Manufacturing and Automation - Articles, Stories & Interviews
How Real-Time Manufacturing Operations Drive Competitive Advantage in Volatile Markets
Manufacturing executives confronting today’s operational challenges recognize a fundamental truth: traditional execution systems designed for stable markets have become organizational liabilities.
AI in Manufacturing: Why Now Matters
In an environment driven by Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement, AI empowers shops to act faster and smarter, without adding more headcount.
Using AI to Solve the "Execution Gap" in Manufacturing
Max AI doesn't just bridge the execution gap - it sets a new standard for modern manufacturing. By acting in real time - watching, thinking, and doing - it removes the friction and firefighting that once consumed operators, supervisors, and planners.
The Library of Machine Malfunctions and Changing the Factory-Worker Relationship
The goal from day one was clear: build the definitive source of industrial reliability knowledge, and open it up to empower teams everywhere to shift from reactive troubleshooting to proactive control.
How Machine Vision is Enhancing Automation Safety and Efficiency
Technologies to extract high-level meaning from images are increasingly common. Within the research community, such technologies are often considered different from machine vision. However, all are different ways of achieving machine vision and in many cases overlap.
10 Common Supply Chain Issues & How to Solve Them
Let's take a look at some of the major global supply chain issues of the past four years, then drill into the most common effects on businesses. You’ll be surprised at the number of strategies you can implement to mitigate the risks.
PILLARS OF TOMORROW - A hopeful vision of Government, Technology, and Human Dignity in harmony
For centuries, visions of the future have been dominated by dystopian warnings - cautionary tales of power gone wrong. Five Pillars of Tomorrow offers an alternative: a governance model where transparency, collective wisdom, and advanced AI safeguard human dignity.
Manufacturing and Automation - Featured Stories
How to Employ AI in Manufacturing Sales

AI agents can help ensure every interaction across every channel contributes to a single, intelligent sales motion, including always-on gathering insights like on which SKUs are trending to develop and implement real-time optimizations.
When Clean is the Key to Precision

Micro molded parts are often invisible to the naked eye, measured in millimeters or fractions of millimeters, with features that can be smaller than a human hair. In this context, a single dust particle can disrupt form, fit, or function.
"Building for the Surge: How to Prepare Your Factory Storage for Times of Peak Demand"
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To truly manage seasonal peaks efficiently and safely, facilities need a storage infrastructure designed to flex with changes in demand, regardless of whether they’re seasonal, planned, or one-time occurrences.
Manufacturing and Automation - News Headlines
Optimize your industrial control panels with RS and Omron Automation
RS offers Omron Automation's Value Design for Panel products, which bring structure and efficiency to every phase of the panel building process, enabling panel builders, machine builders, and end users to simplify assembly, reduce costs, conserve resources, hasten deployment, and optimize performance.
Zayo Puts High-Capacity Network Muscle Behind Mexico, U.S. Manufacturing Corridor
Zayo's first-owned 400G point of presence (PoP) in Mexico connects Monterrey's rapidly growing industrial and cloud economy into Zayo's North American backbone
Introvac Launches Economical Vacuum Packaging Sealer Machines with Commercial-Grade Quality
Nov 10, 2025 - California - Introvac.com, a new subsidiary of Promarksvac Corp., is proud to announce the launch of its innovative vacuum packaging sealer machines, combining commercial-grade quality with an economical price point. Introvac aims to provide businesses in the food packaging and processing sectors with high-performance machines that deliver exceptional food preservation while offering outstanding value.
Stratasys Highlights Scalable Industrial Additive Manufacturing Solutions at Formnext 2025
Live demos and displays of applications, parts, and AM solutions show how Stratasys enables faster development and more agile, efficient production with greater speed, reliability, and repeatability across a variety of industries
Manufacturers increasingly falling into 'the capacity trap' warns PP C&A
PP Control & Automation's Andy Whittaker issued the stark warning this week, pointing out that the outdated 'in-house' approach is actually holding companies back and curtailing growth.
Manufacturing and Automation - Featured Product
Model TR1 Tru-Trac
The Model TR1 Tru-Trac® linear measurement solution is a versatile option for tracking velocity, position, or distance over a wide variety of surfaces. An integrated encoder, measuring wheel, and spring-loaded torsion arm in one, compact unit, the Model TR1 is easy to install. The spring-loaded torsion arm offers adjustable torsion load, allowing the Model TR1 to be mounted in almost any orientation - even upside-down. The threaded shaft on the pivot axis is field reversible, providing mounting access from either side. With operating speeds up to 3000 feet per minute, a wide variety of configuration options - including multiple wheel material options - and a housing made from a durable, conductive composite material that minimizes static buildup, the Model TR1 Tru-Trac® is the ideal solution for countless applications.
Manufacturing and Automation - Featured Company
The Wire Association International, Inc. (WAI)
The Wire Association International (WAI), Inc., founded in 1930, is a worldwide technical society for wire and cable industry professionals. Based in Madison, Connecticut, USA, WAI collects and shares technical, manufacturing, and general business information to the ferrous, nonferrous, electrical, fiber optic, and fastener segments of the wire and cable industry.
WAI hosts trade expositions, technical conferences, and educational programs.








