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Francis Gregway “Greg” Shinskey, of North Tonawanda, N.Y., was born Oct. 29, 1931, and passed away peacefully in North Smithfield, R.I., on Sept. 25, 2021. He was 89.

The market for professional service robots reached a turnover of 6.7 billion U.S. dollars worldwide (sample method)–up 12% in 2020. At the same time, turnover of new consumer service robots grew 16% to 4.4 billion U.S. dollars.

TriMech, a leading provider of engineering design and additive manufacturing solutions, announced today it has acquired Adaptive Corporation and Forward Vision.

GridRaster’s latest industry study shows that businesses and manufacturers are seeing larger productivity gains and cost efficiencies through AR/VR technologies.

Global technology leader ABB now responsible for automation and electrification as plant increases process production from 140,000 to 220,000 tons of barley malt per year.

Endress+Hauser and the International Society of Automation (ISA) announce their collaboration efforts for training and certification. ISA will provide select certified training courses in conjunction with Endress+Hauser’s instrumentation training courses, with these courses offered onsite at Endress+Hauser’s process training units (PTUs) located across the U.S.

The International Society of Automation (ISA) presented the two-track Cybersecurity Standards Implementation Conference (CSIC) virtually on the 19th of October, which is Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

In a conversation with Rockwell Automation’s Matthew Giordano (pictured above), IS Solutions, partner manager, he described the companies scalable OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) solutions to achieve Industry 4.0 to understand “what is happening on the shop floor."

Granite River Labs (GRL), a global leader in engineering services and test solutions for connectivity and charging, today announced the opening of its new lab in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Products for conformal coating, dispensing, plasma treatment, curing, selective soldering, and X-ray inspection were showcased.

Moxa Global Technology Partner Manager and member of the CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA) Chih-Hong Lin talks about the role of Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) and industrial Ethernet in shaping the future of industrial automation.

Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today that it has been named a “leader” in The Forrester Wave: Industrial Internet-of-Things Software Platforms, Q3 2021 report.

Mobile robot application expert Denise Ebenhoech from KUKA Robotics presented at the recently held Association for Advancing Automation (A3) Autonomous Mobile Robots and Logistics Conference in Memphis, Tennessee.

Beamex Inc. is proud to announce that it has achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification.

Two major recognitions of Universal Robots’ education programs from the U.S. federal Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute (ARM) and the State of Ohio’s Department of Education pave the way for schools and industry to further leverage cobots, offering employability in robotics careers while upskilling existing workforce.

Last year Endress+Hauser invested more than 200 million euros in production, filed 276 innovations as initial patents and brought 40 new products to the market. 2020 was also the year in which the cornerstone of a small revolution was laid, as virtually the entire product portfolio was simultaneously expanded with a new communications technology. In an interview, three leading players involved in the introduction of Ethernet-APL explain where the challenges lay and how the industry will benefit from this development.

CGTech has released a white paper titled “True Constant Chip Thickness Machining: The New Standard of NC Program” to discuss a method of creating optimized NC programs to limit chip thinning and excessive forces on CNC machines and cutting tools.

A new case study released, highlighting the success of Mitsubishi Electric’s PLC data logging and diagnostics technologies, as well as its variable frequency drives.

For the inaugural event of the Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Women Influencers program, seven women in the manufacturing, technology and supply chain industry participated in a virtual panel discussion about how to bridge the gap for women in their fields, particularly in aerospace.

The ability to make data-driven decisions in real-time is a very important goal for manufacturing operations leaders.