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QuickBOLT’s solar top mount receives Florida product approval

The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation approved QuickBOLT‘s QB2, an over-the-shingle solar roof mount. With state product approval, installers submitting designs using the top-mounted QB2 can expect a streamlined permitting process. QuickBOLT with Microflashing. QuickBOLT Florida building code standards are a result of high-velocity hurricane zones. All new projects must meet a set […]

All Manufacturing and Automation Stories and Videos

Ready, aim, hire! Why attracting fresh talent to manufacturing is vital to the industry’s long-term success A further challenge for manufacturers, and in the case of my own company, one of our largest issues, is how to attract new young talent to an industry that’s often perceived to be uninteresting. Prerequisites For Establishing A Bulletproof […]

IoT News – AWS and Microsoft are not yet market leaders in IoT, but soon will be

By Matt Hetton, Founding Partner at Transforma Insights. Transforma Insights recently published a report comparing the capabilities of the three hyperscale cloud providers, Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft, in the provision of tools for enterprise digital transformation. This included analysis of their capabilities across eleven technology families, of which Internet of Things was weighted […]

Where’s Microsoft going next in the ‘prosumer’ space?

Credit: Microsoft In 2018, Microsoft execs told its reseller partners that it had a plan to try to win back consumers, starting with “Modern Life” Services, the complement to its existing “Modern Work” business productivity services. Microsoft had set its sights on “professional consumers,” or prosumers: people who already know how to use technology but […]

All Robotics and Automation Stories and Videos

As the use of robotics and automation increases, so too does the need to protect these valuable assets. The risk to humans in warehouses is well known with the UK logistics sector reporting around 28,000 non-fatal accidents at work annually but businesses are now realising the risk of safety to highly sophisticated and expensive assets […]

Arrival Developing Electric Vehicles Without Assembly Line

“This is about getting the best, optimal delivery vehicle for us,” Mr. Wake said. Globally, UPS operates a fleet of about 120,000 vehicles, and around 13,000 of them use alternatives to diesel engines such as batteries. In addition to UPS, BlackRock and the South Korean automakers Hyundai and Kia have invested in Arrival. Electric vehicle […]