Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.98
June 08, 2020
…of large trucks and other vehicles.” Jain adds, “The COVID-19 pandemic has placed additional strains on the trucking industry. Advanced driver-centric automation of large trucks provides significant promise in both safety and driver efficiency. The webinar will provide insights from experts who are working together to accelerate the implementation of these emerging technologies.” For example, panelists will discuss a project in which Purdue Engineering is collaborating with Peloton Technology, Cummins, Peterbilt Motors, other industry partners and INDOT to enhance driver-centric truck platooning—a technique that enables trucks to travel in pairs, improving safety, fuel economy and efficiency, and driver productivity. The…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.66
June 08, 2020
…of the fundamental hurdles to wresting control over the COVID-19 outbreak. To help break the logjam, companies hailing from the 3D printing and medical research worlds are combining forces to innovate new solutions to address the shortage of nasal swabs. 3D printer manufacturer Stratasys is pooling resources with a lesser known 3D printer company to market and promote 3D printed nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs to healthcare providers and U.S. testing centers. Instead of leveraging its own 3D printer technology, Stratasys is lending its sales and marketing muscle and healthcare industry presence to start-up firm Origin, helping the firm more easily distribute…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.26
June 04, 2020
One of the many laudable essential workers of the COVID-19 era is proving to be 3D printing technology, which is being harnessed in force to churn out face masks and face shields, all of which have been in short supply for the duration of the global pandemic. Across the world, 3D printing technology providers and service bureaus are teaming up with government agencies, hospitals, and corporate enterprises in myriad public-private partnerships to coordinate and build open-source medical supplies in response to COVID-19. For its part, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is facilitating public use of 3D printing technologies to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.39
June 04, 2020
…This resizing, advanced sooner due to the impact of COVID-19, will affect approximately 10% of employees, and is designed to reduce operating expenses as part of a cost realignment program to focus on profitable growth. The company expects the vast majority of the reduction to take place in the second quarter and to complete the reduction during the third quarter of this year. “This reduction in force is a difficult but essential step in our ongoing strategic process, designed to better position the company for sustainable and profitable growth,” says Yoav Zeif, chief executive officer of Stratasys. “I would like…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.51
June 04, 2020
…BASF. Image courtesy of HP. “The response to the COVID-19 crisis is a watershed moment for the industry. HP and its partners have 3D printed more than 2.3 million parts to bridge supply chain gaps, enable local production, and help healthcare professionals on the front lines,” says Ramon Pastor, interim president of 3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing, HP Inc. Adds Pastor, “As we navigate this new landscape, we continue to execute on our strategy and push innovative new 3D printing materials, solutions, and partnerships forward to help our customers re-open manufacturing and deliver disruptive innovation for the world’s industries.” PP…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.19
May 26, 2020
…and a supply chain resiliency solution in a post Covid-19 period in which we believe that super-fast large-format additive manufacturing together with high performance, high temperature durable photopolymers will be highly prized by our customers,” says Alberto Ferlin, EMEA director of Sales at 3DZ. Nexa3D’s global reseller network expansion is part of the company’s plan to deliver a speed and productivity upgrade for legacy stereolithography printer users by delivering ultra-fast industrial printers at an attractive cost of ownership. The company’s flagship NXE400 takes current 3D printing speeds from dialup internet to broadband, with the ability to print up to 19…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.58
May 20, 2020
…AI and computing power to better understand and fight COVID-19. “NVIDIA DGX A100 is the ultimate instrument for advancing AI,” says Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “NVIDIA DGX is the first AI system built for the end-to-end machine learning workflow—from data analytics to training to inference. And with the giant performance leap of the new DGX, machine learning engineers can stay ahead of the exponentially growing size of AI models and data.” DGX A100 systems integrate eight of the new NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs, providing 320GB of memory for training the largest AI datasets, and the latest…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.53
May 11, 2020
…a data and analytics company. The company’s latest report, COVID-19 Impact on Cloud Services, reveals that the investment could now pay an unexpected dividend by transforming the way some businesses operate. Since mid-March 2020, cloud-based services for remote workers have kept much of the world working, forcing organizations that were previously opposed to remote working to embrace the idea. GlobalData forecasts that the cloud services market will be worth $661bn by 2024, having grown at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19% between 2019 and 2024. “The shift to remote working caused by the pandemic has left offices empty…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.57
May 07, 2020
…Metal, about the company’s activities and experiences during the COVID-19 shutdown. DE: Desktop Metal has been involved in rapidly developing and producing a new COVID-19 nasal test swab. Can you tell me about that project? Jonah Myerberg: Although swabs are not made of metal, this was an initiative we identified right away where we could help. This wasn’t something we could print out metal or even print in-house, but it was a problem that could be solved with 3D printing. We set out to figure out how 3D printing could help, and how we could make that real. This really…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.20
May 05, 2020
…to learn about submitting a column for consideration. ————- COVID-19 has affected businesses in wildly divergent ways. While the pandemic’s effects have brought service and hospitality businesses to a halt, companies producing vital healthcare and personal protective equipment or household staples and consumer electronics have seen skyrocketing demand. For the manufacturers, warehouses, and logistics firms that produce and distribute these goods, there is an urgent need to step up operations to meet increasing product demand without risking the health of their employees. Finding and maintaining these employees, however, is a growing challenge. Even before the pandemic, manufacturers and distributors found…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.99
May 01, 2020
…nonprofit, grassroots ecosystem and digital platform response to the COVID-19 crisis organized by leaders in technology, industry and government, announced that the organization's network of nearly 10,000 members operating small-batch production sites have been manufacturing National Institutes of Health (NIH)-approved masks using 3D printers and delivering them to local communities across the U.S. and around the world. In addition, the organization is building a global supply chain for community-based production capability for the future. “It has been an action-packed month for the Maker Mask team. It's been amazing and humbling to see the large number of makers around the world…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.14
April 28, 2020
COVID-19 shaping Digital Transformation In some respects, the imperative to pursue Digital Transformation is even more urgent in light of the pandemic and its repercussions. Also, the crisis has significant implications for the way artificial intelligence (AI) - a core component of DT - is deployed in the supply chain domain. Digital Transformation-derived flexibility gaining currency The pandemic is testing the resilience of supply chains as never before, and the consequences for how supply chains are designed and operated will take years to play out. However, what is already clear is that DT will help to define what we mean…
