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AI assistants, robots, unmanned cars and VR/AR turned heads at this year's CES, which opened in Las Vegas on January 9th. Notably, the number of Chinese exhibitors on display at the event left a deep impression on American visitors. Rather than being sidelined to a minor role, as had been the case in previous sessions of the annual event, Chinese exhibitors, to quite an extent, outrivaled their American, Japanese and South Korean counterparts when they displayed some best-in-class high-tech products, becoming this year's eye-catchers.

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Let’s examine what every moldmaker should know about the injection molding process by breaking down the path a plastic pellet takes as it is transformed from a pellet to a part. This includes raw materials, the fundamentals of viscosity curves, Melt Flow Index, Melt Flow Rate, shear and more.

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The manufacturing industry is going through some extreme changes as new developments in technology and automation make their mark. This is a global phenomena, and innovation and creative collaboration is at the root of it all. Not only are American and western manufacturers investing in new technology to change the perception of the manufacturing industry, China has been taking a look at their own manufacturing industry as well. As everyone knows, “Made in China” products are everywhere, most likely you can look around right now and spot multiple products that are at least assembled in a Chinese factory.

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I was at a recent podium discussion on the topic of automation in electronic manufacturing and I heard a robotics supplier refer to data as "the lubricant of the industry." In the supply chain, I suspect that cash is the lubricant, the commodity that makes everything run that little bit better, that little bit smoother.

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At Brain Bar Budapest, a large hall that was plastered in dark and leafy plants struggled to hold a sea of attendees. The crowd gathered to watch Steve Fuller, author of Humanity 2.0 and the Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology at Warwick University, debate Zoltán Pogátsa, a Hungarian political economist. The topic at hand? Whether or not Universal Basic Income (UBI) will be the “social security net of the future.”

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How can an operations strategy benefit your company? The easiest answer is that the business achieves more with it than without it.

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The U.N.'s intellectual property agency says China racked up a record 1.3 million patent applications, topping the combined total in the U.S., Japan, Korea and Europe.

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"When I worked in our customer support department, we started with a simple question: What problem are you trying to solve? Is it short shots? Flash? Dimensions? You want to put a transducer where the problem is, plain and simple. For most of you that is going to be the last place to fill or what we commonly refer to as the end of cavity. The majority of quality defects can be correlated to the pressure at this location. Too much pressure and the parts get bigger, not enough pressure and the parts get smaller. All in all, a pretty straightforward correlation.

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From Bluetooth to Wii to pilotless drones, "hands-free" operation is the wave of the future. Can management of the disaggregated supply chain also become hands-free for original equipment manufacturers?

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Visibility. Of course that’s what you want. We all want it. After all, how can you run a supply chain without it? Changes in demand, late shipments, quality issues, point of sale, weather patterns, production schedules and projected inventory positions are just some of the myriad of things you want to be able to see so you can make better and more informed decisions as a supply chain executive.

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Global Ethernet Cable Market is estimated to reach $1 billion by 2022, anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 14.3% amid during forecast period 2014 - 2022, according to new research published by Allied Market Research. Asia-Pacific dominated the market, contributing more than 35% share of the overall market revenue, followed by Europe. The demand for high-speed internet and rise in data center installation activities, primarily in the industrial sector, have fueled the market growth.

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The first ever all-electric cargo ship is in operation in China's Pearl River. While it's a step in the right direction to eliminate fossil fuels, the ship is being used to carry coal — the very material that encouraged the shift to clean energy.

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A researcher at the University of North Texas has successfully demonstrated a drone capable of supplementing cellular service during large-scale disasters and catastrophes. When Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana in 2005, cell towers fell, hampering rescue and response efforts.

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For young and mature mature designers alike, I’d like to offer a word to the wise: Talk to your board house before you start on the new design. We spend a lot of time helping designers to bring their pride and joy to a state of manufacturability after the fact. It would always be much better to have had a chance to avoid the mess rather than to clean it up.

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Today, doing business is like a Formula One race -- it's all about teamwork and collaboration. Drivers Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton don't win races on their own. They rely on the backing of their racing teams and on the power of their cars' engines (Red Bull Racing / Renault and McLaren Racing / Mercedes-Benz, respectively).

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Advances in connectivity are at the heart of Industry 4.0, with wide-ranging benefits for the way businesses are run. For manufacturing, one of the most important areas is asset management, in particular, how to create efficiencies and provide insight into the whole production chain.

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This year’s summit was different in that the Lean Accounting Summit was combined with Lean Management and Lean People Development into Lean Leadership to include the people development aspect of being a lean enterprise. Co-founder Dwayne Butcher, said, “It’s about time that the whole enterprise be involved in becoming a lean company.

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The manufacturing sector has shown some growth over the past few years.  Since 2011, the sector has created jobs every year, a 6-year expansion that exceeds the 5-year expansion experienced 1994-1998, according to a new report from consulting firm Headlight Data. The report showed that the industry has created nearly 500,000 new jobs in the last 6 years.  

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Thousands of miles of buried optical fibers crisscross California’s San Francisco Bay Area delivering high-speed internet and HD video to homes and businesses. Biondo Biondi, a professor of geophysics at Stanford University’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, dreams of turning that dense network into an inexpensive “billion sensors” observatory for continuously monitoring and studying earthquakes.

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The manufacturing industry is currently undergoing a digital transformation, in which new business models are being engineered to improve time to market as a means of meeting customer demand for more instant services and products.

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