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Rail Meets Airport Operations and the Case for Transferring Logic, Not Systems
Rail Meets Airport Operations and the Case for Transferring Logic, Not Systems Transport infrastructure is converging on a single operating reality. Whether the building is an airport terminal or a mainline railway station, the underlying engineering problem is increasingly the same: move large volu...
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Continuous AI Monitoring Delivers a Clearer View of Infrastructure Risk
Continuous AI Monitoring Delivers a Clearer View of Infrastructure Risk Local authorities in England and Wales are running an ageing, weather-battered network on money that never quite reaches the work. The Asphalt Industry Alliance’s 2026 ALARM survey put the carriageway repair backlog at a r...
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Komatsu and AIM Put Physical AI at the Centre of Autonomous Earthmoving
Komatsu and AIM Put Physical AI at the Centre of Autonomous Earthmoving Komatsu has spent nearly two decades proving that heavy machines can run themselves. Its FrontRunner system put the first commercial autonomous haul trucks into mines in 2008, and in April 2026 the company became the first manuf...
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GreenVibe Targets Construction’s Biggest Blind Spot with Data-Driven Concrete Verification
GreenVibe Targets Construction’s Biggest Blind Spot with Data-Driven Concrete Verification The Venezuelan earthquake doublet of 24 June 2026 has done something no engineering conference has managed in a generation. It has pushed a quiet, technical question to the top of the construction indust...
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Trimble Financials and the Convergence War for Construction Accounting
Trimble Financials and the Convergence War for Construction Accounting Trimble has made its construction financial software available to the smallest customers it has ever formally courted, and the significance sits less in the product than in the direction of travel. Trimble Financials, generally a...
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Worldsensing’s G7 Digital Logger and the Quiet Rewiring of Infrastructure Monitoring
Worldsensing’s G7 Digital Logger and the Quiet Rewiring of Infrastructure Monitoring The most commercially significant thing about the Loadsensing G7 Digital Data Logger is not its specification sheet. It is what the device says about where value is moving in infrastructure monitoring. The mar...
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Procore’s $845 Million DroneDeploy Deal Buys Construction AI its Eyes
Procore’s $845 Million DroneDeploy Deal Buys Construction AI its Eyes When Procore Technologies agreed to pay approximately $845 million in cash for DroneDeploy, it was not really buying drones. The transaction reads on the surface as a reality-capture company changing hands, yet the strategic...
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Knitted-Fabric Mathematics Points to Tougher, Cheaper Construction Textiles
Knitted-Fabric Mathematics Points to Tougher, Cheaper Construction Textiles A study on the mathematics of knitting has arrived in a serious physics journal, and on the surface it has nothing to do with highways, bridges or embankments. Look closer and the argument is one every infrastructure owner s...
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Why Rewarding Good Drivers Could Transform Road Safety
Why Rewarding Good Drivers Could Transform Road Safety Every day, millions of drivers obey the speed limit. They receive no recognition, no reward and rarely even a second thought, while almost every pound spent on road enforcement is directed at the relatively small minority who break the rules. Th...
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The Roundabout Paradox: The Safer Junction Millions of Drivers Still Resist
The Roundabout Paradox: The Safer Junction Millions of Drivers Still Resist Every year, hundreds of thousands of crashes occur at road intersections in the United States, and a disproportionate share are the side-impact collisions, commonly called T-bone crashes, in which one vehicle strikes the fla...
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JCB LiveLink Update Marks Shift From Machine Monitoring to Remote Fleet Control
JCB LiveLink Update Marks Shift From Machine Monitoring to Remote Fleet Control For close to two decades, construction telematics has been sold on visibility. Fleet owners were promised they would finally know where their machines were, how hard they were working and when they needed servicing. JCB...
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Fuel Certification Emerges as the Real Prize in Europe’s Renewable Fuel Pilot
Fuel Certification Emerges as the Real Prize in Europe’s Renewable Fuel Pilot Twenty passenger cars circulating around Spanish filling stations would not ordinarily register as an industrial story. The six-month pilot launched in early July 2026 by Bosch, Toyota Motor Europe, BMW Group and Rep...
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China’s Seismic Risk Agenda Moves from Structural Strength to Financial Resilience
China’s Seismic Risk Agenda Moves from Structural Strength to Financial Resilience A bibliometric review is an unusual place to look for a market signal, yet the study of Chinese seismic risk management published in Risk Sciences does something useful for anyone selling into, financing or spec...
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Procore Skills and the Race to Own the Construction Operating Layer
Procore Skills and the Race to Own the Construction Operating Layer The most consequential item in Procore’s 23 July Digital Coworker announcement was not the agent count. It was Skills, a facility arriving across all packages in August that allows a contractor to encode its own processes, sta...
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Generative Search Emerges as the New Gatekeeper for AI BIM Automation
Generative Search Emerges as the New Gatekeeper for AI BIM Automation OFA Group’s disclosure on 14 July that its QikBIM platform had recorded 161 discovery events originating from ChatGPT-related searches is, on its own, a modest data point from a Nasdaq-listed architecture and technology comp...
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Epiroc is Betting on Connected Mining in Mexico
Epiroc is Betting on Connected Mining in Mexico Six weeks after Epiroc elevated its long-running relationship with Ericsson into a global go-to-market alliance for private LTE and 5G, the Swedish equipment group’s Mexican organisation has signed a partnership with Rajant Corporation to deliver...
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Ten Tonnes Above Everest Base Camp with a DJI FlyCart 100
Ten Tonnes Above Everest Base Camp with a DJI FlyCart 100 DJI’s disclosure that it moved 10,073 kg of cargo between Everest Base Camp and Camp 1 during the spring 2026 climbing season is being reported as a mountaineering story, but the numbers belong in a logistics ledger rather than an exped...
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Inside Kilmac’s Full-Stack Trimble Investment and What it Signals for Civil Engineering
Inside Kilmac’s Full-Stack Trimble Investment and What it Signals for Civil Engineering Kilmac Ltd. has taken delivery of six Trimble SPS720 total stations, six Trimble R780 GNSS smart antennas and six Trimble TSC710 data collectors running Trimble Siteworks, supplied through SITECH UK & I...
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Samsara’s Rebrand Puts Construction at the Centre of Connected Operations
Samsara’s Rebrand Puts Construction at the Centre of Connected Operations A logo refresh would not normally trouble a construction trade desk, and Samsara’s first major visual overhaul since its founding could easily be filed under corporate housekeeping. The detail that makes it worth r...
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Aeonsemi LumaReach Broadband and the Economics of Avoiding the Trench
Aeonsemi LumaReach Broadband and the Economics of Avoiding the Trench The hardest part of a full-fibre rollout is no longer the fibre. Trunk routes, distribution rings and passive optical splitting are mature engineering, procured against known unit rates and delivered by contractors who have been b...
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Exodigo Expands Subsurface Portfolio to Claim the Underground Data Layer
Exodigo Expands Subsurface Portfolio to Claim the Underground Data Layer Exodigo’s decision to widen its product portfolio into four integrated solution categories reads less like a routine product update and more like a statement of intent. The company built its reputation on Subsurface Utili...
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ARCβs India Forum Puts Industrial AI to Work Across Plants and Supply Chains
ARCβs India Forum Puts Industrial AI to Work Across Plants and Supply Chains The signal from Bangalore this month was less about ambition and more about arrival. ARC Advisory Groupβs 24th India Forum, staged on 9 and 10 July 2026 under the banner βHow AI Is Driving the Future of Industrial Operation...
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P&M Excavations Builds a Competitive Edge on a Decade of Trimble Machine Control
P&M Excavations Builds a Competitive Edge on a Decade of Trimble Machine Control A family-run civil engineering contractor from County Tyrone has spent ten years proving a point that much of the wider construction sector is still only beginning to accept, which is that sustained investment in di...
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Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Miningβs Future
Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Miningβs Future The strategic partnership between Hitachi Construction Machinery and Pronto points towards a more commercially accessible model for mine automation, one designed around the equipment operators already own rather than an ent...
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Japan is Building a Full-Stack AI Economy With NVIDIA
Japan is Building a Full-Stack AI Economy With NVIDIA Japanβs latest wave of artificial intelligence investment matters because it is moving beyond isolated software trials and into the machinery, factories, transport systems and scientific infrastructure that support the wider economy. A series of...
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Commercial UAV Expo Brings FAA and EASA Together on BVLOS Drone Operations
Commercial UAV Expo Brings FAA and EASA Together on BVLOS Drone Operations Routine beyond visual line of sight drone operations could alter the economics of infrastructure inspection, surveying, emergency response and asset monitoring. Their wider adoption would allow one operator to cover longer co...
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High-Resolution Drone Mapping Brings Precision Management to Rangelands
High-Resolution Drone Mapping Brings Precision Management to Rangelands Managing extensive landscapes has traditionally required a compromise between scale and detail. Satellite imagery can cover large territories, while ground surveys reveal conditions at plant and soil level, but neither method al...
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ORNL Motor Drive Design Targets Heat and Wear for High-Power Electric Propulsion
ORNL Motor Drive Design Targets Heat and Wear for High-Power Electric Propulsion The next phase of transport electrification will depend on more than battery capacity and charging speed. Heavy-duty trucks, construction equipment, ships and aircraft need propulsion systems capable of handling sustain...
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Komatsu Brings Connected Earthworks to Singaporeβs Changi Terminal 5
Komatsu Brings Connected Earthworks to Singaporeβs Changi Terminal 5 Komatsuβs first full-scale Smart Construction deployment in Singapore will place digitally guided machinery and shared earthworks data at the centre of one of Asiaβs most consequential infrastructure programmes. At Changi Airport T...
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Topcon and GreenValley Alliance Targets the Next Generation of Spatial Intelligence
Topcon and GreenValley Alliance Targets the Next Generation of Spatial Intelligence The strategic agreement between Topcon Positioning Systems and GreenValley International signals a wider change in how geospatial technology is being developed and sold. Surveying is moving beyond individual instrume...
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Autonomous Sensor Workflows are Redrawing Infrastructure Drone Surveying
The Drone Was Never the Point Autonomous Sensor Workflows are Redrawing Infrastructure Drone Surveying For most of the past decade, the commercial drone story was a story about aircraft. Better cameras, longer flights, larger batteries and steadier gimbals defined what buyers cared about, and the he...
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The Construction Technology Being Engineered for Earth and Beyond
The Construction Technology Being Engineered for Earth and Beyond For most of the past half century, construction has been the industry that innovation seemed to forget. While manufacturing, logistics and communications were rebuilt around automation, sensors and software, the business of moving ear...
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Esri’s Power of Where Collection Puts Water and Land Data at the Heart of Infrastructure
Esri’s Power of Where Collection Puts Water and Land Data at the Heart of Infrastructure When a software company releases books rather than product updates, it is easy to file the news under corporate housekeeping and move on. That would be a mistake in this case. Esri’s decision to debu...
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Between Fleets and Cities: Arrive’s Eugene Tsyrklevich on the Kerbside’s Next Decade
Between Fleets and Cities: Arrive’s Eugene Tsyrklevich on the Kerbside’s Next Decade The United Kingdom opened its self-driving vehicle pilot scheme in 2026, with applications inviting operators to run taxi and bus-style automated services and the first paying journeys expected later in...
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Esri Moves Real-Time GIS Behind the Firewall With ArcGIS Velocity
Esri Moves Real-Time GIS Behind the Firewall With ArcGIS Velocity Esri has made ArcGIS Velocity generally available for self-hosted ArcGIS Enterprise, and for infrastructure owners the significance is less about the software itself than about where it can now run. Until this release, organisations w...
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The Intelligent Machine Has Arrived
The Intelligent Machine Has Arrived Picture a working earthworks site on a weekday morning. An excavator trims a batter to design grade on its own, its boom and bucket following a three-dimensional model while the operator watches from a remote operations centre and keeps an eye on two other machine...
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Open High-Res Hydrography Reaches the Americas with HydroSHEDS v2
Open High-Res Hydrography Reaches the Americas with HydroSHEDS v2 For anyone who plans roads, bridges, pipelines, drainage systems or flood defences, the quality of the underlying water map has always set the ceiling on what the analysis can deliver. Rivers, catchment boundaries and the direction wa...
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Trimble’s AI Takeoff Tools Target the MEP Estimating Bottleneck
Trimble’s AI Takeoff Tools Target the MEP Estimating Bottleneck Construction’s stubborn productivity problem has a well-documented choke point, and it sits in the pre-construction office rather than on site. Before a single conduit is bent or a light fixture wired, an estimator has to in...
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Esri Explores the Strategic Value of GIS in Higher Education with The Spatial Edge
Esri Explores the Strategic Value of GIS in Higher Education with The Spatial Edge Esri has published The Spatial Edge: The Strategic Advantage of GIS Skills Across Higher Education, a guide arguing that geographic information systems belong across an entire university rather than inside a handful o...
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Low Bridge Alerts and Weight Limit Routing: What CDL Drivers Need in a GPS App
Low Bridge Alerts and Weight Limit Routing: What CDL Drivers Need in a GPS App Commercial trucks are the lifelines of modern economies, hauling everything from concrete and steel to consumer goods. The sheer scale and mass of these vehicles provide significant advantages over other transportation mo...
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HTEC and Embotech Accelerate the Industrial Rollout of Level 4 Autonomous Logistics
HTEC and Embotech Accelerate the Industrial Rollout of Level 4 Autonomous Logistics The industrial autonomy market is entering a new phase where engineering execution, certification and scalable deployment are becoming just as important as advances in artificial intelligence. As autonomous vehicle t...
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INRIX Signals Scorecard Turns Connected Vehicle Data into Traffic Signal Benchmarks
INRIX Signals Scorecard Turns Connected Vehicle Data into Traffic Signal Benchmarks Traffic signals rank among the most heavily used and least scrutinised assets on the road network. Agencies commit substantial sums to installing, timing and maintaining them, yet the instruments available to judge w...
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Argonne’s ChemGraph is Reshaping Materials Research
Argonne’s ChemGraph is Reshaping Materials Research The materials that will decide the next decade of infrastructure, from longer-lasting batteries to cleaner-burning fuels and secure supplies of critical minerals, all begin life inside a simulation. Designing them at the atomic level has long...
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The Roads That Autonomous Vehicles Need Don’t Yet Exist
The Roads That Autonomous Vehicles Need Don’t Yet Exist Autonomous vehicles are coming to the UK but are our roads ready? The lane-keep assist and driver safety systems fitted to millions of cars depend on being able to read road markings and signage clearly. On British roads as they currently...
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How Real-Time Traffic Data Helps Cities Spot Road Danger Earlier
How Real-Time Traffic Data Helps Cities Spot Road Danger Earlier Motor vehicle crashes cost far more than most people realize. In 2019 alone, the U.S. recordedΒ $340 billion in crash costs, which works out to roughly $1,035 per person. And here’s the uncomfortable truth: much of the road safety...
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SPH Engineering Launches 2026 Global Drone Operations Awards
SPH Engineering Launches 2026 Global Drone Operations Awards SPH Engineering has opened applications for the Global Drone Operations Awards 2026, an international recognition programme aimed at advanced drone work in industrial, scientific and engineering settings. On its surface this is a competiti...
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From Haul Road to Smelter: Pedestrian Alert Technology Finds a Wider Market
From Haul Road to Smelter: Pedestrian Alert Technology Finds a Wider Market A pedestrian detection system built for the mining sector has been fitted across a mixed fleet of forklifts, skid steer loaders, cranes and backhoes at a mining and smelting complex in northwest Queensland, and the deploymen...
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AI Drone Surveys Take on the Plastic Mines Metal Detectors Cannot Find
AI Drone Surveys Take on the Plastic Mines Metal Detectors Cannot Find Every major reconstruction programme in a formerly contested landscape shares an unglamorous precondition. Before roads can be relaid, housing rebuilt or energy infrastructure restored, the ground itself has to be certified safe,...
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Walnut Shell Catalyst Reframes Recycling Plastic into Chemicals
Walnut Shell Catalyst Reframes Recycling Plastic into Chemicals A new study out of Shihezi University has quietly shifted the terms of a debate that matters far beyond the laboratory bench. For years the chemical recycling industry has chased a single number: how much high-value liquid a catalyst ca...
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Construction Robotics Steps Up a Gear as Berlin Prepares to Host Robotics-2027
Construction Robotics Steps Up a Gear as Berlin Prepares to Host Robotics-2027 The distance between a robotics laboratory and a live construction site has been shrinking for several years, and the gap is now narrow enough that infrastructure owners, contractors and plant manufacturers can no longer...
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Vantor’s WorldView 3D Turns the Map into a Live Operating Layer
Vantor’s WorldView 3D Turns the Map into a Live Operating Layer For as long as engineers, planners and commanders have relied on maps, the map has behaved like a fixed reference point: surveyed once, trusted for years, and quietly falling out of step with a world that never stops moving. Vanto...
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Monotch Brings European TLEX Connected Mobility to US Traffic Networks
Monotch Brings European TLEX Connected Mobility to US Traffic Networks A proven European traffic-data platform is about to meet the messier reality of American signal infrastructure, and the outcome matters well beyond a single boulevard in the San Francisco Bay Area. Monotch and the Contra Costa Tr...
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Cybersecurity Moves to the Front of the Line on the Caribbean’s First Monorail
Cybersecurity Moves to the Front of the Line on the Caribbean’s First Monorail When DNV was named to run cybersecurity assurance on the Santiago de los Caballeros monorail, the more revealing detail was not the win itself but the shape of the contract. Independent cyber risk management...
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Digital Twins and 3D Delivery Drive Bentley’s Japanese Growth Strategy
Digital Twins and 3D Delivery Drive Bentley’s Japanese Growth Strategy Bentley Systems has opened a regional headquarters in Tokyo and committed to more than doubling its Japanese workforce over three years, and the timing is the story. The Nasdaq-listed engineering software company (BSY) is m...
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Power, Ports, Exaflops and Europe’s AI Infrastructure Race
Power, Ports, Exaflops and Europe’s AI Infrastructure Race Europe is assembling more computing power in a single year than at any point in its history, and the numbers behind that expansion are now large enough to reshape how the continent thinks about industrial capacity, energy and sovereign...
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NETGEAR Takes On Cisco and Extreme With AI Network Management for SMEs
NETGEAR Takes On Cisco and Extreme With AI Network Management for SMEs NETGEAR has released Insight 10.0, the latest generation of its cloud network management platform, and framed it as the starting point for what the company calls AIOps and, eventually, AI-defined networking for small and medium-s...
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Certified 3D Safety Reaches the Robot Floor with Sonair ADAR One
Certified 3D Safety Reaches the Robot Floor with Sonair ADAR One For most of the past decade, the safety function that keeps a mobile robot from hurting the people around it has been anchored by a technology that only ever sees a single horizontal slice of the world. The 2D laser scanner, mounted lo...
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Building Resilience as The Hague Plans its Coastline for 2100
Building Resilience as The Hague Plans its Coastline for 2100 The City of The Hague has set out how it believes its coastline should be managed through to the year 2100 and beyond, and for the firms that build and maintain sea defences the document reads less like a single landscaping idea and more...
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Graitec Stakes its AECO AI Strategy on Accountability and Sign-Off
Graitec Stakes its AECO AI Strategy on Accountability and Sign-Off Graitec, the French-headquartered structural software developer and one of the world’s largest Autodesk partners, has set out an artificial intelligence strategy that deliberately reframes the debate now running through the arc...
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H2SITE Secures Fresh Investment to Scale Hydrogen Infrastructure
H2SITE Secures Fresh Investment to Scale Hydrogen Infrastructure Hydrogen has spent much of the past decade progressing through pilot programmes, demonstration plants and technology validation. The next challenge for the sector is commercial execution. Manufacturers capable of producing reliable equ...
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Swarm Robots Borrow From Bees and Ants to Rethink Mine Automation
Swarm Robots Borrow From Bees and Ants to Rethink Mine Automation A research team at Adelaide University has put forward a different answer to a question the mining industry has been spending heavily to solve: how to take people out of dangerous ground without bankrupting the operation or building i...
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Empa Turns Steel Crack Repair into a Design Problem
Empa Turns Steel Crack Repair into a Design Problem Fatigue cracking is one of the quiet, expensive realities of owning steel infrastructure, and it rarely arrives at a convenient moment. Much of Europe’s steel railway and highway stock was built more than half a century ago, and the welded co...
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Monumental and NZEC Target Taranaki’s Wax Problem With Production Chemistry
Monumental and NZEC Target Taranaki’s Wax Problem With Production Chemistry For onshore producers working mature fields, the barrier to higher output is often not what lies in the reservoir but what happens to the oil once it starts moving. Waxy crude that flows freely at reservoir temperature...
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A Certified Path Opens for Robots That Inspect Inside Explosive Atmospheres
A Certified Path Opens for Robots That Inspect Inside Explosive Atmospheres UL Solutions has issued the first certification under UL 6260, a framework written specifically for remotely operated robots that inspect and maintain industrial sites where explosive gases, vapours or dusts may be present....
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Compact Sand 3D Printing with ExOne and voxeljet’s First Joint Product
Compact Sand 3D Printing with ExOne and voxeljet’s First Joint Product ExOne has launched the S-Print Pro, a compact industrial sand 3D printer built to bring production-grade binder jetting within reach of the small and mid-sized foundries that account for most of the world’s casting ca...
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TNO’s MΓΆbius Recovers The Plastic Streams Mechanical Recycling Leaves Behind
TNO’s MΓΆbius Recovers The Plastic Streams Mechanical Recycling Leaves Behind Europe’s circular-plastics debate has spent years stuck between two imperfect options. Mechanical recycling is cheap and established, but it struggles with contaminated, coloured, additive-laden or mixed materia...
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