Recently, the Government of Saskatchewan announced a one-time investment of $158,000 from Innovation Saskatchewan and the Ministry of Immigration and Career Training to the Saskatoon Industry Education Council, in partnership with Siemens Canada, to create awareness about careers in the Information Technology (IT) and green energy sectors.
Customers and employees, as well as special guest Oakville Mayor Rob Burton were on hand at Siemens Canada’s headquarters for the unveiling of a newly renovated office focused on a co-creation environment. During the pandemic Siemens used the opportunity with many employees working safely from home to convert a substantial portion of its Oakville headquarters to create a showcase for Siemens’ technologies that address climate change, the 4th Industrial revolution, and digitalization across different sectors.
Vic Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, issued this statement following today’s monthly employment release by Statistics Canada that showed employment in Ontario decreased by 24,700 in June. “After several consecutive months of job growth, today’s news is a reminder that the government’s efforts to attract job creators to our province is now more important than ever. Our government, led by Premier Doug Ford, will leave no stone unturned when it comes to building the infrastructure necessary to unlock the full potential of the province’s economy. This includes highways, transit and the road to the Ring of Fire.
Endress+Hauser continues on the path to growth. Over the past five years the number of employees at the Reinach location in the Swiss canton of Basel-Landschaft has grown by 20 percent to more than 2,000. At the same time, the number of units produced has significantly increased and the digital solutions portfolio has expanded. In order to simultaneously meet the new demands of the work environment, vocational training positions and digitalization, the measurement and automation technology specialist invested 60 million Swiss francs in the Reinach campus.
ek robotics, one of the world’s leading manufacturer and system integrator of innovative high-tech automated guided vehicles (AGVs) for production and warehouse logistics, recently announced its global technology partnership with OTTO Motors, the leading developer of flexible and intelligent autonomous mobile robots (AMR). The two companies combine their core competencies to offer the best combination of AGV hardware and AMR software to customers in the manufacturing and warehousing industries worldwide.
While the pace of technology and artificial intelligence advances at galloping speeds, the world of work is changing right before our eyes. Our lives are so intertwined and dependent on technology that most of us don’t think about the impact on our jobs. Most Canadians aren’t aware that in 2019, the Canadian government, specifically, the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, established an advisory council to, “identify opportunities to create economic growth that benefits all Canadians, and ensuring that AI advancements reflect Canadian values.”
IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show, the largest and longest-running industry trade show in the Western Hemisphere, is held every other year at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. IMTS 2022, which will run September 12-17, 2022, is where the creators, the builders, the sellers, and the drivers of manufacturing technology come to connect and be inspired. Industry professionals from around the globe will visit IMTS to discover the latest innovations in digital and traditional manufacturing, experience more than 15,000 new machining technologies, and find processes that will help solve their manufacturing challenges and improve efficiency.
Allied Electronics & Automation is giving its employees a new way to work across its more than 40 locations with a new hybrid office space and flexible work model. While the COVID-19 pandemic presented multiple challenges for nearly every business, it allowed Allied to realize that many of its employees wanted to work differently. By taking the best of how the company worked before the pandemic and combining it with both its own learnings and best practices from other successful similar companies, Allied developed a new physical workplace and working model that is more flexible and supportive, while optimizing the employee, customer and supplier experience.
A new interface standard for the acquisition of energy consumption data in industrial manufacturing is being developed by ODVA, OPC Foundation, PI, and VDMA based on OPC UA. A key objective of the future mechanical and plant engineering sectors is to achieve climate-neutral production. This is backed up by the European Union’s “European Green Deal”, which aims to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050. To achieve this goal, and to implement many other use cases, energy consumption data in production is an important prerequisite.
Siemens, a leader in industrial automation and software, infrastructure, building technology and transportation, and NVIDIA, a pioneer in accelerated graphics and artificial intelligence (AI), recently announced an expansion of their partnership to enable the industrial metaverse and increase use of AI-driven digital twin technology that will help bring industrial automation to a new level. As a first step in this collaboration, the companies plan to connect Siemens Xcelerator, the open digital business platform, and NVIDIA Omniverse™, a platform for 3D design and collaboration. This will enable an industrial metaverse with physics-based digital models from Siemens and real-time AI from NVIDIA in which companies make decisions faster and with increased confidence.
Digitalisation and sustainability were the focal points of the Hannover Messe 2022. The most important industrial trade fair worldwide created a real incentive for the transformation of the economy and industry – towards digitised, climate-neutral and sustainable value creation. Thanks to all our visitors and our exhibition team who made the Hannover Messe so special.
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Proax Technologies is very pleased to announce that they have finalized their NEW premises in Laval, Quebec. Their new location is situated in Laval on John-Molson Street located near the highway 13 and the highway 440 in a new industrial area. Your loyal support has helped them grow and this move will allow them to serve you better and provide space for growth in the years to come. This is a brand new 37,000 ft2 building, just 2 km away from their current location, and they have already started the setup of the new warehouse while awaiting finishing work in the office area.
On this year’s International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), ABB CEO Björn Rosengren and Chief Human Resources Officer Carolina Granat discuss the importance of fostering an inclusive culture and encouraging diversity in the latest episode of the ABB Decoded podcast.
3M, a global leader in commercial bonding solutions, and Innovative Automation Inc., an integrator and provider of high-quality automation systems, are joining together to provide industrial manufacturers with an automated solution for tape applications that require precision, repeatability, and high output. The RoboTapeTM System for 3MTM Tape allows industrial manufacturers to take advantage of the benefits of 3M Tape in their assembly processes while maximizing production throughput, improving quality, reducing or re-tasking manual labor and limiting re-work.
Augmenta, the company automating building design for the construction industry, recently announced it has emerged from stealth mode with US$4.1 million in seed funding to bring to market its design platform for the construction industry.