National Association of Manufactures The Federal Reserve reported that manufacturing production rose 0.5 percent in April, bouncing back from being unchanged in March. Overall, the data continue to show healthy growth for manufacturers. Along those lines, the manufacturing production index has risen from 102.2 in April 2017 to 104.1 in the latest data.
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Today’s Motor Vehicles Industrial giant Emerson is buying Aventics, a German pneumatics technology company, for $621 million. Aventics is among global leaders in smart pneumatics technologies that power machine and factory automation applications. Emerson has a dominant position in fluid automation technologies for process and industrial applications, and Aventics significantly expands the company’s reach in this growing $13 billion market.
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Manufacturing Business Technology Deciding to invest in a new IT solution is a huge decision for any business, especially when that solution will change the way processes are carried out across the entire organization. But knowing the ROI is worth it can help make enacting that change easier and get stakeholders on board, especially during the pitch and budgeting process.
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Today’s Motor Vehicles General Motors is looking at the possibility of 3D printing components for production vehicles, an endorsement of a technology often considered too slow for mass production environments. Working with software company Autodesk, officials with the automaker are studying ways to cut vehicle weight by using additive manufacturing’s (AM’s) geometric freedom.
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Gear Technology Back around 2005-2010, the most exciting things that were happening in broaching had little to do with broaching. The emergence of on-the-edge CNC, software and servo drive technology, practically transformed a metalworking process as old as water into a viable, alternative consideration for producing high-volume part runs.
Visit https://www.geartechnology.com/articles/0518/Broaching_in_the_21st_Century/ to view the full article online.
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Electronic Design The first planned assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) activities of the Mars 2020 mission out of NASA will involve electrical integration of flight hardware into the descent stage. The Mars 2020 rover, as well as its cruise stage, aeroshell and descent stage will undergo final assembly at the Spacecraft Assembly Facility High Bay 1 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA.
Visit http://www.electronicdesign.com/automotive/next-nasa-mars-rover-reaches-manufacturing-milestone to view the full article online.
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