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Digital transformation in food processing? Think automated audits
Food processing is still a highly manual industry, but packaging company Sealed Air is helping its customers improve yield and reduce waste with automated audits.
Flex strengthens supply chain with IAM
An identity and access management solution helps the technology company provision and deprovision identities for thousands of employees and supply chain partners, allowing CIO Gus Shahin to move on to more strategic efforts, including...
The future of manufacturing is digital
Forward-thinking manufacturers are moving beyond building great products, undertaking wide-ranging digital transformations to deliver new services and enhanced customer experiences.
How 3D printing can affect your supply chain
3D printing has been used for prototyping for decades, but now it’s starting to creep into production process too. Even if you’re not printing things yourself, that change is going to have implications for your supply chain management....
It’s time for manufacturers to get Lean
Lean tools for product innovation help enterprises embrace change and achieve agility at scale.
12 technologies that will disrupt business in 2018
From artificial intelligence to augmented reality, these dozen disruptive technologies and trends will begin driving how business gets done at forward-thinking organizations this year.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise opens app store for factories
Hewlett Packard Enterprise wants to make it almost as easy for production managers to deploy new software to the factory floor as to their mobile phone.
3D printing is now entrenched at Ford
While 3D printing was little more than a toy for engineers 20 years ago, today Ford Motor Co. could not develop new cars without it. New technologies ensure it's coming to a production line near you.
3D printing, married to traditional metal casting, could reshape manufacturing
Working with a Michigan foundry, Autodesk used its Netfabb 3D design software to create a 3D printed mold to make a magnesium airline seat frame that could save an airline more than $200 million in fuel costs.
HP to scale up its 3D printer business for use in mass manufacturing
HP announced that after selling its first Jet Fusion 3D printers for manufacturing, it will now focus on growing a network of resellers and development partners that will help to standardize materials, drive prices down over time and...
Apple joins 'Made in America' trend with $1 billion fund to promote U.S. manufacturing
Our President wants to bring jobs back to America, and Apple CEO Tim Cook is obliging with a $1 billion fund to promote advanced manufacturing in the United States.
IBM applies AI to factory QA
IBM's Watson artificial intelligence technology has found plenty of white-collar work in places like hospitals and banks, but soon it will be off to get its hands dirty on the factory floor.
These grippers are giving bots a helping hand
Sake Robotics is creating the "hands" that will help robots pick things up and put them down.
These grippers are giving bots a helping hand
Sake Robotics is creating the "hands" that will help robots pick things up and put them down.
6 vulnerabilities to watch for on the factory floor
Industrial control systems (ICS) that run the valves and switches in factories may suffer from inherent weaknesses that cropped up only after they were installed and the networks they were attached to became more widely connected.
If I can see it, I can fix it
Leading2Lean has a platform that lets everyone—from workers on the plant floor to executives—spot problems as they occur. That reduces breakdown rates and ups productivity.
Reports: Apple, Foxconn considering a $7 billion manufacturing plant in the U.S.
Foxconn’s chairman says Apple may decide to build a display factory in the States.
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