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    Connected Worker Tech and AI, Technologies that Provide Fast Results

    Dec. 13, 2024
    Industry leaders discuss the immediate impact of connected-worker systems and AI on manufacturing, offering insights into accelerating profits and efficiency.
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    Nano Dimension Fires CEO Amid Struggles in Additive Manufacturing Space

    Dec. 27, 2024
    CEO Yoav Stern ousted at Nano Dimension as merger with Desktop Metal enters a possible courtroom fight.
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    Immersive AR/VR Technologies in Manufacturing: Case Studies, Benefits

    Dec. 12, 2024
    This primer on the potential of augmented-, virtual- and mixed-reality technologies for manufacturing offers real-world examples of companies using such systems as well as advice...
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    US Firms Up $6.2 Billion Micron Funding to Boost Chipmaking

    Dec. 10, 2024
    The Micron investment helps bring development and production of advanced memory semiconductor technology to U.S. shores, said Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
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    Design Thinking: Human-Centered, Data-Driven Manufacturing

    Dec. 2, 2024
    The five-step empathize, define, ideate, prototype, text planning process can translate data into action in manufacturing.

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    Four Steps to Supercharging Sustainable Battery Manufacturing

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    IndustryWeek editors look into that, what's up with Textron Aviation, big investments in power and more semiconductor investments coming to the U.S.