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Picoma celebrates its 75th anniversary and its place in domestic manufacturing – PRNewswire

Posted: February 25, 2021 at 1:10 am

CHICAGO, Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Picoma, a division of Zekelman Industries, is celebrating 75 years as a domestic manufacturer of electrical elbows, couplings and nipples (EC&N). Picoma has a long history in the steel industry, dating back to its founding in 1946. Company leadership and employees credit Picoma's longevity in the business to the company's commitment to domestic manufacturing.

"We started out manufacturing in Ohio 75 years ago, and we're still doing it here today," said Steve Camilletti, Picoma's general manager for North America. "The commitment to controlling our own destiny, controlling our service, controlling our quality, and to making an American-made product that's what's really kept us going all these years."

When asked about the company's future, Picoma's leadership says they've made modernization a priority. They're embracing a human-machine co-manufacturing environment that has allowed them to automate without losing their workforce. Picoma is also investing significantly in high-tech equipment, eco-friendly manufacturing practices, and online ordering and inventory management services.

Over the last five years, Picoma has added 35 U.S. jobs and continues to produce 100% American-made EC&N using domestically sourced steel.

Picoma's 75th anniversary comes on the heels of Zekelman Industries' recent "Life Reinforced" campaign launch, which aims to communicate the importance of domestic manufacturing and calls for companies to "make it here."

"When we invest in domestic manufacturing, we invest in local workers and local communities, creating opportunities for generations to come," Zekelman Industries CEO Barry Zekelman said. "Picoma is a part of our family and plays a vital role in our vision for the future. We are proud to help them celebrate 75 years in domestic manufacturing."

About PicomaPicoma, a division of Zekelman Industries, manufactures a complete line of electrical conduit fittings galvanized elbows, couplings and nipples and a complete EC&N package of aluminum, running thread and service meter masts.

About Zekelman Industries Zekelman Industries includes the operating divisions of Atlas Tube, Picoma, Sharon Tube, Wheatland Tube, Western Tube and Z Modular. It is the largest independent manufacturer of hollow structural sections (HSS) and steel pipe, and the top producer of electrical conduit and elbows, couplings and nipples in North America. Zekelman Industries delivers a broad range of pipe and tube solutions that build its customers' success.

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Back to the future – PMLiVE

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Focus on value

After environmental shifts and business model speciation, my third fundamental prediction was about how those business models would group into genera.

Evolutionary theory implied an extreme polarisation of the three ways to create value via either technological innovation, operational efficiency or customer intimacy and hence the emergence of three distinct kinds of business.

The ancestors of these business model genera could already be seen in, for example, Roche, Mylan and Fresenius but in each case we have seen increasing specialisation and, consequently, differentiation. Increasingly, we dont have one industry, we have three.

And just as biological species succeed by uncompromising specialisation, life sciences companies that try to straddle these three genera fail.

We have seen this in the relative demise of Teva, whose leadership thought it could be both innovative and low-cost. Evolution forces choices and despises compromises.

Customer-centric, but for which customer?

As well as predicting speciation by how value is created, Generalised Darwinism also predicted speciation according to the customer for whom that value is created.

Historically, our industrys customer has been institutional healthcare systems and the governments that fund them. But as the healthcare possibilities outstrip the ability of governments to fund them, evolution predicts a habitat in which the patient pays even for advanced, expensive treatments.

And this has come to pass. Whether as co-pays, health- tourism or crowd-funding, were seeing the emergence of a market in which the patient, or his or her family, influences the choice of drugs or devices.At the extremes, we see this in Human Longevity Inc, whose model is unlikely ever to appeal to governments or insurers.

Together with the above-mentioned specialisation by how to create value, specialisation by who to create value for has created a market environment of nine habitats, each driving the evolution of different kinds of business models in the same way that desert, jungle and tundra lead to the emergence of habitat-specific species.

Equally, every failed market access submission is evidence of a business model that has tried to straddle habitats and failed (see Figure 1). In another parallel with biological species, business models reflect the habitat in which they live.

Darwins tangled bank

As I drilled deeper into the complexity of our industry, I could see that even nine business models werent enough to fully describe reality.

Even within each habitat, business models were specialising within specialisation. Technological innovators were choosing to focus on one area of science or to become science integrators for instance, with drugs and companion diagnostics.

Business models that aimed to compete on customer intimacy were polarising between small audiences so called health concierges and mass markets, which is Fitbits emerging model.

Those models that aim to imitate innovators were diverging between those who followed close behind such as biosimilars and those who chose to focus on old science the unbranded generics, for example.

To anyone who has read Darwins Origin of Species, the parallels between this complexity and his description of the tangled bank of an English hedgerow are obvious. If it is possible to improve survivability by specialising, nature will find a way to do so. Equally, if ROI can be improved by speciation, new life sciences business models will emerge.

The result is the complexity we see in our market today and is reflected in Figure 1, which identifies no less than 26 distinct business models. You can read more about this in my June 2016 PME article, Explosive Evolution.

QED

Although built on years of research, the conclusions of my research could only be putative. Evolutionary science isnt like Newtonian physics, in which the future can be perfectly extrapolated from the past.

Nor is it resolvable into simple laws like the physical sciences. It took me 120,000 words to explain my findings in my 2017 book Darwins Medicine. The only way to test my Darwinian predictions was to sit back and watch, which is what Ive done since 2016 and you may have read in my regular PME column named after the book.

By and large, I feel pretty vindicated. The six great shifts I saw emerging in 2016 have each grown into market-shaping fundamentals. The market polarisation into nine habitats has become clear and it is increasingly true to think of the industry as a family of industries.

Within each of these families, business model speciation is evident as they struggle to create value in a changing market environment. Scientists, however, are always interested in the null hypothesis. It is interesting that, for example, firms and their customers have struggled to adopt value-based pricing.

Equally, large firms have been slow to adapt both to new technologies and changing customer needs and have resorted to acquisition over organic evolution.

Both of these phenomena are examples of how evolution is slowed when it involves co-evolution between different species. These peculiarities continue to drive my research without calling into doubt the previous findings of my work.

Marxs dictum

Darwins Medicine was an attempt to explain the world of the life sciences industry. But Im reminded of the words carved on Karl Marxs tomb: The philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point, however, is to change it. Here, I think my research has had a more mixed result.

Ive worked with many companies to apply the findings of Darwins Medicine to the practicalities of their business challenges. The common thread in this work has been that firms can accelerate and direct their own evolution by the equivalent of genetic engineering.

By selectively removing, adding and changing organisational routines those little internal processes that make things happen in a company they can adapt themselves to the changes in the market that would, without adaptation, lead to their extinction.

With some companies, this concept of engineering the Routineome has been seized on with enthusiasm and executed with alacrity. I have been thrilled to see how my theory has been applied in practice to achieve both commercial ends and, necessarily, patient benefits.

With other companies, however, I have led the proverbial horse to the Darwinian water but I have not been able to make them drink.

Sometimes, firms who see the life sciences as central to their success see management sciences as irrelevant to their future. This failure to adapt cant be explained by the individual intelligence of their leaders.

I have not yet met a CEO who isnt very clever. But I think it can be explained by something that might be described as their organisational absorptive capacity. That some firms absorb new ideas better than others is a fact as established as any in management science.

It is a major explanation of why some firms last and others dont. Ultimately, this difference between firms and its consequence was, like much else, foreseen by Darwin himself. As he was paraphrased by Leon Megginson, it is those who are most responsive to change that survive.

A set of all four of the 2016 PME articles describing this work is available from the author at brian.smith@pragmedic.com

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How to live longer: Garlic and ginger can reduce cancer risk to boost longevity – Express

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Ageing is deterioration of the physiological functions in human body, which is associated with several diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, neurological disease, cancer, and other metabolic disorders. It has been reported that oxidative stress and inflammation mainly contribute to the progression of ageing. This is where foods come in which can either help or hinder this process. Studies and experts advise including more ginger and garlic into your meals to help boost longevity.

In a study published in Sift Deck Research Page, the role of garlic and ginger in anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory effects in ageing was further investigated.

The study noted: Previous studies show that garlic lowers blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides, and homocysteine, boost immunity and decreases oxidative stress and inflammation, which are associated with anti-ageing mechanism.

Scientific evidence suggests that garlic and ginger both showed the protective effects against oxidative stress by depleting ROS and inflammation and extending life span.

Garlic and ginger are reported to have many bioactive compounds that exert antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects.

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There have been reports of evidence which indicate the health benefits such as anti-ageing and antioxidant effects of garlic.Garlic has been shown to prevent chronic diseases such as ageing, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and Alzheimers disease.

Garlic has been shown to prevent chronic diseases such as aging, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and Alzheimers disease.

Moreover, garlic has been demonstrated for lowering cholesterol, triglycerides, and homocysteine, and decreasing oxidative stress and inflammation.

In addition, garlic treatment was reported to lower blood pressure, boost immunity, increase internal antioxidant like glutathione, and ameliorate fatigue.

Health experts suggest that a garlic rich diet and its supplement in any form provides regular health benefits and help to prevent serious diseases and ageing.

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Gut health also plays a pivotal role in keeping health threats at bay and boosting life expectancy and new research highlights a particular herb for its gut health benefits.

According to findings presented at a research event on ageing well hosted by Yakult in Tokyo, Japan, the popular herb was shown to boost gut health and subsequently extent longevity.

The findings attribute the gut health benefits to the high amounts of natural fibres that are found in garlic, which boosts good bacteria.

These crowd out harmful gut bacteria which are known to contribute to everything from cancer and dementia to obesity and mental illness.

Ginger root is the most commonly used for home remedies like headache, nausea, common cold and emesis.

It possesses various life activities, such as antioxidant, anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer activities.

There is some evidence to suggest that ginger can also inhibit and regulate several diseases, such as neurodegenerative diseases, heart diseases and metabolic disorders like diabetes mellitus and obesity, and respiratory disorders.

In a study published in the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, the effect of ginger on the lipid levels was investigated.

The study noted: Forty-five patients in the treatment group and 40 patients in the placebo group participated in this study".

There was a significant reduction in triglyceride, cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL), very low-density lipoprotein, levels of before and after study separately in each group," it continued.

Mean changes in triglyceride and cholesterol levels of the ginger group were significantly higher than the placebo group.

Mean reduction in LDL level and increase in high density lipoprotein level of ginger group were higher than the placebo group, but in VLDL level of placebo was higher than ginger."

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Britons rush to book holidays amid plans to end lockdown – The Associated Press

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LONDON (AP) Stir-crazy Britons rushed to book overseas vacations after Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled plans to slowly ease a national lockdown, boosting optimism that travel restrictions will be removed in time for the summer holiday season.

TUI, the U.K.s largest tour operator said bookings increased six-fold on Monday, the companys busiest day in more than a month. Discount airline easyJet said demand for flights more than tripled, and package holiday company Thomas Cook said traffic on its website increased 75%. International travel has nearly ground to a halt globally, so the increases are a sign of hope for the beleaguered industry.

We have consistently seen that there is pent-up demand for travel, and this surge in bookings shows that this signal from the government that it plans to reopen travel has been what U.K. consumers have been waiting for, easyJet Chief Executive Johan Lundgren said in a statement. The Prime Ministers address has provided a much-needed boost in confidence for so many of our customers in the U.K.

While the plans, which Johnson announced Monday, were welcomed by travel companies, many business leaders were disappointed at the slow pace of re-opening as some restrictions are expected to remain in place until June 21. Others criticized the government for failing to guarantee current levels of support for businesses hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Office for National Statistics said Tuesday that the U.K.s unemployment rate rose to 5.1% in December, up 0.1% from the previous month and 1.3% from a year earlier. The number of people on company payrolls has dropped by 726,000 since the pandemic began last February, with 58.5% of the decline coming among people under 25.

But the figures dont show the full impact of COVID-19 restrictions. Some 1.9 million workers remain on furlough, a government program that covers 80% of the wages for people who arent working but remain on their employers payroll.

The sheer longevity of the crisis is taking its toll on firms, and young people in particular who have borne the brunt of jobs losses, said Nye Cominetti, senior economist at the Resolution Foundation, a think tank focused on improving conditions for low-income people. The government will need to address this in next weeks budget by both extending emergency support to firms while restrictions are still with us, and announcing fresh stimulus to power Britains economic recovery.

Airlines and hospitality businesses have been particularly hard hit by the pandemic, with restrictions all but shutting down international travel and closing pubs and restaurants for much of the past year.

The government is now considering the possibility of introducing some type of COVID status certification to give business owners and consumers confidence about the safety of reopening theaters, restaurants and other venues this year.

So-called vaccine passports, which could include information on whether a person has been vaccinated and recent COVID-19 test results, raise difficult questions about privacy in Britain, which doesnt have a tradition of national identification cards.

There are deep and complex issues that we need to explore, and ethical issues about what the role is for government in mandating for people to have such a thing, Johnson said Tuesday after visiting a school. We cant be discriminatory against people who, for whatever reason, cant have the vaccine I think everybody should have a vaccine, but we need to thrash all this out.

Britain has had Europes deadliest coronavirus outbreak, with more than 120,000 deaths attributed to the disease.

Faced with a new variant of the virus that scientists say is both more transmissible and more deadly than the original, the country has spent much of the winter under a tight lockdown, the third since March 2020.

Schools, bars, restaurants, gyms, hair salons and nonessential shops are closed, people are expected to stay at home except for exercise and essential shopping, and foreign holidays are banned.

But Johnson announced plans to ease those restrictions as the rapid rollout of vaccines helps drive down new infections and hospitalizations.

On March 8, children in England go back to school and people will be allowed to meet one friend or relative for a chat or outdoor picnic. Three weeks later, people will be able to meet in small groups outdoors for sports or relaxation.

Under the government plan, shops and hairdressers will reopen April 12. So will pubs and restaurants, though only for outdoor service. Venues such as theaters and cinemas, as well as indoor seating at bars and restaurants, are scheduled to open May 17. That is also the earliest date Britons may be allowed foreign holidays.

The final stage of the plan, in which all legal limits on social contact are removed and nightclubs can reopen, is penciled in for June 21.

The government says these dates may be postponed if infections and hospitalizations surge.

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What Businesses Need to Know About Robotic Process Automation – BizTech Magazine

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Robotic process automation helps businesses keep up with ever-increasing transactions. Heres what they should know.

RPA uses virtual robots to simulate the work of a human at a keyboard, usually interacting with multiple applications. Its different from simply programming business rules into an application, because the bot is external to the application and can cross applications, read something off a web page, enter it into a local database, send an email and update yet another web page.

RPA succeeds best when the scope and steps of the process can be tightly defined, and when you take the time to carefully define each step before starting to automate anything. RPA projects should start with the fast, easy wins before moving to more complicated processes that are more difficult to automate.

RPA delivers a 24/7 workforce that operates faster and more accurately than humans at repetitive and easily defined tasks. Having a programmer update an application to implement some business processes or rules is expensive and time-consuming. RPA is a shortcut technology that lets businesses quickly define and deploy automation without modifying applications.

RPA delivers quickly in environments where many disconnected applications are needed to support a process and where human operators act as the glue to bring things together. Any data entry operation that is repetitive and requires a very low level of judgement is an excellent candidate for RPA.

RPA does not require re-engineering and refactoring business processes, but it doesnt fit well into every process. Before starting, ask how a specific process can be simplified and improved and how it can be optimized when a robot will be doing most of the work.

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The rise of automation – bake Magazine

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Automation reimagines the traditional idea of labor in a food or bakery processing plant. Not only can automated machines easily fill in the gaps left by employees who were laid off due to budget cuts or quit out of health concerns during COVID-19 (without adding to the risk of contamination), they can also be well-suited for the repetitive and menial tasks human workers were once expected to do. Even semi-automating a process with a standalone machine (versus a fully automated line) can help significantly to fortify staffing shortages while increasing product quality.

Sonia Bal, Director of Marketing at Unifiller Systems, shares her take on the rise of automation in the baking industry:

COVID-19 highlighted that businesses are heavily reliant on staff retention and customer demand, she explains. The current pandemic has forced more food manufacturers to consider automation as a way to ensure that equipment can step up when staff arent available. I think everyone is eager to get people back to work and open up businesses. But getting back to typical demand will be slow and steady.

Bal continues, We believe this pandemic will force most businesses to plan out structured contingency plans for any future crisis. Many essential foodservice plants offered increased pay or bonus pay during the crisis, thereby increasing their operational costs. These types of manufacturers will eventually look to reduce labor costs with automation, while others will fill staff shortages with automation. Automating production, so that businesses rely less on labor and more on equipment will be instrumental to business continuity. In the short term, as markets start to open up, they will want to ramp up quickly with varied access to staff.

Looking at business continuity and automation as a long-term investment, the number one benefit automation provides is the increased level of operations productivity. For example, Unifillers Cake-O-Matic makes cake icing quick and efficient with its servo-driven turntable, eliminating any concern for bakeries lacking in cake decorators. Plus, quality machines like the Cake-o-Matic are built to be flexible and mobile, which makes it easier for bakeries to optimize a small production space. They are also highly versatile, possessing the capabilities to be adjusted for different applications.

Another area where automation can help bakeries is improving portion accuracy without putting the onus on workers.

Where customers move towards automation, accurate portioning is critical to reduce labor during downstream processes, says Steven Belyea, Applications Manager at Unifiller. Unifiller single piston and multi piston depositors with servo control are able to control the deposit cycle more accurately compared to industry typical pneumatic depositors. This results in more accurate spreading of batters and creams and will allow for smaller minimum portions. Recipe storage and touch screen adjustment allows for faster set up, reducing the need for skilled workers.

Technology is rapidly changing our world, and due to the 2020 pandemic, the theme of innovation has truly been brought to the forefront for many small to mid-size businesses. Not only do automated systems and equipment provide businesses with a holistic solution to staffing challenges, pandemic-related or otherwise, automation is an exciting area of technology that continues to evolve and provide lucrative opportunities. What better time to be a part of a revolution that is paving the way for a better future for the food and baking world?

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Over half of Indian enterprises eye automation to adapt to new normal: Report – Mint

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New Delhi: The proliferation of remote working solutions is leading companies towards greater adoption of automated processes. Adoption rates of robotic process automation (RPA) will grow by 57% in India in the next year, according to a study conducted by the International Data Corporation (IDC) and commissioned by Automation Anywhere.

The research firm surveyed technology executives across India and 1,600 of Automation Anywheres own customers.

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The study also found that 56% organizations in the country plan to deploy digital workers and software bots to work directly with their human employees. About 76% of the surveyed companies said they have volumes of rules-based and repetitive tasks that are currently managed by human resources.

As the nature of jobs and work changes after the pandemic, digital workers will add value beyond ROI to help organizations develop new capabilities and business models. Automation will become a business imperative for driving innovation, customer centricity, and gaining efficiencies," said Rishu Sharma, Principal Analyst, Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI), at IDC India.

We see more and more customers looking for end-to-end automation and partners who can bring both Cognitive and RPA capabilities in a fully integrated fashion. RPA vendors that can provide the same have an additional edge in the future," said Sajesh Gopinath, General Manager & Go To Market Leader - UST SmartOps, at UST, a digital technology and transformation company.

According to Milan Sheth, executive vice president, IMEA, Automation Anywhere, implementation of RPA is divided between front office, back office and employees themselves.

Sheth said more digital collaboration is happening with humans in the front office, like financial institutions using RPA to process know-your-customer documents etc. Companies are employing digital assistants to work with employees in order to scale up business.

Sheth added that the company has also seen a big change in the employee experience, where companies follow a hybrid model between working from home and working from office. If you are an internal employee and you are spending 20-30% of your time in uploading and processing reports, filing weekly summaries etc, all of that the bots can do for you," he said. Digital collaboration is also helping in such activities.

RPA and other automated services have been growing since March last year, when global lockdowns led companies to adopt remote work. Industry stakeholders say not only private companies, but the public sector too has adopted automation. The IDC report said a government-owned postal service automated 25 processes to maintain financial journals, managing credit uploads and more.

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env0 Introduces First Remote Run SaaS Solution for the Automation of Terragrunt Workloads – PRNewswire

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TEL AVIV, Israeland SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --env0, a provider of automated, collaborative remote-run workflow management for cloud deployments, today announced the first remote run SaaS solution for the automation of Terragrunt workloads across multiple Terraform modules. The integration of Terragrunt and env0 optimizes IaC deployments to ensure greater efficiency, control, visibility and governance.

With env0's automated, collaborative remote-run workflow management platform for Terragrunt, the company addresses the need for provisioning and compliance of changing cloud resources. Now, DevOps engineers avoid points of failure with out-of-the-box control and governance tools and improve operations with the product's remote state and operations backend. Built for scale, env0 enables users and teams to streamline workflow in the deployment of infrastructure as code.

With env0, visibility into infrastructure changes is provided with detailed plans directly on the pull requests in GitHub and other SCM. Policy-as-a-code guardrails can be set up based on the Open Policy Agent (OPA) framework and RBAC models built upon rich context like users and teams, Git Repos, cloud accounts and environments --quickly and easily.

With env0, the practitioner simply sets up templates with existing Terragrunt repos in the same way as Terraform repos, then clicks "Create New Template" and selectsTerragrunt. From there, the template creation process is exactly the same as it is with usual Terraform files. env0allows one to oversee these environments from deployment to destruction for complete end-to-end management.

The Terragruntcommunity has already begun to recognize the value of env0. In a recent post, one member commented that "You can nowautomate your Terragrunt workflows and manage all of your different environments with env0. It helps to add visibility and governance to the already awesome value that Gruntwork providers have with Terragrunt over traditional Terraform workflows."

"env0'sautomation of IaC operations, including pull request management and merge flow, allow for the confident approval of infrastructure change requests enterprise-wide," said Ohad Maislish, Co-founder and CEO of env0. "This alignment with Terragrunt is a first step in becoming a multi-IaC framework that goes beyond Terraform toempower IaC teams with expansive cloud IT automation."

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env0automates and simplifies the governance of cloud deployments for Terraform, Terragrunt and IaC frameworks, offering a collaborative remote-run workflow management. Our powerful solution addresses the need for provisioning and compliance of changing cloud resources.

env0 enables users and teams to jointly share configuration templates using remote state file storage to prevent drifts and accelerate code deployment. env0 fully integrates with CI/CD pipelines and VCS tools and delivers full CLI support to ensure a smooth, flawless process.

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Laboratory Automation Systems Market to Reach USD 6.39 Billion by 2028 | Increase in Global Research and Development Activities & Rapid Adoption…

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Vancouver, British Columbia, Feb. 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global laboratory automation systems market is expected to reach a market size of USD 6.39 Billion in 2028, as a result of major R&D initiatives driving steady revenue growth, according to latest analysis by Emergen Research. Laboratory automated systems are becoming a major requirement in biological and chemical research industries as these solutions offer ideal approaches to protecting data and ensure that these data is easily available and accessible for laboratory personnel and teams, which in turn improves productivity of researchers as they can track everything that happens to a sample, enabling them to more efficiently monitor its entire history. These systems also allow researchers to control temperature, speed, stirring, and collect related data for graphical representation in real-time.

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ABB launches next generation cobots to unlock automation for new sectors and first-time users – DC Velocity

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ABB boosts YuMi collaborative robot portfolio with GoFa and SWIFTI cobot fami-lies

Eight out of ten workplaces say they will increase use of robots in the next decade, pandemic cited as catalyst for accelerating investment in automation

ABB is expanding its collaborative robot (cobot) portfolio with the new GoFa and SWIFTI cobot families, offering higher payloads and speeds, to complement YuMi and Single Arm YuMi in ABBs cobot line-up. These stronger, faster and more capable cobots will accelerate the companys expansion in high-growth segments including electronics, healthcare, consumer goods, logistics and food and beverage, among others, meeting the growing demand for automation across multiple industries. GoFa and SWIFTI are intuitively designed so customers need not rely on in-house programming specialists. This will unlock industries that have low levels of automation, with customers able to operate their cobot within minutes of installation, straight out of the box, with no specialized training.

Our new cobot portfolio is the most diverse on the market, offering the potential to transform workplaces and help our customers achieve new levels of operational performance and growth. said Sami Atiya, President of ABBs Robotics & Discrete Automation Business Area. They are easy to use and configure and backed by our global network of on-call, on-line service experts to ensure that businesses of all sizes and new sectors of the economy, far beyond manufacturing, can embrace robots for the first time.

ABBs cobot portfolio expansion is engineered to help existing and new robot users accelerate automation amid four key megatrends including individualized consumers, labor shortages, digitalization and uncertainty that are transforming business and driving automation into new sectors of the economy. The expansion follows the Business Areas focus on high-growth segments through portfolio innovation, helping to drive profitable growth.

Automation driving the future of manufacturing

In a global survey1 of 1650 large and small businesses in Europe, the US and China, 84 percent of businesses said they will introduce or increase the use of robotics and automation in the next decade, while 85 percent said the pandemic had been game changing for their business and industry, with COVID-19 a catalyst for accelerating investment in automation. Nearly half of businesses (43 percent) said they were looking to robotics to help them improve workplace health and safety, 51 percent said robotics could enhance social distancing and more than one-third (36 percent) were considering using robotic automation to improve the quality of work for their employees. More immediately, 78 percent of company CEOs and Managing Directors said recruiting and retaining staff for repetitive and ergonomically challenging jobs is a challenge.Cobots are designed to operate in the presence of workers without the need for physical safety measures such as fences and to be very easy to use and install. In 2019, more than 22,000 new collaborative robots were deployed globally, up 19 percent compared to the previous year2. The demand for collaborative robots is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 17 percent between 2020 and 20253 while the value of global cobot sales is expected to increase from an estimated ~$0.7 billion in 2019 to ~$1.4 bn by 20254. The global market for all industrial robots is projected to grow from ~$45 billion in 2020 to ~$58 billion by 2023 (CAGR of 9 percent)5.

GoFa and SWIFTI are engineered to help businesses automate processes to assist workers with tasks including material handling, machine tending, component assembly and packaging in manufacturing, medical laboratories, logistics hubs and warehouses, workshops, and small production facilities.

With this expansion, we are making cobots easier to use and deploy, with real-time support to help speed their adoption in businesses that may have not considered their use previously, Atiya said. Our experience is that the best performing operations harness peoples skills, alongside the potential of new technologies. Users comfortable with operating a tablet or smartphone will be able to program and re-program the new cobots with ease, using ABBs fast set-up tools. Customers will also benefit from ABBs global industry and application expertise, which has been developed from installing more than 500,000 robot solutions since 1974 and supported by ABBs network of over 1,000 global partners.

The new GoFa and SWIFTI cobot families build on the success of ABBs YuMi family, which has been helping businesses safely automate key tasks since YuMi, the worlds first truly collaborative robot, was launched in 2015. Today, ABBs YuMi cobots are working alongside people in factories, workshops and laboratories all over the world, performing tasks from screwdriving and assembling electronics and electrical components, to making valves and USB sticks, and testing COVID samples in laboratories.

Every ABB cobot installation includes a start-up package that provides ABB Ability condition monitoring & diagnostics as well as a support hotline free for the first six months to access ABBs expert technical assistance, which is offering support across all industry segments.

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