Production Machining’s May 2021 News Highlights

Google Cloud and Siemens are cooperating to optimize factory processes and improve productivity on the shop floor. Siemens intends to integrate Google Cloud’s data cloud and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) technologies with its factory automation solutions to help manufacturers innovate for the future. By combining Google Cloud’s datacloud and AI/ML capabilities with Siemens’ Digital Industries Factory Automation portfolio, manufacturers will be able to harmonize their factory data, run cloud-based AI/ML models on top of that data, and deploy algorithms at the network edge. This enables applications such as visual inspection of products or predicting the wear-and-tear of machines on the assembly line.

Read more about this industry collaboration.

Here are more news highlights:

• EMO Milano Set for Oct. 4-9, 2021 — EMO Milano 2021, one of the world’s largest exhibitions dedicated to the metalworking industry, is set for Oct. 4-9, 2021, at Fieramilano Rho. The conference is organized by UCIMU-Sistemi Per Produrre (the Italian Machine Tools, Robots and Automation Systems Manufacturers’ Association) in cooperation with ICE-Italian Trade Agency, Beijing Office.
• SMW Autoblok Opens Production Unit in Italy — SMW Autoblok has opened a design and manufacturing production unit in Petacciato, Italy, which is highlighted in a new 50-page Special Solutions catalog. The company designs and manufactures rotational chucks, stationary workholding, tooling and custom engineered solutions for the machine tool industry.
• Hurco Develops Field Service Apprentice Program — Hurco North America has developed a two-year Field Service Apprenticeship (FSA) program that begins with a 12-week industry training which merges hands-on training and repair of CNC machines with classroom materials.
• New Scale Robotics Earns CSI Certification from Universal Robots — New Scale Robotics is now a Certified System Integrator (CSI) for Universal Robots (UR), enabling the company to sell and deploy UR collaborative robots with its Q-Span Workstation Kits for small part measurement.
• Seco Tools Sets Ambitious Circular Economy Goals — Seco Tools has set an ambitious goal of creating a 90% circular economy for its products by the year 2030 — with recycling tools playing a key role. Though it isn’t the only aspect, the company says that recycling plays a vital role in the circular economy by asking people to look at how we use the earth’s scarce and finite resources, and what can be done to ensure that we extract maximum value and usage from them.
• Carsten Liske Takes Over as Chiron Group CEO — Carsten Liske took over as chief executive officer of Chiron Group SE effective March 1, 2021. The company says this rounds out the senior management team at its headquarters in Tuttlingen, Germany.
• Paperless Parts, Plex Systems Partnership Makes It Easier to Estimate Jobs — Paperless Parts, a provider of sales and quoting software for job shops and contract manufacturers, is partnering with Plex Systems to give Plex users direct access to its quoting platform. The Paperless Parts software will be part of the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform, enabling Plex users to price jobs faster and more accurately, better service customers and grow their businesses, the company says.
• Walter, Vargus Partner on Toolholding Manufacturing Venture in Romania — Walter AG, headquartered in Tübingen, Germany, and Vargus Ltd., headquartered in Nahariya, Israel, have established a joint venture named VWR Cutting Tools S.R.L. The two precision tool manufacturers each hold equal shares in the new business. The joint production company will manufacture toolholders at the Vargus production site in Bucharest, Romania.

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