The Rise of the Cobots-Friends, Not Foes, in Today's Manufacturing Landscape
Embracing the use of robotics on the production line, or incorporating AI to bring new products to market quickly, can help industrial businesses get noticed by young people and garner more interest in the employment opportunities on offer.
The Impact of 5G in Advanced Manufacturing
Process control with reliable, responsive wireless 5G communication is a clear opportunity. In many ways, 5G will be an enabler for IoT, because data collection from factory sensors can flow in real-time with controlled latency.
Integration Innovation
Why the Manufacturing Integrated Platform (MIP) represents the biggest leap forward since Henry Ford
10 Ways Warehouses Can Decrease Costs and Increase Efficiency
Cobots aside, there are many more ways in which warehouses can be improved to boost efficiency and productivity. Many of those opportunities also decrease associated costs, simply because of the benefits they offer.
Galling a Serious Issue in Manufacturing - but There Are Solutions
With potentially disastrous effects resulting from galled fasteners seizing or even being subject to a fatigue breakage, the manufacturing industry players are advised to counter this threat.
Building Cars in the 21st Century
Automobile manufacturing as we know it is failing; can microfactories be the answer to how we make the mobility products of the future?
Moving Beyond Prototypes
Can 3D printing be used in the manufacture of safety critical vehicle parts?
The Need For Power Quality Monitoring
This article discusses how the "power factor" of a facility directly impacts billing; it also illustrates the need for power quality monitoring as a way of reducing costs. What's the potential for savings?
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Safe Materials for 3D Printing
There are three primary uses for ESD safe plastics: electronics manufacturing (e.g. ESD safe jigs and fixtures for printed circuit board manufacturing), materials in a combustible/explosive environment, and nuisance static charge elimination
5 Critical Challenges That Your Supply Chain May Face
The main essence of a supply chain is to deliver the right product to the right people at the right time. While it may sound simple, it is difficult to achieve.
Decoding Business Valuation: What Manufacturers Need to Know (Part 4)
In the final article of this series, we highlight the three business valuation approaches, as well as the level of value adjustments, and provide a final summary of what manufacturers need to know about business valuation.
Automatic Truck Loading for a Variety of Industries
With fewer docks required because each dock can handle higher volumes, the automatic unloading system processes up to 6,000 parcels per hour which means that the maximum capacity of the sorting machines can be utilized achieving optimal overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
The Business Case for Metal AM
The growing number of industrialisation questions are indicative of a growing maturity in the marketplace. AM machines are moving out of prototyping applications and research laboratories and into mainstream production manufacturing.
A Realist's Prediction for the Future Factory
When determining the rate of adoption of new technologies, the Gartner hype cycle is a good point of reference. The hype cycle for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), however, shouldn't be confused with general IoT, which applies to consumer IoT technology.
Industry 4.0 Strategy and Design for Additive Manufacturing
With all the buzz about these new design tools, there is still quite a bit of ground left to be covered in ensuring these next-generation designs are actually manufacturable. That is where we can really shine.
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