Additive Manufacturing Software For Metal Parts
Continuing coverage of additive manufacturing from last week’s Rapid + TCT show in Chicago, here is news from Roboze, a company specializing in extreme end-use metal replacement parts. The original additive process used polymer materials. Metals have been hard to...
Software Partner and 3D Printing Materials Bring Additive Manufacturing to the Factory Floor
While at Fabtech and Rapid + TCT last week, I stopped by the Stratasys booth. It’s another of the leading Additive Manufacturing (or 3D Printing) suppliers developing materials, machines, and software. Here are a few announcements from it. Expanded material options...
Additive Manufacturing—Machine, Materials, Software
Talking with the Blake Teipel, CEO of additive manufacturing developer Essentium, at Rapid + TCT last week, he emphasized the core of the company’s offerings—Machine, Materials, Software. I summarized the show last week. Following are details from the company’s press...
Universal Robots Showcases Innovative Applications at Fabtech 2021
My last post before absconding for vacation included an overview of Fabtech 2021—the first trade show I’ve visited in two years. Aside from the additive manufacturing area, the next most active area for me was collaborative robots. Much of the activity concerned...
Fabtech, My First Trade Fair In Person in Two Years
It is nice to be back. Like riding a bicycle, there was no relearning required getting back into the trade show routine. Only difference for me was I drove from home (now in the northwest Chicago suburbs) in a little over an hour rather than the 4-1/2 hours from...
Attend Trade Fairs In Person
Tomorrow I will drive to downtown Chicago, well to McCormick Place anyway, to attend Fabtech and Rapid--two SME trade fairs. We'll see how my muscle memory goes. Speaking of trade fairs in person, I've sat on this news release from IMTS for a few weeks due to too much...
SPDX Becomes Internationally Recognized Standard for Software Bill of Materials
The idea of a software bill of materials seems to be gaining traction. The Linux Foundation has had a group working on a standard. This news details the success of the effort. The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open...
Fast Track Transition to All Electric Mines
Mining is not my forte, but it is for ABB. The company has sent several updates to it mining process automation and electrification portfolio. If you are not thinking about where you can add electrification to your processes, you may be behind the curve. The news in...
Customized Robotics-as-a-Service Offering Lets Manufacturers ‘Hire’ Robots
It seems as if everything can be as-a-Service these days, now even robotics. Formic Technologies launched recently with a simple value proposition: hire fully customized robots from top vendors at a low hourly rate and no upfront cost. To help small and medium-size...
Cloud-Capable PLCs Enable More IIoT Applications
When AutomationDirect was PLCDirect and control platforms were developing with much technical development and innovation, I visited the company and its control developer in Knoxville, TN frequently. They were adding Ethernet and IT technologies. Great times. Then that...
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