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DirectIndustry: What is the state of industrial recovery in France? Olivier Dario: There are positive factors today for French industry. The COVID crisis revealed the problem of subcontracting to Asia and of our dependence on the rest of the world. The French government is now ready to launch an investment plan with the idea that we must bring our industry back. And I th...

The Marvel Plus series is HGTECH’s latest fiber laser cutting machine, with middle power and high power options. It includes the world’s leading Raycus laser source with a 5-year warranty and new generation CNC system, which significantly advances cutting and piercing efficiency. Marvel Plus is built with a double-driven gantry structure using aerospace-grade pressure-...

The Chinese government has never made any big secret of its desire to advance the country’s technological prowess. But in recent times that desire has become increasingly fervent. In 2020, Beijing announced its masterplan for accelerating China’s drive toward global technological supremacy, with a plan to inject more than $1 trillion into the national economy through 202...

By Wendy Liou, Sales Director, SEYI Presses Europe GmbH, sales@seyi.com.tw Electric cars and the lightweight trend supporting CO2 emission reduction targets drive the renovation of vehicle manufacturing technology. Meanwhile, in order to improve vehicle safety and reduce fuel consumption, the use of high-strength steel and new materials for door beams, roof rails, body ...

AAEON offers the most expansive lineup of solutions powered by the NVIDIA® Jetson™ family of AI Edge System on Chips (SoCs), with the efficient NVIDIA Jetson Nano™, flexible NVIDIA Jetson™ TX2 NX, innovative NVIDIA Jetson Xavier™ NX, and the powerful NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier™. AAEON’s family of compact, fanless systems powered by NVIDIA deliver a wide range of I/O config...

Taiwan is well-known for its semiconductor fabrication plants. But silicon chips are not the only thing it has to offer manufacturers across the world. Taiwan’s smart machinery leaders are helping global manufacturers embrace the future. From high-precision CNC cutting machines, power presses and machine tools to industrial automation and collaborative robots, let’s take...

Giuseppe Colombina, Head of Comau Pontedera Innovation Hub and CEO of IUVO, explained they are teaming up with Heidelberg University in a bid to find more uses for wearable robotics in human-machine collaboration. “Heidelberg University will now research the impact of using the exoskeleton within a multifaceted manufacturing context, looking at biomechanical and product...

D30 is an orange goo that you can wrap around your hands and then, if you whack with a mallet, you will notice that nothing happens to your hand. The first D3O material was developed by Philip Green and Richard Palmer, two inventors who were finalists of the European Inventor Award 2019, organized by the European Patent Office (EPO). D3O materials, which are very apprec...

Silicon Valley. Silicon Roundabout. Bucharest. It may not seem like a logical progression, but the Romanian capital is showing signs of becoming one of the world’s next tech hotspots. This is underpinned by an expanding IT talent pool, cheap operating costs, high-grade digital infrastructure and buoyant national economic growth. AI-fuelled Growth Today, start-ups putti...

But it is not the first time that the European continent shows interest in such air vehicle technology. This summer, a curious airship will fly over Marseilles’ area in South of France. Inflated with helium, this 13 meters-long aircraft will be able to spot the slightest outbreak of fire at a distance of 10 km and at an altitude of 500 meters, thanks to a camera, infrar...

What is Quantum Computing? Since the birth of the single-chip microprocessor 50 years ago, computers have performed calculations by manipulating bits of information – ones and zeros – using tiny transistors baked into silicon chips. Modern processors cram tens of billions of transistors into a chip the size of a fingernail. Quantum computing does away with transistors. ...

Not so long ago many economic experts were writing off Taiwan. Some of the island’s strongest companies had decamped to heavyweight mainland China, wages had stalled, annual growth was flagging, and its population was ageing rapidly. Taiwan’s heyday as a so-called Asian tiger – when it was held up as a showcase for rapid economic development (together with South Korea, S...

What is Racer-5 COBOT? Duilio Amico: Racer-5 COBOT offers a different approach to cobotics. We have created a solution with the speed, accuracy and durability of an industrial robot, but added sensors that allow it to work with humans. A cobot is by its nature slower and less precise than an industrial robot because it needs to cooperate with humans. Its maximum speed is...

Hydrogen, the universe’s most abundant element, is said to be the perfect fuel to replace oil as it does not emit greenhouse emissions. As a matter of fact, Europe is currently massively investing in hydrogen. Last June, Germany announced a massive plan worth 9 billion euros over ten years. Shortly after France confirmed a 2 billion-euro plan for the next two years. At...

Vortex Bladeless has designed a technology that is an alternative and innovative way to turn wind energy into power without the need for giant turbine blades that can be an eyesore on the environment. The start-up was founded in 2014 to properly focus on developing a new kind of wind turbine that oscillates instead of rotating with blades. The company filed a patent for ...

INSIGHTS| China’s Road to 2025 (8/8) – ELECTRICITY – With its “Made in China 2025” strategy unveiled in mid-2015, China has set itself the goal of becoming the world’s leading economic power. In this context, DirectIndustry magazine is partnering with intelligence consultancy DCA to offer our readers key information about this industrial strategy. Jean-François Dufour, C...

The aim, explains Dr. Thomas Kroyer, Head of Group Coating Technology and Systems at the organization, is to make solar panels more aesthetically pleasing to encourage designers to incorporate them into buildings. “We see a lot of potential for these panels in building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV). BIPV is a technology that can significantly improve the CO2 balance ...

With decades of experience behind it, Japanese company Kett Electric Laboratory is forging ahead manufacturing a range of measuring instruments used in various industries. Kett was established in 1946. The Kett head office is in Tokyo and there are five sales branch offices in Osaka, Sapporo, Sendai, Nagoya and Kyusyu. Norihiro Yoshida is the general manager of the comp...

Daigo Orihara, Director, President, and CEO of the company, which was founded in 2013, explains the products have both industrial and domestic applications. “Our Muscle Suit Every, the model we sell to overseas markets, enables users to perform tasks and work operations, involving mid-waist posture and carrying heavy objects, more easily. It has already been used in ind...

Yuli Nofar, from the company, explains the technology employs ultrasonic soundwaves to offer 98% particle filtration efficiency, 99.99% antibacterial efficacy – including antibiotic-resistant bacteria – and 99,89% virucidal efficacy. The process also has durability to industrial laundries. “Our technology was initially developed to fight hospital-acquired infections. Th...

Japan’s industrial sector is highly diversified, manufacturing products ranging from basic goods (such as steel and paper) to cutting edge technology. The country dominates the world’s automobile, robotics, biotechnology, nanotechnology and renewable energy sectors, and is home to some of the world’s largest manufacturers of electronic products. Its industrial sector rep...

As consumers’ eating behaviors are also changing radically, demand for food developed by a variety of production methods has intensified. As a result, a number of companies have emerged onto the market, each with their own range of foods and food production methods for the modern consumer. Let’s take a tour. 3D Food Lynette Kucsma is the co-founder of Barcelona-ba...

His Netherlands-based start-up is focused on developing end-to-end digital manufacturing solutions for companies using 3D printing and has recently launched its latest module. AM-Bagging joins other AM-Flow modules that can be brought together to optimize the production of 3D printed parts and allow manufactures to upscale their operations. “Additive manufacturing is gr...

On May 6th, 1964, the New York Times featured an interview with Theodor Maiman, the man who had built the first laser in Mai 1960. 60 years later we know how many problems his invention solved. Without lasers, we would have no internet, no computers and no gene sequencing, to name but a few major applications. But it took 60 years and many brilliant minds around the glob...

On May 6th, 1964, the New York Times featured an interview with Theodor Maiman, the man who had built the first laser in Mai 1960. 60 years later we know how many problems his invention solved. Without lasers, we would have no internet, no computers and no gene sequencing, to name but a few major applications. But it took 60 years and many brilliant minds around the glob...

Equipped with visual sensors, Sparrow is able to collect data, then transmit and analyze it on its software platform AIM. Now Percepto’s AIM platform can also integrate with other robotic solutions such as Boston Dynamics‘ four-legged robot Spot. We spoke with CEO Dor Abuhasira. Autonomous drone maker Percepto announced this week it had secured $45 million in investme...

Čapek’s prescient production, in addition to using the word “robot” for the very first time, sparked longstanding debate on the social, moral and economic arguments over the development and use of artificially intelligent technologies. It is interesting to note that the word robot comes from the Czech for “forced labor”. The robots in R.U.R are not mechanical devices....

Lists of ingredients using complex terminology that is often incomprehensible to consumers keep getting longer and longer. Cereals, biscuits and ready-made meals usually include additives that are increasingly being pointed out by consumers seeking transparency regarding the composition of the products they consume every day. It is no coincidence that applications such a...

Every two weeks, Jean-François Dufour, CEO of DCA, will decipher one of the objectives of the “Made in China 2025” plan including semiconductors, machine tools, electric vehicles, railways, and telecom. September 15 marks the end of a transitory period, after which Washington will exert control over the sale of any electronic component containing US technology to Chin...

DirectIndustry magazine has decided to partner with intelligence consultancy DCA Chine Analyse (DCA China Analysis) to offer our readers key information to help you understand and analyze Chinese industry in order to accurately evaluate the competition and your business potential. On the occasion of this partnership, DCA is offering DirectIndustry e-magazine readers a...

Industry is a hazardous place and workers need protection from the dangers posed by impacts, dust, gases, fire and all the other threats they face, but employers and manufacturers of PPE have to think about more than just protection, says David Matthews, a former UK government advisor on health and safety and personal protective equipment, and now a consultant with Fire ...

That’s what Vincent Gérard, CEO of the French company VirtualExpo Group which powers DirectIndustry, thinks. Today, the company is officially launching its new online marketplaces. This interview was conducted by Camille Rustici, Editor-in-Chief of DirectIndustry e-Magazine, Célia Sampol, Editor-in-Chief of MedicalExpo e-Magazine and Erin Tallman, Editor-in-Chief of A...

In this article, we focus on robotics. Duilio Amico, Marketing and Network Development Director Robotics & Automation Products at Comau, gives his insights into 20 years of innovations in robotics. 20 Years of ROBOTICS with Comau Comau is a multinational Italy-based company specialized in industrial automation. Their competencies range from technologies and system...

In this interview, we focus on the logistics sector. Crystal Parrott, Vice President of the Robotics Center of Excellence at supply chain technology supplier Dematic, gives her insights into 20 years of innovations in logistics. 20 Years of LOGISTICS with Dematic Dematic is a supplier of integrated automated supply chain technology and was founded in 1819. They off...

In this interview, we focus on machine-tools. Filip GEERTS, Director General, CECIMO – European Association of the Machine Tool Industries and related Manufacturing Technologies gives his insights into 20 years of innovations in machine-tools. 20 Years of MACHINE-TOOLS with CECIMO Cecimo is a European umbrella organization of machine tool manufacturers, consisting of...

You’ve heard of emission-free vehicles. But what about emission-free vehicle production? That’s the vision of Toyota, one of the world’s largest automakers. Its Toyota Environmental 2050 Challenge calls for the company to eliminate CO2 emissions from its global production plants by 2050. To meet these ambitious goals, Toyota is taking steps to both reduce its energy u...