Ottawa, Ont. – The country’s aging baby boomers and a predicted labour shortage mean our demand for skilled workers will soon outstrip our supply, according to Canada’s Human Resources Minister Monte Solberg.
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Ottawa, Ont. –The country’s manufacturing slump means Canada is losing tens of thousands of its best and most productive workers, according to a new report by the Toronto-Dominion bank.
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Dedham, Mass. – The market for wireless devices and equipment in process manufacturing will grow to more than US$1.1 billion in 2012, a growth rate of 32 per cent per year, according to a new ARC Advisory Group study “Wireless in Process Manufacturing Worldwide Outlook.”
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Dearborn, Mich. –The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has launched the Lean Registry, a free community connection and collaboration space for Lean practitioners.
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Ottawa, Ont. – Precarn Incorporated has launched a $2.1 million funding boost to promote the research and development (R&D) efforts of Canadian companies applying intelligent systems to solve commercial problems in the environment and manufacturing sectors.
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The car looks so real, it’s almost as if you could reach out and touch it. Except, if you’re in Allison Stephens’ lab, that car isn’t real. In fact, the car you see hasn’t even been built yet – it’s still in the design stage. Your experience has happened entirely in the virtual world. Who is Allison Stephens and why is she using virtual reality technology to help make cars?
Wahl Instruments Inc. has added a long distance model to its line of Wahl Heat Spy thermal imaging cameras. The long distance model HSI3003 offers narrow angle field of view optics, which enables detection and temperature measurement of small objects over long distances. It also features a tripod mount for ...
In conjunction with their robotic arc welding solutions, Motoman is now offering laser inspection systems designed to automate checking of safety-critical welds. To provide automated weld inspection, the laser camera scans the weld profile for visible discontinuities, such as voids, convexity, undersize and/or undercut conditions. The laser sensor is ...
Toshiba Teli Corporation has released the GiantDragon line of Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) and GenICam compliant industrial cameras. The GaintDragon line is comprised of nine monochrome and color models, all leveraging the AIA GigE Vision open standard. The design enables the real-time delivery of high bandwidth streams of non-compressed imaging data ...
Laser Research Optics is offering a full line of CO2 laser optics that are direct OEM replacements for high power lasers. Laser Research CO2 Laser Optics for multi-kilowatt laser systems and include lenses in planoconvex and meniscus configurations, molybdenum mirrors for dirty industrial environments, mirrors made from silicon, silicon with ...
Banner Engineering Corp. has added new on-axis lights to its line of lighting accessories for challenging vision sensing applications. On-axis lights are designed to provide optimal illumination of an inspected part by delivering collimated illumination in the same optical path as camera. These lights provide even, diffused illumination of flat, ...
May 13, 2008 Seattle, Wash. Considering migrating to Ethernet for your facility? Looking to
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May 12-14, 2008 Germantown, Wisc. WAGO’s Industrial Control Seminars will focus on the latest in control technology at its Germantown headquarters. The first day serves as an introduction to WAGO-I/O-SYSTEM hardware followed by extensive hands-on programming with live nodes from the 750 Series WAGO-I/O-SYSTEM, use of WAGO software tools for commissioning/troubleshooting and coverage of various Industrial Ethernet protocols. Day two covers IEC61131 programming topics such as, address mapping, use of multiple programming languages and CoDeSys Visualization tutorials. The final day features Web page design, examples of WAGO DLL and use of the 750-841 file system. To register, visit www.wago.us.
May 12, 2008 Raleigh/Durham, N.C. If you are an industry professional interested in 3D Integration and Packaging applications this event is a must. For all those wanting to know more about the leading-edge microelectronic revolution there will be technical papers on all the enabling technologies along with other key presentations. This will benefit designers, process and packaging engineers. For more information and to sign up please visit www.3dintegration.org/usa.
May 12-14, 2008 Montreal, Que. This event, brought to you by the Society of Manufacturing
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Manufacturing AUTOMATION is winner of a Kenneth R. Wilson Award
