New products require new materials, and the rapid advancement and uptake in the electric vehicle (EV) and green energy industries means that demand for rare earth metals, for use in batteries and other components, is only set to increase.
Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. (TSE: 6770; President & CEO: Toshihiro Kuriyama) has implemented a project to upgrade to advanced production planning processes within the company’s global supply chain. The project’s objectives were to improve the accuracy of forecasts within production planning and thereby reduce inventories and opportunity losses, as well as to remove dependency on specific individuals for certain jobs and raise job efficiency.
Sensata Technologies (NYSE: ST), today announced the new Sensata IQ platform that makes it easy to deploy asset health monitoring to prevent unplanned downtime within manufacturing environments. Online asset monitoring systems have traditionally been expensive, complex, and required users to have deep domain expertise.
Smartphone apps are vital to our everyday lives. If you set them to update automatically, they will continue to be easy to use. AI (Artificial Intelligence) has also become a familiar presence, playing an active role in many aspects of our lives, from predicting product sales to recognizing people through a camera lense.
New functions for the Code Reader and a revamped monitoring software with enhanced statistical functions: SensoPart’s VISOR® vision sensors received their extensive annual software upgrade at the start of 2022.
This in-person event will bring together operations, maintenance, engineering, and technology leaders to connect and learn about the industry’s latest innovations and solutions.
FANUC has set a new record: With the production of its five millionth CNC, the company underlines its position as the world market leader for factory automation. Kenji Yamaguchi, President and CEO of Japan-based FANUC Corporation considers this a milestone: "We owe this success to years of advice and support from our customers and partners, who are both machine tool builders and users.".
Get started right away, even without great expertise: the upcoming round of the KUKA Innovation Award is all about ease of use and maximum flexibility. For the first time, the €20,000 robotics competition will be based on KUKA’s new robot operating system and associated ecosystem – offering creative minds totally new opportunities.
DOPAG offers solutions for all applications from a single source – bonding, sealing, greasing, potting and gasketing. The production of modern household appliances for the global market requires stable, automated production processes. Metering and mixing technology is a key part of almost all production steps in the household appliance industry. The various components are bonded, sealed, greased or potted during the production process.
A lot has happened since the first floor cleaning machines were developed more than 100 years ago. From the simple floor polisher, the development led to complex scrubber-dryer for wet/dry cleaning and maintenance of a wide variety of hard floors. Dunkermotoren and MAE, sister companies in the Advanced Motion Solutions Division under the AMETEK umbrella, offer a wide range of options for the diverse models and application areas and thanks to the broad product portfolio, all from a single source.