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McKinsey & Co. survey finds huge gap between piloting and deploying digital manufacturing; automotive no exception

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McKinsey’s 2018 Manufacturing Global Expert Survey comprised 700 companies in seven nations. Examples: Predictive maintenance; digital quality management and AI-driven demand forecasting. India led China and Brazil in setting an Industry 4.0 and Brazil had 8.9. manufacturing strategies. India leads with 10.6 China had 10.2

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Mercedes-Benz Vans shows pickup truck concepts; market launch in late 2017; diesel V6

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The key markets will be Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Australia with New Zealand, and Europe. In addition to these optional remote online services, standard services such as accident recovery, maintenance management and breakdown management will also be available. The key markets are Brazil, Argentina, Australia, and South Africa.

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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Fluor, a global engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance company, which has best-in-class experience in building hydrogen-from-gasification plants, will provide front-end engineering and design for the Lancaster facility. Waste is a global problem, clogging waterways, contaminating oceans, packing landfills and polluting skies.

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12 Exciting Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2022

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The exact date depends on when the Large Hadron Collider is set to renew proton-proton collisions after three years of upgrades and maintenance. The new detector was constructed while the collider was shut down from 2018 to 2021. The Forward Search Experiment (FASER) at CERN is slated to switch on in July 2022. FASER will.

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Mercedes-Benz introduces its mid-size pickup truck: the X-Class leans on diesel

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At the beginning of 2018 South Africa, Australia and New Zealand will follow, and at the beginning of 2019 Argentina and Brazil. A high-torque V6 diesel engine will be released mid-2018, ensuring even greater agility on- and off-road. The market launch in Europe is scheduled for November 2017.

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Volkswagen Truck & Bus outlines roadmap for automated driving, connectivity, and alternative drive systems

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We will be launching the first small set of vehicles on the market at the end of 2018. It will be built at Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus in Brazil in 2020. Working in cooperation with DB Schenker, MAN will start testing the first platoons on the digital test track on the A9 highway between Munich and Nuremberg in spring 2018.

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Jervois to acquire SMP nickel & cobalt refinery in Brazil; concentrate from Idaho for refining, cobalt metal back to US

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SMP Refinery has annual refined production capacity of 25,000 metric tonnes of nickel and 2,000 metric tonnes of cobalt and is currently on care and maintenance. The facility is located in an industrial zone in São Paulo, Brazil. Niquelandia provided the SMP Refinery with nickel carbonate. Nickel and cobalt products.

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