Enabling a more flexible, less expensive, faster supply chain January 20, 2020 As manufacturers aim to become increasingly nimble in the marketplace,distributed manufacturing—making parts or finished products at or near the location where they will be used instead of at a central factory—is emerging as a way to advance a faster, more flexible and cheaper supply chain.
Smart Manufacturing Drives Five Key Changes October 11, 2019 What do you think of when you hear the word factory? Probably some huge space, with machines humming and personnel walking around with notepads in their hands.
Factory-within-factory idea delivers productivity gains October 16, 2019 Wyoming Completion had a shock when it began machining parts in an automated machining cell. It was a good shock: While the company hoped for a 25-35% boost in production, it experienced 400% improvement.
Shop ERP Software Boosts Efficiency June 26, 2019 Speeding the flow of jobs through the shop, while maintaining top quality, ranks among the hallmarks of any successful manufacturing operation’s goals.
Mass customization will only work if we return the power to the people October 16, 2019 As I walked the floor this spring at North America’s largest trade show for automation technologies, Industry 4.0 was on everybody’s lips. One of the more complex of our industrial revolutions, Industry 4.0 has been about the Internet of Things: digitizing and connecting things.
One way to calculate business value with AM October 16, 2019 For years, companies have struggled to understand how additive manufacturing (AM) can add value to their businesses. This makes sense because for a long time, additive tech didn’t meet the threshold for producing industrial-grade parts.
ZEISS Completes Steel Construction of New Facility in Michigan June 13, 2019 With the Steel Topping Out event, ZEISS has completed the steel portion of its state-of-the-art site near Detroit. The new facility for the Industrial Quality and Research (IQR) segment of ZEISS, represented in the USA by Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC, is scheduled to be complete in June 2020 and will consolidate four existing Michigan facilities into one location.
GDPR: A Rick Oppedisano AI Love Story October 16, 2018 Artificial intelligence will go long way to imbue data management with trust.
Industrial robots can create more palatable human jobs October 9, 2018 A decade removed from the Great Recession, the U.S. job market is thriving. Because employers are struggling to fill empty positions, they must explore other ways to increase production needs.
Why Life Sciences Product Makers Must Go Digital October 30, 2018 What does a submarine operating underwater have in common with a metal stent propping open a human artery? More than you’d think initially.