Smart Manufacturing
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…
Artificial Intelligence Opportunities: A More Intelligent Manufacturing Industry
In a 2016 article from Business Insider, General Electric described what an ideal intelligent factory would look like. Their vision for the “Brilliant Factory,” as they called it, would start with automatic ordering based on detected…
The state of Automotive, Industrial & Medical Electronics Manufacturing
Over the past two decades, the global market for printed circuit boards has been shaped by the growth of and technological change in the electronics industry in general and, in particular, by end devices such as…
7 Things You Should Ask Your Manufacturing Equipment Provider
Video should be part of every SCADA solution. In fact, all plant operations should consider adding cameras to existing operations as the technology is well understood and the returns can be significant and measurable. Troubleshooting manufacturing…
5 Advantages of Adopting Assisted Reality in the Industrial Enterprise
Assisted reality is a subset of Augmented Reality in which workers see contextually relevant digital information through a hands-free display, without requiring content registered to specific objects. Industrial deployments at Boeing, General Electric, and The Coca-Cola…
The main issues with today’s Industrial Automation Sales Channel
Industrial manufacturers who rely on independent distributors to sell electrical, electronic, and hydraulic products face a sales channel in crisis. Distributor gross profit margins, which averaged 23 to 27% for many years, are falling. Faded product…
Values and Challenges of SCADA Systems for Outside-the-Fence Applications
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are designed for inside-the-fence manufacturing plants, where machinery is co-located with a central command center. Deploying these systems across remote, geographically dispersed assets introduces significant power, connectivity, and cost…
How Indoor Positioning Systems Can Improve Efficiency in Manufacturing?
Indoor positioning systems (IPS) give manufacturers real-time location data for assets, people, and processes on the shop floor. According to Liisa Parv, Marketing Manager at Eliko, an electronics and software development company, IPS addresses three core…
MIT: The Seven System Principles You Need to Know Before Implementing IIoT
Are you ready for IIoT/Industry 4.0? Industry 4.0 promises to offer significant advantages to manufacturing and operations according to MIT experts. It also provides the opportunity to repeat the same systemic errors that plagued the previous three.…
ADM show wrap up – IIoT & Predictive Maintenance
The inaugural Advanced Design and Manufacturing show & conference in Cleveland was a success according to Steven Carlisle, UBM's Senior Manager, Relationships & Partnerships. "We managed to hit our target attendance numbers in the first day…
How To Fast-Track A Successful IoT Manufacturing Project
To fast-track a successful IoT manufacturing project, Douglas Bellin, Senior Manager of Global Private Sector Industries at Cisco, recommends defining a clear end state, breaking it into incremental steps, and building security into the architecture from…