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Bài viết cung cấp hướng dẫn toàn diện về adhesive hang tabs, bao gồm nguyên lý hoạt động, cách lựa chọn loại phù hợp, phương pháp sản xuất, vật liệu và các yếu tố OEM cho bao bì bán lẻ và sản phẩm.

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A SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era

Một cựu kỹ sư SpaceX đã gọi vốn 65 triệu USD để phát triển công nghệ thay thế dây harness (hệ thống dây điện phức tạp) trong các thiết bị quân sự thời Chiến tranh Lạnh bằng giải pháp hiện đại hơn.

Lập trình viên nên đọc bài này để hiểu cách ứng dụng kỹ thuật điện tử và hệ thống tự động hóa trong thiết kế và tối ưu hóa hệ thống cáp dây (wire harness) của các hệ thống vũ trụ, giúp tiết kiệm chi phí và nâng cao độ tin cậy trong công nghệ không gian.

Palmer Luckey: US universities are falling behind China

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey warns that US universities have stopped teaching engineers how to actually build things, instead producing 'architecture astronauts' who design products that Chinese engineers manufacture. He argues China now leads in battery, metallurgy, and optical engineering, while the US retains an edge in producing startup founders. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla echoes the concern, noting Chinese research moves three times faster at half the cost, with Chinese institutions dominating the Nature Index. China has responded by cutting humanities degrees and adding programs in AI, robotics, and semiconductors since 2021. The debate matters as AI and advanced manufacturing become central to geopolitical competition.

MIT-designed educational factory embraces modern manufacturing

MIT and Tecnológico de Monterrey have developed FrED (Fiber Extrusion Device), a low-cost desktop manufacturing device built and operated by students in an educational factory setting. The initiative replaces textbook learning with hands-on factory experience, training nearly 500 students in advanced manufacturing automation across campuses in Cambridge, Monterrey, and Mexico City. FrED generates multi-modal data suited for digital twins, AI-driven process improvement, and smart manufacturing education aligned with Industry 4.0. A new FrED factory is opening at Tec's Saltillo campus, with plans to expand globally. The collaboration has produced 25 publications, an ASEE Best Paper Award, and a new undergraduate research curriculum called FRAME.

AI data centres are driving up power bills at America’s Rust Belt factories

AI data centres proliferating across the PJM grid's 13-state region are driving sharp electricity cost increases for Rust Belt manufacturers. Capacity charges on the PJM grid surged over 1,000% — from $28.92 to $329.17 per megawatt-day — as data centres accounted for roughly 40% of a record $16.4 billion auction cost. Industrial electricity prices in Pennsylvania and Ohio rose 31% and 26% respectively, far outpacing the 7% national average. Manufacturers like Belden Brick saw monthly capacity charges jump from $1,600 to $12,000, while others are exploring on-site gas generation or off-peak production shifts. The grid cannot keep pace with data centre construction, and regulatory battles over who bears the cost are ongoing, creating political tension as the AI build-out conflicts with domestic manufacturing revival goals.

AI hardware demand keeps Asia’s factories humming as the Iran war bites

June PMI data shows Asia's manufacturing sector expanding for the sixth or seventh consecutive month, driven largely by AI hardware demand — chips, servers, and data-centre equipment. China's high-tech PMI hit 53.5, Japan reached 54.8, and smaller economies like Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, and the Philippines also posted growth. The AI build-out is acting as a buffer against geopolitical headwinds from the Iran conflict, which is raising energy costs and extending shipping times. Risks include concentration in a single demand cycle, rising input costs, and tightening US export controls reshaping supply chains — including a $13m chip seizure in Malaysia.

Panasonic to localise US data-centre battery production, CEO says

Panasonic plans to mass-produce data-centre battery cells at its Kansas plant by fiscal 2028, part of a 500 billion yen AI infrastructure investment. About 350 billion yen of that is directed to its Energy unit, which also supplies Tesla. The move targets a fast-growing market for grid-scale battery storage in AI data centres, where power demands are enormous and outage tolerance is near zero. Panasonic Energy's CEO framed a 950 billion yen sales target as a minimum, with ambitions exceeding 1 trillion yen. The company also plans a third plant in Mexico, giving it broad North American capacity. Chinese rivals like CATL are competing in the same space, making the energy layer of AI infrastructure as contested as the compute layer.