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1 week ago | eetimes.com | Nitin Dahad

//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> At last week’s MES & Industry 4.0 conference in Porto, Portugal, the message was clear: production is king, and we can only make factories smart – and even intelligent as a next logical step – if you manage to unlock real value from the data to improve production without making the operator’s job harder.

1 week ago | eetimes.com | Bill Schweber

//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> Who or what is a magneto? A “magneto” is not just the powerful mutant who has the ability to generate and control magnetic fields, and first appeared in the debut issue of The X-Men in 1963. Instead, the engineering magneto is a basic electromechanical way to convert motion—usually rotary—into electrical power.

1 week ago | eetimes.com | Pablo Valerio

//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> As Western technology giants strategically pivot away from their longstanding reliance on China, a fundamental and likely irreversible global technology supply chain recalibration is underway. What began as a shift in the U.S.-China trade war from tariffs to the more intricate arena of export controls is now a full-blown strategic imperative for major tech firms.

1 week ago | eetimes.com | Nitin Dahad

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1 week ago | eetimes.com | Nitin Dahad

//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> With great fanfare, Texas Instruments today announced a $60 billion commitment to building U.S. fabs at its two Texas locations, as well as one at its Utah location. The company also brought in endorsements from customers like Apple, Ford, Medtronic, Nvidia and SpaceX, as well as from U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.