Design News
Siemens and Georgia Institute of Technology are partnering to address limitations in the current additive manufacturing design-to-production chain in an applied research project as part of the federally backed America Makes program. It is part of a larger industrial technology research partnership between the two bodies.
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Manufacturing.com
Economists from the MAPI Foundation are less optimistic about U.S. manufacturing production over the next two years but believe that the sector will add more jobs than previously projected.
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Each year, the Fall Technical Meeting (FTM) provides an outstanding opportunity to share ideas with others in the gear industry on design, analysis, manufacturing and application of gears, gear drives and related products, as well as associated processes and procedures. Authors have the opportunity to present the results of their work to an audience of knowledgeable professionals from the United States and around the world, and to participate in discussions with that audience. Papers should be original to the AGMA audience (not a previously published paper), technically accurate, relevant, and free of commercialism.
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Business Standard
China's economy is still showing a muted response to waves of monetary and fiscal easing as of the half-way mark for the last quarter of the year, some of the earliest indicators suggest.
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MRO Magazine
Global demand for mining equipment is forecast to expand 7.0% annually to nearly US$105 billion in 2019. Growth in mining equipment sales during the 2009-2014 period was erratic, a result of the volatility of commodity prices and the resultant effect on mining machinery investment.
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TCT Magazine
ACAM is a strategic partnership between German organisations such as Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology, Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and KEX Knowledge Exchange. Its aim is to explore the opportunities that additive technologies afford towards industry 4.0 by embedding machine suppliers, software engineers, research fellows and users into a campus culture in order to further advance Germany’s standing in advanced manufacturing.
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CNBC
Deere posted a sharp drop in quarterly earnings on Wednesday and forecast a further slump in agriculture and construction equipment sales in its new fiscal year. Still, shares of the maker of John Deere tractors rose 5 percent in premarket trading as the profit exceeded Wall Street estimates.
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Reuters
Indian manufacturing output grew by 9.3 percent in the three months to September, government data showed on Monday, while farm output grew by 2.2 percent from the same period a year earlier.
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IndustryWeek
Home to Tesla’s headquarters, Apple and Google’s self-driving projects, and research and development offices for many OEMs, California is fast becoming "a global center for personal mobility," according to the L.A. Times.
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Diginomica
Banking giant Barclays has released a report this week that says that not only could investment in robotics and automation "safeguard" tens of thousands of jobs in the manufacturing sector, but it could also add £60 billion to the British economy within a decade.
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Manufacturing.net
The last C-17 Globemaster III built at a Southern California Boeing plant soared into history on Sunday with a flyover that marked the end of an era for the region's once-thriving aerospace industry. The enormous cargo jet was cheered in Long Beach as if roared over the heads of an estimated 1,000 onlookers, many of them Boeing employees, spokesman Felix Sanchez said.
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Seeking Alpha
China has been, and will likely continue to be, the world's largest manufacturing hub. But Mexico is geographically better positioned than China as a manufacturing destination for U.S.-based products. This advantage is likely to make Mexico a good choice for manufacturing.
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The Telegraph
Nissan will begin making its luxury Infiniti cars in Sunderland this week as part of a £250m investment in the factory, a landmark move that heralds a massive triumph for British industry.
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Duluth News Tribune
In late 2012, the price of iron ore was over $130 per ton. U.S. steelmakers were pumping out finished product for new oil pipelines, trucks and refrigerators. And Minnesota’s iron mining industry was shipping iron ore as fast as the stuff could be processed.
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Offshore Wind Industry
The offshore market is currently a heady mix of top marks for performance and rotor diameters on the one hand and mergers on the other. The purpose of large rotor blades, more generator output and mergers is the same: slashing costs.
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Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
EVA Air has selected the GEnx-1B engine to power its 24 Boeing 787-9/-10 aircraft and ordered two additional GE90-115B-powered Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. The GE90-powered Boeing 777-300ERs will be delivered in 2017 and the GEnx-powered Boeing 787 aircraft will begin delivery in 2018.
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Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
In an industry-shaping collaboration, Mazak Corp., together with information technology (IT) leader Cisco and machine-to-machine solutions provider MEMEX, Inc., have developed what is described as an industry first – a launch platform for easy and highly secure entrance into the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Called SmartBox, this technology represents a huge leap in digital integration across manufacturing.
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Manufacturing Business Technology
The U.S. Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a request for comments from the wind energy industry about developing four offshore areas totaling more than 1,100 square miles on the Outer Continental Shelf.
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