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Category: Manufacturing

Guest Posts, Machine Builders and Integrators, Manufacturing, Vendors and Manufacturers

What Is Industrial Automation?

Frank Mar 20, 2022 Tagged with Industrial Automation

This is a guest post from PWR, a company located in Scotland and The Netherlands. Industrial automation is the use of machines, control systems and information technologies to minimize or eliminate the need for human intervention in the production of …

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Guest Posts, Manufacturing

Covid-19’s Impact on the Machine Tool Industry

Frank Jan 24, 2021 Tagged with Covid-19, Machine Tools

Today’s post is a guest post from Allied Analytics, LLP. Overview: The infectious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) or also known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has infected approximately 62.8 million people globally with 1.46 million fatalities since December …

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Guest Posts, Manufacturing

Five Benefits of 3D Printing for Prototyping

Frank Aug 2, 2020 Tagged with 3D Printing, Inoventive 3D, prototyping

Today’s post is a guest post from Inoventive 3D Solutions, a full service architectural scale model making company. While it is true that necessity is the mother of invention, every innovation still requires testing to see how well it can …

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Manufacturing, Material Handling, Sales and Marketing

Starbucks Roastery

Frank Dec 24, 2017 Tagged with Boquete Coffee, Coffee, Starbucks, The Roastery

A few weeks ago I made a trip to Seattle to visit my daughter Yuki and her family. She used to work at Starbucks’ corporate headquarters, and among other projects was involved in the design and startup of the Roastery, an …

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Manufacturing

World Manufacturing Status

Frank Nov 30, 2014 Tagged with data, Manufacturing, statistics

This is a cool table I got from the World Bank website showing the value added manufacturing rankings for countries around the world. It is easy to do some simple analysis using the table on the website; pick a range …

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