In this podcast, John Derry, senior application engineer at Promess, talks to SME Media contributing editor Michael Anderson about reducing complexity in assembly equipment. Derry discusses how assembly systems may become unnecessarily complex--and how that complexity can reduce quality and increase costs. Derry goes on to describe effective ways of addressing these issues and to reduce and even eliminate unnecessary complexity.
Manufacturers need to adopt proactive threat modeling for their cyber-physical systems to map the connections between IT and OT.
The structure of CMMC 2.0 has been streamlined to be slightly less stringent and easier to implement, especially for shops in the lower tiers of the supply chain.
Black hats, script kiddies, phishers, and hostile nation-states. Bad actors are out there,
fervently working to sabotage your factory and steal your stuff. What are you doing about it?
Why ‘more’ can be better than ‘bigger’ when scaling production.
Polar has successfully “hired” a robot with Formic, realizing a return on investment from the second the robot turned on.
After a few years of mostly hype, blockchain is starting to deliver and prove its value in manufacturing, particularly in aerospace and defense and within additive manufacturing.
Current and prospective member companies of the defense industrial base (DIB) have watched with interest as the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) developed its all-encompassing Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program.
Most manufacturing executives participating in a survey said cybersecurity threats are beginning to overwhelm their resources.
In manufacturing, potentially flammable and hazardous chemicals such as acetone and isopropyl alcohol are often stored in 55-gallon or larger drums for dispensing into smaller containers or at the point of use.