Where Innovation Meets Imagination
When people talk about operating systems (OS) in industrial automation, it’s easy to jump straight into performance stats, software capabilities or the technical specs.
But the real question most engineers and operations teams are asking themselves is much simpler: “Can our team actually use this?” [Read more…] about Beckhoff opinion: Operating systems for industrial automation starts with people, not tech
In today’s digital landscape, where numerous companies undertake digital transformation and only a handful succeed, the call for visionary leadership has grown consistently louder.
Fortune 500 companies seeking to implement enterprise-wide technological innovations involving artificial intelligence (AI), e-commerce, cloud migration, and digital marketing face numerous challenges, including integrating disparate systems, overcoming organizational silos, and ensuring robust security (Hyland Software).
A more pressing challenge is the lack of tech leaders with the requisite expertise and strategic vision to deliver scalable, secure, and innovative projects across sectors. [Read more…] about Architect of Change: Stepan Plotytsia’s Visionary Approach to AI, eCommerce, and Digital Transformation
The stock market may appear intricate, but some indicators make its movement more understandable to the investor. One such popular indicator is the Dow Jones Index, which has been employed for over a century to measure market trends.
It shows the performance of a few of America’s largest companies, and a lot of people watch it closely to understand how the economy is performing. Understanding it does not take advanced financial knowledge; it simply takes understanding what it means and how it impacts market behavior. [Read more…] about Cracking the Mystery of the Dow Jones Index and its Role in the Market
While manufacturing processes attract interest due to their product generation capabilities, automating the packaging and sealing processes is equally, if not more, important due to its relation to product safety, branding, and preservation.
FFS bagging machines constitute a crucial sector of the automation in packaging technology category, and provide uniformity, scalability, and consistency in packaging across diverse sectors.
FFS bagging machines form an integral part of a plethora of industries, from food and feed to fertilizers. FFS machines have undergone drastic changes over the years to provide the functionalities they do today. [Read more…] about FFS Bagging Machines: The Overlooked Champions of Today’s Packaging
GE Appliances, now a Haier company, has unveiled a “bold plan” to invest more than $3 billion over the next five years in its US operations, workforce and communities.
This “historic” investment deepens GE Appliances’ commitment to technology development, product innovation and advanced manufacturing.
The company will expand its air conditioning and water heating portfolio, increase production output across all product lines, and further modernize its 11 US manufacturing plants with new automation and capital equipment. [Read more…] about GE Appliances to make ‘historic’ $3 billion investment into its US manufacturing operations
Rolls-Royce, one of the world’s most celebrated makers of luxury cars, is expanding its US manufacturing capabilities with a $75 million investment in its Aiken, South Carolina engine plant for MTU Series 4000 production.
The MTU Series 4000 is a versatile and powerful engine series produced by Rolls-Royce Solutions (formerly MTU Friedrichshafen). It’s actually meant for ships. Rolls-Royce also makes engines for aircraft.
The new investment will increase machining capabilities and grow the facility’s footprint, creating 60 new jobs in the United States with a total of 434 full-time positions at the facility. The South Carolina Coordinating Council for Economic Development approved job development credits related to the project. [Read more…] about Rolls-Royce invests an additional $75 million into its US manufacturing facilities
Amazon, arguably the world’s largest user of robotics technologies, is said to be “powering big leaps” in zero-touch manufacturing with a new physical AI software solutions and digital twin technologies from Nvidia.
Deployed this month at an unnamed Amazon Devices & Services facility, the company’s innovative, simulation-first approach for zero-touch manufacturing trains robotic arms to inspect diverse devices for product-quality auditing and integrate new goods into the production line – all based on synthetic data, without requiring hardware changes.
This new technology brings together Amazon Devices-created software that simulates processes on the assembly line with products in Nvidia-powered digital twins. Using a modular, AI-powered workflow, the technology offers faster, more efficient inspections compared with the previously used audit machinery. [Read more…] about Amazon takes ‘major step’ toward zero-touch manufacturing facilities with Nvidia AI
A Chinese technology company has unveiled plans to create the world’s first humanoid robot capable of carrying a pregnancy to full term and giving birth to a human child.
The firm, Kaiwa Technology, led by Dr Zhang Qifeng in Guangzhou, says it intends to launch a working prototype as soon as 2026.
The robot, essentially an artificial womb wrapped in a humanoid form, is being described as a potential lifeline for couples struggling with infertility. But it has also prompted horror and disbelief, with critics calling it “dehumanising” and “a violation of human ethics”. [Read more…] about Chinese company developing humanoid robot to give birth: Breakthrough or dystopian nightmare?
Philips, a specialist in health technology, has announced a plan for new investments of more than $150 million in US manufacturing and research and development (R&D).
As part of the announcement, Philips unveiled the expansion of its Reedsville, Pennsylvania manufacturing facility, which produces AI-enabled ultrasound systems for hospitals across the US.
These investments come on top of Philips’ annual $900 million R&D investment in the US as well as investments in nearly 17,000 colleagues across 40 facilities in the United States. [Read more…] about Philips to invest more than $150 million in manufacturing and R&D in the US
Apple, the maker of Mac and iPhone devices and one of the world’s largest tech companies, says it will invest an additional $100 billion into its manufacturing operations across the United States.
Apple has just announced the new $100 billion investment as a “commitment to America”, adding that it is a “significant acceleration” of its US investment that now totals $600 billion over the next four years.
The announcement includes the ambitious new American Manufacturing Program (AMP), dedicated to bringing even more of Apple’s supply chain and advanced manufacturing to the US. [Read more…] about Apple to invest an additional $100 billion into its America manufacturing operations
