Building Sustainability Into Your Next System Design
Regardless of your company's motivation for becoming more environmentally friendly, now is a great time to be building sustainability into your next system design. Here are a few approaches to help meet these goals.
Selecting the Right Adhesive-backed Mounts for the Best Use
Adhesive-backed mounts, or "sticky-backs" as they are sometimes referred to, come in three types: rubber-based, acrylic-based, and high bond (which is an enhanced acrylic-based adhesive). Each of these are unique and provide their own set of strengths and drawbacks.
Optimizing the Manufacturing Supply Chain With 7 Tech-Forward Solutions
Every manufacturing operation needs an efficient and resilient supply chain. Stock shortages, shipping delays and similar disruptions can prolong production, raise costs and impact customer satisfaction, so manufacturers must prevent them as much as possible.
How 3D Printing Can Dramatically Reduce Carbon Emissions in the Manufacturing Industry
The technology can cut carbon emissions in the four areas where traditional manufacturing cranks out carbon by the metric ton: materials, manufacturing, warehousing, and transportation.
Updating Warehouse Automation Solutions to Improve Productivity and Profitability
Instead of having a thin layer of WES and FMS that cannot be dissociated from the robotic solution, I foresee robust, best of breed, stand-alone FMS and WES applications being developed.
Semiconductor Chiplet: New Design Offers Auto Manufacturers Big Benefits
A semiconductor chiplet enables a modular approach to processor construction. In most cases, a chiplet has a dedicated function. These components will be vital as cars become more advanced and autonomous.
Robotics Providers: Challenges and Opportunities in a Dynamic Industrial Equipment Market
In this blog post, we'll explore some of the key trends and challenges facing robotics providers today, and offer insights into how they can navigate this dynamic landscape to build successful businesses.
Looking to the Future: Visual Commerce in Manufacturing
The reality is B2B buyers increasingly expect interactive and engaging commerce offerings. It's time for manufacturers to up their digital commerce game to keep B2B customers coming back.
Machine Shop Robots Get Real
To better understand the benefits of cobot automation and how it works on the shop floor, we spoke to two leading providers of automated tools to small shops targeting two of the most time consuming and difficult to staff processes, quality control and welding.
The 8 Wastes of Lean Manufacturing
The lean manufacturing methodology chiefly revolves around minimizing production times and raising efficiency by eliminating waste. In this post, we go through the 8 principal wastes in lean manufacturing and see how manufacturing software can help to address them.
Refurbishing Instead of Replacing
With cutting rings, a shearing tool removes the worn edges before they are built back up with 3D printing. Finally, the cutting rings are machined to the final shape.
Strategies for Optimizing Supply Chain with Automation
The pandemic brought supply chain to the forefront, leading companies to seek AI, analytics, and automation solutions for efficiency and meeting demand. Machine Learning predicts demand and AI/automation boosts quality and monitors events.
One Sweet Machine
From candy to coffee beans, AD Process Equipment's confectionery equipment applies coatings that make food taste better. NORD DRIVESYSTEMS helps them do so more efficiently.
The Basics of Warehouse Automation
The implementation of warehouse automation requires an experienced electrical, mechanical, and industrial engineering team and advanced software capabilities on hand.
How Effective Recycling Practices Can Impact the Redistribution of Global Resources and Wealth
The next leap forward in sustainability is going to be reclaiming the resources contained within the garbage and providing feedstock back into the manufacturing process.
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NORD Delivers Powerful, Reliable Drive Solutions for Demanding Packaging Applications
When you need quality, flexibility and high efficiency, NORD has you covered with complete drive solutions for primary and secondary packaging, end-of-line packaging, and higher-level applications. NORD supports you through the entire life cycle of your drive systems with pre-sales engineering support, online tools, and a global service network. Drive systems for both vertically and horizontally networked technology with all the options for sensor incorporation and integration into the higher-level control system.
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PI USA (Physik Instrumente)
PI is a privately held company that designs and manufactures world-class precision motion and automation systems including air bearings, hexapods and piezo drives at locations in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company was founded 5 decades ago and today employs more than 1700 people worldwide. PI's customers are leaders in high-tech industries and research institutes in fields such as photonics, life-sciences, semiconductors and aerospace.
