Archives for June 21, 2019

Rethink Robotics: 5 tips for getting started with collaborative robots

June 21, 2019 by Anna

Rethink Robotics outlines what manufacturers need to think about when making the leap into the world of cobots

Collaborative robots, or cobots, are providing manufacturers of all sizes with the capability to automate more than ever before. We know that getting up and running with a cobot quickly is a priority, to see results as soon as possible.

We’ve spent a lot of time in our customers’ factories, and many of our team members came from the manufacturing world themselves.

Hahn Group scales automation for medical device manufacturers

June 21, 2019 by Anna

Hahn Group exhibited at MedTec Live in Nuremberg, Germany last month, with its Invotec, Rethink Robotics and Waldorf Technik companies.

Invotec has over 25 years of experience designing and building custom automation equipment for medical device manufacturers.

With a new facility in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, their experts were at the show highlighting the latest developments in assembly, test, and inspection equipment.

Materialise expands work with HP on industrial‐scale 3D printing

June 21, 2019 by Anna

Materialise and HP Inc. have announced an expansion of work to pave the way towards industrial-scale 3D printing, including integration of Materialise’s software with HP’s Jet Fusion 3D printing solutions.

Also included is an important certification validating the HP solutions as fully compatible with Materialise Mimics in Print software for use in healthcare.

Other initiatives to accelerate the digital transformation of manufacturing, include the integration of a new version of the Materialise Build Processor to support the full range of printers in the HD 3D printing portfolio.

Rolling in Memphis: Cold and Hot Rolling Day 2019

June 21, 2019 by David Edwards

Heavy-hitters from the steel industry will host an event dedicated to the latest advancements in cold and hot steel rolling technology at the Hilton Hotel Memphis on 25-26 September 2019.

Cold and Hot Rolling Day 2019 will be hosted by organizations including Atlantic, Fraunhofer IZFP, Gontermann-Peipers, Herkules, IMS Messsysteme, Lechler, Lismar, Quaker, REBS, Schaeffler, and Steinhoff.

Cold and Hot Rolling Day events take place annually, and have been hosted in major urban centers across the globe, including Düsseldorf, Moscow, Beijing, and Izmir. [Read more…] about Rolling in Memphis: Cold and Hot Rolling Day 2019

Automating Business Intelligence to Access Meaningful and Predictive Data

June 21, 2019 by David Edwards

By Søren Block Olsen, director of marketing at TARGIT Business Intelligence & Analytics

According to a recent Gartner survey, 80 percent of manufacturers only measure results. They measure past performance by looking at the results in the financial statements.

Even the most diligent Lean Manufacturing Six Sigma Theory of Constraint practitioners do not know what impacted these results, or what is best done to improve going forward.

Too often manufacturing firms, even top-tier operations managers, use company analyses or reports which neglect to ask why outcomes failed. [Read more…] about Automating Business Intelligence to Access Meaningful and Predictive Data