The Future of Manufacturing: From Backyards to Fully Automated Fabs


Manufacturing is undergoing a significant transformation. This collection of articles explores emerging trends, including the rise of personalized production through small-scale robots, a growing focus on sustainability in battery life cycles and production methods, and the continued march of automation. While some, like Samsung, are aiming for fully automated factories, others are looking at ways to make traditional methods like CNC machining more efficient and eco-friendly. As AI and robotics continue to advance, the future of manufacturing promises to be both innovative and adaptable.

A backyard factory: How robots empower you to create your own products
Forget mass manufacturing -- the next big product could be made in your garage with the help of tiny robots.
Case: Cargotec responds to sustainable development transition with proactive technology strategy | VTT
Support for development of technology strategies As a result of the three-month-long project, we identified more than 70 trends relevant to the customer’s business operations. Opportunities and threats were described in more detail in the final report through related implications, a practical example and a quantitative indicator.“We have understood...
RECIRCULATE, a second life for the electric vehicle batteries
Tomi PitkäahoAthith SagarTero Kaarlela The rapid growth in battery demand raises questions about sustainability and the limited amount of rare materials. While recycling the batteries to raw materials enables the preservation of rare raw materials, recycling consumes time and energy, reducing the value of recycled batteries. Repurposing and reusing...
Whole‐body motion planning and tracking of a mobile robot with a gimbal RGB‐D camera for outdoor 3D exploration
Abstract Autonomous exploration is a fundamental problem for certain applications of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). Depth cameras are widely used in exploring indoor and specific outdoor environments. However, existing methods suffer from inefficient and unstable performance of exploration in open outdoor environments. This study develops a framework...
Grinding optimization using nondestructive testing (NDT) and empirical models
Proper choice of grinding parameters is important because productivity is limited by the possibility of grinding burns. Nondestructive testing (NDT), as Barkhausen noise (BN), can provide a tool for determining parameter limits. However, BN requires a threshold value for approval and requires multiple experiments to provide grinding parameters corresponding...
Case Glaston: Industrial digitalization through hybrid collaboration
Glaston and Unikie work together to accelerate Glaston’s software-based product development. The partnership enables Glaston to stay at the forefront of innovation and maintain its position as a market leader in the glass processing industry.
Google wrote a “Robot Constitution” to make sure its new AI droids won’t kill us
By Amrita Khalid, one of the authors of audio industry newsletter Hot Pod. Khalid has covered tech, surveillance policy, consumer gadgets, and online communities for more than a decade. Jan 4, 2024, 9:21 PM UTC|The DeepMind robotics team has revealed three new advances that it says will help robots make faster, better, and safer decisions in the wild....
Samsung is planning human-free, fully automated fabs within six years
A hot potato: In a rare story about a company that isn't Amazon pushing to replace its human workers with machines, Samsung is reportedly planning to make all its fabs fully automated within the next six years. The Korean giant has already begun development of a system that will lead to human-free facilities, according to a new report. Samsung Electronics...
International Federation of Robotics
The IFR’s use of the term “industrial robot” is based on the definition of the ISO: an “automatically controlled, reprogrammable multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes” The International Organization for Standardization defines a “service robot” as a "robot in personal use or professional use that performs...
PrintoCent Printed intelligence - Flexible- stretchable- wearable, hybrid electronics
Bus from Scandic at 8.1509.00 – 17.30PRINSE’24 SEMINAR DAY 1INDUSTRY SESSIONS  EXHIBITION AREADEMO AREABus to Scandic after the seminarBus from Scandic at 18.4519.00 – 20.30RECEPTION AND COCKTAIL DINNER by City of Oulu (Leevi Madetojan katu 1-3)Bus to Scandic at 20.30
CNC Automation Enables Order-Driven Manufacturing at Wärtsilä
Rami Hakala and Tero Kujamäki from Wärtsilä have been part of the automation project since the very beginning. “We walk the talk. Our ambition is to decarbonize the marine and energy sectors, and we make our own operations as sustainable as they can get. We only produce per order and have made our single-piece flow just as efficient as high-volume...
Building the Next Generation of Smart PLCs With the ctrlX CORE and InfluxDB
Program Logic Controllers (PLCs) have played an integral role in industrial automation since their initial creation during the 1960s. Since then, we’ve seen incremental improvements to their form and function throughout the years. The problem? While PLCs are exceptional at […] The post Building the Next Generation of Smart PLCs With the ctrlX CORE...
A Pioneer in Manufacturing Technology Development
The founding and expansion of Mercantile, 1901-1940s: Mercantile was founded in 1901 in Tampere, Finland, by a young businessman Charles Elmgren to import machinery and chemicals from Germany. Due to Elmgren’s illness and early death, the company was raised by his brother-in-law, Walter Greuling, to become one of the largest trade houses in...
Fastems - The Future of CNC Manufacturing
To go deeper, let’s review the characteristics and trends of future CNC manufacturing in three levels: the entire industry, an individual manufacturer and shop floors. Please note most of the trends pose effects on many levels besides where they are placed below. Competitivity, shorter value chains and sustainability targets are...
Navigating the New Industrial Era: Insights from Hannover Messe 2024 Preview on AI and Sustainability
At the Hanover Messe 2024 preview, industry experts gathered to discuss the transformative role of artificial intelligence and automation in shaping the future of industrial production. Recognizing that sustainability now means using renewable resources and eliminating fossil fuels, the key topics […] The post Navigating the New Industrial Era: Insights...

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