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Can Manufacturing Simultaneously Add Robots and People?
According to a study released in Germany, the answer is yes.
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Skills Gap Statistics Paint Alarming Picture
Many attendees in Orlando in a couple of weeks, walking the aisles and seeking out new equipment, materials and services will be taking a break from another very important search that consumes them back at their facilities: the search for people.
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Foremost Features Blending, Vacuum Loading, Granulating and More
Foremost Machine Builders’ NPE2018 booth features a slew of brand new products across a range of auxiliaries including an older machine that benefits from the power of new controls.
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Hot Runners & Tooling at NPE2018: Smarter & More Specialized
Hot-runner technology, like the companies utilizing it, is becoming highly specialized, building in focused functionality for the application to be molded. Like most of the equipment in the cell around it, it’s also becoming smarter, sharing data and reacting to feedback from the press and more.
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Better Molding By Design (and Experiment)
Pairing Design of Experiments (DOE) tenets with the principles of Scientific Molding can point towards a more stable injection process.
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Machinery Gets Smart
NPE2018 will be awash in Industry 4.0, but beyond the show-floor hype, what does replacing dumb equipment with smart equipment mean?
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Augmented Reality In Reality
As I approached the booth, my worst fears were confirmed. I’d have to put on the virtual reality goggles, wouldn’t I?
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Where Do You Fall On Industry 4.0’s Adoption Curve?
Beyond the hype: how are injection molders applying industry 4.0 today, and what’s coming in the future.
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Next Generation Plastics Workforce
After years of closely monitoring an increasingly worrisome labor shortage, the Plastics Industry Association’s warnings about the widening gap between the sector’s need for skilled workers and the supply of such employees have shifted to full alarm. The association calls for “collaborative response across all levels of government and all manufacturing sectors” to tackle this critical issue.
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Molders: Where Is 3D Printing Now; Where Is It Headed; Should You Come Along?
As the capabilities of injection molding and 3D printing continue to converge, when does additive manufacturing shift from a nice-to-offer to a must-provide for molders?
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Augmented Reality Is Getting Real
When every worker in a plant has glasses on—not standard-issue safety goggles but wearable displays—Scott Montgomerie believes industry might look back at this time as the tipping point for adoption of augmented reality on the factory floor.
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