Automation & IIoT - Articles, Stories & Interviews
How to Identify Which Tasks to Automate in Your Manufacturing Business Processes?
In this blog, we’ll walk you through a step-by-step process to pinpoint the best automation opportunities in your manufacturing business—based on ROI, effort, risk, and operational value.
Transforming High-Precision Manufacturing through Advanced Automation
Honeywell faced growing demands for their high-precision manufacturing processes, coupled with labor shortages and strict quality standards. Their manual processes were becoming the limiting factor—causing bottlenecks, inconsistent quality, and increased scrap.
Reducing Waste in Manufacturing for Safer, More Reliable Production
As the hardware of the future continues to evolve to become more complex and technologically advanced, so too are the ways in which we manufacture. Innovation requires adaptation, and new processes are needed for compliance, reliability and most of all — less waste.
Precision Engineer Manages Business on His Phone After Software Adoption
Precision engineering company Intake Engineering introduced control and tracking into the operation, making every piece of vital information easily accessible. “Everything is just a click away and I can access it anywhere,” says Lee Brien, Director. “It’s a godsend."
Get Ready for Mandatory CMMC Compliance
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As leaders grapple with shifting trade policies, tariffs, and economic instability, cybersecurity risks are often overlooked. Contractors working with the DoD who delay preparation for the CMMC risk losing eligibility for future contracts.
Computers for Edge AI, Machine Vision, and Industrial Automation Applications
The market demand for solutions that combine high performance, compact size, and high reliability is rapidly increasing, especially in harsh environments such as smart manufacturing.
What is the process approach?
The process approach is a way of thinking about work: modeling it, improving it, and correcting errors. The reason everyone uses it is that it works. Describing your work as a process makes you more effective in many contexts.
Automation & IIoT - Featured Stories
The Importance of Preventive Maintenance in Modern Warehouse Operations
This piece explores the framework of a comprehensive preventive maintenance strategy and how it supports a future-proof, efficient warehouse.
How B2B IAM Can Make or Break Manufacturers' Partner Relationships
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In manufacturing, your partner's access is your risk. And in too many cases, it's your liability. This can be applied to the responsibilities between manufacturing partners and plays out in identity and access management (IAM).
Why Industrial Automation Needs a 21st-Century Overhaul
The future of industrial automation isn't about replacing the human brain—it's about amplifying it with intelligent systems that can code, learn, and execute on their own. That’s the next frontier—and we’re closer to it than we think.
Automation & IIoT - News Headlines
New Emerson Safety Controller Streamlines Integration, Offers Superior Safety and Functionality
PACSystems Safety Controller enables SIL2 designs with pre-built templates for reliable performance in demanding, safety-critical applications
OnLogic Achieves ISO 27001 Certification, Reinforcing Commitment to Information Security
This milestone achievement reinforces the company's dedication to delivering trustworthy and reliable computing solutions by protecting the sensitive information of its customers and operations.
Muratec USA to Showcase the Future of Fabrication with Automation Powerhouse Duo at FABTECH
FG3015 Sorting Loader Makes North American Debut, Working in Tandem with the MF30510HL Combination Punch Press/Fiber Laser to Demonstrate a New Standard in Lights-Out Sheet Metal Fabrication
Automation & IIoT - Featured Product
PI USA - High-Speed Hexapod for Nanopositioning
PI USA - High-Speed Hexapod for Nanopositioning
To meet industrial demands for higher dynamics, reliability and precision in 6DoF positioning systems, PI engineers came up with a new hexapod concept, based on direct-drive lever actuators. This new concept reduces complexity, improves performance, and minimizes wear.
Automation & IIoT - 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.
