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Milwaukee Tool Transforms Itself Into an Innovation Company

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Back in 2013, Milwaukee Tool embarked on an ambitious new direction for its products by giving their tools wireless connectivity. Milwaukee Tool knew that they were introducing something that would require a behavior change in their users. Along the way, they changed Milwaukee Tool into an innovation company.

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AFE to Use Plasma Gasification of Waste in 25MW Power Project in Milwaukee

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Alliance Federated Energy (AFE) last week announced the development of “Project Apollo,” a $225-million, 25MW energy project located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Approximately 30% of the waste feedstock is already committed from Badger Disposal of Wisconsin, one of region’s leading industrial waste management services companies.

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Harley-Davidson pauses production for two weeks on all models except for electric motorcycles

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Milwaukee-based motorcycle company Harley-Davidson is feeling the sting of supply-chain issues that have plagued major manufacturers for years. Now the company has been forced to pause production across all of its various motorcycles, with the exception of its LiveWire electric motorcycles.

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Johnson Controls partners with UW-Madison on battery lab

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The UW-Madison partnership complements Johnson Controls’ existing partnership with UW-Milwaukee. At UW-Milwaukee, Johnson Controls scientists are working with university research staff and students to develop new energy storage materials. The partnership enables students there to expand their knowledge in a test lab on campus.

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Clearpath Robotics Acquired by Rockwell Automation

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Yesterday, Clearpath Robotics of Kitchener, Ontario in Canada (and Clearpath’s mobile logistics robot division OTTO Motors ) announced that it was being acquired by the Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation for an undisclosed amount. That is, on OTTO Motors’ Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) in the context of production logistics.

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Inventor of the First AI System That Could Read Handwriting Dies at 72

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He left the company in 1979 to join The Mitre Corp. He was promoted in 1984 to head the company’s space surveillance systems department. Founder of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society’s Milwaukee Section. He graduated in 1959 and joined Marquette University , in Milwaukee, as a professor. in McLean, Va.,

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Nestlé Waters North America adds 155 new medium-duty propane autogas trucks to delivery fleet

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The new medium-duty delivery trucks, added to the company’s existing autogas fleet of 30 Ford trucks of the same model, will also help the company save on maintenance and fuel costs. Propane autogas, a domestically produced fuel, costs the company an average of $1 per gallon, versus their $2 per gallon cost of diesel.