Manufacturing and Automation White Papers

How leading manufacturers are harnessing technology to improve quality, drive higher profitable growth, and outpace the competition in 2023 – and beyond

To start, this whitepaper identifies all of the most common programmable tasks and how you can begin mobilizing your automated workforce at the lowest cost and highest productivity. Download the full whitepaper to see where robots can help!

Embrace the future of the manufacturing industry and implement solutions that allow you to navigate change with ease.

Current advancements in robotics are shrinking the design-to-deployment cycle from years to months, and 5G alone is enabling a host of new capabilities. Read about AI, ML, cloud computing, and how they all enable a new intelligent edge device.

Production scheduling is the process of maximizing the efficiency of production by the detailed planning of manufacturing operations in the near-term. It is aimed at preventing stock-outs, spotting bottlenecks, matching production with demand, optimizing workforce and machinery allocation, as well as balancing inputs and outputs between workstations.

No matter how complex and detailed the requirements, developing tailored products results in a specific set of challenges. That’s why we identified 10 essential ways manufacturers can improve and enhance their production lifecycle.

Efficiency and flexibility are pillars of any successful workflow. In operations, these mainstays factor into everything from worker productivity and throughput, cycle times, and precision in dock-to-stock, order picking, and fulfillment – all of which impact the bottom line. Particularly when demands surge from a disruption (e.g., a pandemic) or during seasonal peaks, inefficiencies are exaggerated and can limit the ability to scale operations.

From a technology perspective, the fundamental architecture of robotics is changing. Robotics systems are becoming more modular, customizable, and intelligent. Machine learning, sensors and other new technologies are paving the way to a new class of collaborative robots (or cobots) that can work alongside humans. Download the eBook to learn more!

New manufacturing architectures are needed to meet the demand of the growing Internet of Things (IoT) market. This article discusses how PCB cloud manufacturing supports and enables IoT hardware development. PCBs are at the center of the IoT devices, enabling transducers, processors, antennas, and other components that are part of the device to exchange power and data in the form of electricity effectively. PCB design for IoT products is more challenging than other electronic circuits as it often requires meeting tighter size constraints, stricter standards, and higher performance requirements.

In this whitepaper, learn how combining ELATEC’S highly flexible, multipurpose TWN4 MultiTech reader/writer with the powerful TCP3 network interface module enables manufacturing plants to extend RFID identification card-based capability to the access control of devices requiring special operator training like PLC, robot and HMI automation controllers. And to control access to hazardous areas.

The scope of application for access control is wide: in companies, not every employee should be allowed to go in and out everywhere, and hotels or health care facilities do not want to allow everyone in all areas. More and more often, a reliable access solution is needed. This whitepaper will show you what this could look like with RFID.

The past two years have been exceptional in many ways, but workplaces and businesses have adapted and moved forward. The rise of remote work isn’t receding, and the need to invest in more resilient supply chains is greater than ever. And even as constraints have loosened, leaders know that other supply chain disruptions will arise in the future.