Smart Manufacturing
The Beginner’s Guide to AI in Manufacturing
Manufacturers today face a highly competitive environment with rising costs of materials and resources. The nominal price of steel, for example, has increased by 167% since the turn of the century while energy costs have climbed more than 2.5…
[Best Practices Guide] How To Thrive in the New World of Manufacturing
Technology Is Disrupting Manufacturing, But It’s Also Offering New Opportunities for Workers and Companies To Thrive Manufacturers today face significant challenges due to disruption from technology, generational change, worker retraining and international pressures. These challenges present…
Report Summary: Cyber Attacks on Smart Manufacturing Systems
Smart manufacturing systems are designed and deployed under the assumption that they will be isolated from both the outside world and the rest of the corporate network. On one hand, this does not necessarily mean that…
How To Keep Manufacturing Efficient In Remote Environments
Every day, another challenge arises and the growing impact of COVID-19 has left most companies rushing to implement new processes to minimize operational impact. Remote working has become the new norm; but for certain jobs, especially…
The role of Industrial Analytics in driving Manufacturing Transformations
As global competitive pressures have driven changes and higher expectations for manufacturing organizations, enterprise technology in manufacturing must respond at an accelerated pace today. Largely the result of fundamental changes enabled by transformative technologies, new and…
Enabling Manufacturing using IOTA – A possible approach post Covid-19 paradigm
Internet of Things is no more a technological breakthrough. Industrial applications have been faster in adoption of IoT and it has been playing a significant role for businesses that requires internal tracking, attaining near to zero…
Smart Manufacturing: Cloud vs. Edge Computing
There are an endless number of buzzwords in the technology industry at any given moment. We’ve all heard more than enough about the Cloud, the Edge and the Internet of Things (IoT) for the past several…
Top 5 reasons to attend EMO 2019
The EMO Hannover, Germany, is the world's third largest machine tool market taking place this year in Hannover, Germany, September 16-21, 2019. Last week, I had the opportunity to travel to Hannover, Germany, to get a…
How will smart manufacturing transform the supply chain?
For manufacturers, managing the supply chain from beginning to end has been like traveling two superhighways interrupted by a long stretch of dirt road. Manufacturers have benefited from increasingly powerful tools for demand planning and logistics…
Edge Computing Benefits – Key Drivers for Smart Manufacturing
Edge computing has many beenefits; it means faster response times, increased reliability and security. A lot has been said about how the Internet of Things ( IoT ) is revolutionizing the manufacturing world. Many studies have…
Legal Issues in Smart Manufacturing
Two lawyers walk into a smart manufacturing conference. Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, right? Well, no, actually, it was the reality last month when lawyers Matt Pollins, partner and head of commercial/TMT at…
Digital Transformation of Manufacturing Industries Trends
It is real, but it’s difficult to say how long it will take. It will surely take many years to fully realize, but is already happening faster than many expected. This blog presents some of key…