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  • E Sentry: Streamlining equipment care with cloud-based asset management

    This digital toolkit helps create, assign, track and finish work orders with a few simple clicks.

  • Widest ever choice of METCASE COMBIMET 19 inch rack cases

    Applications include networking, communications, sound/studio systems, laboratory instruments and industrial computers/control technology.

  • Reach a quicker time-to-market with modular motors and gearboxes

    These modular components enable selection of the optimum combination of motors, gearboxes, encoders, brakes, shafts and controllers for specific applications.

  • Video: New spaceplane to service the ISS

    The craft will be used by NASA to ferry cargo to and from the International Space Station (ISS).

  • At Arburg, experts address "AI in the forest"

    The company is researching how to combine its own smart Gestica control system with artificial intelligence (AI) and with self-learning machines in order to make the injection molding process more intelligent.

  • OKW’s versatile MEDITEC plastic enclosures for medical electronics and more

    Designed primarily for high-quality, high-value healthcare and laboratory electronics, the enclosures are also ideal for feedback control, test and measurement, communications and network technology.

  • Why reshoring shifted into hyperdrive

    Many companies are shifting manufacturing back to the U.S. at record speeds.

  • Optimizing installation space and performance with thread tapping screws

    Fastener load is optimized with a round self-tapping screw featuring a trilobular tapping zone.

  • Raman microspectroscopy goes mobile

    Portability comes to microspectroscopy with a research-grade confocal Raman system from Oxford Instruments WITec.

  • New technique lets robots "hear" humans

    The acoustic localization approach described by the Georgia Tech team explores the use of machine learning algorithms to detect the subtle sounds inadvertently produced by humans as they move around.

  • Split hub bellows couplings deliver high precision

    These can be used in a variety of applications where positional accuracy is of utmost importance, performance data is being measured or fast reversals are a common occurrence.

  • A soft robot gripper that can lift 100 kg

    To create the new soft robotic gripper, the team employed a weaving technique wherein threads are tightly intertwined with various materials like PET plastic or rubber, to create a fabric that can support heavy objects.

  • New autonomous mobile robot for warehouses introduced by ForwardX

    The Flex 60-SW is an AMR that is reportedly equipped with automatic weighing scales and an interactive touch screen to improve picking accuracy in the warehouse.

  • Manufacturing pivots to the US as Chinese imports fall

    Reshoring, inflation and unemployment all contributing to the change.

  • Gear motors provide terminal velocity

    Gear motors and drives from NORD Drivesystems support efficient loading of grain and other commodities onto cargo vessels.

  • Enabling your data connectivity to go further

    Data connectivity portfolio for industrial and commercial transportation: Enabling your data connectivity to go further.

  • This sensor promises to improve the grasp of robotic grippers

    MIT’s GelSight Svelte sensor uses cameras to cull information about the objects to be grasped — much like the sensory receptors in human skin, which send information to the brain about what is in its grasp.

  • How will the manufacturing industry use ChatGPT?

    This follow-up feature will examine the impact ChatGPT is expected to have on the manufacturing industry.

  • Research priorities to revitalize supply chain and manufacturing sector

    This Engineering Research Visioning Alliance report offers rapid innovation opportunities to mobilize engineering research to improve productivity, agility and competitiveness.

  • Cosen Saws exhibiting new sawing solutions at SOUTHTEC 2023

    New saw models designed to enhance productivity, accuracy and safety will be on display.

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