Smart Manufacturing will come to the fore in 2022 as a holistic strategy that considers the entire process throughout a product’s entire lifecycle.
As the 2022 SME president, I hope to build on the successes of my predecessors with a particular emphasis on workforce development and especially the workforce itself.
Unlike other forms of automation and what we now think of as ‘traditional’ robots, cobots are much safer for humans to interact with them. They can work side by side with humans. But this leads to new ways of thinking about automation. And there are misconceptions that persist around cobots.
At its automotive plant in Jalisco, Mexico, Interplexico turned to robotics to improve production efficiency for one of its parts production lines.
The advantages promised by Industry 4.0 are being realized at Ingersoll Machine Tools in Rockford, Ill.
A member of SME describes how to get started on the automation journey.
Autonomous mobile robots are more than automated material handling.
The virtual thread enables connected data flow for all asset information and related metadata.
Robotics and AI meet the challenges of constant commerce at Pitney Bowes.
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