apworks and Heraeus partner on SAP additive manufacturing

June 28, 2018 by Anna

SAP, Apworks and Heraeus have joined forces. The companies recently announced their support of the innovative application known as SAP Distributed Manufacturing, a collaborative platform that uses new customer tools to accelerate the introduction of additive manufacturing into production and supply chains.

Apworks, a subsidiary of Premium AEROTEC, introduced the integration of this unique platform, titled AMXpert, into the SAP software landscape at the last Hannover Messe trade fair.

The Apworks tool mainly helps users in solving one of the central issues of additive manufacturing, namely, how to identify components with potential for metallic 3D printing.

30 interesting farming automation technologies and companies

June 28, 2018 by Abdul Montaqim

In this briefing, Robotics and Automation News lists approximately 30 companies and advanced technologies emerging in the agriculture sector

In our recent article, “humorously” entitled “Alien farming technology…”, we mentioned that it might be a good idea to list some of the robotics and automation technologies emerging in the agricultural sector.

Which brings us here, and the slight problem of how to order the list. After minimal discussion, we decided to go random. So this list is not presented in any particular order. Hence the lack of numbers.

However, we do think all the technologies and companies mentioned below are offering something that will bring significant changes to the agricultural sector. [Read more…] about 30 interesting farming automation technologies and companies

MiR launches warehouse robot for heavy lifting

June 28, 2018 by David Edwards

Mobile Industrial Robots has launched a new autonomous mobile robotic platform for heavy lifting.

MiR already has two other similar products, called the MiR 100 and the MiR 200, with the number indicating how many kilograms it can carry.

The new one (main picture) is called the MiR 500, which means it can carry 500 kg, obviously. [Read more…] about MiR launches warehouse robot for heavy lifting

Toyota and Denso to consolidate production of components

June 28, 2018 by David Edwards

Toyota Motor and its main supplier Denso have agreed to begin considerations toward consolidating the core electronic component operations of both Toyota and Denso within Denso.

Currently, advanced development and mass-production development for Toyota’s electronic components, as well as the production of such components, are conducted by both Toyota and Denso.

The considerations to be made under today’s agreement are to focus on consolidating mass-production development and production within Denso. [Read more…] about Toyota and Denso to consolidate production of components

Tata collaborates with Wabco on advanced driver assistance tech

June 28, 2018 by David Edwards

The commercial vehicle business unit of Tata Motors is moving ahead with the development of safety-enhancing advanced driver assistance system solutions for deployment on its medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicles.

This ambitious goal is aimed at reducing the number of road accidents, increasing vehicular as well as occupant safety, in a broad range of visibility conditions.

Offering enhanced operational efficiency the systems will also help reduce operating costs for fleets. [Read more…] about Tata collaborates with Wabco on advanced driver assistance tech