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Insight4 Sept 2017Flat knitting machinery manufacturer Shima Seiki has extended its capabilities with the release of a new i-Plating option on select models in its line of computerised knitting machines.
Insight31 Aug 2017AD International, a division of California-based Prism Inks has acquired Graphics One, effective as of 5 July 2017, the company announced today.
Insight30 Aug 2017X-Rite Incorporated has joined forces with Germany's ColorPartner to help automate colour management for industrial inkjet applications.
In a competitive global supply chain, the optimisation of manufacturing capacity, considering material resources as well as staffing and facilities, through well-thought-out production planning, is crucial. Whilst production planning in the past was informed by historical data and sales forecasts, which are still relevant in many ways, harnessing real-time data is enabling greater flexibility in production planning.
Artemis Capital Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm focused on leading industrial technology companies, announced yesterday that it has led the acquisition of StanChem Incorporated, a specialty chemicals manufacturer based in East Berlin, Connecticut, US.
Insight10 Aug 2017Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems are widely used in apparel design, as well as in the area of textiles for weaving and weft knitting, where photorealistic images of future products can be virtually manipulated to change the colours, yarn types, pattern, densities and other parameters.
Insight4 Aug 2017The announcement of the relaunch Google’s Glass EE gets the company back in the augmented reality game it kick-started, for all intents and purposes, back in 2013. This time though, the AR headset finds itself in a battle of the (enterprise) niches. Major upgrades between the explorer and the enterprise edition of Google’s augmented reality glasses include a modular structure, a better camera (from 5 megapixels to 8), extended battery life, faster Wi-Fi and processor, and a new red light that turns on when recording video. Arguably, there’s not that many differences between the first iteration of Glass some 4 years ago and the new headset. In reality, and most critically, it’s not so much that Glass EE is a new device, it’s that the rules of the augmented reality game are new.
Insight3 Aug 2017Creativity meets digital technologies at Munich Fabric Start this September with the German Institute of Textile and Fiber Research (DIFT) and its partners inviting visitors to “find out how to answer market demands for customized products and on-demand production,” at the Digital Textile Microfactory. The live showcase of the Microfactory allows visitors to experience a fully networked, integrated and seamless production chain, from 3D design to digital printing, cutting and assembling.
Insight3 Aug 2017When we talk broadly about emerging markets, it’s often the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) that come to mind. To call India and China emerging markets in 2017 sounds a little unfair, with China’s nominal GDP for 2017 set to rank the country at number two in the world, second to the US and with the highest purchasing power, and India ranking at number 6, based on nominal GDP, but set to move up to number 4 in the world by 2022. But the scope for growth in these markets is astounding and Brazil and Russia aren’t far behind, at 8th and 11th respectively when it comes to nominal GDP, and despite economic and political troubles in recent years, strong re-emerging markets.
