At the start of 2021, as it does every year, Plastics Technology asked injection molders to look back on the year prior and take stock of their operations. The only difference this time: COVID-19.
A growing number view AI not as “artificial intelligence”, wholly supplanting the human with computing power, but rather as “augmented intelligence”, working alongside a person’s mind to its betterment not replacement.
Sporting-goods OEM Wilson/DeMarini turns to new additive-manufacturing technology to turbocharge product development by blazing through failed iterations to find a winning design more quickly.
iMFLUX used a virtual event in May to lay out a path to autonomous molding where “the machine is making intelligent decisions on behalf of the operator.”