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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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"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.

The Data Imperative for Smart Microfactories: Enabling Real-Time Agility and Resilience

Microfactories, digital twins, and AI-first manufacturing strategies are not science fiction, they are here. But their success depends not just on sensors and robotics, but on how well data is connected, contextualized, and consumed.

Understanding End-to-End Configuration: A Primer

End-to-end configuration offers a strategic solution for unifying data, improving collaboration across departments, and enabling scalable, service-ready product operations.

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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.

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The Wire Association International (WAI), Inc.
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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FAULHABER MICROMO

Since 1961, FAULHABER MICROMO has partnered with OEMs to deliver high precision, high performance, custom micro motion system solutions to markets such as medical, robotics and automation in North America. FAULHABER MICROMO's tradition of innovation started decades ago in Germany. The groundbreaking invention of the FAULHABER coreless winding started it all for a market that produces millions of motors today. How can the FAULHABER MICROMO team help you deliver your next innovation to market first? Learn more about MICROMO's solutions for the most demanding applications, our diverse motion products and technologies, online ordering, Engineering and R&D teams, Clean Room Assembly, Machining Center and other services at our Clearwater, FL facility at www.micromo.com.