SME and CESMII Join Forces to Accelerate Smart Manufacturing Adoption November 3, 2021 SME, a non-profit professional association dedicated to advancing manufacturing, and CESMII – The Smart Manufacturing Institute, are partnering to drive smart manufacturing further and faster by aligning their resources and educating the industry, helping companies boost productivity, build a strong talent pipeline, and reduce manufacturers’ carbon footprint.
Ford Leases Boston Dynamics Robots July 28, 2020 Ford Motor Co. is leasing four-legged robots from Boston Dynamics as part of a program to reduce cost and boost efficiency.
The 20 most influential professors in smart manufacturing May 13, 2020 Innovation in smart manufacturing can come in a flash from a lightbulb moment, but those instances are few. More often than not, breakthroughs in technology, such as bioprinting, blockchain, cloud-based manufacturing and real-time production control, happen after years of careful study accompanied by painstaking, methodical work done sometimes in academic settings.
Crossing the digital divide key to improving labor productivity May 18, 2020 Inside an electronics factory in China as late as early 2019, workers and smart machines were building circuit boards with chips in a multi-step process using a variety of machines from different vendors.
MxD succeeds in encouraging firms of all sizes, schools to mix well May 26, 2020 The figurative skull and crossbones marking the tech-demo and -validation period commonly called the “valley of death” are in the rearview mirror, MxD CEO Chandra Brown asserts.
Heavy-duty robotic welding cells can be a great first step May 21, 2020 Like many technologies in manufacturing and fabrication today, welding operations have evolved to be more automated, flexible, adaptive, and “smarter” for improved throughput, safety and deposition accuracy.
Confused about OT security? ISA/IEC 62443 to the rescue. May 22, 2020 How do you ask your vendors for security? How do you assess how extensive their security knowledge and practices are?
To get AI projects galloping, first map worthy destination May 19, 2020 Industry 4.0 creates new possibilities for leveraging data to increase production automation, throughput, quality and efficiencies.
Wearables can help with worker safety, retention May 15, 2020 We have been remiss in not reporting a great deal on wearables since starting this magazine in early 2016. So, in this issue, we tackle that subject on two fronts of great import: worker safety and worker retention.
Get Smarter in Manufacturing with the Right Data October 26, 2020 Adopting Model-Based Definition, or MBD, is key and an industry expert provides some guidance.
