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SINGAPORE — The Government launched the Skills Framework for the Logistics sector on Friday (Sep 22) aimed at accelerating industry transformation with a focus on guiding local talent with employment, career pathways, job roles, skills, competencies and training programmes related to the sector. The announcement was made at the opening of the Supply Chain City by YCH attended by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The new S$200 million Asia Supply Chain facility at Jurong Innovation District is seen as a new benchmark in the supply chain and logistics industry, supporting Singapore’s key growth areas like urban solutions, smart logistics and robotics. The logistics industry will achieve a value-add of S...

What’s in a name? The nomenclature for manufacturing technology comes in many colors: advanced manufacturing, smart factories, the digital plant, Industry 4.0. The term Industry 4.0 comes from a German government program announced in 2011 that is designed to encourage manufacturers to digitize manufacturing in order to improve Germany’s global competitiveness. In 2015, China launched “Made in China 2025,” an effort to advance its manufacturing technology, again for competitiveness. In the US, smart manufacturing is viewed as a collection of emerging technologies based on digital communication and high-powered computer processing. Software is the key. The following slides walk you through manufacturing technologies that are all quite smart. Image courtesy of Shutterstock

ROBOLOCO, Inc., an educational technology company, with headquarters in Santa Clara, CA, announces a strategic distribution and licensing partnership with RoboTerra Inc., a Silicon Valley & Beijing global educational robotics company. According to the agreement, ROBOLOCO is now the sole distributor for the RoboTerra award-winning Origin and ERRA Kits, outside of China. This partnership incorporates a perpetual license for ROBOLOCO to develop its own proprietary software and robots based upon the existing RoboTerra technology. ROBOLOCO’s CEO, Newton Paskin said, “The acquisition of RoboTerra products distribution in the global market, the rights to further improve the existing technology and continue to develop our own proprietary IP on top of RoboTerra’s IP complements our passion to help educators teach STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). Our team, customers, and investors are extremely excited about the possibilities.” ROBOLOCO will ...

This CAM can’t toss a football and certainly doesn’t have a line of clothes at Belk . This CAM is the Gaston College Center for Advanced Manufacturing and it's up and running adjacent to the Dallas campus of the college. Earlier this month, CAM began training students in robotics, industrial systems, computer-aided design, instrumentation and mechatronics. Virgil Cox , dean of engineering and industrial technologies at Gaston College , says industry on the western side of the Charlotte region needs employees for technical jobs. “To educate students for occupations in the engineering, energy, and manufacturing industries within our region, we needed a lab that would bring all the specialized functions together,” he says. The 22,100-square-foot building is in Gastonia Technology Park, but it's within a stone’s throw from the Dallas campus of Gaston College . The $8 million center was financed by a range of public and private funding. Contributors incl...

A team of researchers from the University of Houston has reported a breakthrough in stretchable electronics that can serve as an artificial skin, allowing a robotic hand to sense the difference between hot and cold, while also offering advantages for a wide range of biomedical devices. The work, reported in the journal Science Advances , describes a new mechanism for producing stretchable electronics, a process that relies upon readily available materials and could be scaled up for commercial production. Cunjiang Yu, Bill D. Cook Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering and lead author for the paper, said the work is the first to create a semiconductor in a rubber composite format, designed to allow the electronic components to retain functionality even after the material is stretched by 50 percent. The work is the first semiconductor in rubber composite format that enables stretchability without any special mechanical structure, Yu said. He noted that tra...