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GxInfra™: Paving the way for advanced IT data center and asset management
The proliferation of incongruent IT software and hardware solutions has increased the cost and complexity of managing data centers and assets. Understanding how to translate high level internal business goals and roadmaps into actionable policies and digital-ready infrastructure requires advanced optics and risk management. Furthermore, the increased focus on reliability that doesn’t sacrifice agility means…
Construction Deaths Rising With Increased Construction
A recent report from the Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR) revealed that the number of fatal construction “caught-in and caught-between” injuries increased 33% from 2011 to 2015, topping the overall 26% increase in construction fatalities for that same period. With 275 deaths resulting from caught-in or caught-between incidents during that same time, nearly…
Automation Used To Close The Skills Gap
What happens when you cannot find enough skilled manufacturing workers to keep your factory in business? You turn to robots. Assa Abloy (AA) Romania in Bucharest assembles locks and has invested in robots for repetitive tasks that free up their 500 workers for more complex tasks. Consequently they’ve become a robotic leader among AA manufacturing…
INNOVATION DRIVES WALBRO FORWARD
A constant innovation pipeline is the key characteristic setting Walbro apart from competitors. Developing groundbreaking engine system products is what energizes us. To fulfill this mission, we’ve assembled a team of world-class engineers who are passionate about designing next-generation engine systems. Our company is the sole industry leader capable of engineering and manufacturing both electronics…
Carriers Begin to Unveil 5G Plans for 2018
Every few years, a new generation of wireless technology is rolled out—with faster speeds, less congestion, and better capabilities. With this new technology comes the formidable task of implementation. As the promise of 5G begins to appear on the horizon, major carriers are finally unveiling early plans on how they’ll improve cell service in 2018. Several leading…
The Lion’s Den
Protocol Conversion Gives Factories An Edge To Stay Ahead Business leaders understand that the thoughtful integration of technology is key to acquiring and maintaining a competitive advantage. Only by staying ahead of the technology curve can a company stay in business. Accomplishing this in the Digital Era means leveraging automation solutions that decrease costs, enhance…
Mirroring the Blue Eel: Non-living Systems Manifest Living Neural Behaviors
Exciting new U.S. Army-funded research inspired by the naturally elegant motion of the swimming blue eel has the potential to answer questions regarding the discrepancy between the movement in living versus non-living systems. These answers can lead to the creation of synthetic materials that simulate natural ones. Examining the possibilities, a research team lead by…
IIoT Potential and the Power of Data
The global Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market is growing exponentially, reaching across all industries and all sectors. Meanwhile, edge computing is exhibiting synchronicity with companies implementing IIoT systems. From a tradition emphasizing automation equipment, operational technology teams are now increasingly turning attention away from their tools themselves to take a closer look at the data generated…
The Top 5 Most Innovative Uses for High-Content Post-Consumer Plastics
According to National Geographic, more than 8 million tons of plastic are being dumped into oceans around the globe each year. As bleak as that news sounds, it will likely get worse. If we do not change how we use and manage plastic, those 2015 numbers will increase 10-fold by 2025.1 Understandably, there is a huge push…
Start Up Wants To Launch Flying Taxis Using Blockchain
Nairobi, Kenya is planned to be the site of a new flying car taxi service, one of 23 cities where the Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) urban flying taxi service is planning to launch. It’s a futuristic idea that does not have concrete evidence that it will find the funding to work, and at a…
How To See The Most Energy Efficiency At A Cold Plant
When looking for energy savings in an existing chiller plant, or plant renovation, look deeper than the chiller itself. Though the chiller may have the largest peak load of any component, it may not be the largest contributor to total annual energy consumption. It’s more important to look at how all the components work together…
How To Implement Robotic Integration
When you think of robots — or bots, for short — the first thing that comes to mind may be the kind of automation system used in manufacturing plants. These involve robotic arms or limbs that carry out simple, yet unsupervised, actions, such as placing an item on a conveyor belt or assembling components. If…
Samsung Announces New QLED TVs and Availability of MicroLED
Samsung debuted its 2018 QLED and Ultra HD TV lineup at a recent event that took place in the American Stock Exchange building in lower Manhattan. With pioneering high-tech features aimed at increasing aesthetics and functionality, this line of TVs was intelligently designed to be the smart hub of your home. Samsung announced that additional…
Samsung Scraps Plans For Myanmarr
Samsung Electronics has scrapped its plans to build a production base for smartphones or home appliances in Myanmar due to an unfavorable administrative environment as well as lingering political uncertainties. The world’s leading smartphone manufacturer, which has three production facilities in Vietnam, has been considering building another plant in Myanmar to capitalize on the country’s…
Phillips Enters The LiFi Market
Philips Lighting (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, is now offering Light Fidelity (LiFi), a technology in which high quality LED lighting provides a broadband Internet connection through light waves. As the lighting company for the Internet of Things, Philips Lighting is the first global lighting company to offer LiFi-enabled luminaires from its existing office…
Using VR In Maintenance Training
Within the training community, virtual reality (VR) is increasingly used to train professionals in a spectrum of fields. And few fields stand to benefit from the technology as much as maintenance, since VR can be used to demonstrate concepts without putting workers at risk. VR is a natural fit in smart factories, but it does…
Using VR In Maintenance Training
Within the training community, virtual reality (VR) is increasingly used to train professionals in a spectrum of fields. And few fields stand to benefit from the technology as much as maintenance, since VR can be used to demonstrate concepts without putting workers at risk. VR is a natural fit in smart factories, but it does…
The Future Of Farming Is Automation
There are more humans alive on Earth right now than ever before—7.3 billion—and that number is still growing, with UN projections that it will reach 9.7 billion by 2050. A population of this magnitude brings a lot of challenges, food production chief among them. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization predicts that we need to boost worldwide…
City Of Henderson’s Solution To Maintaining Terrazzo Flooring
Terrazzo flooring is easy to scuff, so officials in Henderson, NV needed a way to care for the 11,000 square feet of flooring in their City Hall. The solution came from 3M which provided a cleaning method that only required two steps compared to other options that needed as many as eight steps. The result…
How AI is Being Used Today
Until recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been confined largely to machine learning tasks. But as algorithms and hardware continue to improve, AI will become more widely implemented in everyday life. Indeed, it appears 2018 is the year that AI moves from hype to reality, allowing businesses to profit from this technology. A recent Boston Consulting…
DUPLEX COATING STEEL
Steel is a fantastically useful industrial material and one of the most popular, but its Achilles heel has always been corrosion. Steel can corrode, weaken, and fail due to a number of environmental and chemical factors. One of the best solutions to prevent steel from corroding or rusting in harsh environments, is to protect it with…
German Dairy Growth Strategy
The process of adopting new methodologies to grow a business is not unique to sophisticated tech, internet or manufacturing companies, and a perfect example of this is the dairy industry. In Germany, Bechtel is a private dairy established in 1908. Production capacity continues to increase, and in early 2018 they began using new filling machines…
The Future is Bright for Robotics
Collaborative Robots, or Cobots, are making headway into a variety of industries. These robots are specially designed to work with human operators and contain built-in safety features that allow for optimal performance. In early 2017 alone, 27,294 robots were placed on order at a total cost of approximately $1.47 billion. According to BIS Research, by…
Watch: Location-based services boost visibility and aid automation for IoT solutions
As spending on IoT rockets past $1 trillion in the next year, IoT tech promises better analytics and automation. Location-based services (LBS) will be critical to those improvements, as knowing where connected devices offer essential context. Cloud-based LBS makes integration seamless into current systems. Being able to tag key assets will massively boost automation optimization,…
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