Production
Automating battery production for safe, affordable energy
Batteries are to have a central role in the future of sustainable energy and mobility. Affordable, high-quality lithium battery packs are needed in diverse kWh (kilowatt-hour) ratings to power vehicles ranging from ebikes, drones, and small city cars, to large electric vehicles (EVs), trucks, and buses. This article focuses on Yamaha's approaches to automating the production of batteries with the use of robotics and other technologies.
Green parts: better for the planet, better for business
Today, industrial businesses buy high-spec spare parts for their machinery, leave many of them on a warehouse shelf for years, and then send them to a landfill. This is wasteful and unsustainable. This article by Ben Findlay, CEO and Co-Founder of Machine Compare Marketplace discusses his company's efforts to offer a circular model to the industry.
World Supply Chain Day: councils' supply chains responsible for 43.7M tonnes of CO2
New data released by Oxygen Finance provides visibility of Local Authority supply chain carbon emissions by category of spend for the first time. This will allow councils to focus carbon reduction efforts in the areas of biggest impact.
Russian invasion exacerbates supply chain issues
This World Supply Chain Day, Electronic Specifier discusses the global disruption to upstream suppliers in Russia and Ukraine and its effect on global supply chains. The extraordinary events in Ukraine have forced buyers to find alternative suppliers for things they would typically import from Russia and Ukraine.
SmartMarker: unique identifiers for plastic products
Polysecure GmbH and plastics processor Röchling Industrial are launching an exclusive cooperation for the use of innovative marker technology in plastic products. The technology Röchling calls SmartMarker, equips Röchling plastic products with an unmistakable identifier.
Countering microchip shortage with microelectronics R&D
The High Performance Center is addressing the microchip shortage with the combined expertise of four microelectronics institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft as well as of research groups at universities in Dresden and Chemnitz.
Connecting safe storage to smart manufacturing
Moisture Management Specialist Totech EU will return this year to SMT Connect, Europe’s leading event on solutions for electronic assemblies and systems, taking place in Nuremberg from 10-12 May 2022.
Can global supply chains survive legacy GPS tracking?
The disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that there is now a greater need than ever for end-to-end (E2E) visibility of supply chain management at every stage. Aliaksandr Kuushynau, Head of Wialon at Gurtam discusses.
Electronic device housings and other critical components
Beyond the semiconductor components themselves, today’s electronics products need to be enclosed and packaged in consumer-usable formfactors machined from various specialty metals and alloys. The reality is that a failure in an electronic product package or a non-semiconductor component can be just as catastrophic as a failure with the semiconductor.
cts presents middleware for heterogeneous AMR/AGV fleets
Administration, control, synchronisation, monitoring and communication - the management of autonomous transport systems holds pitfalls.