The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is often presented as a revolution that’s changing the face of industry. In reality, it’s an evolution that has its origins in technologies developed more than ...

John Clemons is a Solution Consultant for Rockwell Automation. He's been working in the field of Manufacturing Technology for over 30 years. Many tools can have an impact on manufacturing enterprises ...

The Enterprise Manufacturing Initiative (EMI) is currently funded by General Motors and is a cross Enterprise, collaborative group of students interested in learning more about manufacturing while ...

Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...

Automation. Artificial intelligence. Machine learning. These sound more like sci-fi than actual business tools, right? If you’re like many small-to-medium-sized businesses, you might be taking your ...

A new survey points to increasing interest among manufacturers for cloud-based ERP systems. As an automation engineer or operator, here's why you should care. Before I began covering the manufacturing ...

An enterprise system is software that coordinates sales, accounting, finance, human resources, inventory and manufacturing throughout your whole business. Using such software can make your company ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Numerous initiatives have been put into motion around the world to fundamentally transform manufacturing as we know it.

Successful modern manufacturing means making the most of cutting-edge technologies. One advance that has reshaped manufacturing practices is the incorporation of data analytics. Data analytics unlocks ...

A case study in aerospace manufacturing provides an overview of how physics-informed digital twin systems transform robotics processes—from adaptive process planning and real-time process monitoring ...

Key takeaways Most failed manufacturing system rollouts in food plants are not software failures but leadership, testing, and ...

In his book, "Business at the Speed of Thought", Bill Gates described how an enterprise's information system, or EIS, should act like a "digital nervous system." When a heavy object falls on a finger ...