Day: November 13, 2019
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SEMICON Europa opens with smart mobility, medtech, design and talent in spotlight
SEMICON Europa, Europe’s largest event connecting the entire electronics design and manufacturing supply chain – from innovation to applications – has opened in strategic co-location with productronica at Messe München, in Munich, Germany. Themed Semiconductors Drive Smart, SEMICON Europa 2019 – November 12 to 15 – highlights the vital importance of European sectors and ecosystems…
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Veo Robotics launches new solution that aims to make all industrial robots collaborative
Startup company Veo Robotics has launched its first commercially available product – FreeMove, a hardware-and-software solution which is said to be able to transform standard or traditional industrial robots into collaborative robots. Traditionally, industrial robotic arms have been treated with some trepidation, and are still always caged off or otherwise kept separate from human workers.…
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Zimmer robotic surgery system found to improve accuracy
A newly developed robotic surgery system has been found to improve surgeon accuracy in knee operations. The Zimmer Biomet ROSA Knee System provides surgeons “an intuitive inference displaying planned resections throughout cuts and a validation tool to verify cuts’ accuracy in real-time”, says the company. Zimmer Biomet is a Warsaw, Indiana-based company which designs and…
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Automation 2020: Manufacturers Adopt Overall Pricing Effectiveness
By Gabriel Smith, chief evangelist at Pricefx Eliminating pricing waste: Overall Pricing Effectiveness (OPE) There is an even more effective means to improve profitability than variable cost reduction. In fact, according to many studies, improving variable cost typically results in a <8 per cent improvement in profitability whereas improving price results in an >11 per…