How Thoughtful UX Accelerates Decision Making in Industrial Systems
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Mission-critical environments demand interfaces that perform under stress. In utilities, energy, and manufacturing, seconds matter when incidents occur. Software must support rapid recognition and response, not prolonged analysis.
How to Scale Configuration Complexity Without Eroding Margins
Customization drives growth. But as configurability expands, many manufacturers face a familiar pattern: greater product variety paired with margin erosion, operational instability, and discount pressure.
A Practical Guide to Using AI for Demand Sensing
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By moving from backward-looking statistics to forward-looking AI, small changes throughout the supply chain (and the signals they send) can be detected, analyzed, and neutralized before they create widespread disruption.
Planning a Facility Expansion? Here's How to Improve Reliability and Uptime at the Same Time
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For modern manufacturers, success entails embedding reliability into the literal foundation of the building. Therefore, expanding operations requires adopting a smart manufacturing strategy from day one.
Zero Trust ERP Security for Smart Manufacturing Ecosystems
Modern manufacturing ERP platforms now sit at the centre of highly connected ecosystems that include suppliers, logistics partners, cloud services, industrial IoT devices, remote workers, and third party analytics tools. This expansion has changed the security problem.
The Multi-Million Dollar Mistake: Why the Technology Business Case Is Not a Strategy
In many cases, the cost of that mistake can quietly creep past eight figures. The problem isn't that companies are investing in technology. It's that they are confusing a technology business case with a manufacturing technology strategy. And the two are not the same.
2026 CNC Machining Trends to Pay Attention To
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In this article we discuss the five major trends expected to shape CNC machining in the coming year — and how forward-looking manufacturers are already preparing for them.
How Equipment Downtime Management Protects Your Entire Manufacturing Network
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When production halts, companies hemorrhage money. It is essential to identify and address problems to mitigate interruptions effectively.
Retain Your Best Workers: Reduce Fatigue With Automated Welding
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By capitalizing on the benefits of welding automation technology, manufacturers can increase employee retention and attract new talent. If strategically implemented, these solutions could address the root cause of the skills shortage.
10 Predictions of How MES & MOM Will Drive a New Era of Manufacturing Resilience in 2026
2026 will be defined by excellence in manufacturing execution far outreaching previous years of experimentation. The manufacturers pulling ahead are those uniting MES and MOM into a single, data?driven framework that links every production decision to enterprise strategy.
Next-Generation Private 5G for Next-Generation Industrial Automation
What I'm hearing in my daily conversations is that there is an important element that's too often left out of the automation upgrade discussion - and that's the underlying network that can make or break a successful project.
The Dawn of Agentic Autonomy: Defining the 2026 Smart Factory
We are witnessing a transition from passive automation to integrated, agentic autonomy—a shift that moves beyond simple programmed responses toward systems capable of independent reasoning and real-time optimization.
Smart Automation: How AGVs and AMRs Help Manufacturers Manage Rising Costs
The time is now to invest in scalable, cost-efficient automation deployments, keeping in mind the importance of power and data delivery solutions that support consistent, productive operations.
AI for Product Data Management: A Key Component for Smarter Manufacturing
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AI improves data quality by reducing errors and inconsistencies introduced by manual intervention. Manual errors may not seem like a huge deal, but they can easily disrupt time-to-market or channel accuracy.
Discovering Manufacturing Bottlenecks Through AI and Machine Learning Analysis
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Manufacturing slowdowns come from many sources. That diversity makes it challenging for executives to identify the top causes without help. Well-trained AI and machine learning algorithms can analyze the data and recommend suggestions for improvement.
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Automation & IIoT - 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.
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PI USA (Physik Instrumente)
PI is a privately held company that designs and manufactures world-class precision motion and automation systems including air bearings, hexapods and piezo drives at locations in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company was founded 5 decades ago and today employs more than 1700 people worldwide. PI's customers are leaders in high-tech industries and research institutes in fields such as photonics, life-sciences, semiconductors and aerospace.
