Jul 31, 2022

GIE Media’s Manufacturing Group IMTS 2022 Conference: Implementing Intelligent Industrial Automation – A Practical Guide Discover the uses to industrial automation within manufacturing. July 31, 2022 About the presentation Modern manufacturing deployed robots and other automation to reduce the need for manual operations and increase throughput. Driven by shortages of skilled labor and competitive pressures, it’s no longer enough to only automate manual tasks. Intelligent industrial automation provides real-time decision making that’ll drive productivity, profitability, and manufacturing flexibility. Renishaw explores the current state of advanced manufacturing and explains technologies that can drive intelligent automation. Learn practical steps to: • Establish a stable automated process • Obtain accurate, actionable data throughout the manufacturing process (Industry 4.0) • Deploy real time process control (smart manufacturing) • Ensure quality through integrated metrology tools Registration Powered by AMT and managed by GIE Media,  The IMTS 2022 Conference  features 69 different sessions you won’t want to miss so  register today . Focused on a range of topics that include process innovation, plant operations, quality/inspection, and automation,  The IMTS 2022 Conference  addresses improving productivity; improving part quality; and developing a stable, competent workforce to lower the cost of manufacturing in the United States and create new levels of market demand. Meet your presenter Dan Skulan helps companies increase production throughput, maximize flexibility, and ensure optimal part quality in precision metal manufacturing using computer numerical control (CNC) and additive technologies. Backed by a global team of industrial metrologists, he works consultatively with companies that wish to achieve higher levels of productivity while reducing cost. Skulan holds degrees in electronics technology, industrial manufacturing, and marketing. He has more than 35 years of experience with manufacturing process evaluation, design, and automated process control. About the company Renishaw develops technology supporting the manufacturing process control. The company’s products advance its customers’ operational performance – from improving manufacturing efficiencies and raising product quality, to maximizing research capabilities and improving the efficacy of medical procedures. A world leader in metrology systems, Renishaw also offers a range of calibration, measurement, positioning, and inspection solutions. Specified by leading OEMs around the world, Renishaw encoders, calibration, and measurement systems enable superior process control. Renishaw products are used for applications such as machine tool automation, coordinate measurement, additive manufacturing, gaging, Raman spectroscopy, machine calibration, position feedback, CAD/CAM, dentistry, shape memory alloys, large-scale surveying, stereotactic neurosurgery, and medical diagnostics. Renishaw aims to be a long-term partner in these areas, offering products that meet customers’ needs backed up by expert technical and commercial support. AM is being used across industries, from tooling/prototyping to mass production Software for AM production is streamlining workflows and integrating with existing enterprise solutions for large-scale production What solutions are emerging to ease part design through software that prescribes how it should be additively manufactured after its designed A look at what markets are seeing growth, especially aero and medtech How material use continues to expand and includes polymers, metal, and ceramic – and what the dominant materials are today Sustainability from AM and advancing processes continue to move AM from niche to general manufacturing and is transforming manufacturing Don’t delay, make sure to join us for this insightful webinar. Registration is free and once  registered , you will receive a link post-event to watch on-demand. About the presentation Additive manufacturing (AM) and advanced materials continue to dominate the conversation about transforming industrial production. The need to inspect and evaluate internal and external integrity of additive parts and composite materials has driven a parallel evolution in non-destructive testing (NDT), robotics, metrology, and inspection software. For more than 20 years, industrial robots have been used to automate the use of NDT in factories, along with sophisticated hardware and software systems supported by highly skilled automation engineers. The level of complexity and associated costs involved are limiting factors in proliferation, in addition to the diversity of the commercial and custom software components required. This session presents a new approach to semi-manual and robotized NDT based on a new-generation integrated software workflow. The latest advances in robotics, as well as position encoding and 3D metrology technologies, enable this transformative progress. A flexible software architecture is revealed, and a new workflow is demonstrated for aerospace composite testing and automotive resistance spot weld applications. Registration Powered by AMT and managed by GIE Media,  The IMTS 2022 Conference  features 69 different sessions you won’t want to miss so  register today . Focused on a range of topics that include process innovation, plant operations, quality/inspection, and automation,  The IMTS 2022 Conference  addresses improving productivity; improving part quality; and developing a stable, competent workforce to lower the cost of manufacturing in the United States and create new levels of market demand. Meet your presenter François Mainguy worked at R/D Tech from 1995 to 1998 as their first applied physics technician working with phased array and EMAT ultrasound technologies. He left to eventually found HARFANG Microtechniques in August 2001. He introduced the first portable ultrasound phased array system for nondestructive evaluation in June 2002. In 2005, he sold his company to The Sonatest Group (Milton Keynes, UK), where he spearheaded the development of next-generation instruments and probes. In June 2008, he founded UNGAVA in Québec City to offer design, engineering, prototyping, and OEM production for industrial customers involved in instrumentation. In 2013, he started his third start-up named PRAGMA, specialized in the design, manufacturing, and selling of portable instruments and systems for nondestructive testing (NDT). Mainguy has technical training in applied physics engineering (Cégep La Pocatière), an electrical engineering degree from École de Technologie Supérieure (Montréal), and a specialization in microelectronics at École d’Ingénieurs du Canton de Neuchâtel (Switzerland). Scott Everling drives the creation of new measurement solutions through integration and automation of Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence’s core products. This portfolio includes coordinate measurement machine (CMM) technology, laser tracker, and white light (WLS) solutions that integrate with machine tools, robots, and within other automated environments. Everling has worked in the metrology industry for more than two decades, solving precision manufacturing measurement problems in a wide variety of industries. His background includes several years chasing precision at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, as well as operating a measurement consulting and programming firm concentrating on automotive and aerospace powertrain applications. He holds a mechanical engineering degree from Cornell University. About the company Hexagon works with digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software, and autonomous technologies. We’re putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality, and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and mobility applications. Our technologies are shaping production and people-related ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous – ensuring a scalable, sustainable future. Hexagon’s manufacturing intelligence division provides solutions that use data from design and engineering, production, and metrology to make manufacturing smarter. Curbell Plastics Inc. published a technical paper for engineers and machinery designers about environmental stress cracking (ESC), the premature brittle failure of plastic materials caused by the combination of stress and chemical contact. The plastic part failure caused by ESC white paper discusses how certain plastics are susceptible to failure when exposed to adverse conditions. The paper combines knowledge from scientific literature and industry experience to outline common causes of ESC and how to contend with them. “Due to the nature of polymeric materials, their structural integrity can be compromised by adverse environmental factors such as chemicals, cyclic loading and vibration. We are cautious when selecting and assembling plastic parts in order to prevent premature failures,” said Timothy Buchanan, the paper’s author and Technical Service Engineer for Curbell Plastics. “This white paper is a good primer for engineers who work with plastics in challenging conditions, especially those involving chemicals.” The paper includes charts, graphs, and illustrations explaining the most common environmental stress cracking issues that engineers and designers encounter. It concludes with techniques to reduce environmental stress cracking, tips on proper cleaning, and how to minimize physical stress. About the presentation Surface data not only contains information about functionality of a product but also gives hints about the environmental conditions, like processing parameters or vibration. There are different methods to obtain such information and white light interferometers are accepted to be one of the most powerful tools for surface metrology. Besides other metrological characteristics, its vertical resolution at the nanometer level enables the acquisition of important details in topography. At the same time, effects of environmental factors like uncontrolled movement or vibrations can be seen in the measurement data if some precautions are not taken. In this presentation, a new method which reduces the effects of environmental disturbances is described. Registration Powered by AMT and managed by GIE Media,  The IMTS 2022 Conference  features 69 different sessions you won’t want to miss so  register today . Focused on a range of topics that include process innovation, plant operations, quality/inspection, and automation,  The IMTS 2022 Conference  addresses improving productivity; improving part quality; and developing a stable, competent workforce to lower the cost of manufacturing in the United States and create new levels of market demand. Meet your presenter Özgür Tan is the strategical product management (SPM) lead for optical surface metrology at Polytec GmbH, Germany. Before that, he was a product manager at Leica Microsystems GmbH from 2011 to 2015 and an expert for metrology and inspection at BOSCH GmbH from 2003-2007. He has a master’s degree and Ph.D. in metrology from University of Erlangen, Germany. About the company Polytec has more than 400 employees worldwide. We develop, produce, and distribute optical measurement technology solutions for research and industry. Our quality innovative products have an excellent reputation internationally among the expert community. We find solutions tailored to our customers’ requirements on a day-to-day basis.