Back to Work For Now, Automate Later
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The ports shutdown by the strike account for about 90% of the waterborne chemical shipments that move in and out of the U.S. Automation improves working conditions and wins plant of the year.
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Reclaim Control of Material Recovery
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Sustainable chemical and construction waste material recovery to achieve a circular economy. USA’s longshoremen may disrupt global supply chains without a new labor deal.
Save Industrial Process Heat for a Later Day
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Use raw sensor data and to evaluate robotics policies across millions of scenarios. Real-time, in-process monitoring of forming forces. The restart of Three Mile Island nuclear plant.
Show the Prices Upfront for Industrial Technology
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IMTS 2024 wrap-up, data center simulator-based reinforcement learning, autonomous distribution yards, and how vaporizing plastic bags and bottles creates the building blocks for recycled plastics.
Big Press for Technology Investment at IMTS
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IMTS 2024 kicks off in Chicago! Find the latest technology solutions and necessary investment in equipment and factory reorganization to achieve transformation.
Boosting Margins to 3D Print the Summer Home
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Wood, metal, and advanced composites are finding new ways to bond in 3D printing applications. Industrials are looking to build digital solutions to boost revenues and margins.
Breaking Disruption with Robot Agents
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LLMs provide plain language explanations to instruction manuals and complex system faults. GenAI makes it easy to instruct robots after collecting a bit more data. Building the language of the yard.
Lowering the Bill on Manufacturers
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Smart electrolyzers and real-time control can help manufacturers respond to fluctuating energy costs. 24% of AI initiatives are focused on cost or efficiencies. Bezos gives a tour.
Place, Cast, Lay Large Parts
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Megacasting an entire underbody is an incredible manufacturing feat. So is continuously laying 300 feet of carbon fiber composite. But, the Raptor engine redesign may be the most valuable work of art.
Domestic Manufacturing Olympic Debut
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The MSTIC autonomous semiconductor manufacturing platform returns to Earth in time for the Olympics. AES debuts Maximo, the solar installation robot. Sneak peek inside Tesla’s German gigafactory.
Industrial AI Agents Orchestrate Production
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94% of corporate leadership is all in on AI. Context is being brought into AI agents to complete specific and complex industrial tasks. ML models like YOLO remain alongside humans in the interim.
Spearheading Resurgence in Interconnected Supply Chains
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Crowdstrike update crashes Windows-based PCs. Manufacturers evaluate both their physical and software supply chains for single points of failure. AI agents take action.
Size and Payload Matter for Human-Machine Performance
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Industry 5.0 brings humans in close contact with cobots, humanoids, and industrial robots. Teleoperation, chemical, and materials development are being transformed by data and AI.
A New Generation of Factory Workforce
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Dawn of the humanoids and caution in new energy value chains. Shakeup in additive manufacturing with major announcements from Shapeways, Nano Dimension, Desktop Metal, HP, and Altair.
Achieving Maximum Flow with Minimal Costs
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New network flow algorithms, LLM for additive, and AI to reduce the time-to-shelf of food products. Major automotive (VW) and aerospace (Boeing) transactions to improve production quality.
Some Manufacturers Find Ways to Lower Cost
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Reshoring, hybrid manufacturing, building and operating cargo ships, and robotic solutions are changing the cost equation while increasing resilience in manufacturing operations.
Exploit the Constraint to Reach ‘The Goal’
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The renewable supply chain constrains sustainability initiatives. New plants, production techniques, designs, and testing are elevating the constraints across wind, solar, and battery production.
Do the Math on Sustainability & Quality
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The Revenue-Quality Podium and how one metric ton of e-waste recovered prevents 2,000 metric tons of mining. Become sustainable with BioIron low carbon steel making and zero emissions cement.
Everything Changes When the Plant Goes Smart
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Build a machine that builds the machine. AI-run factories demonstrate higher stability and efficiency compared with manual operations. Nobody will use your systems in serial production unless you do!
Gigascale Recycling and Predictive Maintenance
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Funding is flowing for smart industrial companies while governments prepare for domestic manufacturing capabilities. 3D printed parts volumes growing in personalized industrial goods.