BigRep, a global leader in large-format 3D printing solutions, is helping its customers to bypass traditional supply chains and produce large-scale parts for aircraft maintenance as the industry seeks to resolve supply chain issues. As most people are unfortunately...
Festo, a family-based company in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, believe that they are ushering in a new era of human-robot collaboration with the release of the world's first pneumatic robot. The company boast that their cobot sets new standards for technology and...
Sensors Converge, an event focusing on sensors, processing, connectivity, the Internet of Things and sustainability is set to take place in San José, California from June 27 to June 29. The event will feature keynote speakers, panel discussions, workshops, awards and...
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released details of the $2.08 million it has awarded to seven organizations in six states to develop manufacturing technology roadmaps to strengthen U.S. innovation and...
French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi is taking steps to prepare for the next pandemic by investing €900mn in two new vaccine manufacturing facilities in Singapore and France. The two new facilities will be known as Evolutive Vaccine Facilities (EVFs) and will be managed...
It is estimated that top fortune 500 manufacturing enterprises lose almost $1 trillion to unplanned downtime every year, a sum that represents nearly 8% of their annual revenue. Here we will look at how the introduction of Predictive Maintenance as a Service might...
iBASEt, the Southern California-based software company, announced yesterday that its iBASEt Solumina iSeries solutions are now available on both Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace and Amazon’s AWS Marketplace. iBASEt is a specialist in solutions which simplify how complex...
Recently released data from the Association for Advanced Automation (A3) shows that there was a significant increase in robot sales in 2021 across North America. The figures are no surprise to anyone in the industry as the rise in robotic automation sales is a direct...
Intel yesterday announced plans to expand silicone chip production in Europe, revealing that it is set to invest up to $88 billion (€80 billion) over the next decade to build new facilities in Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Spain. Yesterday’s announcement...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued two notices of intent to provide US$2.91 billion in a drive to boost production of the advanced batteries that are critical to rapidly growing clean energy industries of the future, including electric vehicles and energy...
