Tag «automation»

Dell EMC Packs Enterprise-Class Automation, Data Mobility and Performance Features into New SC Series Entry Arrays

India – Sept. 20, 2017 Dell EMC upgrades its most affordable SC Series midrange storage with features previously not available in Dell EMC storage models at this price point New SCv3000 Series arrays include advanced auto-tiering, data reduction and full replication/federation with other SC Series arrays Built with 3x higher bandwidth, 2x increased memory and …

Automation key to tackling maritime skills crisis

Facing a shortfall of 147,000 qualified officers by 2025, speakers at SOMWME 2017 hail advancements in automation and connection as the answer to shipping’s skills shortage   SINGAPORE, Aug. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — A perfect storm of retiring baby-boomers and the ongoing global economic downturn, are causing the number of skilled seafarers in the global …

Siemens modernizes automation of hot rolling mill at Handan

• New profile and flatness control improves product tolerances • Microstructure Target Cooling supports production of modern materials • Parallel installation of new automation and changeover solution avoids plant downtime Chinese Handan Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. has placed an order with Siemens Metals Technologies to modernize the process automation system of the hot …

Petra Rehmet is the new Press Officer for the KraussMaffei brand

  – New worldwide liaison for the Injection Molding, Automation and Reaction Process Machinery trade press (Munich, July 15, 2014) With immediate effect, Petra Rehmet has become the new Press Officer of the KraussMaffei brand. She will be responsible for worldwide communication in the areas of Injection Molding, Automation and Reaction Process Machinery. “We are …

How Automation Hurts American Unemployment & Spending

Rapid technological advances will spread a new wave of automation across the U.S., increasing unemployment, depressing American consumer spending and further shrinking the middle class. CHICAGO-(June  17, 2014)-“When a worker is replaced by a machine or computer, a consumer is lost.  The machine or computer that replaces the worker is part of the production cycle, …

Sale of ThyssenKrupp Tailored Blanks to Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation (WISCO) completed

The sale of ThyssenKrupp Tailored Blanks to Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation (WISCO)/China has been completed. Following approval by the responsible regulatory authorities, the closing took place today. The agreement to sell the company, which produces tailored steel blanks for the auto industry, was signed in September 2012. Sites and jobs have been secured under …

Siemens now also modernizes basic automation in the hot strip mill at Aluminium Norf

Together with Aluminium Norf GmbH (Alunorf), located in Neuss, Germany, Siemens Metals Technologies will modernize the complete basic automation of hot strip mill no. 2. This involves converting the initial Simadyn-D-based equipment installed in 1994 to Simatic TDC without disrupting production. Siemens had previously received an order to modernize the main drives. The conversion work …