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Tanida Ruangsawat/Dreamstime and Suthiporn Hanchana/Dreamstime
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5 for Friday: The Power of Collaboration; a Collaboration Around Power; and the Cost of Designing for Reliability

Machine Design takes a look at the past week, and a look ahead to the issues facing the design and manufacturing sector.
Tanida Ruangsawat/Dreamstime and Natee Meepian/Dreamstime
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5 for Friday: Merging Technology and Challenges; Sustainability to the Bottom Line; New Dimensions in Supply Chain, Cybersecurity

Let's look back at the week to learn about how manufacturers are combining technologies and doing more with less. Machine Design also looked at fixing supply chain gaps with 3D...
Tanida Ruangsawat/Dreamstime and 2023 Canadian International AutoShow
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5 for Friday: This Week, We Cover Everything—The Whole KITT and Kaboodle

Machine Design takes a look at the past week, including stories that cover conversations with machines, the democracy of coding, what will power the future, and functional safety...
Salvador Ceja/Dreamstime
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5 for Friday: Sustainable Design on Demand; Deadline for Salary & Career Survey; Celebrating MFG Day!

If customers are a driving force for sustainable design, they also likely will make their purchasing decisions with that factor at the top of mind. This is what will drive profitability...
Tanida Ruangsawat/Dreamstime and iStock
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5 for Friday: Rely on Your Humans in a Robot’s World; Merger Upheaval in 3D Printing; Manage Your Data Effectively

Being able to monitor and manage automation from anywhere is a reminder that the need for human intervention remains. This topic and others were among Machine Design's coverage...
OnRobot and Tanida Ruangsawat/Dreamstime
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5 for Friday: Effective Design from the Start; the Human Side of Cobots; Several New Dimensions on 3D Printing

Controlling costs from the design stage, unlocking human potential with cobots, dissolvable molds and tips for designing 3D printed parts are just a few topics Machine Design ...
Dreamstime
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5 for Friday: Reigniting Design’s Value; New Dimensions in CAD-Related Software and Additive Manufacturing

Machine Desgn takes a look at the past week, and a look ahead to the issues facing the design and manufacturing sector.
Tanida Ruangsawat/Dreamstime and Wrightstudio/Dreamstime
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5 for Friday: The Full Impact of Digital Transformation; a New Robotics Hub? Sustainable Expectations

From digital transformation done well to Pitt's robotic rebranding to tools for sustainability, Machine Design takes a look at the past week and a look ahead to the issues facing...
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Full Automation: The Path to Lights-Out Production

Digitalization and connectivity, along with advanced design and processing power, are paving a software-defined manufacturing paradigm.