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.
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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.
Manufacturing Disruption with Software
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The next logical step in automation is to make great software, designed specifically to solve problems for customers. Software and AI really just adds new, powerful tools to the toolbox.
Industrial Automation Aurora ☄️
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AUTOMATE 2024 showed spectacular displays of Industrial Automation not to be eclipsed by the aurora borealis overhead in Chicago. New foundation models are expanding Industrial AI and Autonomy.
Pulling Back the Curtain on Automation
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AUTOMATE 2024 kicks off in Chicago. Battery multilayer curtain coating, sodium-ion production, and how battery chemistry affects supply chain disruption vulnerabilities. In-stream task assistance XR.
Walking Around the Messe Blinded by AI
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Edge DataOps, Cloud, and AI solutions were at the forefront of the manufacturing community this week in Hannover. Innovation back in America remains eyes wide open in 3D printers and 6G.
Messe Around and Find Out about AI
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Hannover Messe 2024 kicks off this week! Find out about AI, machine learning, carbon-neutral production, energy for industry, Industrie 4.0, and manufacturing-X from leaders like Exponential Industry
Manufacturing Service Capability Prediction Just-in-Time
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Find the right supplier to make specialized parts including golf clubs. You may need to do a little buffing and sanding after quality assurance to make them conform.
LLM Agents Plan Autonomous Production
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Autonomous cycle time estimation, process chaining, resource allocation, and integrated planning are made possible through large language model agents.
AI Ranks as Top Capability for Manufacturers
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GenAI is coming for operations in 2024, but first networks, systems, and data must be ready for autonomy.
$1 Million per Hour on Industrial R&D to Produce ‘Something Minimalistic’
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We had fun spending it. Extremely high-paced, iterative trial-and-error bears fruit.
Record Efficiency in Renewable Energy Production
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Reducing environmental impact will require new materials, chemistries, and production methods. Governments and companies are unleashed to do just that.
Defining the Future of Supply Chain
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Moving from CapEx to OpEx helps companies with limited access to capital access equipment without a large upfront investment. Handy guide to MODEX 2024 kicking off this week in Atlanta.