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OPINION: Where Is the Workers’ Voice When It Comes to Talking About Our Automated Futures?

 

While the pace of technology and artificial intelligence advances at galloping speeds, the world of work is changing right before our eyes. Our lives are so intertwined and dependent on technology that most of us don’t think about the impact on our jobs. Most Canadians aren’t aware that in 2019, the Canadian government, specifically, the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, established an advisory council to, “identify opportunities to create economic growth that benefits all Canadians, and ensuring that AI advancements reflect Canadian values.”

 

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What Will You Find @ IMTS? International Manufacturing Technology Show

 

IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show, the largest and longest-running industry trade show in the Western Hemisphere, is held every other year at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. IMTS 2022, which will run September 12-17, 2022, is where the creators, the builders, the sellers, and the drivers of manufacturing technology come to connect and be inspired. Industry professionals from around the globe will visit IMTS to discover the latest innovations in digital and traditional manufacturing, experience more than 15,000 new machining technologies, and find processes that will help solve their manufacturing challenges and improve efficiency.

 

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Allied Electronics & Automation Opens New Hybrid Office Space & Launches Flexible Work Model

 

Allied Electronics & Automation is giving its employees a new way to work across its more than 40 locations with a new hybrid office space and flexible work model. While the COVID-19 pandemic presented multiple challenges for nearly every business, it allowed Allied to realize that many of its employees wanted to work differently. By taking the best of how the company worked before the pandemic and combining it with both its own learnings and best practices from other successful similar companies, Allied developed a new physical workplace and working model that is more flexible and supportive, while optimizing the employee, customer and supplier experience.

 

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Joint Consortium Standardizes Common “Power Consumption Management” for the Shop Floor

 

A new interface standard for the acquisition of energy consumption data in industrial manufacturing is being developed by ODVA, OPC Foundation, PI, and VDMA based on OPC UA. A key objective of the future mechanical and plant engineering sectors is to achieve climate-neutral production. This is backed up by the European Union’s “European Green Deal”, which aims to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050. To achieve this goal, and to implement many other use cases, energy consumption data in production is an important prerequisite.

 

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Siemens and NVIDIA to Enable Industrial Metaverse

 

Siemens, a leader in industrial automation and software, infrastructure, building technology and transportation, and NVIDIA, a pioneer in accelerated graphics and artificial intelligence (AI), recently announced an expansion of their partnership to enable the industrial metaverse and increase use of AI-driven digital twin technology that will help bring industrial automation to a new level. As a first step in this collaboration, the companies plan to connect Siemens Xcelerator, the open digital business platform, and NVIDIA Omniverse™, a platform for 3D design and collaboration. This will enable an industrial metaverse with physics-based digital models from Siemens and real-time AI from NVIDIA in which companies make decisions faster and with increased confidence.

 

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Hannover Messe 2022 | Progress in Motion by Festo

 

Digitalisation and sustainability were the focal points of the Hannover Messe 2022. The most important industrial trade fair worldwide created a real incentive for the transformation of the economy and industry – towards digitised, climate-neutral and sustainable value creation. Thanks to all our visitors and our exhibition team who made the Hannover Messe so special.

 

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Introducing Proax Technologies New Location 1925 John‐Molson, Laval, Quebec H7T 0R3

 

Proax Technologies is very pleased to announce that they have finalized their NEW premises in Laval, Quebec. Their new location is situated in Laval on John-Molson Street located near the highway 13 and the highway 440 in a new industrial area. Your loyal support has helped them grow and this move will allow them to serve you better and provide space for growth in the years to come. This is a brand new 37,000 ft2 building, just 2 km away from their current location, and they have already started the setup of the new warehouse while awaiting finishing work in the office area.

 

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“Everybody Should Feel They Have the Same Opportunities” – ABB CEO Björn Rosengren on Women in Engineering

 

On this year’s International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), ABB CEO Björn Rosengren and Chief Human Resources Officer Carolina Granat discuss the importance of fostering an inclusive culture and encouraging diversity in the latest episode of the ABB Decoded podcast.

 

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3M and Innovative Automation Collaboration Announced

 

3M, a global leader in commercial bonding solutions, and Innovative Automation Inc., an integrator and provider of high-quality automation systems, are joining together to provide industrial manufacturers with an automated solution for tape applications that require precision, repeatability, and high output. The RoboTapeTM System for 3MTM Tape allows industrial manufacturers to take advantage of the benefits of 3M Tape in their assembly processes while maximizing production throughput, improving quality, reducing or re-tasking manual labor and limiting re-work.

 

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Augmenta Emerges from Stealth Mode and Raises US$4.1 Million in Seed Funding to Automate Building Design for the Construction Industry

 

Augmenta, the company automating building design for the construction industry, recently announced it has emerged from stealth mode with US$4.1 million in seed funding to bring to market its design platform for the construction industry. 

 

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Georgian Officially Opens the Magna Mechatronics Lab at the Barrie Campus

 

Georgian and Magna International Inc. officially opened the Magna Mechatronics Lab at the Barrie Campus on June 23. The event celebrated Magna’s significant investment in Georgian and our students, showed off the new space and highlighted our Electromechanical Engineering Technology – Mechatronics program. Everyone was treated to hands-on demonstrations using the new technology and equipment in the lab.

 

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Electromate Elated With Win at the 2022 Business Achievement Awards in the ‘Innovation & Technology’ Category

 

On June 9th, 2022, the Vaughan Chamber of Commerce named Electromate Inc. the winner of the Innovation and Technology Award at the 2022 Business Achievement Awards. The award recognizes significant accomplishments in the field of Innovation and Technology made throughout the past year.

 

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This Tray Former Is Only Open for Efficiency, PILZ’s International Success Story

 

Extreme flexibility and fast format change are the distinguishing features of the 1200 s tray former from Sema Systemtechnik: the cardboard blanks are fed in at one second intervals and folded, glued and sealed in several production stages. From a risk analysis it was clear that an effective safety solution had to be found for the situation where there was “no cardboard in front of the feed opening” – a solution that would restrict neither the operator nor the process. SEMA opted for Pilz’s TÜV SÜD-certified solution for safe cardboard feed.

 

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NSK to Present at International Manufacturing Technology Show September 12-17, 2022 McCormick Place, Chicago, IL

 

NSK will be exhibiting at the International Manufacturing Technology Show at the McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, from  September 12-17, 2022. As the 33rd edition of the premier manufacturing technology show in North America, IMTS 2022 will raise expectations of what challenges manufacturing can address. Experience the power of new equipment, software, and products to move your business forward.

 

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Electrozad Recognized by Canada’s Best Managed Companies Program

 

For the fifth consecutive year, Electrozad has been recognized for overall business performance and sustained growth with the prestigious Canada’s Best Managed Companies designation. The company first won the Best Managed award in 2018 and became a Gold Standard winner last year. The Best Managed program award winners are amongst the best-in-class of Canadian-owned and managed companies demonstrating leadership in the areas of strategy, capabilities and innovation, culture and commitment, and financials to achieve sustainable growth.