Building a sustainable manufacturing strategy

It will come as a surprise to many people that the UK is currently the 11th largest manufacturing country in the world, just after India. The manufacturing industry contributes £6.7tr to the global economy and it makes up 11 per cent of UK Gross Value Added (GVA) output. Despite this, recent innovations in electronics, thin battery technology and design engineering have stumped many business leaders. Here Prabhjit Singh, production manager at Accutronics looks at how to build a sustainable manufacturing strategy.

Howden American Fan Company Offers Range of Fans Ideal for Industrial Boiler and Burner Applications

Howden American Fan Company, a leading manufacturer of fans, blowers, compressors and rotary regenerative heat exchangers, announces the availability of a wide range of fan product lines ideal for serving industrial boilers, gas turbine installations, and heat-recovery steam generators in combined cycle installations.

How Embedded Devices and the Cloud Are Leading a Paradigm Shift in Manufacturing and Production

This cannot be a simple extension of todays processes, but needs to be a complete rethink of how manufacturing and production systems are designed to take full advantage of the cloud and the analytics that it brings to bear.

IMTS - Registration Now Open for LIA's Inaugural Industrial Laser Conference

Registration is now open for LIA's inaugural Industrial Laser Conference, to be held at IMTS 2016 on September 13 at the renowned McCormick Place in Chicago.

Tinkers, Hackers and Inventors Unite at The Henry Ford for Maker Faire Detroit July 30-31

On July 30 -31 hundreds of makers from across the country will bring their wares, ideas, inventions and solutions to The Henry Ford for the seventh annual Maker Faire Detroit, the Midwests largest two-day festival dedicated to unconventional ingenuity, unbridled creativity and forward thinking

IMTS - REDVIKING EXHIBITS ARGONAUT ™ AT IMTS BOOTH E-4352

Argonaut™ is flexible, with specific apps and reports that can be deployed to targeted locations and users. The manufacturing performance platform is secure and affordable, as there is centralized control of the app deployment with SSL encryption and users can buy only the apps they need for specific tasks or production jobs.

IMTS - Okuma's New GA26W Grinder is Equipped with the Intelligent OSP-P300G Control

Easy Operation CNC control maximizes efficiency and production.

Personal Protective Equipment Market size forecast is likely to hit USD 67.66 billion by 2023, at 7.3% CAGR from 2016 to 2023: Global Market Insights Inc.

"Market Size - $38.6 bn in 2015, Market Growth - CAGR of 7.3%, Market Trends - Strong growth outlook for industrial protective clothing, respiratory and fall protection PPE market"

Embedded system market size likely to exceed USD 258 billion by 2023: Global Market Insights Inc.

"Market Size - $ 165.28 bn in 2015, Market Growth - CAGR of 5.6%, Market Trends -technological advancement and product innovation in embedded systems market"

Logistic companies Swisslog, Dematic, Egemin and Intelligrated have all been Acquired

All these companies are logistics and material handling vendors and times are changing in logistics and fulfillment

Xometry - The Manufacturing On-Demand Platform - Launches Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS® Integration

CAD Software Add-In To Provide SOLIDWORKS Users Instant Access to Xometry Platform for One-Stop Manufacturing

Embedded Software Market size to reach $18.61bn by 2023

Embedded Software (Real Time Operating System [RTOS]) Market Size By Application (Automotive, Healthcare, Consumer Electronics, Military & Defense, Industrial, Telecommunication), By Programming Language (C, C++, Assembly, Java, .NET), Industry Analysis Report, Regional Outlook (U.S., UK, Germany, China, India, Japan, Brazil), Application Potential, Competitive Market Share & Forecast, 2016 - 2023

Microscan Demonstrates Combined Auto ID and Machine Vision Platform at the AACC Clinical Lab Expo 2016

Microscan, the number-one brand of embedded clinical barcode readers and leading innovator of machine vision solutions for the life sciences, announces that it will demonstrate MicroHAWK®, the world's smallest enclosed imaging devices for barcode reading and machine vision for clinical instruments from Booth #1260 at the 2016 AACC Clinical Lab Expo, August 2-4 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A

IMTS - OPEN MIND at IMTS 2016 - hyperMILL® with greater performance and ease of use

The hyperMILL® MAXX Machining performance package has once again been expanded to incorporate 5-axis tangent machining of arbitrary faces with conical barrel cutters. Delivering results with speed, the use of conical barrel cutters enable performance increases of up to 90 percent compared to conventional production methods.

Hitachi Begins Development of Factory Automation Platform as a Service Testbed

Kagan Pittman for Engineering.com:  Will the Internet of Things be the future of manufacturing? Global conglomerate Hitachi Group seems to think so. Hitachi recently partnered with Mitsubishi Electric and Intel to receive approval for their Factory Automation Platform as a Service (FA PaaS) Testbed at the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), a global non-profit organization. The testbed will operate as a testing platform based on the reference model of IIC to test solutions in controlled scenarios that match real-world conditions, for the ultimate purpose of connecting manufacturing sites with head offices in order to streamline their operations. Hitachi hopes to use the FA PaaS to respond to what they see as a market rapidly growing and demanding faster product development, market introduction, quality improvements and shorter lead times.  Cont'd...

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