Digital Manufacturing

Two arenas and a manufacturing center are deploying private 5G networks for tech gains that include low latency, high reliability, and support for massive numbers of connected devices.

The appeal of private 5G is driving companies to explore ways to improve the performance, scalability and flexibility of their mobile networks.

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Design News
Cybersecurity, Digital Manufacturing

More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and while organizations are working hard to resolve the supply chain problems impacting the United States and the rest of the world, global disruption persists and has impacted nearly every industry. Berardino Baratta , VP of projects and engineering at MxD , is dedicated to identifying how...

Bakersfield.com
Automation, Collaboration, Digital Manufacturing, IIOT, Process Intensification

Siemens is collaborating with Dow to showcase the future of automation with a process industry test bed at MxD , a state-of-the-art advanced manufacturing institute and innovation center near downtown Chicago. This new test bed offers a hands-on demonstration of how innovative software and IoT come together with hardware to accelerate...

Government Executive
COVID-19, Digital Manufacturing

By this time next year, I predict Americans will covet borosilicate glass in the same way they do N95 masks. Because this durable and heat-resistant glass is what’s needed to make vials — vials that hold the vaccines against COVID-19.

We’ve known for months that a surge in demand is coming, yet the vast majority — 70% to 90% — of medical glass is...

Industry Week
COVID-19, Digital Manufacturing

It goes without saying that 2020 has been a particularly interesting year.

The challenges, constraints and complex (and often contradictory) safety and productivity requirements COVID-19 presented the manufacturing industry have tested its people, its processes and its technologies like never before. It fundamentally changed the way the industry...