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Archives for April 7, 2021

7 Supply Chain Technology Trends Shaping a Sustainable Future

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In almost all industries, companies are confronted with the sustainability challenges induced by climate change, scarcity of natural resources, and ever-shifting customer demands.

In general, a sustainable supply chain is one that ensures to balance the economic, social, and environmental performances – such as better assurance of human rights, ethical work practices, carbon footprint reduction, waste management, and resource efficiency. [Read more…] about 7 Supply Chain Technology Trends Shaping a Sustainable Future

Webinar: Fast Solution for Speed and Separation Monitoring in a Collaborative Robot Application

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Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-anVothsTM2a7mMUOfdViQ

SICK Sensor Inc announces the latest webinar in association with Robotics and Automation News. 

Collaborative robot adaptation is growing faster than ever before and leading the charge is Universal Robots.

SICK has partnered with UR to create the fastest way to implement speed and separation monitoring for collaborative robot applications.

The webinar will take place on 15th April and the guest speaker will be Nate Gose, Manager of Safety Services at SICK Sensor Inc.

Nate Gose, Manager of Safety Services at SICK Sensor Inc

Nate has been with SICK for over seven years, providing safety expertise to customers in various industries and will cover the following points during the webinar:

  • How to quickly and easily implement speed and separation monitoring for robot protective measures
  • How programming a safety scanner can be achieved without the use of a separate PC or software
  • The benefits of using a collaborative robot with an integrated safety scanner

Outbound Technologies acquired by Vinci Energies

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Mergers and acquisitions services provider NuVescor Group has successfully completed the sale of Outbound Technologies to Vinci Energies.

Outbound Technologies – an industrial controls company with headquarters in New Hudson, Michigan, and offices also in Indiana and Ohio – provides project management, controls integration and engineering services for clients in a wide variety of industries.

Vinci Energies is a global firm that focuses on connections, performance, energy efficiency and data to fast-track the rollout of new technologies and support two major changes: digital transformation and the energy transition. It has more than 80,000 employees in 56 countries. [Read more…] about Outbound Technologies acquired by Vinci Energies

Mercedes-Benz and Siemens partner to further digitize and automate manufacturing

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Mercedes-Benz and Siemens plan to cooperate on advancing digitalization and automation in the automotive industry, supported by the State of Berlin.

Mercedes-Benz aims to digitize its production processes. Siemens, a leading supplier in the field of automation, industrial software and smart infrastructure, will bring its expertise and technologies to the partnership to develop highly flexible, efficient and sustainable automotive production together with Mercedes-Benz.

Jörg Burzer, member of the board of Mercedes-Benz, production and supply chain management, says: “Mercedes-Benz takes digitalization to the next level in the global Mercedes-Benz Cars production network. Together with Siemens, we are driving forward the development of sustainable future technologies – from Berlin for the whole world.”

In this context, the Mercedes-Benz Berlin-Marienfelde site in Germany will be transformed into a competence centre for digitalization with a focus on the development and implementation of the digital Mercedes-Benz Cars ecosystem MO360, in addition to the redesign of production activities. In the future, e-mobility components will also be assembled in Berlin. [Read more…] about Mercedes-Benz and Siemens partner to further digitize and automate manufacturing

Gnarlywood chooses inVia Robotics to optimize fulfillment operations

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inVia Robotics, a provider of e-commerce warehouse automation solutions, says that the Gnarlywood Group, a provider of backend merchandising fulfillment solutions for entertainment brands, has selected inVia Logic AI-powered warehouse execution system software to modernize its Carlsbad, California warehouse.

The software will bring immediate picking and replenishment productivity gains that will later be increased with the addition of inVia Picker autonomous mobile robots.

Gnarlywood has seen unprecedented growth in demand for its entertainment merchandise and has chosen inVia’s software to bring efficiency to its fulfillment processes. [Read more…] about Gnarlywood chooses inVia Robotics to optimize fulfillment operations

Deep learning networks prefer the human voice – just like we do

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Columbia engineers demonstrate that AI systems might reach higher performance if programmed with sound files of human language rather than with binary data labels. (See video below.)

The digital revolution is built on a foundation of invisible 1s and 0s called bits.

As decades pass, and more and more of the world’s information and knowledge morph into streams of 1s and 0s, the notion that computers prefer to “speak” in binary numbers is rarely questioned.

According to new research from Columbia Engineering, this could be about to change. [Read more…] about Deep learning networks prefer the human voice – just like we do