Rockwell Automation Invests $12M to Bring Science and Technology to Next Generation Workforce
Company announces four-year, $12M commitment to FIRST® to address critical need to inspire and train for todays industrial careers
Hypertherm Announces Release of Rotary Tube Pro Tube Cutting Software
Rotary Tube Pro™ software that makes it easier to design and cut tube and pipe parts with no 3D CAD experience required.
Global Machine Tool Builder Okuma America Corporation Chooses Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Hitachi Solutions America to Position the Company for the Future
Okuma America selects Microsoft Dynamics 365 to drive a competitive business advantage by streamlining IT infrastructure and improving processes.
Trump promises to bring back manufacturing jobs, but robots won't let him
Lora Kolodny for TechCrunch: For Americans struggling with stagnant wages, under- or un-employment, one of Donald Trump’s most appealing campaign promises was to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.
Navigating the complexities of policy, tariffs and geopolitics would make that hard enough already for the president elect. But technology will make this promise nearly impossible to fulfill.
Why? Because manufacturing jobs are increasingly done by robots, not people.
Robotics have already helped reduce reliance on labor overseas for manufacturers in automotive, electrical and electronics industries, according to a fresh policy report from the United Nations Conference on Trade & Development. Cont'd...
FABTECH - Universal Robots to exhibit new applications featuring CO2 spray cleaning, automated metrology and plasma cutting at FABTECH 2016
The market leader in collaborative robots will showcase highly flexible application platforms enabled by the easy programmable "cobots."
China Adopts Cybersecurity Law Despite Foreign Opposition
Bloomberg News: China has green-lit a sweeping and controversial law that may grant Beijing unprecedented access to foreign companies’ technology and hamstring their operations in the world’s second-largest economy.
The Cyber Security Law was passed by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature, and will take effect in June, government officials said Monday. Among other things, it requires internet operators to cooperate with investigations involving crime and national security, and imposes mandatory testing and certification of computer equipment. Companies must also give government investigators full access to their data if wrong-doing is suspected.
China’s grown increasingly aggressive about safeguarding its IT systems in the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations about U.S. spying, and is intent on policing cyberspace as public discourse shifts to online forums such as Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s WeChat. The fear among foreign companies is that requirements to store data locally and employ only technology deemed “secure” means local firms gain yet another edge over foreign rivals from Microsoft Corp. to Cisco System Inc. Cont'd...
New XLPE Control Cable Joins HELUKABEL Product Portfolio
TRAYCONTROL X to be officially launched at International Manufacturing Technology
VISION: the industry highlight for imaging and machine vision
Stuttgart underscores its position as the world's leading trade fair for machine vision / almost 10,000 visitors from 58 countries were our guests
Internet of Things: The real situation revealed at last
by Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx
Automating One Acre Under Glass
Richmond Nursery in Ontario Saves More Than $50,000 a Year Using an Leviton Environmental Control System
Leaders Convene to Learn About Accelerating Global Industrial Productivity with The Connected Enterprise
Rockwell Automation hosts thousands at 25th Automation Fair event in Atlanta
HANNOVER MESSE promotes spirit of innovation in manufacturing industry
- Young Tech Enterprises unites industrial startup scene
- Startup Pitches create transfer platform for market-ready products
- German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy offers subsidies
Multi-Carrier-System from Siemens and Festo delivers flexible, Industry 4.0-ready intralogistics
The MCS addresses the acute need for flexibility in modern manufacturing and production environments driven by increasingly complex product diversity, shorter product life cycles and growing levels of mass customization
Tesla is buying a German engineering company to automate factories
Matthew DeBord for Business Insider: On Tuesday, Tesla announced that it will acquire Grohmann Engineering, a German automated manufacturing company.
The terms of the deal, which is subject to German regulatory approval, weren't disclosed.
In a statement, Tesla described Grohmann as a "world-renowned engineering company in Prüm, Germany, which will become Tesla Grohmann Automation." Cont'd...
Lift Gate Provides Added Flexibility to SmartFlex System
With a typical lift gate conveyor, the entire conveyor pivots using the motor as a counter balance and a gas strut to assist in the lifting process.
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