CNN Business
A massive Lordstown, Ohio, auto assembly plant is getting a new lease on life. Startup automaker Lordstown Motors announced late Thursday it has purchased the plant and all the robots and other equipment inside from General Motors and intends to start building electric pickup trucks there late next year.

3D Printing Industry
Formnext 2019 opens its doors next week. With a record-breaking number of exhibitors, visitors may be pressed for time when it comes to seeing everything the largest 3D printing show has to offer. Earlier this year, 3D Printing Industry took part in judging the annual Formnext Start-up Challenge and the five winning companies will be in Frankfurt.

3D Printing Industry
One Click Metal is aiming to make metal additive manufacturing more accessible with the introduction of a low-cost Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) 3D printer. One Click is a spin-off from TRUMPF.

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New Equipment Digest
At the core of today’s state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms is the ability to learn complex patterns from a sample of data. In the manufacturing context, an example of a pattern might be the ways in which a set of parameters contained in that data. When considering AI, it’s important to understand what the data requirements are at the outset.

New Atlas
Melbourne-based startup Savic Motorcycles has hit the Australian Motorcycle Festival with a very sweet-looking production prototype of its upcoming electric café racer, a significant update to the first prototype we saw this time last year.

New Atlas
The wheels are in motion to breathe new life into the energy production of Fukushima, the Japanese prefecture that was devasted by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear meltdown. As reported by Tokyo-based newspaper Nikkei Asian Review, plans are afoot to transform the area into a renewable energy hub, with the power it generates to be fed into national grid for use in the country’s capital.

The Robot Report
Is robotics important to the future of manufacturing? Given the current and future talent gap in the sector, signs point to “yes.” This opportunity will soon start looking more like a potential crisis for employers, with a possible 4.6 million jobs – a mix of new positions and exiting retires – to fill, with only 2.2 million of them “likely” to be successfully filled. Advanced robotics are already picking up the slack.

BizTimes – Milwaukee Business News
When Rockwell Automation Inc. and ManpowerGroup set out in 2017 to recruit and train veterans for careers in advanced manufacturing, they committed to building a program ultimately aimed at closing a growing skills gap in the industry.

Forbes
When industrial organizations begin to adopt Industry 4.0 technologies, to become intelligent manufacturers, it seems that too many focus on the hype and what’s possible in the future. They start thinking about how to connect and integrate every “thing” in the plant and try to implement projects they think will disrupt their industry. 

Yellow Hammer News
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., is expanding its partnership with the University of Alabama to collaborate on advanced and in-space manufacturing, a priority in the space agency’s efforts to take American astronauts back to the Moon and beyond.

Building Indiana
Steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal and Purdue University Northwest (PNW) are partnering with Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Ill., on a research project funded under the U.S. Department of Energy’s High Performance Computing for Manufacturing Program. The research project “Application of High-Performance Computing to Optimize Reheat Furnace Efficiency in Steel Manufacturing,” will focus on improving steel reheat furnace efficiency by simulating furnace and process phenomena and developing databases of criteria for optimized furnace operation.

Seen historically as the lifeblood of the American economy, the current outlook for manufacturing in the U.S. is complicated. On one hand, manufacturing doesn’t wield as large an influence on the U.S. economy as it once did, with the upside that a recent slowdown in the sector might not put a halt to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history.

Digital Trends
(VIDEO) While 3D printing is often discussed as an important new technology for the auto industry, it hasn’t made much of an impact so far. Now, Volkswagen and Hewlett-Packard claim to have made a major breakthrough in metal 3D printing, showing that the technology can keep up with the demands of high-volume car production. But VW isn’t quite ready to take 3D printing mainstream yet.

CMS Wire
Industrial IoT (IIoT) is booming across a variety of industries. A recent survey found that 82% of respondents have either implemented IoT, are running a pilot program, or are considering it. As the technologies get cheaper and more reliable, more and more companies are looking to adopt IoT to bring efficiency to their organizations. Yet many are asking, what exactly is IIoT and how are companies using it? 

Engineering 360
While electric vehicle sales are growing and every automotive OEM is developing new EVs for future sales, issues remain among drivers in terms of range anxiety and the time it takes to fully recharge these cars outside of the home. Fast charging may be on the horizon, however, as Penn State engineers have developed a new process that can charge electric vehicles in about 10 minutes for a 200 to 300 mile range.

Robotics and Automation News
Starting on November 4, a fleet of self-driving Hyundai Kona Electric SUVs will provide a free ride-sharing service to the local community of Irvine, Calif.

AGMA
Become an innovator and submit an abstract for the 2020 Fall Technical Meeting.  Technology is fundamentally changing the way manufacturing is done. The gear industry is faced with emerging trends and innovation that is challenging engineers to stay on course with cutting-edge technology to keep design, quality, materials and analysis efficient. It is imperative that researches and gear engineers communicate ideas with fellow experts in the field. AGMA’s annual Fall Technical Meeting (FTM) is the perfect forum in which to share research and to disperse knowledge for the benefit of the industry at a global level.

ExOne press release
The ExOne Company, the global leader in industrial sand and metal 3D printers using binder jetting technology, today revealed the culmination of two decades of metal 3D product development with its tenth and largest metal 3D printer to date: the X1 160 PRO. Built for high throughput and large-part production the printer offers build dimensions of 800x500x400 mm, delivering 160 liters of total build volume.

New Atlas
Maersk has teamed with Trident Maritime Systems to create 600 kWh container battery that can be placed on a container-hauling ship to provide power. The battery is now en route to be installed on the Maersk Cape Town container vessel.