Manufacturing.net The Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI) Foundation released groundbreaking research on the interaction of the opioid crisis and manufacturing, "Ignorance Isn’t Bliss. The Impact of Opioids on Manufacturing." While many are forecasting U.S. manufacturing to return to its global dominance, the drug crisis is poised to be a drag on U.S. competitiveness.
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Manufacturing Business Technology In 2015, Accenture interviewed executives across several major industrial sectors about their strategies for creating a more connected workforce. At the time, the overwhelming sentiment stated that smart devices and IoT-enabled assets would come together to enable whole new levels of operational performance and safety, but that most manufacturers still lacked the confidence to implement such a program successfully.
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Milwaukee Business News Employees working side-by-side with nimble collaborative robots is becoming more common on factory floors at manufacturers of all sizes, especially as a means of overcoming challenges tied to an increasingly troublesome labor shortage plaguing the industrial sector.
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Manufacturing Business Technology The potential of manufacturing to continually reinvent, revitalize and strengthen is evident in the growth happening, from the largest production centers to the smallest, busiest shop floors. In fact, manufacturers’ global spending on cloud computing platforms is predicted to reach $4.2B this year, attaining a 23 percent growth rate in 2018.
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Advanced Manfuacturing.org The latest, smartest generation of sensors costs up to 10 times less than the sensors of five years ago, enables shorter cycle times, screens out interference and can be reconfigured automatically. Harvesting this newly available data is changing the face of manufacturing.
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AGMA Learn the fundamentals of gear manufacturing in this hands-on course. Gain an understanding of gearing and nomenclature, principles of inspection, gear manufacturing methods, and hobbing and shaping. Utilizing manual machines, develop a deeper breadth of perspective and understanding of the process and physics of making a gear as well as the ability to apply this knowledge in working with CNC equipment commonly in use.
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