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T.CON is expanding to Asia ¨C in partnership with Pacific Textiles

Jun 14, 2019
T.CON is expanding to Asia ¨C in partnership with Pacific Textiles
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Hong Kong-based Pacific Textiles is one of the world's finest textile manufacturers. The company has 6,500 employees and is a longstanding SAP customer with extensive SAP expertise. Employees of the internal SAP team are working underneath the course of CIO Hubert Tsang in a newly built subsidiary, which is positioning itself as an implementation partner for other businesses in the location. The collaboration with T.CON produces the company access to comprehensive industry expertise - for instance, for implementation projects in the paper industry. At the same time, the SAP subsidiary of Pacific Textiles is adding T.CON products like the TRIM SUITE to its portfolio.
 
During a joint presentation at the Fastmarkets RISI Asian Conference in Shanghai, Hubert Tsang and T.CON's International Business Development Manager Bradley Robb launched the partnership to the circle of Asian participants. In front of a professional audience representing some of the most influential paper producers in Asia and the world, they discussed the background and potentials of the collaboration. Together, in a packed room, they demonstrated how T.CON's full-scale optimization tool TRIM SUITE can produce and optimize slitting patterns for the pulp and paper industry. This enables them to support customers worldwide with innovative, SAP native solutions - custom customized to the mill industry.
 
'SAP is used for various scenarios in China. However, not all execution partners in Asia are able to present the industry expertise that is often demanded for the projects', said Gerhard Göbel, Senior Consultant SCM at T.CON. 'Our implementation partner knows the market and opens doors for us. We make our software products and internationally-unique industry expertise available to them.'
The cooperation is an important milestone for T.CON's internationalization strategy. Excellent, highly scalable products and a strong partner who is completely recognizable with the regional situation: this is T.CON's formula for opening up markets in China and neighboring countries.



This article is originally posted on Tronserve.com

FELIXprinters AM Platforms ¡ª An Alternative to Injection Moulding

Jun 14, 2019
FELIXprinters AM Platforms ¡ª An Alternative to Injection Moulding
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(June 13th 2019; IJsselstein, The Netherlands) As many industrial sectors have shifted their making workflow to incorporate additive manufacturing, FELIXprinters has repositioned itself and its portfolio to serve the altering needs of industry. This has been accomplished through careful attention to detail, listening to what customers say, and creating products and features to meet their needs.
 
As such, from the end of 2018, FELIXprinters has launched the Pro 3, L, and XL platforms for industrial production applications.
 
The Pro 3 was developed to integrate seamlessly into industrial workflows, whether that is in an office, a workshop, laboratory, or factory environment. The priority was to deliver a 3D printer that produces enhanced print results repeatably. This is what customers told FELIXprinters was most discouraging for them in their day-to-day procedures with 3D printing, and these are the issues the company set out to address with the Pro 3.
 
FELIXprinters L & XL platforms have been evolved with highly improved build volumes, up to 144 Litres (the Pro L can build parts up to 300 x 400 x 400 mm or 11.8' x 15.75' x 15.75'; while the Pro XL has a build chamber of 600 x 400 x 600 mm or 23.62' x 15.75' x 23.62').
 
To ensure the quality and reliability upon which FELIXprinters has developed its reputation, both of these larger systems incorporate highly engineered print chambers, which incorporate an enclosed warm zone and a cold zone. The warm zone supports steady temperature control during the build, which is specifically crucial when printing materials with a high shrinkage factor, such as ABS, carbon fiber or Nylon. In contrast, the cool zone is where the electronics are situated, to avoid overheating and subsequent machine/build failure.
 
With these industrial production AM platforms, FELIXprinters has launched affordable solutions (€3000 - €15,000) to manufacturers that at the moment have to count on injection moulding, with all this suggests in terms of expense and lack of agility. FELIXprinters AM platforms provide a cost-effective production process with shorter design-to market times for low to medium volumes than injection moulding.
 
Injection moulding is still the go-to technology for high volume plastic part production, but it is recognized by significant up-front capital investment in tooling, which is also time-consuming, and confusing and costly to adapt.
 
3D printing calls for no tooling and is agile which facilitates quick production turnaround, but for high volume runs does have a prohibitively high cost per part. The key is an AM technology that produces the manufacture of short - medium volume applications viable, and it is here that FELXprinters has targeted its attention.
 
Through the use of FELIXprinters' industrial production AM platforms, manufacturers can build high-quality parts repeatably in a range of thermoplastics and other revolutionary components. An additional advantage exists through the use of 3D printing for production, and that is that part cost is not connected with part complexity. As soon as complexity is released to an injection moulded part, the necessity is for more and more expensive mould tools, which causes to an exponential increase in costs.
 
Beyond non-costly part complexness, FELIXprinters' AM platforms for production also facilitate nearly limitless geometric freedom, exhibit very low to zero iteration costs, and have low downtime in the production cycle.
 
Conversely, injection moulding makes design iterations costly, and beyond the high cost of upfront tooling which improves with increased part complexity, means that production is restricted to the location of the production tooling. As FELIXprinters' AM platforms — in common with all 3D printing technologies — manufacture direct from 3D CAD files, the location of manufacture is much more flexible.
 
Also, as AM is a digital strategy, it can be stopped and started again at no cost, meaning that production volumes can be precisely aligned with demand day to day, week to week, month to month. With injection moulding, once the production plan is initiated, it needs to fulfill the full run instantly to remain economic, which therefore necessitates the need for warehousing which itself increases the cost per part.
 
Through the use of FELIXprinters' Pro 3, L, and XL AM platforms, OEM's have a highly trusted, cost-effective, and easy-to-use production technology to that in some short to medium volume applications can rival injection moulding. Manufacturers can gain from the fact that through the use of additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping and design complexity-without-penalty are accessible, and now also the usual issues that restrict manufacturers from using AM in production (namely cost and speed) have been tackled.



This article is originally posted on Tronserve.com

Cementex Announces New Sales Representative SERG, Inc

Jun 14, 2019
Cementex Announces New Sales Representative SERG, Inc
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Burlington, NJ - Cementex, the safety tool experts, announces that the company has a new Sales Representative for claims in the Southeast U.S, including Louisiana, southern Mississippi, southern Alabama, and the panhandle of Florida. With this new partnership, Cementex looks forward to continued growth in the Southeast region.
 
The Southeast Electrical Representative Group, known as SERG, Inc., partners with top manufacturers in the industrial, commercial and residential electrical industry. The company set out presenting Cementex in May of 2019. SERG, Inc. prides itself on its reputation for hardworking, honest, loyal customer service, and gives not just sales but also customer service, order entry, expediting, and marketing programs.
 
All Cementex models are made in the U.S.A. to the greatest expectations of quality. For more facts about Cementex's industry-leading products, visit our online catalog.



This article is originally posted on Tronserve.com

What Does the Future of Manufacturing Technologies Look Like in 2019

Jun 13, 2019
What Does the Future of Manufacturing Technologies Look Like in 2019
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Technology proceeded to go beyond creating simple products. The last decade has brought a bunch of changes as a result of consumers’ demand and the products’ nature. Customers are getting more keen in buying personalized products, specialized based on their requirements. But then, technology is also evolving and is putting its mark on the manufacturing industry. Each year is bringing innovation, and new technologies are used to create smart products which meet customers' expectations.
 
Benefits of Technology in Manufacturing
 
New smart technologies are switching the face of manufacturing. Nanotechnology, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things are all developing manufacturing processes and serving manufacturers save costs and increase their products' quality. Once manufacturers have experienced the game-changing benefits of technology, absolutely no way back. Their appetite for innovation and simplification grows every year, making them realign their businesses to ensure they take advantage of the latest disruptive technologies. Below you can find some of the most significant benefits that technology brings to the manufacturing industry:
 
1. Energy efficiency – the most significant costs a factory has are coming from energy expenditure. Coming to be more energy efficient is the dream of any manufacturer. Technology makes it possible by helping businesses determine where they are losing power and developing solutions to fix those problems.
 
2. Predictive maintenance – Internet of Things is the answer for manufacturers hunting for solutions to complete maintenance proactively. The IoT sends real-time data and helps manufacturers schedule maintenance at the right time. In this way, waste coming from manufacturing is tremendously decreased.
 
3. Improved product quality – each manufacturer is continuously on the lookout for methods to enhance their products’ quality. Technology can restrict any small errors which can then affect the quality of the products. Smart machines send instantaneous signals whenever something goes wrong and in this way help manufacturing businesses keep their reputation and deliver products that meet the customers’ demands.
 
4. Downtime to zero – thanks to technology and its capacity to prevent any malfunctions, downtime is reduced notably. We all know that downtime has a lot of costs, among which the lost cost of opportunity is the greatest. Because of this, technology can help minimize any situation that may cause delays in production and lower product quality.
 
5. Informed decisions - when using technology, there'll be no single moment when managers do not consider what their machines and people are doing. As a result, based on the data received, they can switch from a reactive approach to a more proactive one. For that reason, they are able to make more informed decisions and react immediately whenever an event happens.
 
Future of Manufacturing Technologies in 2019
 
“In 2019, manufacturers will likely need to deal with the higher customer demand for personalization, faster completion, and maximum transparency. For this reason, businesses will need to integrate their processes and choose more cost-effective solutions which will help them become more efficient and productive,” says Cory Neal, COO of The Word Point.
 
1. Smart machines
 
Manufacturers are concerned not only about creating personalized products to satisfy demand, but likewise having competitive prices. For that reason, each element from the production stream matters and influences their production costs. To survive in this competitive world and attract more customers, manufacturers are shifting to a product development approach depending more on software and technology. Thus, manufacturers will cut their production costs and can use the technology during various production shifts.
 
2. Real-time monitoring through smart technologies
 
Studies show that 81 percent of manufacturers are changing or will switch to real-time monitoring as they consider that it helps their business. Real-time tracking is taking a lot of benefits to the manufacturing of today. It increases scheduling accuracy as well as creating better levels of inventory control. In addition, real-time monitoring helps manufacturers improve their production plan performance. The future looks bright for real-time monitoring as it will help manufacturing businesses a lot in making inventory reconciliation more efficient. It will likewise improve the accuracy for tracking various measures and simplify reporting processes.
 
3. Evolving workforce
 
2019 is taking a new and unique generation which is enthusiastically entering the workforce. Their expectations are high, and so are their demands. Additionally, working for a manufacturing business is not on their priorities list. So, manufacturers will have to cope with a skills gap in 2019. It might be complicated for them to convince the new generation to take a position in their company and fill their “thirst” of innovation and growth. Manufacturers will have to find exciting ways to attract young and tech-savvy workers for a career in manufacturing. On the other hand, as recruiting new employees is demanding, business owners should also switch their attention to the existing employees as well. For example, they can retrain old employees and keep them informed about the latest technology updates introduced in the production flow. This is how you show recognition to experienced employees and make them loyal to the business many years from now. Furthermore, foreign labor can also be a solution. International teams can be a brilliant catalyzer for existing employees as they can share their experiences and boost the confidence for the older workers.
 
4. Industrial robots
 
Technology evolution is starting to be too evident for small and medium manufacturing businesses to ignore it. Robots were created with excellent skills like increasing dexterity or machine vision. The ways a robot may be used are limitless. Then again, even though artificial intelligence is evolving a lot, humans are still important. Due to this fact, one of the challenges manufacturers will have to face in 2019 is in finding the right balance between robots and humans. Compared to industrial robots, 2019 is going to be the year which brings collaborative robots in the manufacturing world. They should be seen as an extra pair of hands, increasing the capabilities of existing workers and reaching zero errors in the manufacturing process. We are experiencing the robot revolution, and we should take maximum advantage of it. Collaborative robots can be programmed via hardware and software to do an amazingly high and diverse number of jobs. Manufacturing can finally rely on a mix of human and robotic labor which will increase productivity and ROI.
 
5. Analytics and business intelligence
 
There’s no surprise that analytics and business intelligence will continue to infiltrate the manufacturing industry. 2019 is going to be the year that is likely to cement their importance for manufacturing, helping businesses multiply their production capacity and create a better resource planning. Thanks to business intelligence, manufacturing businesses can easily anticipate problem areas and collect relevant data for business growth. Moreover, analytics and business intelligence provide more accurate financial visibility into shop floor production.
 
Manufacturing business owners are repeatedly searching for methods of staying ahead of the competition and expanding the list of clients. Technology plays a critical role, as it helps them remain efficient and meet their customers' demands. In addition, thanks to technology breakthroughs they are able to minimize costs and improve their profitability. As we already showed above, 2019 is going to be an interesting year, coming with different trends which will help manufacturers keep their clients happy and excited.
 
This article is originally posted on tronserve.com

We Should Still Care About Data Breaches

Jun 13, 2019
We Should Still Care About Data Breaches
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It appears as if every day in the news you hear about another data breach. Reported by a research published by IBM, an organization has a 27 percent risk of suffering a breach of at least 1,000 records. There are thousands of data breaches in the past a couple of years that now it looks like commonplace.
 
“According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, there have been 9,033 data breaches made public since 2005—and those are just breaches that were reported in the U.S. or impacted U.S. consumers. Spread out over the last 14 years, that averages out to about 1.77 breaches daily. All told, there were not less than 11.6 billion records lost in those breaches.”
 
Many experts today believe that consumers are now suffering from 'data breach fatigue.' Instead of being outraged, consumers either feel despondent or apathetic — typically choosing to not mention it with their friends or family. If pressed, most consumers will say that they care; however, a newly released study by the Ponemon Institute found that 32 percent of data breach victims took no action to secure their data after a breach, and 55 percent took no action to guard against identity theft. It’s obvious that our actions do not match our words with regards to data breaches.
 
Given the relative apathy of consumers and the likelihood that all organizations will gradually become the victim of a breach, it’s inevitable that businesses will choose to not dedicate an adequate amount of resources toward their cybersecurity programs. However, becoming the victim of a cybersecurity incident oftentimes results in the company having to pay substantial direct and indirect costs.
 
Costs to Consumers and Businesses
 
The costs of a crucial data breach in the United States is astonishing. As stated by the research published by IBM, the average cost of a breached record for a U.S. company was an incredible $233, and the average total cost of a data breach in the United States was about $8 million. These costs were demonstrated to an extraordinary degree in the 2017 Equifax breach of approximately 143 million records. Since that time, reports indicate that Equifax has paid a total of $439 million in costs, which include security upgrades, credit monitoring services, legal fees, as well as fines and settlements from scores of lawsuits.
 
Not simply do organizations pay an exorbitant amount of direct costs as the result of a breach, sadly cybersecurity incidents can also affect an organization’s bottom line through indirect costs. Before it was unveiled that Yahoo! suffered a mega-breach of approximately 500 million accounts in 2013 and 2014, Yahoo! was set to be purchased by Verizon for about $4.8 billion. After the breach, Verizon purchased Yahoo! for approximately $4.48 billion. This breach, which did not include sensitive information such as payment card or bank information, cost Yahoo! $350 million. Even worse, this amount did not include spendings connected to legal fees, fines, breach notifications, and various corrective actions. Given the astronomical costs of a data breach, it’s important to discuss some quick action items that companies can take to help them guard against such incidents.
 
Effective Strategies for Preventing Breaches
 
What is the answer to defend your customers’ information? While the answer is always going to be “adopt a best-practices information security program such what is stated in the NIST 800-53 framework,” there are some immediate action items that can be started to decrease against the risk of being the victim of a material breach.
 
First, nearly 25 percent of data breaches are the result of well-meaning employee mistakes such a falling for a phishing scheme or inadvertently disclosing sensitive data. To guard against these mistakes, organizations should provide basic security awareness training to information system users, including managers, senior executives, and contractors as part of initial onboarding training. Companies will need to provide this training within 60 days of onboarding. The organization’s workforce members should also be provided with refresher training on an annual basis.
 
Second, organizations should be certain that their patching practices are up to speed. Within the past couple of years, reports have demonstrated that substandard patching of information systems have been one of several causes of data breaches. For new systems, the organization should ensure that the latest patches are installed on the systems so that those systems conform to the organization’s hardened system configuration. For those systems that are considered crucial, organizations should patch those systems within one month of that particular patch’s release.
 
Lastly, it is vital to be familiar with who is doing what within the information system. Companies should ensure that an audit logging mechanism is running on the information system and also that the mechanism cannot be disabled by users. This audit logging solution should log, among other things, all user enter to the sensitive information environment as well as invalid access attempts. The logging mechanism should recognize the user and record the type of event that was performed as well identify the affected data, component or resource. Logs have got to be reviewed regularly, and when suspicious activity is found, the organization should address the incident according to the organization’s incident response policy. Many incidents go on for months or years as a result of administrators not actively monitoring the system activity on a daily basis. By monitoring the system activity, companies can greatly lessen the severity of the incident should it occur.
 
While cybersecurity incidents are actually commonplace in today’s information security landscape, the costs incurred by companies that have been breached have demonstrated the need for continued cybersecurity vigilance. By training their workforce, patching their systems, and monitoring the activity that takes place on the information system, companies can help to eliminate the risk of an incident as well as lessen the severity should one occur.
 
This article is originally posted on tronserve.com

U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Slow in April

Jun 13, 2019
U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Slow in April
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U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $344.6 million in April 2019, the lowest April reading since 2016 when orders totaled $293.2 million. April 2019 orders turned down 16.5 percent from March 2019 and were down 17.6 percent from April 2018, as mentioned in the latest U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology. Orders totaled $1.48 billion in the first third of 2019, 11.6 percent short of this point in 2018.  
 
“Competition in the manufacturing technology market for 'standard' products continues to grow in intensity in relation to the positive progress seen in engineered solutions,” says AMT's president Douglas K. Woods. “Our members are telling us that the ready availability of products has eliminated the importance for customers to invest in capital equipment now, while trade challenges raise grave worries about the persistent strength of the manufacturing sector in the near future.” 
 
The final downward trend in orders was seen across most industries tracked, however , there were countless notable exceptions.  The aerospace sector progressed by modest single digits, while the auto industry increased by more than 30 percent over March levels.  The strength of two of the largest manufacturing technology consuming industries hasn't been enough to offset declines in both the contract machining sector and the engines and turbines industry. Orders from the agricultural implement manufacturing industry were in decline since February 2019, which various analysts attribute to the current tariffs on agricultural goods. 
 
The Southeast region had the largest month-to-month slump of the six regions included in the report, where orders fell by over 25 percent from their March 2019 levels, but year-to-date levels for metal cutting equipment were nonetheless 13 percent above the first four months of 2018. The only region to show growth from March levels was North Central-West, where slight drops in orders for metal cutting equipment were offset by robust growth in forming and fabricating equipment orders.  
 
The May 2019 ISM Manufacturing Report On Business logged a PMI of 52.1 percent. This decline of 0.7 percentage points from April 2019 implies that the manufacturing sector is still in an expansionary phase, albeit at the slowest pace since October 2016 when the index sat at 51.7 percent. Light vehicle sales climbed above the 17 million annual adjusted rate for the second time this year which can be encouraging.  Capacity utilization at a decline for the fourth straight month to 76.1 percent in April 2019, off the post-recession high observed in December 2018. Consumer confidence rose to 100 percent in May 2019, up 2.9 percentage points from April 2019 and 2 percentage points from May 2018. Regardless of this favorable reading, the University of Michigan informed of eroding confidence to come as 35 percent of participants unfavorably mentioned tariffs in the last two weeks of May compared to 16 percent in the first half and 15 percent in all of April. 
 
This article is originally posted on tronserve.com

Create New Opportunities With Single-Phase Power

Jun 13, 2019
Create New Opportunities With Single-Phase Power
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The Drives & Motion Division of Yaskawa America, Inc. stretches the Single Phase Converter (SPC) product line up to 125 HP at 460V and 60 HP at 230V. 
 
The SPC converts single-phase power to DC power for use by Yaskawa variable frequency drives. The SPC is the solution to the biggest hassles facing business owners that power medium-sized motors in rural areas. They can be faced with high costs to run three-phase power, limited single-phase motor options, and a number of quality issues.
 
Empowering rural applications like for example agriculture, lumber mills, oil & gas, and pumping to utilize three-phase variable speed control offers a host of new possibilities to their businesses. Three-phase motors are typically more powerful than their single-phase counterparts and more readily available. Adding variable speed control of three-phase motors offers a host of advantages:  improved process control and quality, minimized energy consumption, and reduced maintenance.
 
The Single Phase Converter’s active power regulator insures minimal stress on the power grid, boasting less than 10 percent current distortion and 0.99 power factor at rated load.  Combining a low harmonic solution with a soft starting variable frequency drive generally helps the opportunity to downsize transformers and decrease installation costs. The SPC utilizes the same components found in a variable frequency drive, which greatly reduces maintenance time and expenses. 
 
Jason Wellnitz, product manager for Yaskawa’s Single Phase Converter and pump drives, stated, “We are proud to continue with Yaskawa’s history of introducing innovative products to motor control applications. We listened to our customers and hope we delivered on their needs.” The SPC is available in 230 VAC models from 20 to 60 HP and 460 VAC models from 30 to 125 HP.
 
To learn more about the Single Phase Converter, visit the product page on yaskawa.com or contact your local Yaskawa representative.
 
This article is originally posted on tronserve.com

Robotic Animal Agility

Jun 13, 2019
Robotic Animal Agility
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An off-shore wind power platform, somewhere in the North Sea, on a freezing cold night, with howling winds and waves crashing against the amazing structure. An imperturbable ANYmal is quietly conducting its inspection.
 
ANYmal, a medium sized dog-like quadruped robot, walks down the stairs, lifts a “paw” to open doors or to call the elevator and trots along corridors. Darkness is no problem: it knows the place great, having 3D-mapped it. Its laser sensors keep it aware about its appropriate path, location and potential obstacles. It holds its inspection across a few rooms. Its cameras zoom in on counters, recording the measurements displayed. Its thermal sensors record the temperature of machines and equipment and its ultrasound microphone inspections for potential gas leaks. The robot also inspects lever positions as well as the proper positioning of regulatory fire extinguishers. As the electronic buzz of its engines resumes, it holds on working tirelessly. After a little over two hours of inspection, the robot returns to its docking station for re charging. It will soon head back out to conduct its next solitary patrol. ANYmal played alongside Mulder and Scully in the “X-Files” TV series*, but it is in no way a Hollywood robot. It truly exists and surveillance missions are part of its very near future. This quadruped robot was created by ANYbotics, a spinoff of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). Made of carbon fibre and aluminium, it weighs about thirty kilos. It is fully ruggedised, water- and dust-proof (IP-67). A kevlar belly protects its main body, carrying its powerful brain, batteries, network device, power management system and navigational systems.
 
ANYmal was manufactured for all types of terrain, including rubble, sand or snow. It has been field tested on industrial sites and is at ease with new barriers to overcome (and it can even get up after a fall). Dependant on its mission, its batteries endure 2 to 4 hours. On its jointed legs, protected by rubber pads, it can walk (at the speed of human steps), trot, climb, curl upon itself to crawl, carry a load or even jump and dance. It is the need to move on all surfaces that has powered its manufacturers to choose a quadruped. “Biped robots are not easy to stabilise, especially on irregular terrain” explains Dr Péter Fankhauser, co-founder and chief business development officer of ANYbotics. “Wheeled or tracked robots can carry heavy loads, but they are bulky and less agile. Flying drones are highly mobile, but cannot carry load, handle objects or operate in bad weather conditions. We believe that quadrupeds combine the optimal characteristics, both in terms of mobility and versatility.” What served as a source of inspiration for the team behind the projecoject, t, the Robotic Systems Lab of the ETH Zurich, is a champion of agility on rugged terrain: the mountain goat. “We are of course still a long way” says Fankhauser. “However, it keeps our objective on the longer term. The first prototype, ALoF, was designed already back in 2009. It was still rather slow, very rigid and clumsy – more of a proof of principle than a robot eager for application. In 2012, StarlETH, fitted with spring joints, could hop, jump and climb. It was with this robot that the team started participating in 2014 in ARGOS, a full-scale challenge, launched by the Total oil group. The idea was to present a robot capable of inspecting an off-shore drilling station autonomously.
 
Up against dozens of competitors, the ETH Zurich team was the only team to participate the competition with such a quadrupedal robot. They didn’t win, but the multiple field tests were growing evermore persuasive. Especially because, during the challenge, the team created new joints with elastic actuators made in-house. These joints, encouraged by tendons and muscles, are lightweight, sealed and include their own custom control electronics. They can regulate joint torque, position and impedance directly. Thanks to this invention, the team could enter the same competition with a new version of its robot, ANYmal, fitted with three joints on each leg. The ARGOS experience confirms the relevance of the selected means of locomotion. “Our robot is lighter, takes up less space on site and it is less noisy” says Fankhauser. “It also overcomes bigger obstacles than larger wheeled or tracked robots!” As ANYmal generated public interest and its transformation into a genuine product appeared more than possible, the startup ANYbotics was created in 2016. It sold not only its robot, but also its innovative joints, called ANYdrive.
 
Today, ANYmal is not yet eager for sale to companies. However, ANYbotics has a growing number of partnerships with several industries, testing the robot for a few days or several weeks, for all types of tasks. Last October, for example, ANYmal navigated its way through the dark sewage system of the city of Zurich in order to test its capacity to help workers in similar difficult, repetitive and even hazardous tasks. Why such an early interest among companies? “Because many companies want to integrate robots into their maintenance tasks” answers Fankhauser. “With ANYmal, they can actually examine its feasibility and plan their approach. Eventually, both the architecture and the equipment of buildings could be rethought to be used to these maintenance robots”. Through field demonstrations and testing, ANYbotics can collect masses of information (up to 50,000 measurements are registered every second during each test!) “It helps us to shape the product.” In due time, the startup will be eager to deliver a commercial product which really caters for companies’ needs.
 
Inspection and surveillance tasks on commercial sites are not the only applications considered. The startup is also thinking of agricultural inspections – with its onboard sensors, ANYmal is capable of mapping its environment, measuring bio mass and even taking soil samples. In the longer term, it could also be applied for search and rescue operations. By the way, the robot can already be turned to “remote control” mode at any time and can be easily tele-operated. It is also competent of live audio and video transmission.
 
The transition from the prototype to the marketed product stage will entail a number of further developments. These come with increasing ANYmal’s agility and speed, expanding its limit to map large-scale environments, improving safety, security, user handling and integrating the system with the customer’s data management software. It will also be required to enhance the robot’s reliability “so that it can work for days, weeks, or even months without human supervision.” All required certifications will have to be gained. The locomotion system, which had created the whole business, is only one of a number of considerations of ANYbotics.
 
The beginning is not all alone. In fact, it has sold ANYmal robots to a dozen major universities who use them to formulate their know-how in robotics. The startup has also launched ANYmal Research, a community including members such as Toyota Research Institute, the German Aerospace Center and the computer company Nvidia. Members have full access to ANYmal’s control software, simulations and documentation. Sharing has increased both software and hardware ideas and developments (built on ROS, the open-source Robot Operating System). In particular, payload variations, providing for expandability and scalability. For instance, one of the universities uses a robotic arm which grants ANYmal to grasp or handle objects and open doors. Among possible applications, ANYbotics mentions activity. It is not only about playing in more films or TV series, but rather about participating in various attractions (trade shows, museums, etc.). “ANYmal is so novel that it attracts a great amount of interest” confirms Fankhauser with a smile. “Whenever we found it somewhere, people gather around.” Videos of these events show a fascinated and sometimes slightly fearful audience, when ANYmal gets too close to them. Is it fear of the “bad robot”? “This fear exists indeed and we are happy to be able to use ANYmal also to promote public awareness towards robotics and robots.” Reminiscent of a young dog, ANYmal is truly adapted for the purpose.
 
However, Péter Fankhauser softens the image of humans and advanced robots living together. “These coming years, robots will continue to work in the background, like they have for a long time in factories. Then, they will be used in public places in a selective and targeted way, for instance for dangerous missions. We will need to wait another ten years before animal-like robots, such as ANYmal will share our everyday lives!” At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January, Continental, the German automotive manufacturing company, used robots to demonstrate a last-mile delivery. It showed ANYmal getting out of an autonomous vehicle with a parcel, climbing onto the front porch, lifting a paw to ring the doorbell, depositing the parcel before getting back into the vehicle. This futuristic image seems very close indeed.
 



This article is originally posted on Tronserve.com

INOVANCE INVERTER DRIVE REPAIR SERVICE MALAYSIA SINGAPORE THAILAND INDONESIA

Jun 13, 2019
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Jun 13, 2019
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In Aaron Johnson’s “Robot Design & Experimentation” class at CMU, teams of students have a semester to layout and build an experimental robotic system based on a theme. For spring 2019, that theme was “Bioinspired Robotics,” which is definitely one of our favorite kinds of robotics—animals can do all forms of crazy things, and it’s always a lot of fun watching robots try to match them. They pretty never succeed, of course, but even basic imitation can lead to robots with some unique capabilities.
 
One of the projects from this year’s course, from Team ScienceParrot, is a new version of RHex called T-RHex (pronounced T-Rex, like the dinosaur). T-RHex comes with a tail, but more importantly, it has tiny tapered toes, which help it grip onto rough surfaces like bricks, wood, and concrete. It’s able to climb its way up very steep slopes, and hang from them, relying on its toes to keep itself from falling off.
 
T-RHex’s toes are called microspines, and we’ve seen them in all kinds of robots. The most famous of these is definitely JPL’s LEMUR IIB (which wins on sheer microspine volume), although the concept goes back at least 15 years to Stanford’s SpinyBot. Robots that use microspines to climb tend to be fairly methodical at it, since the microspines have to be involved and disengaged with care, limiting their non-climbing mobility. T-RHex manages to perform many of the same sorts of climbing and hanging maneuvers without losing RHex’s ability for quick, efficient wheel-leg (wheg) locomotion.
 
If you look directly at T-RHex walking in the video, you’ll notice that in its standard forward gait, it’s sort of walking on its ankles, rather than its toes. This means that the microspines aren’t engaged most of the time, so that the robot can use its regular wheg motion to get around. To engage the microspines, the robot moves its whegs backwards, meaning that its tail is perhaps coming out of its go. But since all of T-RHex’s potential is automated in nature and it has no active sensors, it doesn’t really need a head, so that’s fine.
 
The highest climbable pitch that T-RHex could take care of was 55 degrees, meaning that it can’t, yet, overcome vertical walls. The researchers were most shocked by the robot’s potential to cling to surfaces, where it was perfectly happy to hang out on a slope of 135 degrees, which is a 45 degree overhang (!). I have no idea how it would ever reach that kind of position on its own, but it’s nice to know that if it ever does, its spines will keep doing their job.



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Optimizing the Precision Blending of Nutraceuticals

Jun 13, 2019
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Nutraceuticals can involve a wide variety of health-related products including vitamins, supplements, mineral blends, and even various foods like energy bars. Many of these formulations entail the fine blending of as many as 40-50 components, including powders and trace elements.
 
While nutraceuticals are not strictly regulated like pharmaceuticals, the products still must substantiate any label claims, and a number are essentially tested in clinical studies like medicines.
 
'Whenever a nutraceutical makes a label claim, like specific RDA or FDA allowances, vitamin percentages, or active factors, it has to meet those criteria,' says George Paffendorf, Director of Operations at Advanced Powder Solutions (APS), a company that skilled in developing and optimizing the blending of powders for various industries. APS is the in-house testing/engineering arm of GEMCO, a manufacturer of tumble blending and vacuum tumble drying equipment with technical, nutraceutical expertise.
 
As an example, APS improved to blend the various components for an energy bar (nuts, raisins, dried banana, flaked coconut etc.), which were calculated to meet a minimum daily criteria for vitamins and minerals. 'The blends had to be precise enough to meet the label's nutritional claims,' says Paffendorf.
 
Furthermore, nutraceutical products must not only avoid doing harm, but also extremely confirm any claims or benefits. 'The industry often likes to demonstrate the benefit of certain nutraceutical components in clinical studies, which have to be managed just like pharmaceuticals,' adds Paffendorf.
 
One industry test is that the blending of solid ingredients is easier and more uniform if the ingredients are approximately the same size. However, it is more difficult to create precise blends with trace ingredients (<1%) that are immensely dissimilar in size and density. In some cases, this might demand doing multiple key blends in a time-consuming and costly process.
 
Fortunately, with tumble blending equipment that is built to meet the demands of the application, the procedure can be refined to rapidly produce a more precise, homogenous blend containing all required components and trace elements in the specified amounts. Such blending can not only eliminate the need for key blends, but also produce a better distribution of active ingredients.
 
The Limitations of Traditional Mixing Equipment
Traditional products such as plow, ribbon, and paddle mixers, which use blades or paddles to push material, are limited to moving the material within the confines of their active area. The mechanics force the material bed outward, leaving dead spots inside the vessel where material moves more slowly or remains stationary. A stationary port at the bottom of such machines further isolates the material.
 
Another issue lies in the positioning of the intensifier bars, which should ideally be located in the mixing zone, where every particle passes through. Many times, however, traditional mixers position intensifier bars in dead zones, resulting in material not being fluidized properly and active ingredients getting incorporated throughout the batch.
 
Traditional mixers also waste expensive additives. Because additives initially contact only a very small portion of material in the vessel, they get quickly absorbed into the material bed, so more additives are usually required to achieve the desired mix concentration, which increases cost.
 
The Benefits of Tumble Blending and Vacuum Tumble Drying
To address the deficiencies of conventional mixers, a growing number of nutraceutical manufacturers utilize tumble blending. As a low-impact processing technique for handling sensitive or abrasive solids, tumble blending is frequently used to produce precise nutraceutical blends that hold trace ingredients (<1%) that are vastly dissimilar in size and density.
 
In contrast to traditional blending, to remove dead spots, tumble blenders apply even turbulence in all corners of the mix through a combination of macro and micro blending. This can eliminate the need for key blends and generate a better distribution of active ingredients.
 
Macro blending is achieved by rotating the shaped vessel, allowing the material bed to fall away from the vessel's walls. Tumble blender vessel shapes are engineered to create a repeatable pattern in which the entire bulk material moves to form a homogenous mixture. The blender moves at a precise speed, with the vessel wall at a precise angle, so that the material cascades over itself. There is no additional force from paddles, plows, or spiral ribbons - just gravity.
 
While this occurs, micro mixing (if needed) concurrently proceeds via agitator blades located in the mixing zone center of the vessel, where fine processing in the material transpires. This allows for a gentle repeatable pattern that maintains a excellent blending design while preserving the product's physical characteristics. Together, the macro and micro mixing evenly present each particle to six times more active blending per revolution than traditional mixers.
 
As an example, when APS worked with a large nutraceutical manufacturer in Nevada with an about 40 component blend, the company was not applying an agitator and had a laborious, overly complex blend process.
 
'To make about 1,000 kilos of product a few times a year involved 6 or 7 individual steps with key combinations that had to be lab tested after each step to reach a final blend with the necessary traceability, materials and active components,' says Paffendorf.
 
Through onsite analysis of the manufacturer's strategy, incorporating examination of the physical characteristics of the powders used, APS determined that all of the components could be mixed in one step. This involved both macro and micro mixing using a GEMCO tumble blender with an agitator to complete the process in a fraction of the time without key blends or excessive lab testing.
 
'If you turn on the tumble blender agitator, it can fluidize the overall bed of material and you get great product distribution because it helps to spread it out through the micro-mixing zone.'
 
'According to the customer, the new strategy using a tumble blender with an agitator saves them about $875,000 a year by eliminating the need for key blends and all the intermediate testing,' says Paffendorf.
 
Douglas Van Pelt, a past part owner of a nutraceutical company, has also enhanced from tumble blending. Van Pelt, who is now Senior Director of Operations at Sigmapharm Laboratories LLC, a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company based in Bensalem, PA that develops, manufactures and markets generic and branded ucts, had successfully used tumble blenders at a previous company and trusted their capabilities.
 
'At my earlier employer, I made a product that had a narrow therapeutic range using a 30 cubic foot tumble blender by GEMCO,' says Van Pelt, who notes that blend uniformity specification was a very stringent 95.0% to 105.0%, not a typical 90.0% to 110.0%. 'The potency was 0.125 milligrams inside a 125-milligram tablet, and we were able to achieve blend uniformity in 15 minutes, with good repeatable results every time.'
 
According to Van Pelt, Sigmapharm has successfully implemented a 30 cubic foot V blender and a one cubic foot slant cone blender from the tumble blender manufacturer.
 
'Over decades, GEMCO has basically perfected tumble bblendinglending,' says Van Pelt. 'They engineered the precise angles and speed of revolution needed to achieve proper blending inside the vessel and can adapt this based on product requirements.'
 
With the preciseness of the technology, a V-shape tumble blender is capable of achieving a standard deviation of less than 2%, and a slant cone configuration can achieve a standard deviation as low as 0.33%.
 
In the nutraceutical field, loading can be accomplished via drum loading. This includes a
exclusive dust-free, Gemcomatic loading option, where the tumble blender rotates until the drum inverts and the discharge valve opens, permitting the contents to flow into the blender. The valve then shuts automatically and the emptied drum returns to the loading position. The latest version allows for a pre-programmed discharge sequence.
 
Older systems may still utilize kitted materials, with various components pre-weighted in bags on a pallet that must be put into nutraceutical batches.
 
In addition to tumble blending, a growing number of nutraceutical manufacturers are finding that vacuum tumble drying equipment offers important advantages as well.
 
Wet nutraceuticals can be a problem, particularly when sugars or starches combine with water and conglomerate, making the product sticky and particle flow difficult.
As a solution, advanced vacuum tumble drying equipment can resolve such issues.
While typical tray drying relies solely on heat, vacuum tumble drying equipment like GEMCO's utilize gas purging in addition to heat application as the materials rotate inside the vessel, which can speed drying and reduce cost.
 
 



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Maximize Performance and Minimize Downtime of Pneumatic Systems

Jun 12, 2019
Maximize Performance and Minimize Downtime of Pneumatic Systems
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With the ever-rising complexity of modern pneumatic components, it becomes critical to be aware of what to look for and what is best suited to your system. Choosing and maintaining system components effectively, right through from compressors to workstations, can help save the expense of improvised downtime or costly rebuilds. However, a few wrong choices can lead to everything from wasted energy to system failures. To prevent these pitfalls, here are some simple steps to take when looking to maximise the performance of your company’s all-important pneumatic components.
 
Preventive and Predictive Maintenance
 
Similar to carrying out maintenance tests and oil changes on a vehicle, pneumatic systems also involve typical upkeep to prevent more serious issues down the line. In compressed air systems, it is vital to make certain that lubricators are not left to run dry; filters are cleaned; and all contaminants such as rust, metal shavings, water, and unwanted oils are removed.
 
Predictive maintenance is approximately being proactive, rather than reactive, to avoid component failures, and it is often the work of sensors (available for almost every factory component) that alert you to potential problems. A flow sensor that fits in-line with a Filter Regulator Lubricator (FRL) unit are able to determine blocked filters, while continuous position sensors can be an indicator over time to the wear to which cylinders are exposed.
Compliance and Safety
 
Making sure that a system is compliant with current standards is also important to refrain costly downtime and equipment overhaul. The newly-updated standard known as DIN ISO 8573-1 governs filtration levels. Defined down to the micrometer, it identifies the solids, water and oil that should be split up out to maintain a well-functioning system.
 
Very similar to checking system compliance, undertaking a risk assessment and consulting an administrative body that serves those involved in workplace health and safety are vital procedures to help decrease the risk of workplace injuries. Bringing in light curtains, interlocks, machine guarding or safety exhaust products to block or prevent hazards can be impactful measures in this regard.
Specification and Integration
 
From the start of the specification process, selection of accurately sized equipment saves money and valuable energy, which oversizing wastes. As alternatives to oversizing and waste, look at implementing pressure boosters that allow the flow from a compressor to the largest workpiece, and pneumatic zoning on manifolds that can be used to mix pressures. The simple step of locking regulators prevents workers from adjusting a system’s overall pressure to supply more air to individual workstations which eventually could damage a sealing system, waste energy, or even cause physical harm.
 
Updates in terms of the connectivity of the factory floor are worth considering as well. Low-cost Ethernet connections are more regularly replacing hardwired solutions and associated trunks of cables to provide network-based connectivity across a facility. IO-Link connectivity, to run field-level devices back to the IO-Link master, provides further opportunity for savings in time, wiring, component cost and troubleshooting. On top of that, many of today’s advanced network nodes are able to supply prognostic data for predictive maintenance and in-built sensors to check for shorts, over current, cycle counting, thermal management, among other things.
 
This article is originally posted on tronserve.com

Foxconn Fails to Reach Hiring Goals in Wisconsin Development Deal

Jun 12, 2019
Foxconn Fails to Reach Hiring Goals in Wisconsin Development Deal
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Foxconn has missed major hiring objectives in its Wisconsin projects, which may slow or even stop the closely-watched deal, as mentioned in a report from The Verge.
 
Foxconn’s proposed projects in Wisconsin have encountered setbacks from the beginning. Criticized as a political push by outgoing governor Scott Walker, it now comes to Governor Tony Evers to watch the effects of the $4.5 billion in subsidies.
 
The corporation missed its required target to hire 260 people by the end of 2018. In line with Foxconn’s own year-end report, they appoint 178 people, while a filing with the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation at the end of 2018 showed 158 employees on the books. An investigative piece from The Verge in April have found many Foxconn-owned offices and lots standing unused.
 
The agreement said that Foxconn required to employ at least 260 people to receive subsidies of $219,000 per job. The company promised 13,000 jobs at the end of the project. To help receive subsidies at the end of 2019, Foxconn needs to have 520 staff members, with the target numbers rising from there. With employing slow, it doesn’t look likely the Taiwanese tech magnate will hit that goal.  
 
Most of the money reserved for the project are already spent, with taxpayers supporting the buying of land and the creation of infrastructure for new corporate environments. Foxconn could also still see some subsidies from investing in those buildings and equipment, even if it does not hire another person.
 
Evers has been generally opposed to the Foxconn plan, as well as to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., an economic development agency created in 2011. His administration did not respond when asked by The Verge whether they would consider a renegotiation of the deal.
 
Foxconn’s first deal planned for the creation of a LCD fabrication facility and several “innovation centers.” A search for Foxconn jobs in Milwaukee, Wis. and the surrounding area shows openings for a product manager, equipment technician, manufacturing engineer, and others.
 
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Facebook Is Building a Massive Solar Project in Texas

Jun 12, 2019
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Facebook is setting up an enormous solar farm in West Texas that's regarded as among the list of largest solar projects in the nation and the social media giant's first direct investment in renewable energy.
 
Boston-based renewable energy developer Longroad Energy newly reported it was partnering with Facebook on the $416 million project, just as Facebook is finishing construction of a data center near Albuquerque.
 
The Prospero Solar project just north of Odessa, Texas, may have a capacity of 379 megawatts, that will be a sufficient amount to power around 72,000 homes based on the national average, the Solar Energy Industries Association said.
 
The project goes beyond Facebook's intent to use renewable energy to power its data centers, where the social media giant holds photos, videos and other information that people post on the platform.
 
Prospero Solar is predicted to be finished next year and will take up around 7 square miles (18 square kilometers) — more than five times the size of Central Park in New York City. Menlo Park, California-based Facebook will be the only tax equity investor, Longroad said.
 
Ben Inskeep, a research analyst for EQ Research, a North Carolina-based renewable energy consulting firm, said it is a good idea for Facebook to invest in solar power considering the fact that renewable energy has started to become more affordable and its data centers have huge operating costs.
 
'West Texas has some of the best solar resources in the nation,' Inskeep said. 'So it's not about saying you support renewable energy. It makes good business sense.' Shell Energy North America and Facebook will share the power generated by the solar farm. 'Facebook is excited to be one of the first companies to use a direct investment to meet our renewable energy goals,' company energy strategy manager Peter Freed said in a statement.
 
CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared in April that Facebook was developing six new solar projects to support its data centers. They house tens of thousands of computer servers, which are connected with the outside world through fiber-optic cables.
 
'Our data centers are already some of the most energy efficient in the world, and last year we set a goal for all our data centers and offices to use 100% renewable energy by 2020,' Zuckerberg wrote on his personal Facebook page. 'These new solar projects will help us reach that goal.'
 
It comes as Facebook battles New Mexico regulators over a new transmission line to its data center in the small town of Los Lunas.
 
State regulators last month denied to reassess their decision for the largest utility to bill Facebook $39 million for the transmission line. They said ratepayers could not be charged for the project because the line wouldn't benefit retail customers.
 
The Public Service Co. of New Mexico said it's discouraged by the decision and is reviewing options for how to proceed.
 
The New Mexico data center is one of seven such sites for Facebook, and includes six buildings for data storage. It is placed on a patch of desert at the edge of Los Lunas, which lies just beyond the edge of New Mexico's largest metropolitan area and along the Rio Grande.
 
Each of the data center's buildings is about the size of four football fields and has numerous 'data halls,' or darkened, vast rooms where Facebook plans to store dozens of rows of towering servers. Two of those halls are now in operation, while construction that began more than two years ago will continue until 2023, the company said.
 
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Consumers Would Pay More for Sustainable Products Designed to Be Reused or Recycled, Survey Finds

Jun 12, 2019
Consumers Would Pay More for Sustainable Products Designed to Be Reused or Recycled, Survey Finds
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Significantly more than half of consumers said they would pay additional for sustainable products designed to be reused or recycled, according to results of a survey from Accenture.  
 
The survey of 6,000 consumers in 11 countries across North America, Europe and Asia, outcomes of which were previewed at the American Chemistry Council (ACC) Annual Meeting today, revealed that while consumers remain primarily centered on quality and price, 83 percent believe it is necessary or excessively important for companies to make products that are intended as reused or recycled. Nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of respondents said they are currently buying more environmentally safe products compared with they were five years ago, and 81 percent said they assume to buy more over the next five years. 
 
“The shift in consumer buying, with more consumers willing to pay extra for environmentally friendly products, reinforces the need for companies to increase their commitments to responsible business practices,” said Jessica Long, a managing director in Accenture Strategy. “Companies across industries have started to lead with purpose, including embracing the circular economy as a greater opportunity to drive growth and competitive agility.” 
 
Unsurprisingly, quality and price led consumers’ considerations when making purchases, cited by 89 percent and 84 percent of participants, correspondingly, likened to 49 percent who cited health and safety factors and 37% who cited environmental impact. 
 
The analysis discoveries also imply that buyers believe that the chemical industry — which plays a crucial role in driving recycled and reusable technologies and materials — lacks concern about its environmental outcome. Mainly, one in four consumers (26 percent) said they believe that the chemical industry is the least concerned of nine industries involved in the survey regarding its impact on the environment.  
 
Consumers also scored chemical companies the lowest among industries for the reliability of communications regarding the environmental impact of their products and services, with 72 percent not too confident or not confident at all in these communications. 
 
“While some of the survey results are encouraging, there are also implications for chemical companies, including the need to overcome negative consumer sentiment and to produce sustainable materials at a competitive price,” replied Rachael Bartels, a senior managing director at Accenture who leads its chemicals and natural resources practice. “The chemical industry is a critical enabler to the circular economy and can speed up its adoption, and the reality is the industry must get in front of this now, or risk being left behind.”  
 
In other survey findings, plastics was identified to be the lowest environmentally friendly type of packaging, reported by more than three-fourths (77 percent) of customers, with paper products perceived to be the most environmentally friendly, cited by 55 percent of respondents.  
 
Working out these and other challenges could help chemical companies fuel growth. An example, the ACC forecasts that a circular economy for plastics could add 38,500 jobs and billions of dollars to the U.S. economy by expanding the use of pyrolysis and different advanced plastic recycling technologies. Chemical companies have an opportunity to catalyze and capture a significant share of the $4.5 trillion in opportunity presented by a move to a circular economy, in accordance with circular economy research from Accenture Strategy.  
 
This article is originally posted on tronserve.com

Heilind Electronics Expands with Han-Eco B series

Jun 12, 2019
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Heilind Electronics, a premier distributor of electronic elements and authorized global distributor for HARTING, is now stocking Han-Eco® B -- a new product series within HARTING's Han-Eco interconnect family.
 
Compared to its metal-case counterparts, the Han-Eco B series of connector hoods and housings gives an enhanced level of functionality to the industry-standard Han® B line. Advanced features consist of the option of rear mounting the internal cable harness to the connector housing mounted to a switch cabinet, simplifying the assembly process and allowing for manufacturing floor optimization with pre-assembled harnesses.
 
The high-performance thermoplastic of the Han-Eco B is resistant to corrosion and offers convenient assembly options. This series is entirely suitable with traditional inserts and modules -- including HARTING Han B industrial standard products -- in conjunction with the hinged frames from the Han-Modular® portfolio. Han-Eco B products are available in bulkhead, surface mount, cable-to-cable, side entry and top entry designs, along with cover options. This functional line is also obtainable in sizes 6B to 24B, with cable gland sizes ranging from M20 to M40.



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Heilind Electronics Expands with Han-Eco B series

Jun 12, 2019
Heilind Electronics Expands with Han-Eco B series
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Heilind Electronics, a premier distributor of electronic elements and authorized global distributor for HARTING, is now stocking Han-Eco® B -- a new product series within HARTING's Han-Eco interconnect family.
 
Compared to its metal-case counterparts, the Han-Eco B series of connector hoods and housings gives an enhanced level of functionality to the industry-standard Han® B line. Advanced features consist of the option of rear mounting the internal cable harness to the connector housing mounted to a switch cabinet, simplifying the assembly process and allowing for manufacturing floor optimization with pre-assembled harnesses.
 
The high-performance thermoplastic of the Han-Eco B is resistant to corrosion and offers convenient assembly options. This series is entirely suitable with traditional inserts and modules -- including HARTING Han B industrial standard products -- in conjunction with the hinged frames from the Han-Modular® portfolio. Han-Eco B products are available in bulkhead, surface mount, cable-to-cable, side entry and top entry designs, along with cover options. This functional line is also obtainable in sizes 6B to 24B, with cable gland sizes ranging from M20 to M40.



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Protolabs introduces Color Matching on Molded Parts

Jun 12, 2019
Protolabs introduces Color Matching on Molded Parts
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The new color-matching system helps the digital manufacturer to form plastic parts in nearly any color within days
 
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—June 11, 2019—Digital manufacturing leader, Protolabs (NYSE: PRLB) has launched an all-new color-matching system into its plastic injection molding service. PolyOne's PINPOINT Express Color and Dosing System, featuring 3M precision dispensing and dosing technologies, allows Protolabs to establish custom colors on site, drastically reducing the time it takes to mold short-run plastic parts in precise colors.
 
When a part design is set, customers can specify which Pantone number they require or simply give a sample part that can be scanned and color matched. Once a material is selected from 13 available resin combinations, PolyOne's PINPOINT system creates a liquid formula that is dispensed and mixed before moving to the injection molding press. The material is then fed through the doser and injection molded. The result is parts—in custom colors—in customers' hands within days versus weeks as it typically takes.
 
'These new color-matching capabilities are a wide leap for the manufacturing industry, one piled with benefits for our customers who are developing highly tailored products,' said Joel Matthews, global product manager at Protolabs. 'With development cycles shrinking to meet the market need for improved customization, this is yet another tool to help our customers accelerate product launches and streamline supply chains.'
 
Protolabs, which specializes in on-demand manufacturing, has also recently included new injection molding capabilities to further its position as a single-source supplier from prototyping to production. Along with custom color matching it has launched numerous secondary processes and finishing options to support true end-to-end manufacturing. These include pad printing and laser engraving, threaded inserts, mold texturing for Mold-Tech finishes, and part assembly.
 
'All of these new capabilities are things that our customers have wanted for a while, so we're excited to finally be able to offer it to them—while still delivering finished parts at industry-leading speeds,' said Matthews.
 
Customers seem to agree.
 
'Speed and flexibility—being able to deploy different manufacturing options—and a commitment to customer service, are the principal reasons we use Protolabs,' mentioned Andy Homyk, senior engineer at HemoSonics, a medtech firm that incorporated secondary processes to launch its new medical device in a fraction of the time traditional manufacturing would have taken.



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Heavy Duty HEPA Vacuum For 30 Gallon Drums

Jun 12, 2019
Heavy Duty HEPA Vacuum For 30 Gallon Drums
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EXAIR's new 30 Gallon Heavy Duty HEPA Vac is a powerful, HEPA quality, industrial vacuum cleaner. This smaller volume drum means that it will fit in smaller spaces and is suited well for less frequent or lower volume applications. The Heavy Duty HEPA Vac is prepared to move more material with less wear. It has been designed to filter contaminants to HEPA requirements in dusty environments needing consistent cleaning.
 
It is incredibly quiet at 82 dBA (half the noise of electric vacs), making it suitable for a wide variety of environments. An economical, easily maintained pre-filter stops larger particles, while the HEPA filter handles the smaller matter. All filters are proven for minimum 99.97% filtration at the 0.3 micron level to meet HEPA standards in strict accordance to IEST-RP-CC-007.
 
EXAIR's Industrial Housekeeping product line has wet or dry vacuums from 5 gallons up to 110 gallons of capacity. They are available to outfit your existing drum or can be obtained with the full drum assembly. Plastic or heavy duty aluminum vacuum tools are obtainable. All EXAIR vacuums are CE compliant and carry a 5 year 'Built to Last' warranty.



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