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5 For Friday: Salary Survey Optimism; A New (and Important) Acronym; and Ways to Unleash the Potential of Design

Bob Vavra

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Custom Machine Builder Develops Automation Solution That Increases Production Capacity Four-Fold

Derek Limesand

Kamp Automation developed a mechatronic solution to meet a customer’s requirements. By automating a labor-intensive process, production capacity for an industrial electronic component...

The Future of Connected Worker Technology and Its Impact on Industrial Training

Eric Whitley

A new paradigm of work driven by technology is reshaping industrial skills and training efforts in profound ways.

For Better or For Worse, Multimodal AI Cultivates New Frontiers

Rehana Begg

Integrating AI tools, such as prompt engineering and conversational AI, can be transformative.

Generative AI’s Transformative Impact on Manufacturing: Unleashing the Power of Industrial Data

Moe Tanabian

An insider’s view on why industrial generative AI capabilities hold promise for asset-heavy industries, this article highlights three common obstacles: hallucinations, data leakage...

Enhancing Robotics Applications with Rotary Unions and Slip Rings

Sharon Spielman

Moog GAT’s combinations of rotary unions and electrical slip rings provides for rotation at the joint of the tool interface.

Big Tech & Big Ideas Permeate Industrial Thinking in 2023

Rehana Begg

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5 for Friday: The Power of Collaboration; a Collaboration Around Power; and the Cost of Designing for Reliability

Bob Vavra

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Reliability, Supply Chain Linked in New Survey

Bob Vavra

Mobile robots like these, also called jack bots, are typically used in warehouses to move large stacks of product shelves and identify products and shelves.

Emergent Robotics: Pioneering Solutions in Modern Industrial Automation

Tara Van Geons

Avianna is a start-up focusing on creating drone software that will support and commercialize UAV operations. The company used advanced AI technologies to boost drone functionality and to unlock previously inaccessible robotics capabilities.

Pushing the Limits of Drone Capabilities

Victorio Pellicano

With the promise of operational efficiency and cost savings, the latest autonomous drone functionality and capabilities are prepping industries for greater integration.

A notable feature of Festo’s automation platform is its flexible topology. All the distributed and decentralized I/O are under a single IP address.

Emergent Technologies That Improve Productivity and Flexibility

Rehana Begg

A positive-sum automation strategy demands that next-generation robotics, hardware and automation software improve both productivity and flexibility.

Dallas manufacturer Aircraft Tooling uses a collaborative robot from Universal Robots to handle plasma and metal powder spray processes, freeing up employees to take on other tasks. With the Waves of Innovation event, Olympus Controls wants to show more manufacturers how robotics and automation deliver benefits such as workforce optimization, and increased productivity.

Robotics and Football: Automation Event Comes to Cowboys Stadium

Rehana Begg

Olympus Controls invites robotics, automation and manufacturing industries to its inaugural event hosted at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Tex. on Nov. 15.

Rockwell Automation, Microsoft Collaborate to Enhance Industrial Automation with Generative AI

Sharon Spielman

By combining their technologies, Microsoft and Rockwell Automation aim to accelerate the development process and boost productivity for customers in the industrial sector.

Automation & IIoT

Recent

5 For Friday: Salary Survey Optimism; A New (and Important) Acronym; and Ways to Unleash the Potential of Design

Deliver Robust Automated Systems Through Servo Maintenance

A Technology Upgrade for Trucking Chicken Lights

Ruland’s Zero-Backlash Jaw Couplings for Start-Stop Applications

The Cyber-physical Training Module

AI: Unleashing the Power in Manufacturing

Engineers Bring Pride, Experience to Their Craft—and it Pays

Highlights

Custom Machine Builder Develops Automation Solution That Increases Production Capacity Four-Fold

The Future of Connected Worker Technology and Its Impact on Industrial Training

For Better or For Worse, Multimodal AI Cultivates New Frontiers

Generative AI’s Transformative Impact on Manufacturing: Unleashing the Power of Industrial Data

Enhancing Robotics Applications with Rotary Unions and Slip Rings

Big Tech & Big Ideas Permeate Industrial Thinking in 2023

5 for Friday: The Power of Collaboration; a Collaboration Around Power; and the Cost of Designing for Reliability

Reliability, Supply Chain Linked in New Survey

Emergent Robotics: Pioneering Solutions in Modern Industrial Automation

Pushing the Limits of Drone Capabilities

Emergent Technologies That Improve Productivity and Flexibility

Robotics and Football: Automation Event Comes to Cowboys Stadium

Rockwell Automation, Microsoft Collaborate to Enhance Industrial Automation with Generative AI