Think about a scenario in which your customers send you a schedule that is automatically pulled in by a system and understood, and then the system chalks out a production plan in the back end. This ...

For the past several years, the focus of the industrial internet of things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0 has rested squarely on subsystems, components such as sensors and switches, big data, and ...

Process inefficiency can create problems that quietly stifle productivity and potential growth. In an era of rapid digitalization, companies that lag in business process improvement risk falling ...

The U.S. has a rich history of innovation in the manufacturing industry, with a notable turning point in 1913 when Henry Ford introduced automation to his first assembly line. The manufacturing ...

One sure way to boost operational efficiency and factory throughput is to automate. Robots, special machines, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and other equipment can usually do the jobs faster ...

A narrated video tour of Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg (often called Giga Berlin) explores the facility’s manufacturing processes, interviews employees, and highlights its efficiency and ...

Automation. OEE (overall equipment effectiveness). IoT (Internet of Things). Robotics. AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning. They’re all key themes inherently linked to digital ...

If you want to optimize the use of machinery, materials and labor and ensure orders are completed on time and to standard, then a digital workflow is a great step towards creating a smarter ...

Every factory since the start of the industrial revolution has shared one very specific trait: tooling sets the identity of the machines, and thus the factory. To create a specific part requires ...

I’m not telling you anything don’t already know: The modern factory or other production facility could not function without the ability to sense its surroundings and the status of its critical ...

The evolution of PCBs from large and antiquated “printed wiring boards” to today’s fine-line designs on high-density interconnect (HDI) PCBs, IC substrates (ICS) and more, has been matched by ...