Manufacturing and Automation - Articles, Stories & Interviews
Understanding End-to-End Configuration: A Primer
End-to-end configuration offers a strategic solution for unifying data, improving collaboration across departments, and enabling scalable, service-ready product operations.
Comprehensive Guide to Composite Materials and Simulation
Composite simulation is crucial because it lets engineers explore designs, optimize performance, and spot failures digitally, saving tons of time and money compared to physical testing. It's challenging due to anisotropy, modeling delamination, and high computational cost.
Maximizing OEE with Smart Selection of Electric Linear Actuators
How a careful actuator selection and modern motion system design can unlock higher availability, performance, and product quality in automated manufacturing.
Building a Culture of Team Performance at Paramount Machine with Production Monitoring
When manufacturing software is implemented as a tool for accountability alone, it risks alienating operators. But when it’s positioned as a tool for empowerment, it can transform team culture and unlock significant performance gains.
How Automation is Revolutionizing Pipe Fabrication Amid Labor Shortages and Rising Competition
The world of pipe fabrication is changing fast. With ongoing labor shortages and growing pressure from global competitors, many fabricators are asking the same question: How can we keep up while maintaining quality and staying profitable?
The Promise & Risks of Physical AI's Self-Optimizing Factories & Human-AI Teaming
Physical AI is the difference between an algorithm that predicts a machine failure and an intelligent robot that can physically inspect the machine, identify the fault, and adapt its operation to prevent a shutdown.
IDS: See. Align. Place.
For both machines, the manufacturer relies on industrial cameras from the USB 3 uEye CP series from IDS Imaging Development Systems to ensure maximum accuracy, speed and process control. These systems are already in high-volume use across the Asian electronics market.
Manufacturing and Automation - Featured Stories
How Gartners 10 Dimensions of Warehouse Complexity can Transform your WMS Strategy
A strong WMS should balance simplicity and depth, offering configurability without extensive custom code, seamless integration with material handling systems, and robust tools for labor management, task orchestration, and automation.
Unlocking the Benefits of a Data-Driven Manufacturing Supply Chain
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A data-driven supply chain isn’t just about tracking shipments. It’s about turning a mountain of raw data: sales figures, inventory levels, supplier performance, even weather patterns, into actionable insights. It allows supply chains to anticipate problems before they o
Top 5 AI-Powered Capabilities to Look for in a WMS Vendor
Success depends on how deeply and thoughtfully those capabilities are embedded into the system. As you evaluate vendors, look beyond the buzzwords and focus on practical AI tools that deliver faster deployment, smarter execution, and long-term flexibility.
Manufacturing and Automation - News Headlines
MD&M Midwest: Kistler demonstrates solutions to tackle MedTech's manufacturing challenges
The benefits of advanced measurement technology for efficiency, data integrity, process validation, and zero-defect production in medical device manufacturing
maxon to Debut at The Assembly Show, Showcasing Precision Drive Systems and Parvalux Motor Solutions for Industrial Automation and Material Handling
By combining brushed and brushless DC motors, gearheads, sensors, and controllers into complete mechatronic drive systems they meet the evolving needs of industrial automation and assembly applications.
HiveMQ Announces Strategic Shift to Become Leading Industrial AI Platform
Company appoints Barry Libert as Chairman and CEO to lead next phase of growth
RS Americas and DP Gayatri team up to better serve industrial manufacturers
RS and DP Gayatri formed a strategic partnership to bridge the gap between design and deployment with speed, precision, and confidence and provide OEMs and manufacturers with scalable integrated industrial solutions designed to modernize operations and improve performance.
Arduino UNO Q, Now Orderable from Mouser Electronics, Enables AI-Powered Machine Vision and Sound Solutions that React in Real Time
The UNO Q's "dual brain" architecture pairs a Linux Debian-capable Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 microprocessor with a real-time STMicroelectronics STM32U585 microcontroller.
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