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Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 refers to a new phase in the Industrial Revolution that focuses heavily on interconnectivity, automation, machine learning, and real-time data. Industry 4.0, which encompasses IIoT and smart manufacturing, marries physical production and operations with smart digital technology, machine learning, and big data to create a more holistic and better-connected ecosystem for companies that focus on manufacturing and supply chain management.

Special Crystals Generate 1,000 Times More Voltage From Solar Cells

HALLE-WITTENBERG, Germany - The photovoltaic effect of ferroelectric crystals can be increased by a factor of 1,000 if three different materials are arranged periodically in a lattice. This has been revealed in a study by researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). They achieved this by creating crystalline layers of barium titanate, strontium titanate and

By |2022-05-26T12:32:00-04:00May 26th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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Limitless Electric Power By The End Of Decade Now Possible

LONDON, UK - Scientists have been scrambling to crack the code to harness nuclear fusion, which has been hailed as a “holy grail” energy source. Eventually, a nuclear fusion process could generate electricity by using heat from fusion reactions. This is the same process used by stars, where hydrogen atoms fuse together to form helium and

By |2022-05-26T09:37:48-04:00May 26th, 2022|Featured, Industry 4.0|
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Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center To Merge U.P., Traverse City Offices

PLYMOUTH - The Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center plans to merge its regional offices in the Upper Peninsula and Traverse City later this summer. Marquette-based Northern Initiatives, a nonprofit community development financial institution (CDFI) that works with small businesses and entrepreneurs, currently houses MMTC-Upper Peninsula. Following the merger, Northern Initiatives plans to continue partnering with MMTC both in the

By |2022-05-25T12:27:34-04:00May 25th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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SME And Women In 3D Printing Join Forces To Build Diverse Manufacturing Workforce

DETROIT — Industry leaders SME, a non-profit professional association dedicated to advancing manufacturing, and Women in 3D Printing (Wi3DP), a global organization with a mission to close the gender gap in Additive Manufacturing (AM), are partnering to attract and build a diverse next gen workforce to advance the AM industry. “SME has been enabling the

By |2022-05-17T14:09:54-04:00May 17th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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MIT Joins Startup Backed By Bill Gates To Build Viable Fusion Reactor For Clean Energy

BOSTON - The Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has signed a new five-year agreement with Commonwealth Fusion System (CFS) to continue their collaboration on fusion energy research and education activities, an institutional press release said. Backed by Bill Gates, the CFS is a technology spinout from MIT and

By |2022-05-15T12:11:03-04:00May 15th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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New Battery Type Provides Low-Cost, Long-Term Energy Storage

DETROIT - A new battery design could allow for more affordable, long-term energy storage, a press statement from Imperial College London reveals. The Imperial team of engineers and chemists developed a polysulfide-air redox flow battery (PSA RFB) with two membranes. This dual membrane design provides a workaround for some of the issues with PSA RFB, meaning it could

By |2022-05-12T19:10:12-04:00May 12th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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A Lithium-Ion Battery Charged To 60 Percent In 5.6 Minutes

BEIJING, China - A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China has successfully managed to increase the speed of charging a lithium-ion battery to a rate of 5.6 minutes for a 60 percent charge, according to a report by TechXplore published on Thursday. They achieved this impressive feat by adding a copper coating and nanowires to the

By |2022-05-08T16:06:43-04:00May 8th, 2022|Auto Tech, Industry 4.0|
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Scientists Reveal the Fourth Signature of the Superconducting Transitions

PALO ALTO, Ca. - research team at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University has finally revealed that fourth signature with precise, high-resolution measurements made with angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, or ARPES, which uses light to eject electrons from the material. Measuring the energy and momentum of those ejected electrons reveals how the electrons inside the

By |2022-05-08T16:06:43-04:00May 8th, 2022|Industry 4.0, Uncategorized|
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New Energy Storage System Is More Efficient And Potentially Transformative

DETROIT - Every technology that runs our world requires energy on demand. Energy must be stored and made available in order to power electronic devices and illuminate buildings. The large variety of devices that require on-demand energy has resulted in the development of several energy storage strategies. Many energy storage systems use a combination of

By |2022-05-02T09:46:00-04:00May 2nd, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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