Factory View of Creative Robot Tool Use
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Generative AI facilitates more efficient factory design, new ways for robots to use tools, and automated materials discovery. Companies look to the moon to deploy remote plant control systems.
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Determine Viability Through New Product Introduction
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Now celebrating new products weekly! Custom machines, new robots, manufacturing copilots, will be highlighted in the ‘New Product Introduction’ section. Closing the machine-to-cloud and IT OT gap.
Empowering Robotic Integrators in Your Backyard Factory
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Desktop fabrication and robots equipped with AI and 3D Vision are more accessible than ever for empowering small-scale production. Mass personalization has begun in Singapore.
Grok with Your Manufacturing Idol: Henry Elon Rogo
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Introducing the ‘Henry Elon Rogo’ GPT at a satirical Thanksgiving dinner. The AI will advise on manufacturing and heavy industry technology. It is available on OpenAI.
Watch Your Operations with 3D Planning Data in the Metaverse
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Take existing control and sensor signals, add the 3D planning data, and combine everything in a simple workflow to watch your operations perform in the industrial metaverse.
Operational Excellence in Forklift Driving and IT/OT Convergence
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DevOps practices and debug, checkout and startup processes enable operational excellence for industrial automation. Machinery for forged parts and gigacasting are changing facility landscapes.
Engineering Virtual Assistants and Captivated By Castings
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Specialized large language models are incorporated into virtual assistants at NVIDIA and RoboDK. Gigacasting economics explained and the evolution from aluminum to magnesium has captivated analysts.
Stuck in the Chasm Deploying Industrial Innovation
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Industrial innovations are coming to market at record pace but challenges in crossing the chasm to the mainstream market remain. AMRs detect pallet jacks and iron ore, green steel, EVs and more!
Accelerated Learning of Robots Using Digital Twins
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Through reinforcement learning in the metaverse, digital twins of robots are learning new tasks at accelerated rates. Monitoring usage patterns and failure modes enables robotics as a service models.
Build that Factory in a Small Town (with Secure Remote Service)
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New factory builds are moving to small towns within America and China. As factories setup in remote locations using chatbots and secure remote service technologies will enable 24/7 operations.
Workcell Optimization-as-a-Service for Seamless Orchestration
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AI-driven manufacturing provides new business opportunities in workcell performance, robot welding and metal forming, and VFDs.
Field-test the Metaverse in 360° to Boost Productivity
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Generative AI and Metaverse technologies are racing to capture industrial processes so new workers can be trained and boost productivity in a rapidly changing manufacturing operations.
Hole-in-One Robots in Teaching and Metalforming
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Trustworthy generative AI teaches robots 60 difficult, dexterous skills and metalforming. Digital twins can mimic the operations down to every tool, robot arm, and even the pace of human operators.
Ratio of Finished Component Cost to Material Cost: The Idiot Index
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Musk prioritizes manufacturing innovations through a simple ratio dubbed the idiot index. Beyond the giga press, Tesla seeks to die cast nearly all the underbody of an EV in one piece. GE Aerospace develops the Sensiworm for turbine engine inspections.
There’s Nothing More Manual than Industrial Automation
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Who, what, where, and how products will be produced has never been more uncertain. Platform shifts are requiring companies to rethink what industrial automation is necessary to produce their products.
Operator-less in the Air, Field, and Factory
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Reinforcement learning is autonomously controlling and diagnosing physical-world systems in defense, agriculture, and industrial operations.
Ultra-large Press and Single Digit Microns
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Hyundai unveils an ultra-large servo press for their Alabama facility, while Elon Musk seeks single digit micron precision for all parts at Tesla. Battery manufacturer race to automate.
Race Between Technologies in Cathodes & Cobots
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NMC and LFP cathodes duke it out for dominance while new funding looks to scale new battery chemistries, LMFP and LMX. Generative AI assist supply chain management and worker training.
Manufacturing Technology Only Validated at Production Scale
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Another petrochemical plant operates with only AI. Quality tests predicted in real time. The world’s first soft exoskeleton improves worker hand ergonomics. Labor negotiations intensify.
Batteries Not Included For Quality & Efficiency
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Building battery cell manufacturing facilities comes without batteries included. Cell manufacturers must select their own sites, designs, contractors, and equipment to achieve aggressive ramps.