At the Hyperloop competition at SpaceX this July, its third phase called “Competition III” will take place. In order to win, the pod must accelerate to a speed faster than…

The company will operate within Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division as part of the CAD/CAM and production software business currently led by the Vero Software brand. Source URL: Hexagon AB announces…

The OPC UA Vision companion specification is now available free of charge as VDMA Specification number 40100 (as release candidate version). The OPC UA Robotics companion specification is now available…

Worldwide IoT connectivity. (Image courtesy of AT&T.) Telecommunication giants AT&T and Nokia have announced a partnership to deliver a globally interconnected Internet of Things (IoT) experience. This will be created…

Well, we’re almost halfway through the year, which means it’s time for quarterly reports. A particularly intriguing one comes from the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), which just released the…

Not long ago, innovation to easily and quickly manufacture large, heavy parts often faced phrases like “physically impossible” or “commercially infeasible.” The evolution of 3D printing is helping more and…

Comau has announced MATE, a wearable exoskeleton, at Automatica in Munich, the international trade fair for Automation and Mechatronics. Exoskeletons have been theorized for decades as a solution for increasing…

In early June, Samuel, Son & Co. announced plans to expand its automotive metals processing center in Brantford, Ontario, by the end of 2018. The Brantford facility has already undergone…

Novelis, a global leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, recently announced that it will invest about $180 million to double its automotive aluminum body sheet production at its factory in…

Jim Anderton: In the factory environment, metrology is very important. But we tend to think of metrology in terms of dimensional units of measurement for some parameter; we think height,…