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IDTechEx | February 13, 2020

The new IDTechEx report, Electric Vehicles in Construction, Agriculture and Mining 2020-2030 uniquely addresses a huge opportunity. Vehicles for construction, agriculture and mining CAM have become one industry served by giants such as Caterpillar, CNH Industrial, John Deere and Komatsu but also small businesses making the new requirements such as drone systems and weeding and mine survey robots. IDTechEx CEO Raghu Das advises: The giants in CAM vehicles are cautiously going electric, but they s...

Qualcomm | September 21, 2020

The U.S. chip industry said as much as $50 billion in federal incentives will be needed to halt a decadeslong trend of manufacturing moving overseas as China spends heavily to become a leading semiconductor producer. The federal government needs to deploy $20 billion to $50 billion to make the U.S. as attractive a location for plants as Taiwan, China, South Korea, Singapore, Israel and parts of Europe, the Semiconductor Industry Association said in a study released Wednesday. Fail...

nScrypt, ANI Motion | August 26, 2020

nScrypt has signed a distribution and OEM agreement with the South Korean company ANI Motion. Under the agreement, ANI Motion will have the exclusive right to sell nScrypt high-precision 3D manufacturing and biomanufacturing systems in Korea, and nonexclusive sales rights throughout the remainder of Asia. ANI Motion will also manufacture nScrypt systems for sale in Asia, using tool heads provided by nScrypt and manufactured in Orlando, Florida. For example, nScrypt will provide...

Manufacturing Technology

QAD | February 02, 2023

Leading manufacturing and supply chain solutions provider, QAD Inc., has acquired Redzone, the #1 connected workforce solution for manufacturing. QAD, a portfolio company of leading private equity firm, Thoma Bravo, provides cloud-based Adaptive ERP solutions. In December, Livejourney was also acquired by QAD. Livejourney, a provider of predictive modeling and real-time process mining system designed to uncover, monitor, and enhance business processes. This is the second acquisi...