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E&T Magazine | March 02, 2020

The answer to some of the most common questions in manufacturing may not lie in typical approaches, but rather in gamification. It may seem surprising, but many of the problems that users encounter when interacting with industrial equipment are the same as those players must tackle in games. What’s the most cost-effective way of managing resources through the different stages of production? It’s a strategy game! How can AGVs be faster and more efficient in moving items from point A t...

Manufacturing Technology

The Timken Company | November 08, 2022

The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR; www.timken.com), a global leader in engineered bearings and industrial motion products, has completed its previously announced acquisition of GGB Bearings. Founded in 1899, GGB Bearings serves a variety of diverse customers, markets, geographies and applications with a product portfolio that complements existing Timken industry-leading engineered bearing solutions. GGB Bearings' revenue is expected to be around $200 million in fiscal year 2022. W...

IndustryWeek | February 13, 2020

Much like today, 1970, when IndustryWeek was launched, was a seminal time for manufacturing. The first moon landing had occurred just a year before, bringing not only new technology that could be commercialized in the factory but also a psyche boost for America as innovator. Like today, it was a time of political unrest and social change the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement, the Pentagon Papers, and the economic uncertainty th...

3D Printing

Nexa3D | November 16, 2021

Nexa3D, the maker of ultrafast polymer 3D printers, today announced the XiP™, the company’s first desktop 3D printer, as well as a new business head for the desktop segment. Introducing the XiP The XiP desktop 3D printer joins the industrial NXE 400 and dental-focused NXD 200 in offering unprecedented speeds based on Nexa3D’s proprietary lubricant sublayer photo-curing (LSPc) technology. LSPc technology affords up to 20x productivi...