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Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 refers to a new phase in the Industrial Revolution that focuses heavily on interconnectivity, automation, machine learning, and real-time data. Industry 4.0, which encompasses IIoT and smart manufacturing, marries physical production and operations with smart digital technology, machine learning, and big data to create a more holistic and better-connected ecosystem for companies that focus on manufacturing and supply chain management.

Scientists Develop New Dirt-Powered Fuel Cell That Runs Forever

CHICAGO - A Northwestern University-led team of researchers has developed a new fuel cell that harvests energy from microbes living in dirt. About the size of a standard paperback book, the completely soil-powered technology could fuel underground sensors used in precision agriculture and green infrastructure. This potentially could offer a sustainable, renewable alternative to batteries,

By |2024-02-04T11:15:39-05:00February 4th, 2024|Industry 4.0|
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Embracing The Future: How Yazaki North America And Hitachi Astemo Are Leading The Industry 4.0 Revolution

ANN ARBOR - Through exclusive interviews and detailed analysis, MITechNews.Com continues to explore the innovative approaches to smart manufacturing in Michigan. These stories focus on the integration of the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and many other cutting-edge technologies. These smart manufacturing tools not only enhance operational efficiency and quality, but they also

By |2024-02-02T08:35:26-05:00January 31st, 2024|4IR, Featured, Industry 4.0|
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DTE To Invest $145 Million To Provide Rebates For EV Chargers To Target Low-Income Homes, And Multi-Family Dwellings

DETROIT - DTE plans to invest $145 million to provide rebates for 19,300 chargers alongside additional private funding and federal grant dollars to collectively build 270,000 EV chargers in the coming years at public locations, as well as both single-family homes and multi-family buildings. Pina Bennett, DTE Energy’s director of electric sales and marketing, said

By |2024-02-01T06:28:53-05:00January 31st, 2024|Industry 4.0, mitechtv|
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NASA’s Supersonic Jet So fast It Can’t Have A Windshield – Flies 925 MPH

PALMDALE, Ca. - NASA officially trotted out the finished version of an experimental aircraft that looks like a stretched-out arrowhead. Painted in red, white, and blue, the plane is called the X-59, and it has a lofty goal: to fly faster than the speed of sound over land, but do so in a quiet enough

By |2024-01-30T15:15:14-05:00January 30th, 2024|Industry 4.0|
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UM Report Finds Knowledge Workers, Not Factory Jobs, Still Key To Prosperity

LANSING—Twenty years after the first edition of Michigan Future Inc. and the University of Michigan’s report titled A New Path to Prosperity? Manufacturing and Knowledge-Based Industries As Drivers of Economic Growth was released, the two organizations are releasing a second edition which contains a startling finding: Michigan’s economic standing has plummeted, with Michigan now ranking 39th in personal income

By |2024-01-24T12:34:29-05:00January 24th, 2024|Industry 4.0|
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Diamond Nuclear Battery Can Provide 50 Years Of Power Investors Claim

BEIJING - China's Betavolt New Energy Technology has unveiled a new modular nuclear battery that uses a combination of a nickel-63 (⁶³Ni) radioactive isotope and a 4th-generation diamond semiconductor and can power a device for 50 years. Nuclear batteries may sound like something super-advanced, but they've been around in one form or another since the

By |2024-01-24T12:36:25-05:00January 23rd, 2024|Industry 4.0|
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Researchers Create Green Tech That Produces Hydrogen Using Renewable Energy

NEW YORK - A group of researchers from the Technion Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering has presented a new technology for producing green hydrogen using renewable energy. Their breakthrough was recently published in Nature Materials. The novel technology embodies significant advantages compared to other processes for producing green hydrogen, and its development into a commercial technology is likely to

By |2024-01-23T09:07:23-05:00January 23rd, 2024|Featured, Industry 4.0|
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Executive Search Partners’ Gary Erickson Explains What It Takes To Land A Senior IT Job

ANN ARBOR - Gary Erickson, managing partner of Executive Search Partners, explains in this video interview what it takes in 2024 to become a senior IT Leader, and more importantly how to land that job. In this interview, he discusses: 1. How is the market for senior IT leaders in 2024? 2. Executive Search Partners

By |2024-01-22T16:45:36-05:00January 22nd, 2024|Industry 4.0, mitechtv|
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Michigan Wants To Make Illegal For Companies To Put Microchips In Their Employees

LANSING - Imagine you're at the office and you want a snack from the vending machine in the break room. Instead of digging around for change or fishing through your wallet for your debit card, you simply wave your hand in front of the machine, money comes out of your bank account, and you get

By |2024-01-04T15:16:49-05:00January 3rd, 2024|Industry 4.0|
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Beam Me Up Scotty! First Step Towards ‘Teleportation’ To Match Star Trek Tech

LONDON - Scientists claim they have made the first major step towards real life teleportation, taking Star Trek technology out of science fiction and into the physical realm. New research from an international team of scientists demonstrates for the first time the ability to "teleport" images across a network without physically sending the image itself.

By |2024-01-04T15:16:51-05:00January 3rd, 2024|Industry 4.0|
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