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5 CrAzY days of AMT Tech Trends Podcast at IMTS 2022 replays!

TecHanukkah Day 2: Stephen’s been pumping out a ton of video content for IMTS 2022, including a visit to a local Chicago distillery: Koval. Benjamin likes his hotel room and ran the Miles for Manufacturing (M4M) 5K fundraiser. Steve talks for a long time about pizza. Ben tries to change the subject to hypersonics. They close with data waste or “D-waste.”

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5 CrAzY days of AMT Tech Trends Podcast at IMTS 2022 replays!

TecHanukkah Day 1: Ben and Steve Collect their thoughts after the first day of IMTS 2022 and report on how their tradeshow strategies are working. Stephen claims the IMTS 2022 crowd is the most diverse group of people in the manufacturing industry. Benjamin gets giddy over automation use cases. They can’t decide what they want to see next!

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Episode 85: Steve is so abusive to his car that he has his oil mass spectrometry analyzed every 30,000 miles. Ben wants to go to the range and shoot. Stephen announces a new robotic arm that he will buy for the testbed and is waiting for a quote. Benjamin and Steve discuss how far the industry has come in 2022 and what they are looking for in 2023.

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Episode 84: Steve opens with his adventure getting his motorcycle suspension tuned and tailored to his weight. Ben introduces the 2022 Oxford dictionary word of the year, then transitions to ultrasonic propulsion, and then the superiority of WiFi 6 over 5G. Stephen applauds Microsoft for testing the Earth’s oceans as a home for our D-waste. Benjamin thinks robot dogs will make great firefighters, but then Steve closes with a controversial soapbox rant about why robots are better for firefights.

- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/04/arts/goblin-mode-oxford-word.html

- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/12/221206105855.htm

- https://www.elektormagazine.com/news/white-paper-why-wi-fi-6-goes-hand-in-hand-with-cellular-to-enable-the-hyper-connected-enterprise-future

- https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/project-natick-underwater-datacenter/

- https://www.wired.com/story/cloud-data-storage-climate/

- https://www.syracuse.edu/stories/zhenyu-gan-robots-engineering-computer-science/

- https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/no-killer-robots-protesters-rage-against-sfpd-and-city-hall/

- https://sofrep.com/news/r2fu-robot-used-kill-dallas-police-assassin-attack-dpd-eod-bot/

- https://chinalakemuseum.org/nawcwd-firsts

- https://americanprecision.org/category/about_page/

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Episode 83: Steve’s solved a steak problem. Ben shares some alternative (read: better) thanksgiving dish ideas. Benjamin then announces that MIT’s solution to a bad algorithm was to solve a differential equation. Stephen shows that China put a gun on a robot dog. Ben thinks plant inspections are for walking robot dogs of the future. Steve thinks that Industrie 5.0 is coming.

- https://www.engadget.com/mit-century-old-differential-equation-liquid-ai-computational-bottleneck-160035555.html

- https://www.dailydot.com/debug/boston-dynamics-weaponized-robots-spot-letter/

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0mnymzGKs0

- https://metrology.news/automated-plant-inspections-become-a-walk-in-the-park/

- https://www.instrumentation.co.uk/paving-the-way-for-industry-5-0-and-cobots/

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Episode 82: Steve is going to a manufacturing industry adjacent tradeshow that he and Ben have been trying to get into for a long time; Ben will for sure go next year (2024), though. Stephen also talks about how it felt to cut the first part off the new testbed CNC. Benjamin shares six innovations on display in the additive pavilion at IMTS. Steve gets all excited over lean leadership. Ben tries to close with an article on cyber security, but Stephen won’t shut up.

- https://www.amtonline.org/article/six-innovations-from-the-additive-manufacturing-pavilion-at-imts-2022

- https://americanbobcat.blog/2022/07/22/lean-manufacturing-designing-a-car-the-techniques-of-lean-design/

- https://www.amtonline.org/article/building-an-advanced-cybersecurity-plan-network-resource-configuration

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Episode 81: Ben and Steve are done with the fallout from hurricane Ian and are almost ready to welcome some snow. Benjamin is excited about a new aluminum alloy. Stephen talks about a high-speed extrusion head that can lay down a kilo of printed polymer per hour. Ben gets to the bottom of why industrial robotics is rising. Stephen discusses two more points he and Ben left out from the last episode.

- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/technology-main/2022/10/a-national-laboratory-comes-up-with-a-new-version-of-a-very-basic-metal/

- https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/veda-3d-unveils-new-high-flow-extruder-that-can-3d-print-over-a-kilogram-of-filament-per-hour-215249/

- https://www.sdcexec.com/software-technology/robotics/article/22484406/itransition-why-industrial-robotics-is-on-the-rise

- https://www.emsnow.com/how-to-survive-and-thrive-in-manufacturing-in-the-2020s/

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Episode 80: Ben and Steve have returned home from IMTS2022 and discuss their IMTS postpartum depression. Benjamin tries to go over eight critical takeaways from IMTS 2022 without interruption. Stephen ensures his failure with his drooling over ultrasonic additive.

- https://www.imts.com/read/article-details/8-Key-Takeaways-from-IMTS-2022/1671/type/Read/1/tab/all-articles?page=1

- https://www.engineering.com/story/this-company-is-shaking-up-additive-manufacturing-with-ultrasonics

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Episode 79: Ben and Steve are packing up for IMTS2022 and discuss their packing strategies. Benjamin introduces an article on robot risk assessment. Stephen talks about an aftermarket air filter for consumer polymer 3D printers. Ben brings up converting plastic waste into 3D printing materials. Steve mentions new Toyota AGVs. Benjamin closes with relying on and trusting data. Happy IMTS!

- https://www.assemblymag.com/articles/97298-how-to-conduct-a-robot-risk-assessment

- https://hackaday.com/2022/09/03/nevermore-is-what-you-get-when-engineers-design-air-filters-for-3d-printers/

- https://www.koin.com/science/washington-state-researchers-convert-plastic-waste-into-3d-printing-material/

- https://emag.directindustry.com/2022/09/07/toyota-launches-the-cdi120-a-new-automated-warehouse-solution/

- https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/why-industry-5-0-needs-trusted-data/

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Episode 78: Ben and Steve discuss their favorite adult beverages to quaff in Chicago. They continue the theme of the last episode but, this time set their sights on the east and west halls, including all the programs available on the main stage.

- https://www.imts.com/read/article-details/How-to-Get-Started-with-Smart-Manufacturing-and-IIoT-Part-1/1635/type/Read/1/tab/all-articles/category/Connected-Factory/80?page=1

- https://www.imts.com/read/article-details/Connectivity-Boosts-Productivity/1582/type/Read/1/tab/all-articles/category/Connected-Factory/80?page=1

- https://www.ctemag.com/news/industry-news/make-better-tooling-choices-new-online-resources

- https://www.todaysmedicaldevelopments.com/article/additive-manufacturing-tooling-performance-ceratizit/

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