Manufacturing

Do or die - Nissan takes the axe to the house Ghosn built YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Nissan (7201.T) is planning aggressive cost cuts to deal with an unexpected slump in sales as the expansionist strategy it inherited from fugitive former Chairman Carlos Ghosn flounders, four people familiar with the plans said. FILE PHOTO: Nissan's Ariya concept car is displayed during the Tokyo Motor Show, in Tokyo, Japan October 23, 2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo Japan’s second biggest carmaker is set to eliminate at least 4,300 white-collar jobs and shut two manufacturing sites as part of broader plans to add at...

Athenahealth’s take on HIMSS20 trends: primary care disruption, AI and competitive data access The executive director of research at the cloud IT giant describes what CIOs and other healthcare leaders should be looking for at the global conference in March. By Bill Siwicki Jessica Sweeney Platt, executive director of research at athenahealth, has quite a lot to think about in her role there. She has to stay on top of all of the fast-changing trends across healthcare, and dig deep into all sorts of clinical and administrative details to help guide the company’s strategy. Healthcare IT News asked Platt for some perspective...

Food Manufacturers Top Two Improvement Priorities Operational improvements that impact food manufacturers the most continue to focus on automation and robotics. Automation and Robotics are Top Two Operational Improvements for Food Manufacturers According to “2019 Trends and Advances in Food Packaging and Processing,” when looking at developments in operational improvement data over the last two years, automation installations retained the leading position, with more than half of food manufacturers using automation to fill gaps in worker availability. Robotics rose to the second position on the list with 2 in 5 food companies deploying robotics currently, compared to 1 in 5 companies two...

OMRON Opens New AUTOMATION CENTER in Tokyo - Flagship FA Technology Center That Brings About Innovation to Production Floor through Co-creation with Customers KYOTO, Japan, Jan.24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- OMRON Corporation, based in Kyoto, Japan, announced the January 22 opening of AUTOMATION CENTER TOKYO (ATC-TOKYO) in Shinagawa, Tokyo, where corporate customers join OMRON to find solutions to their manufacturing issues. The 37th ATC facility in the world, ATC-TOKYO is OMRON's flagship factory automation (FA) technology center, where model production floors are built within the world's largest* ATC facility to allow customers to experience and test state-of-the-art FA that seamlessly integrates AI, IoT, robotics, and other cutting-edge technologies. At...

Quality Inspections Drive Machine Vision and Deep Learning Connection Cognex works with end users in multiple industrial verticals to apply deep learning to its vision systems for final and in-line assembly verification. Cognex Deep Learning quality inspection software can be trained to identify correct placement and types of items assembled or packaged. In this consumer packaged goods example, it's assorted chocolates in a package. Source: Cognex Despite the advance of automation technologies into virtually every realm of manufacturing, quality inspection remains a task commonly reserved for humans. One of the primary reasons for this is that factors such as random...