Manufacturing and Automation - Articles, Stories & Interviews
How Recognition Champions Influence Consistency, Safety Culture, and Day-to-Day Performance
The main benefit to having a champion is that they model behaviors that others can see and follow. Champions model authenticity and consistency, and connect recognition back to the impact of the work.
The State of Agentic Cybersecurity
A modern cyber range provides teams with a safe, realistic environment to practice responses to attacks, helping them see how people, tools, processes, and AI perform under pressure. This is crucial because disruptions in manufacturing are not just about data.
79% of US manufacturers are reshoring. Only 34% are ready for it.
Research in March 2026, found that 79% of US manufacturers have already brought outsourced production in-house or are actively doing so. Only 8% haven't even looked at the option.
A3's Automate 2026 Opens Next Week in Chicago
North America’s largest robotics and automation event brings humanoids, AI, industrial robots and the future of automation to McCormick Place June 22-25
Embodied AI: Industrial Manufacturing’s Answer to the Great Margin Squeeze
Embodied AI-enabled robotics helps companies address the “great margin squeeze” head-on and shift to a high-mix manufacturing approach with faster changeovers and fewer exceptions that stop the line — without adding engineering bandwidth.
More sustainable injection moulding
Dervish Ibrahim, international sales manager at TM Robotics, explains why all-electric injection moulding machines are the way forward for reducing the process’s environmental impact — while also helping manufacturers achieve a lower cost-per-part.
Automate 2026 Product Preview
Automate 2026 takes place June 22nd - 25th in Chicago, IL. The Exhibit hall floor will be loaded with new products and services. Here is a preview of some things to look forward to at this years event.
Manufacturing and Automation - Featured Stories
AI Is Making Manufacturing Careers More Secure, Not Less
The challenge for manufacturers is no longer proving that these jobs are safe. It is convincing young people to choose manufacturing over other trades like electrical work, green technology, and healthcare.
How Physical AI Is Closing the Gap Between Simulation and the Shop Floor
The manufacturers who will gain competitive ground in the next two to three years are not necessarily those with the largest automation budgets. They are the ones who recognize that the constraint is no longer hardware. The constraint is intelligence.
Universal Orchestration: Managing the Agentic AI Era in Manufacturing
When enterprises lack the control layer to route, govern, or make AI-generated data useful at scale, interoperability and accuracy breaks down. “Confabulation” will compound without human interaction and applied supervision.
Manufacturing and Automation - News Headlines
Stratasys Advances Rail-Ready Additive Manufacturing With Certified Flame-Retardant FDM Material
The new material expands Stratasys' portfolio of industrial-grade, rail-ready FDM thermoplastics and is engineered specifically for use on Fortus® 450mc and F900® systems.
Booming Demand for Beehive Industries' 3D Printed Jet Engines Leads to Over $50 Million Investment in EOS Technology
The agreement represents the largest publicly announced, single order of EOS technology, underscoring the continued momentum of additive manufacturing for high-volume production
Copley Controls to Show Compact Module Drives and Custom Integrated Motor-Drive Assemblies at Automate 2026
Booth 1869 demonstrations focus on efficient, space-saving motion control for robotics
REGAL REXNORD TO SHOWCASE INTEGRATED MOTION SOLUTIONS FOR ROBOTICS AND FACTORY AUTOMATION AT AUTOMATE 2026
Limitless Labs raises $20M Series A to Expand Its Physical AI Foundation Model and Platform for Precision Manufacturing
the physical world's first agentic AI foundation model, already deployed with Blue Origin, Cadillac F1, and Sandvik, the company is bringing AI out of the digital world and onto the factory floor.
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Quality assurance in the manufacturing industry
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CSP US Inc.
The CSP Manufacturing OS supports companies in the manufacturing industry in setting up an end-to-end quality architecture. It combines all quality-relevant processes in a central system - from the store floor to the compliance level. Instead of isolated individual solutions, an integrated environment is created that monitors processes, prevents errors at an early stage, analyzes data and archives it in an audit-proof manner.
