For the last few years, the global supply chain has felt like it’s permanently on edge. One delay turns into another. A missing component stalls an entire production line. A factory halfway across the ...

The manufacturing industry has a staffing problem. Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute project that 2.1 million manufacturing jobs will be unfilled by 2030, leaving manufacturers looking for ways ...

A new manufacturing workforce study shows employees are highly satisfied and optimistic about the industry — but most did not ...

The idea of workers being replaced by automation is nothing new (there were literally movies being made about this all the way back in the 1950s!) but more recently they’ve started to go from fear to ...

Interoperability remains a major pain point in manufacturing, where multiple vendor systems must coexist, often without seamless data exchange. i3X is CESMII's open, common API initiative designed to ...

GM's new virtual reality assembly center has already identified and fixed 494 issues without first touching a vehicle. GM has 'virtually' hosted six major build events this year with manufacturing ...

Robotics and automation dominate industrial innovation conversations across industries and time zones. Fair enough—it’s not hard to see why robots capture the imagination. But I think the application ...

Operational excellence abounds on manufacturing floors across North America. While their achievements may go unremarked upon by many, every day, teams of problem-solving manufacturing employees find ...

A problem doesn't last a lifetime. But how you deal with it can make it linger for years without resolution. In my studies about the topic, I've identified that, in addition to everything that ...