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Changing Scene

ANCA Selects Well Known Machining Expert and Influencer, John Saunders, as One of This Year’s Tool of the Year Judges

ANCA’s Tool of the Year contest is once again underway for the fifth year in a row. The prestigious, global competition opened for entries on May 17, 2022 and will close on August 8, 2022. The competition is based on the passion and the craft of tool making and celebrates the highly skilled tool grinding community. This year the panel of judges will include John Saunders, Saunders Machine Works, among a select group of industry experts.

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HPS Appoints Chief Commercial Officer David Kinsella

HPS is pleased to announce the appointment of David Kinsella to the position of Chief Commercial Officer effective August 1, 2022. Mr. Kinsella will succeed Mr. Dale Sidey who is retiring at the end of the year. Mr. Kinsella will be joining the Hammond Power Solutions Executive Team after 14 years with Affiliated Distributors (AD), most recently in the electrical sector, one of the oldest and largest divisions of AD representing over $18 billion in revenue, where he held the position of President driving value for members since 2008.

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Proax Is Named a Great Place to Work Again

Proax is proud to announce that they have been certified as a Great Place to Work in 2022 after a thorough, independent analysis conducted by Great Place to Work Institute Canada. This certification is based on direct feedback from employees, provided as part of an in-depth and anonymous survey about their workplace experience.

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Changing Scene | Electric Vehicles (EVs)

Eastern Ontario Joins Province’s EV Revolution with Game-Changing Battery Materials Manufacturing Investment

Umicore plans to make a $1.5 billion investment to build a first of its kind industrial scale cathode and precursor materials manufacturing plant, in eastern Ontario. This investment would support Ontario’s vision of building an end-to-end electric vehicle (EV) supply chain in the province and becoming a North American hub for building the cars of the future.

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Advanced Manufacturing | Changing Scene | Industry

ABB and SKF Increase Collaboration on Industrial Automation

ABB and SKF have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore the possibilities for a collaboration in the automation of manufacturing processes. The MoU was signed at ABB’s Robotics Experience Center in Västerås, Sweden, by ABB CEO Björn Rosengren and SKF CEO Rickard Gustafson. Following the successful delivery of a number of projects in SKF’s global manufacturing network, including in Gothenburg, where a fleet of industrial robots from ABB are installed in the bearing manufacturer’s state-of-the-art factory, the two companies are now taking the next step in their collaboration.

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Changing Scene | Education & Training

Saskatchewan Announces Funding for Educational Events in the Information Technology and Green Energy Sectors

Recently, the Government of Saskatchewan announced a one-time investment of $158,000 from Innovation Saskatchewan and the Ministry of Immigration and Career Training to the Saskatoon Industry Education Council, in partnership with Siemens Canada, to create awareness about careers in the Information Technology (IT) and green energy sectors.

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Siemens Reimagines Canadian Headquarters For 110th Anniversary with Customer Co-Creation at Its Core

Customers and employees, as well as special guest Oakville Mayor Rob Burton were on hand at Siemens Canada’s headquarters for the unveiling of a newly renovated office focused on a co-creation environment. During the pandemic Siemens used the opportunity with many employees working safely from home to convert a substantial portion of its Oakville headquarters to create a showcase for Siemens’ technologies that address climate change, the 4th Industrial revolution, and digitalization across different sectors.

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Ontario Continues to Invest in Long-Term Growth and Job Creation

Vic Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, issued this statement following today’s monthly employment release by Statistics Canada that showed employment in Ontario decreased by 24,700 in June. “After several consecutive months of job growth, today’s news is a reminder that the government’s efforts to attract job creators to our province is now more important than ever. Our government, led by Premier Doug Ford, will leave no stone unturned when it comes to building the infrastructure necessary to unlock the full potential of the province’s economy. This includes highways, transit and the road to the Ring of Fire.

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Endress+Hauser Lays the Groundwork For The Future At the Reinach Location

Endress+Hauser continues on the path to growth. Over the past five years the number of employees at the Reinach location in the Swiss canton of Basel-Landschaft has grown by 20 percent to more than 2,000. At the same time, the number of units produced has significantly increased and the digital solutions portfolio has expanded. In order to simultaneously meet the new demands of the work environment, vocational training positions and digitalization, the measurement and automation technology specialist invested 60 million Swiss francs in the Reinach campus.

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ek robotics and OTTO Motors Announce Global Technology Partnership

ek robotics, one of the world’s leading manufacturer and system integrator of innovative high-tech automated guided vehicles (AGVs) for production and warehouse logistics, recently announced its global technology partnership with OTTO Motors, the leading developer of flexible and intelligent autonomous mobile robots (AMR). The two companies combine their core competencies to offer the best combination of AGV hardware and AMR software to customers in the manufacturing and warehousing industries worldwide.

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OPINION: Where Is the Workers’ Voice When It Comes to Talking About Our Automated Futures?

While the pace of technology and artificial intelligence advances at galloping speeds, the world of work is changing right before our eyes. Our lives are so intertwined and dependent on technology that most of us don’t think about the impact on our jobs. Most Canadians aren’t aware that in 2019, the Canadian government, specifically, the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, established an advisory council to, “identify opportunities to create economic growth that benefits all Canadians, and ensuring that AI advancements reflect Canadian values.”

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What Will You Find @ IMTS? International Manufacturing Technology Show

IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show, the largest and longest-running industry trade show in the Western Hemisphere, is held every other year at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. IMTS 2022, which will run September 12-17, 2022, is where the creators, the builders, the sellers, and the drivers of manufacturing technology come to connect and be inspired. Industry professionals from around the globe will visit IMTS to discover the latest innovations in digital and traditional manufacturing, experience more than 15,000 new machining technologies, and find processes that will help solve their manufacturing challenges and improve efficiency.

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Allied Electronics & Automation Opens New Hybrid Office Space & Launches Flexible Work Model

Allied Electronics & Automation is giving its employees a new way to work across its more than 40 locations with a new hybrid office space and flexible work model. While the COVID-19 pandemic presented multiple challenges for nearly every business, it allowed Allied to realize that many of its employees wanted to work differently. By taking the best of how the company worked before the pandemic and combining it with both its own learnings and best practices from other successful similar companies, Allied developed a new physical workplace and working model that is more flexible and supportive, while optimizing the employee, customer and supplier experience.

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Changing Scene | Regulations and Standards | Trending Topics

Joint Consortium Standardizes Common “Power Consumption Management” for the Shop Floor

A new interface standard for the acquisition of energy consumption data in industrial manufacturing is being developed by ODVA, OPC Foundation, PI, and VDMA based on OPC UA. A key objective of the future mechanical and plant engineering sectors is to achieve climate-neutral production. This is backed up by the European Union’s “European Green Deal”, which aims to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050. To achieve this goal, and to implement many other use cases, energy consumption data in production is an important prerequisite.

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Siemens and NVIDIA to Enable Industrial Metaverse

Siemens, a leader in industrial automation and software, infrastructure, building technology and transportation, and NVIDIA, a pioneer in accelerated graphics and artificial intelligence (AI), recently announced an expansion of their partnership to enable the industrial metaverse and increase use of AI-driven digital twin technology that will help bring industrial automation to a new level. As a first step in this collaboration, the companies plan to connect Siemens Xcelerator, the open digital business platform, and NVIDIA Omniverse™, a platform for 3D design and collaboration. This will enable an industrial metaverse with physics-based digital models from Siemens and real-time AI from NVIDIA in which companies make decisions faster and with increased confidence.

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Hannover Messe 2022 | Progress in Motion by Festo

Digitalisation and sustainability were the focal points of the Hannover Messe 2022. The most important industrial trade fair worldwide created a real incentive for the transformation of the economy and industry – towards digitised, climate-neutral and sustainable value creation. Thanks to all our visitors and our exhibition team who made the Hannover Messe so special.

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Changing Scene

ANCA Selects Well Known Machining Expert and Influencer, John Saunders, as One of This Year’s Tool of the Year Judges

HPS Appoints Chief Commercial Officer David Kinsella

Proax Is Named a Great Place to Work Again

Eastern Ontario Joins Province’s EV Revolution with Game-Changing Battery Materials Manufacturing Investment

ABB and SKF Increase Collaboration on Industrial Automation

Saskatchewan Announces Funding for Educational Events in the Information Technology and Green Energy Sectors

Siemens Reimagines Canadian Headquarters For 110th Anniversary with Customer Co-Creation at Its Core

Ontario Continues to Invest in Long-Term Growth and Job Creation

Endress+Hauser Lays the Groundwork For The Future At the Reinach Location

ek robotics and OTTO Motors Announce Global Technology Partnership

OPINION: Where Is the Workers’ Voice When It Comes to Talking About Our Automated Futures?

What Will You Find @ IMTS? International Manufacturing Technology Show

Allied Electronics & Automation Opens New Hybrid Office Space & Launches Flexible Work Model

Siemens and NVIDIA to Enable Industrial Metaverse

Hannover Messe 2022 | Progress in Motion by Festo

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