Factory Automation encompasses the manufacturing and/or assembly of parts and subsystems to produce a product by passing it through a series of individual machines or work cells. Sometimes called ...

Fig. 2: By standardizing on AutomationDirect C-more HMIs, PMi2 has streamlined the development effort and end-user interface experience for their equipment automation, regardless of what PLC model is ...

Reducing shop-floor hardware, Siemens’ Simatic Automation Workstation delivers centralized software-defined factory automation and control. The system allows manufacturers to replace a hardware ...

RENISHAW’s new manufacturing connectivity and data platform - Renishaw Central - is a data-driven solution designed to transform the productivity, capability, and efficiency of manufacturing ...

The basics of industrial automation, smart factory, and Industry 4.0. The importance of power and connectivity in smart factories. The outcome of applying the lessons learned. Automation does not a ...

Bright Machines is going public via a SPAC-led combination, it announced this morning. The transaction will see the 3-year-old company merge with SCVX, raising gross cash proceeds of $435 million in ...

What draws someone with a degree in international business into the gritty, ever-evolving world of industrial automation? For Nikki Gonzales, director of business development at Weintek USA and the co ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are taking the world by storm. More and more we are seeing everyday actions turned into digitally automated tasks. While the construction industry hasn’t ...

At Automation Fair 2021, Sarah Larson of Rockwell Automation explained how the use of simulation and emulation software from Emulate3D, a Rockwell Automation company, is used to develop, test, and ...

Lights out manufacturing is gaining steam across the semiconductor industry, accelerating productivity, improving quality, and reducing costs and environment impact. These benefits are the result of ...

Until about 10 months ago, Hugh Roddy, the vice president of global engineering and project management at Chobani, spent much of his time on the road traveling between the company’s plants in New York ...

Luciano Sieber, CSCO of Colgate Palmolive, recently forwarded me a Wall Street Journal article about Stanley Black & Decker’s SWK “doomed” Fort Worth, Texas factory automation push. The subject line ...