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UNIST centre to promote 3D printing technology

In the picture: At the inauguration ceremony, (from left) Mayor Ki-hyun Kim of Ulsan, UNIST President Mooyoung Jung.. The advancement of 3D printing and its impact on manufacturing have already been acknowledged by many industrialized countries. Indeed, a number of industries have been applying 3D printing technology to manufacture a wide array of items, from auto parts and prototypes to human skin and living organs. With the official launch of 3D Advanced Additive Manufacturing Center at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, 3D printing will become the city of Ulsan’s new future growth engine, following the bioindustry. An inauguration ceremony for the 3D Advanced Additive Manufacturing Center was held in the morning of Friday, February 26th, 2016. The ceremony was attended by key officials affiliated with the center, including Mayor Ki-hyun Kim of Ulsan, President Mooyoung Jung of UNIST, Vice President Jae Sung Lee, and Prof. Jeong Beom Kim (School of Life Sciences). The mission of the center is to promotes quality and innovative research in the area of 3D printing and to educate a new generation of manufacturing engineers and innovators skilled in their use. In recent years, the center has undertaken an important R&BD project, led by Professor Namhun Kim (School of Design & Human Engineering) under the suprvision of the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE) of Korea to produce eco-friendly 3D printed automotive parts. Moreover, it has also been working on the 3D printing project of patient-specific implants, led by Professor Jeong Beom Kim under the supervision of the Korean Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP). The ceremony was followed by a symposium on 3D printing technologies and applications to share knowledge about the future of additive manufacturing in different branches. UNIST President Mooyoung Jung states, “3D printing technology has an infinite amount […]

Making Data Digital with the Internet of Things towards Building a Smart City

Based on a 2014’s U.N. report, 54% of the world’s population are residing in urban areas, and the numbers are expected to rise to 66% by 2050. With Singapore leading the pack with 100% of its population in the urban areas, it is no wonder that this smart city has been the center of attention of global ICT leaders looking to explore the best practices of building smart cities worldwide using Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT). BIGIT, which stands for Big In Technology, is honored to present its 3rd Big Data and Smart Cities World Show which will be held on 22nd – 23rd March 2016 at Marriott Tang Plaza, Singapore with Cloudera as its Gold Sponsor. This two-day conference with the theme, “Making Data Digital with the Internet of Things towards Building a Smart City” will highlight significant key areas of Big Data and IoT in changing businesses and people’s lives in line with the implementation of Smart Cities. How will you benefit?  Gain comprehensive learning experience related to Smart Cities with tangible input from renowned senior leaders and experts from all industries across the globe.  Build interactive network with global ICT leaders by being involved in the growing and creation of new and existing Smart City markets using Big Data and IoT.  Gain various strategies and tools to promote knowledge exchange, develop new partnerships and create business opportunities in the new and growing Smart City markets.  Understand what it takes to embrace and instigate Big Data in your own organization. What can you expect?  Be in the presence of more than 200 attendees from highly targeted audience including global Big Data & IoT industry leaders who are interested in the technologies and sustainability of Smart Cities.  To discuss and identify […]

Motion Analyzer web tool helps design control systems

Rockwell Automation has rebuilt Motion Analyzer software as a Web tool. The tool offers new user-friendly features and a vastly expanded product catalog to help engineers more easily specify, design and validate complete motion control systems. The Motion Analyzer Web tool is cloud-based, allowing users to access, update and collaborate on projects stored in a single location, reducing version control issues and the need to share project files back and forth. A cloud-based platform also means users are no longer limited by the processing speed of their computers when designing systems for more complex applications. The tool’s new browser-style format allows users to filter, review and compare products and general pricing, similar to search capabilities on popular e-commerce sites. “Incorrectly sizing a motion system not only generates unnecessary costs in wasted engineering time and re-stocking fees, but it can greatly slow a machine’s time-to-market,” said Gavin Black, product manager CompactLogix, SLC, Kinetix Motion, Rockwell Automation. “The latest Motion Analyzer release is an evolution of the platform that is more collaborative, expansive and easy to use. When engineers can quickly create and examine complete motion control systems within a single platform, they can spend more time innovating and improving their machines.” The Motion Analyzer Web tool provides machine builders access to a wider range of motion control products than ever before. It now incorporates products from nine Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork Encompass product partners, including STOBER Drives, NIDEC-SHIMPO, item North America, Tolomatic, Nook Industries, WITTENSTEIN, Exlar Corporation, Bonitron and Elwood Corporation. “Collaboration between various disciplines among machine builders and automation solution providers is critical to lower the Total Cost to Design, Develop and Deliver equipment,” said Clayton Webber, STOBER Drives. “Having mechatronic solutions up-to-date in the cloud establishes Motion Analyzer as a differentiator in machine design. STOBER and Rockwell Automation are striving to lead online solutions […]

Autodesk and Siemens sign agreement to help reduce manufacturers’ costs

AUSTRALIA, Mar. 2, 2016 — Autodesk, Inc. and Siemens today announced an interoperability agreement aimed at helping manufacturers decrease the costs associated with incompatibility among product development software applications and avoid potential data integrity problems. Through this agreement, Autodesk and Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software businesses will take steps to significantly improve the interoperability between their companies’ respective software offerings. Today’s agreement brings together two computer-aided design (CAD) software leaders with the common goal of streamlining data sharing and reducing costs in organizations with multi-CAD environments. Today’s manufacturers are under increased pressure to get high quality products to market faster, with increased efficiencies and lower costs to the consumer. Many of these companies operate in environments consisting of various solutions from different CAD software vendors. These multi-CAD environments may exist internally between departments or externally with partners and supply chains. Interoperability among CAD software has therefore emerged as a critical issue for users of design and engineering software, and achieving it is a major challenge for manufacturers. This interoperability agreement announced today aims to decrease the overall effort and costs that are commonly associated with supporting these environments. In particular, interoperability between the offerings from Siemens and Autodesk will significantly improve the many situations where a combination of their software currently exists. Under the terms of the agreement, both companies will share toolkit technology and exchange end-user software applications to build and market interoperable products. “Interoperability is a major challenge for customers across the manufacturing industry, and Autodesk has been working diligently to create an increasingly open environment throughout our technology platforms,” said Lisa Campbell, vice president of Manufacturing Strategy and Marketing at Autodesk. “We understand that our customers use a mix of products in their workflow and providing them with the flexibility they need to get their jobs done […]

Rockwell Automation TechED comes to New Zealand

New Zealand will host the global Rockwell Automation TechED event on 21-23 March 2016 at the Pullman Hotel in Auckland. This not to be missed event is the premier, ‘hands on’ education and networking event of the automation world. Rockwell Automation TechED is a premium event for end-users, systems integrators, partners and equipment builders. With more than 50 hands-on labs, technical sessions and discussion forums, attendees from around the country will gather to learn and be inspired by how their peers tackle day-to-day challenges. This year’s New Zealand event offers sessions over three days, which flow from higher level software topics and concludes with the finer points of motor control. Attendees can discover the latest techniques to efficiently deliver Manufacturing Intelligence to mobile devices and interact with the latest technology for improving manufacturing and production processes. According to Matthew Treeby, commercial marketing manager at Rockwell Automation, “The Internet of Things is providing new prospects for industry. Converging the IT and OT worlds offers new levels of visibility and flexibility for manufacturing, but is not without risk.” “With exclusive insights into the latest information and mobile platforms, intelligent motor control and secure networking, TechED presents an unmissable opportunity to discover how the Connected Enterprise is the future of high-performance manufacturing,” he said. Take advantage of the opportunity to network and exchange ideas with peers from various industry backgrounds and learn more about the innovative methods being employed by leading industry insiders. Attend all three days for the full experience, or come for only a day for a focussed day of topics that interest you. For further information please visit, http://www.rockwellautomation.com/en_NZ/events/RATechED-2016.page?

Fujitsu develops new deep learning technology to analyse time-series data with high precision

KAWASAKI, Japan – Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced that it has developed deep learning technology that can analyse time-series data with a high degree of accuracy. Demonstrating promise for Internet-of-Things applications, time-series data can also be subject to severe volatility, making it difficult for people to discern patterns in the data. Deep learning technology, which is attracting attention as a breakthrough in the advance of artificial intelligence, has achieved extremely high recognition accuracy with images and speech, but the types of data to which it can be applied is still limited. In particular, it has been difficult to accurately and automatically classify volatile time-series data – such as that taken from IoT devices – of which people have difficulty discerning patterns. Now Fujitsu Laboratories has developed an approach to deep learning that uses advanced mathematical techniques to extract geometric features from time-series data, enabling highly accurate classification of volatile time-series. In benchmark tests held at UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository(2) that classified time-series data captured from gyroscopes in wearable devices, the new technology was found to achieve roughly 85% accuracy, about a 25% improvement over existing technology. This technology will be used in Fujitsu’s Human Centric AI Zinrai artificial intelligence technology. Background In recent years, in the field of machine learning, which is a central technology in artificial intelligence, deep learning technology has been attracting attention as a way to automatically extract feature values needed to interpret and assess phenomena without rules being taught manually. Especially in the IoT era, massive volumes of time-series data are being accumulated from devices. By applying deep learning to this data and classifying it with a high degree of accuracy, further analyses can be performed, holding the prospect that it will lead to the creation of new value and the opening of new […]

Sunpower secure new centralised steam BOT project worth RMB95 million

SINGAPORE, Jan 25, 2016 – Mainboard-listed Sunpower Group Ltd. (“Sunpower” or “the Group”), a China-based heat transfer technology specialist engaged in the design, R&D and manufacture of energy-efficient and environmental protection equipment for diverse industries, has secured a centralised steam Build-Operate-Transfer (“BOT”) project (“Lianshui Project” or the “Project”) in Lianshui Economic Development Zone (the “Zone”) which is located at Jiangsu Province, China. Currently, the Zone has no centralised steam facility and each manufacturing plant relies on its own individual small coal-fired boilers for steam. The small boilers are highly energy inefficient and very polluting with carbon and pollution emissions. The Group’s wholly-owned subsidiaries, Sunpower Clean Energy Investment (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. (“Sunpower Clean Energy”, and Sunpower Technology (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. (“Sunpower Technology”) have entered into a joint venture agreement with Huai’an Qinglian Environmental Protection Engineering Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the Lianshui Economic Development Zone’s Central Management Committee, to form an entity to invest in the Project together. The Group will hold 95% equity stake in the newly formed joint venture entity. Phase I of the Project will comprise two coal-fired boilers with a capacity of 40 tonnes per hour each and steam distribution pipelines, supplying steam to more than 20 companies in the Zone. The Project was secured on a BOT basis for a concession period of not more than 30 years and is expected to commence operation in the second half of 2016. Following the Changrun Project (announced on 23 December 2015), the Lianshui Project is another centralised steam low carbon and pollution emission project which will contribute to the Group’s EPC revenue and bring in another stream of recurring income. Clean coal-fired boilers will be adopted in this Project as it is highly energy efficient, less polluting, has low operating cost and safer to operate. According to the […]

Hitachi to Exhibit at the 13th Delhi Auto Expo 2016

The company will exhibit at the 13th Delhi Auto Expo 2016 – Components Show from February 4th-7th at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. The company will exhibit a wide range of advanced technologies developed by the Hitachi Automotive Systems Group at Hall No. 18 GF Stall 23. (List of Products on Display enclosed below). Hitachi Automotive Systems is focused in the areas of environment, safety, and information technology and aims to create value for society by contributing to the development of vehicles that connect society while providing safe, accident-free mobility with ultra-high fuel efficiency and a low carbon footprint. The company is also focused on rapidly expanding its global business. In Indian automotive market that is expected to exhibit stable and long-term growth, the company has invested over three billion rupees to launch the company group’s second Indian manufacturing base in Chennai in April 2015. The production of valve timing controls and ignition coils commenced at the manufacturing base in October 2015 and the additional new products are being continuously studied for the future. With India’s rapid economic expansion generating increased demand for cars, domestic production and sales in India continues to grow. By 2020, India is expected to become the world’s third largest car manufacturer, solidifying the country’s presence as a global automotive leader. At the same time, in the capital of New Delhi, as well as other cities in India, air pollution caused by airborne particulate matter (commonly measured as PM 2.5) has become a serious problem. Thus, society is looking to the car industry and technology leaders like Hitachi Automotive Systems to provide product solutions that respond to societies needs. The company will exhibit not only valve timing controls and ignition coils which are manufactured in its manufacturing base in Chennai, but also the company group’s wide range […]

Entegris expands operations for semiconductor process liquid filtration in South Korea

Entegris a leader in yield-enhancing materials and solutions for highly advanced manufacturing environments, announced today the expansion of its liquid filtration/purification analytical science and research and development facility in Suwon, South Korea. As an addition to its existing Korea Technology Center (KTC) facility, the expanded lab includes advanced chemical/water analysis and material characterisation capabilities, along with filtration device instrumentation. These new capabilities will allow closer collaboration with local customers to solve specific liquid filtration challenges by providing optimised solutions for their advanced processes. “Sophisticated analysis of the interaction and compatibility between complex process chemistries and filtration devices are increasingly important as technology nodes advance. We continue to invest in these technologies ̶ close to our customers ̶ to optimize the performance of our filters with the unique chemical solutions our customers require,” said Entegris Vice President of Liquid Microcontamination Control, Clint Haris. “Expanding the KTC liquid filter lab allows us to increase collaboration with Korean customers and to integrate new developments into new process solutions faster.” The expansion represents Entegris’ on-going commitment to serving the Korean semiconductor manufacturing market and its continued effort to work directly with customers on a local level to solve critical issues for advanced technology processes. Entegris is the leading provider of liquid filtration and purification technologies for the most advanced semiconductor applications. In addition to the expanded analytical and R&D liquid filtration services, Entegris’ KTC also provides wet and dry chemistry development, chemistry formulation and pilot scale-up, on-site metrology with real-time reporting, and microcontamination and liquid filter characterisation. Entegris is a leading provider of a wide range of products for purifying, protecting, and transporting critical materials used in processing and manufacturing in the semiconductor and other high-tech industries. Entegris is ISO-9001 certified and has manufacturing, customer service and/or research facilities in the United States, China, […]

Smart chip tells you how healthy your battery is

In the picture: NTU Prof Rachid Yazami (left) holding his smart battery chip with research fellow Sohaib El Outmani holding a prototype testing device. Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) have developed a smart chip which can tell you how healthy is your battery and if it is safe for use. If the battery in your smartphone or electric vehicle is faulty and is at risk of catching fire, this smart chip will warn you. Current warning systems only alert users when the battery is already overheating which may be too late for any remedial action. Developed by Professor Rachid Yazami of the Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N), this smart chip is small enough to be embedded in almost all batteries, from the small batteries in mobile devices to the huge power packs found in electric vehicles and advanced aeroplanes. A pioneer in battery research, Prof Yazami won the 2014 Draper Prize for Engineering awarded by the Washington-based National Academy of Engineering for being one of the three founders of lithium-ion battery. The prestigious award recognised his discovery in the 1980s in making lithium-ion batteries safely rechargeable, paving the way for its universal use today. “Although the risk of a battery failing and catching fire is very low, with the billions of lithium-ion batteries being produced yearly, even a one-in-a-million chance would mean over a thousand failures,” explained Prof Yazami, who holds more than 50 patents and has authored more than 200 scientific papers, book chapters and reports on batteries. “This poses a serious risk for electric vehicles and even in advanced aeroplanes as usually big battery packs have hundreds of cells or more bundled together to power the vehicle or aircraft. If there is a chemical fire caused by a single failed battery, it could cause […]

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