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Oxeon, makers of TeXtreme, has received the AS9100D Aerospace certification. This designates a high-standard Quality Management System.
CEO Henrik Blycker says: ”The official AS9100 certification is a very important step in the development of the company.
“Even though we already deliver material into the Aerospace Supply Chain, it is important that we continue to improve ourselves and show our commitment to the market. [Read more…] about Oxeon awarded aerospace supply certification
The tiny country of Luxembourg is claimed to be “leading the way towards the fourth industrial revolution”.
Luxembourg may have one of the highest per capita GDPs in the world but it’s more a city than a country.
It has a landmass of about 2,500 square kilometres and a population of just over half a million. [Read more…] about Luxembourg ‘leading the way’ towards the fourth industrial revolution
Bharati Robotics Systems has been showing off its new autonomous industrial floor cleaning robots.
The company says the small vehicle saves labour costs and increases productivity by up to 200 per cent, and cleans the floor better than humans, or the “highest quality of cleaning”.
The robot’s battery lasts up to four hours on one charge and it has a smartphone interface through which it can be monitored and controlled. [Read more…] about Bharati Robotics shows off autonomous industrial cleaning robot
ThyssenKrupp says it has achieved a breakthrough in the area of digital transformation and connecting machinery in industry.
ThyssenKrupp says it has reached a “milestone” for the digital transformation of industry and connecting the machinery of its materials services division through a new digital platform.
The company’s new internet of things platform is call Toii, or toii, as the company prefers to write it. [Read more…] about ThyssenKrupp claims ‘breakthrough’ in digital transformation and connecting machinery
The World Economic Forum, the global nonprofit foundation whose annual meeting in Davos is attended by global leaders from business and politics, has published a list of companies which it considers to be the most pioneering in the field of technology.
In publishing its Technology Pioneers 2017 list, WEF has chosen 30 different companies to highlight from a variety of industries including biotechnology, agriculture, energy, transport, as well as a number of companies from the robotics and automation sector.
One of them is Horizon Robotics, a Chinese company which develops computer infrastructure to enable artificial intelligence computing and real-time decision-making, mainly aimed at enhancing self-driving vehicle safety. [Read more…] about World Economic Forum selects robotics and automation companies in its ‘Technology Pioneers 2017’ list
Geoff Turner, product lifecycle management consultant at Design Rule, examines the value of getting the BoM right in the early stages of a project
The creation of a bill of materials, or BoM, is a fundamental part of product development. However, manufacturers are often unsure at what stage of the product development the BoM comes in.
Best practice dictates that the BoM needs to travel fluently through the different development stages, evolving and changing as products are designed, built and eventually, circulated.
In today’s complex manufacturing environment, a bill of materials can include a set of hundreds – or even thousands – of separate items. [Read more…] about Where is the bill of materials? Getting things right first time with PLM and BoM
There may or may not be slight differences between what’s called “3D printing” and “additive manufacturing”, but essentially both are advanced techniques that could spell the end of assembly lines as we know them.
It’s a widely known historic fact that giant car companies pioneered what we now known as the assembly line, where a product – such as a car or any other complex item – would move along production line, where different workers and teams of workers would do their jobs and eventually a finished product would be the result.
This process, however, is now being reconsidered in an age where customers are asking for increaing amounts of customisation and new technologies such as 3D printing and additive manufacturing are making this customisation possible. [Read more…] about Hannover Messe: Smart materials paving the way to 3D printing and to the ‘microfactory’
HIT Robot Group, which claims to be China’s leading robotics developer and manufacturer, has launched a configurable and flexible automatic production line for high-precision jade processing.
This company says the intelligent production line exemplifies “a revolutionary transformation in design concept” from centralized control to enhanced decentralized control, which leads to scalable customization, greater flexibility for users, and therefore rapid response to market.
HRG says it has channelled its expertise in intelligent processing management into the new production line to achieve productivity and flexibility. [Read more…] about HIT Robot Group unveils intelligently-controlled automatic jade production line
By Thomas R. Cutler
Robot-to-person solutions are on a rapid trajectory for 2017 and beyond. Yet discrete manufacturing organizations which initiate material replenishment automation programs without properly analyzing processes and priorities for internal and external stakeholders, find far less value than anticipated.
Manufacturers are unsure about current replenishment capabilities within ERP (enterprise resource planning) and other systems, and are even less clear whether to fix, buy, or build a solution to gain the capabilities needed.
Too often disruptions in leadership and a change-averse environment can create barriers to improved production flow and automating processes.
The manufacturing sector is well-served when considering whether a replenishment solution can enhance flow and enable continuous improvements; often best practice robotic solutions follow. [Read more…] about Automation fails without aligning materials support function with demand, says Synchrono
There’s a revolution brewing in the production of sliding bearings, according to OR Lasertechnologie
German industrial technology company OR Lasertechnologie says it’s only necessary to apply a layer of metal a few millimeters thick using the powder nozzle to reliably, cost-effectively, and easily protect the large shaft bearings used in ships from wear and tear.
This represents something of a revolution in the shipbuilding industry, according to the company.
OR Laser says it develops and builds robot-assisted laser systems for direct metal deposition – which is similar to additive manufacturing – that take the production and repair of sliding bearings to an “innovative new level”. [Read more…] about Additive manufacturing ‘revolutionising’ shipbuilding, says OR Laser
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