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For decades, plant personnel have performed insulation resistance tests with handheld megohmmeters to prevent motor failures that lead to costly unplanned shutdowns, failure-to-produce penalties and rewinding repairs. However, these tests only provide a “snapshot” of motor health. In a matter of days, motor windings and cables exposed to moisture, chemicals, contaminants or vibration can be compromised and fail at startup.

Automating job shops is accelerating, driven by the combined influence of Industry 4.0, the continued shortage of skilled manufacturing labor and the COVID pandemic.

The longstanding trend toward manufacturing automation has understandably been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Measurement data is an important element of the emerging smart factory. How software provides that data is the key.

Cloud-based product management software enabled sharing data across the entire company and streamlining processes previously developed manually.

A key enabler of virtual reality/augmented reality will be bandwidth — and the imminent adoption of 5G could make it good enough in applications where it isn’t now.

New Association for Advancing Automation (A3) report shows $2 billion in sales (39,708 units) in 2021 – up 28% over 2020 and 14% ahead of previous high in 2017

Tooling U-SME proves the most helpful training to Iowa’s Rosenboom because employees learn things online that are immediately applicable.

As cobots work their way into machine shops, users are finding many new jobs for them.

Hexagon is providing mold and die shops using its CAM software WORKNC with immediate access to its model preparation software. This allows integration of production workflows from any CAD model format to CAM so shops can machine parts more efficiently and avoid costly errors.