Manufacturing and Automation - Articles, Stories & Interviews

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.

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.

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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"

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.

Why Manufacturers Must Balance Proactive Cybersecurity with Verified Recovery

Under more pressure than ever to protect their systems, many organizations are still acting on the assumption that proactive prevention will keep their operations safe and running. In reality, hackers can break through first walls of defense and wreak operational havoc.

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Making sustainability sustainable: how to digitalize operations to achieve and maintain carbon reduction targets

By Rick Rodriquez, Vice President of Sustainability for Buildings at Siemens Smart Infrastructure USA

Advanced Supply Chain Analytics - Now Accessible to Everyone, for Free

With Log-hub's latest offering, professionals across logistics, manufacturing, retail, FMCG and consulting can simulate, optimize, and visualize their supply chains using real project data, at no cost.

Verista Delivers Comprehensive CSV Services to Ensure Regulatory Compliance and Data Integrity Across the Life Sciences Industry

Verista, a leading provider of automation, compliance, and quality solutions for the life sciences industry, highlights their specialized Computer Systems Validation (CSV) services designed to support every phase of the product lifecycle, from research and clinical testing to manufacturing and distribution.

ARI USA Highlights ZETRIX® High-Performance Process Valve for Demanding Industrial Applications

Metal-Seated Valve Designed for Long-Term, Zero-Leakage Service in High-Temperature Environments

IndustrialMind.ai Raises $1.2 M Pre-Seed to Bring the AI Engineer to Manufacturing

Pre-seed funding will bring the AI Engineer to more factories, helping manufacturers work smarter and scale faster.

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The Wire Association International (WAI), Inc.

The Wire Association International (WAI), Inc.

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.

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BigRep

BigRep

Founded in 2014, BigRep set sail to transform the 3D printing and manufacturing business. With its 1m3 volume, the BigRep ONE opens the gateway to a new dimension of 3D printing and 3D manufacturing, while the BigRep STUDIO allows fast and precise large-scale 3D printing. From furniture to vehicles to robotics, we think everything is possible. We want you to envision everything from human scale robot parts, sculptural artworks in all their full-dimensional glory, and dream the impossible world-changing designs of tomorrow while enabling you to print them today using one of our 3D printers.