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New Leadership at Edgewater Automation in Buchanan

edgewater Automation, a global custom automation equipment supplier, named Jamen blake managing Director at their recently opened (2019) automation facility in buchanan, mI.

Jamen has been with edgewater since he was in high school, working summers, then full-time after graduating Hope College in 2012 with a degree in business management.

Jamen was part of the six-person start-up team in 2013 at edgewater’s second automation facility in Spartanburg, SC; first as purchaser, setting up the supplier network, then as applications engineer, creating 3D machine simulations and then building growth as marketing manager, before moving into a project management role.

When Jamen joined the automation facility in buchanan as project manager in 2021, the Spartanburg facility had grown to 70 employees.

“I look forward to using my start-up experience to help take buchanan to the next level, working with our other divisions to balance workloads and leverage strengths to grow together as one company,” Jamen says. “We want to carve out a world-class automation facility here in buchanan, and we’re going to work hard for it.”

Jamen’s predecessor, Kevin moynihan, continues with edgewater Automation leading contract manufacturing and assembly. “Kevin is positioning us for exponential growth through collaboration with our exceptional team at the edgewater manufacturing Division in buchanan,” says edgewater president rick blake. “this is a great time for Kevin and Jamen to be in their respective roles as we integrate more and more innovation into our machine design and build.”

For more information on edgewater Automation, see our interview with rick blake, founder and CeO of edgewater Automation.

Exact Metrology Shares Innovative 3D Scanning Technologies & Scanning with Area Industries

exact metrology: A Division of In-place machining Company, a comprehensive 3D metrology service provider and hardware sales company, recently hosted technology Fairs at their facilities in brookfield, Wisconsin and moline, Illinois. each event drew over 100 people from the surrounding areas who were interested in learning more about the industrial benefits of innovative and highly accurate 3-dimensional scanning technologies and software. Attendees included quality assurance and quality control engineers, manufacturing and production personnel, and other supervisors and technicians from a variety of industries including power generation, automotive, off-highway, consumer durables, and others.

EXAIR Offers Case Study Library for Detailed Examples of Successful Solutions

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Replique Creates Network of Material Partners to Advance Industrial 3D Printed Parts Production

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that enables Oems to provide spare parts on-demand, has announced the creation of a partner network of authorized materials vendors. the move represents an important step in the company’s objective to make its 3D printing platform accessible to more Oems and provide best-in-class and tailored materials to industrial customers.

Importantly, the partner network, which initially comprises LeHVOSS Group, evonik Industries, Forward Am, and igus GmbH, will ensure that the required standards pertaining to the development, manufacture, and certification of advanced materials are met in order to qualify industrial production in 3D printing of spare parts. As part of an automated quality documentation process, a certificate of analysis, stating that the supplied materials meet the required specifications, is provided and linked to each part, and then saved on replique’s digital inventory platform. CERATIZIT USA Moves Headquarters to centralize operations and continue to better serve its customers, tooling supplier CerAtIZIt USA, Inc. has shifted its official U.S. Headquarters from Warren, michigan, to the company’s Schaumburg, Illinois, facility location. CerAtIZIt acquired the Schaumburg facility when it absorbed the KOmet tooling brand name and product line under the CerAtIZIt Group umbrella.

CerAtIZIt USA offers a full-range product portfolio that spans 65,000 tooling products specifically focused

on the needs of U.S. manufacturers. Under the name team Cutting tools, the portfolio includes solutions from CerAtIZIt as well as tooling under the KOmet, WNt, and KLeNK brand names. CerAtIZIt USA engineers and manufactures highly specialized, precision cutting tools for drilling, boring, reaming, milling, and turning.

MassRobotics, Festo, Mitsubishi Electric Automation, MITRE, and Novanta Join Efforts to Support Healthcare Robotics Startups

massrobotics, Festo, mitsubishi electric Automation, mItre, and Novanta are calling on startups in the healthcare robotics space to apply to the second Healthcare robotics Startup Catalyst program. the objective of the program is to advance healthcare robotics companies by providing the connections, guidance, and resources they need to grow and succeed. the selected startups will be guided by seniorlevel mentors from organizing companies and supported to connect with potential customers, investors, suppliers, marketing, and more. Additionally, the selected startups will exchange milestones with the larger Healthcare robotics Working Group, comprised of an eastern U.S. cluster of corporate, academic, government, startup, and venture capital volunteers. the program focuses on startups in the areas of clinical care, public safety, laboratory, supply chain automation, out-of-hospital care, and quality of life. It also addresses continuity of work and education, as well as training and support for healthcare professionals.

Inner Geometry Data Provided by Timken in KISSsoft

KISSsoft and timken have teamed up to add more value for design engineers. bearing calculations from timken can now be easily generated in KISSsoft for the software’s registered users. Although the data is not visible in KISSsoft, it can be used in the background for calculation and design purposes.

In the KISSsoft release 2022, timken is now providing internal macro geometry for more than 7,000 timken® tapered, spherical, cylindrical roller, and deep groove ball bearings. this allows KISSsoft users to perform more accurate ISO tS 16281 life calculations, giving them more confidence when designing and specifying bearings for their equipment. the inner geometry data for the rolling bearings in use is retrieved via timken's cloud service solution.

Want to learn more about how to access and use timken data in KISSsoft? Visit www.kisssoft.com/en.

Women in Manufacturing Association Announces HERizon 5K Race to Support Training and Education Opportunities for Women in Industry

the Women in manufacturing® (Wim) Association’s 12th annual SUmmIt, October 10-12, 2022, in Atlanta, GA, will open on October 9 with the inaugural Herizon 5K race in support of the Women in manufacturing education Foundation (WimeF). this public event serves an important role in helping Wim fulfill its mission to provide ongoing programs and cultivate new initiatives to assist women in the manufacturing industry gain knowledge and become leaders within their companies and communities.

Since its inception in 2016, the WimeF has impacted thousands of women with its programming, including 14,000 professionals who have participated in the foundation’s monthly Virtual Learning Series and more than 300 women who have graduated from formal leadership programs—the management Development program and the Leadership Institute for Women in Stem and manufacturing. the Herizon 5K will take place on Sunday, October 9, 2022, at 2 p.m., leading racers on an exhilarating route through midtown Atlanta, GA. the registration cost is $45 and includes a logoed t-shirt and celebration beverage at Stats brewpub. Awards will be presented to the top 10 finishers as well as the top individual and team fundraisers.