Manufacturing and Automation - Articles, Stories & Interviews
What’s Your Factory’s Lean Maturity Score?
Many factories run 5S events, collect defect data, or deploy quality management systems — yet still face recurring bottlenecks, waste, and variation. Why? Because tools alone don’t make a Lean enterprise — culture does.
Strengthening Cybersecurity Measures as Threat Actors Set Their Sights on the Manufacturing Industry
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To manage these risks at scale, organizations need modern Privileged Access Management (PAM). Unlike legacy access controls, modern PAM enforces least-privilege access, monitors high-risk accounts in real time and integrates seamlessly with broader security ecosystems.
Sustaining a Positive Manufacturing Workplace in an Evolving AI World
If businesses approach the transition to an AI-enhanced workplace strategically, it can lead to a workforce that is invested, outcome-oriented, and well-positioned for a successful future.
The Next Industrial Epoch is Here: Why Acting Now is a Strategic Imperative for Manufacturers
The convergence of technological maturity, proven financial returns, and a strategic need for resilient domestic production has created a generational opportunity, and the window to act is now.
Why Automation, Not Wafer Size, Determines Semiconductor Fab Cycle Time
New 200 mm capacity is often built from scratch or heavily refurbished, making it easier to apply the same automation patterns used in 300 mm fabs. The result is convergence; wafer diameter still affects output per lot, but it no longer indicates the level of automation.
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.
Manufacturing and Automation - Featured Stories
9 Evidence-Backed Predictions for the Next Decade of Auto Part Manufacturing
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As the industry navigates the next decade, it will adapt to the digital transformation and the emergence of smart vehicles. Here are nine evidence-backed predictions for the next 10 years of auto part manufacturing.
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.
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.
Manufacturing and Automation - News Headlines
A Tougher, Compact Hexapod: PI's H-815 is the New Hexapod Standard for 24/7 Industrial Applications
Combining sub-micron precision with a rugged design, the H-815 enables space-efficient, high-accuracy alignment in demanding industrial environments.
AM Solutions and LuxYours combine their expertise in the vapor smoothing of additively manufactured polymer parts.
As part of this collaboration, Rösler Oberflächentechnik GmbH - the parent company of the AM Solutions brand - has acquired a stake in LuxYours. This move underscores the companies' commitment to a long-term, technology-driven partnership at the highest level.
SinceVision Makes History with the Launch of Its First Scientific sCMOS Cameras
China's fast-rising imaging and sensor manufacturer, SinceVision is stepping directly into the global scientific-camera arena with the debut of its Solis Series, a new line of back-illuminated cooled sCMOS cameras aimed at ultra-low-light environments-from quantum optics labs to deep-sky astronomy setups.
Agileo Automation Launches Agil'SECS-II to Enable Semiconductor OEMs, Multi-Industry Fabs, and Labs to Accelerate Equipment Integration on Production Lines
Agileo Automation's new SECS-II library, featuring built-in SEMI standard communication, enables a manufacturing execution system (MES) to accelerate the integration and validation of hybrid semiconductor and traditional manufacturing tools on production lines, ensuring faster time to market, lower integration costs, and reduced deployment risks.
How SECS/GEM Messaging Works in Cloud-Native MES Environments
Discover how SECS/GEM messaging works in cloud-native MES environments. Learn about hybrid architectures, edge gateways, real-time data acquisition, and security strategies that enable semiconductor fabs to modernize with cloud technology while maintaining proven SECS/GEM protocol reliability.
Manufacturing and Automation - Featured Product
Rapid Prototyping with the Modular Motor Series
Quick to configure. Quick to build. Quick to deliver. Parvalux understands the importance of getting product in the hands of customers quickly and efficiently. The Modular Range does just that allowing customers to configure their own solution, selecting motor and gearbox, adding encoders and brakes to create a solution perfectly suited for their specific applications such as conveyor belt systems, picking systems, parcel sorting equipment, pallet shuttles and automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS). Read our modular range guide for specifics.
Manufacturing and Automation - Featured Company
ResinDek / Cornerstone Specialty Wood Products
At Cornerstone Specialty Wood Products®, we know and understand the importance of having the right flooring product for the right application. That's why we offer a variety of ResinDek panels in different thicknesses, densities, and with different surface finishes. Since 1994, ResinDek flooring panels have been installed in distribution centers, warehouses, manufacturing plants, and cold storage facilities for major corporations worldwide. The intent of Cornerstone Specialty Wood Products then and now is "We don't just make better mezzanine floors…We make mezzanine floors better". We strive to provide solutions that improve the ergonomics in work environments, reduce environmental impacts, and bring significant value to the professionals in many different industries.
