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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.

Toyota Demos Prototype Cartridge To Make Hydrogen For Vehicles Portable

TOKYO, Japan - One of the myriad issues with hydrogen as a clean energy source is infrastructure, as it's very expensive to move around and store an extremely explosive gas. Toyota and its subsidiary Woven Planet believe they may have a solution with a new portable hydrogen cartridge prototype. The idea is that they can be filled up

By |2022-06-03T08:36:44-04:00June 3rd, 2022|Auto Tech, Featured, Industry 4.0|
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Workforce Strategies for Manufacturers Wednesday, June 8

GRAND RAPIDS - In the final webinar of the series with The Right Place, the Center-West, and MiBiz, we will focus on identifying the skills and competencies needed for the 21st manufacturing business and how to build or attract a workforce that has them. Registration is now open for The Workforce That is Necessary: How

By |2022-05-27T08:11:28-04:00May 26th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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Special Crystals Generate 1,000 Times More Voltage From Solar Cells

HALLE-WITTENBERG, Germany - The photovoltaic effect of ferroelectric crystals can be increased by a factor of 1,000 if three different materials are arranged periodically in a lattice. This has been revealed in a study by researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). They achieved this by creating crystalline layers of barium titanate, strontium titanate and

By |2022-05-26T12:32:00-04:00May 26th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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Limitless Electric Power By The End Of Decade Now Possible

LONDON, UK - Scientists have been scrambling to crack the code to harness nuclear fusion, which has been hailed as a “holy grail” energy source. Eventually, a nuclear fusion process could generate electricity by using heat from fusion reactions. This is the same process used by stars, where hydrogen atoms fuse together to form helium and

By |2022-05-26T09:37:48-04:00May 26th, 2022|Featured, Industry 4.0|
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Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center To Merge U.P., Traverse City Offices

PLYMOUTH - The Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center plans to merge its regional offices in the Upper Peninsula and Traverse City later this summer. Marquette-based Northern Initiatives, a nonprofit community development financial institution (CDFI) that works with small businesses and entrepreneurs, currently houses MMTC-Upper Peninsula. Following the merger, Northern Initiatives plans to continue partnering with MMTC both in the

By |2022-05-25T12:27:34-04:00May 25th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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SME And Women In 3D Printing Join Forces To Build Diverse Manufacturing Workforce

DETROIT — Industry leaders SME, a non-profit professional association dedicated to advancing manufacturing, and Women in 3D Printing (Wi3DP), a global organization with a mission to close the gender gap in Additive Manufacturing (AM), are partnering to attract and build a diverse next gen workforce to advance the AM industry. “SME has been enabling the

By |2022-05-17T14:09:54-04:00May 17th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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MIT Joins Startup Backed By Bill Gates To Build Viable Fusion Reactor For Clean Energy

BOSTON - The Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has signed a new five-year agreement with Commonwealth Fusion System (CFS) to continue their collaboration on fusion energy research and education activities, an institutional press release said. Backed by Bill Gates, the CFS is a technology spinout from MIT and

By |2022-05-15T12:11:03-04:00May 15th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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New Battery Type Provides Low-Cost, Long-Term Energy Storage

DETROIT - A new battery design could allow for more affordable, long-term energy storage, a press statement from Imperial College London reveals. The Imperial team of engineers and chemists developed a polysulfide-air redox flow battery (PSA RFB) with two membranes. This dual membrane design provides a workaround for some of the issues with PSA RFB, meaning it could

By |2022-05-12T19:10:12-04:00May 12th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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A Lithium-Ion Battery Charged To 60 Percent In 5.6 Minutes

BEIJING, China - A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China has successfully managed to increase the speed of charging a lithium-ion battery to a rate of 5.6 minutes for a 60 percent charge, according to a report by TechXplore published on Thursday. They achieved this impressive feat by adding a copper coating and nanowires to the

By |2022-05-08T16:06:43-04:00May 8th, 2022|Auto Tech, Industry 4.0|
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