Economic pressures, the labor shortage and skills gaps, and IT consolidation driven by digital transformation and AI also are top of mind for these industrial stakeholders.
Motion Automation Intelligence is prepped for precision. Dorner’s Edge Roller Technology 250 (ERT250) conveyor system integrates an open roller design with tray handling, allowing the route to be easily reconfigurable, bidirectional and able to fully eliminate pallet stops. High speeds of up to 121 ft/min, plus proximity sensors on the conveyor system’s sides and bottom make it fast and precise.
After the trials of the past few years, which included a pandemic, industries have become faster, smarter, and more resilient than ever. Opportunities will continue to flow.
Institutional knowledge along with a retiring skilled workforce is being lost, leaving behind a major experience gap. With AI, however, organizations can capture that knowledge in an information storehouse.
Engaging with technology providers that prioritize secure development principles and compliance with cybersecurity standards will be a top priority for industrial companies in the new year.
CMMC for defense contractors, TISAX for automotive suppliers, and other rules and standards make the new year all about reinforcing network defenses among IT and OT personnel.
In this episode of Great Question, Ryan Martin, Paul Miller, and our Dennis Scimeca explore how modern manufacturing systems can provide huge benefits without huge costs.
Rewatch as Alan Raveling of Interstates helps Smart Industry’s Scott Achelpohl predict which manufacturing technologies will rise next year to the hype and the apparent staying power that AI and machine learning have gained in 2024. Alan had interesting insights on AI uses cases and also mentioned other tech such as machine control, which can help ...
Networking of manufacturing equipment through sensors to the multitude of computers that help run a modern plant floor: That’s what we’re talking about when we talk about Industrial IoT, which connects to industrial software for quality control, safety, automation, monitoring, etc. In this e-Handbook, the importance of cybersecurity rears...
Most of the people tasked with bringing AI strategies forward within their organizations don’t really understand what the technology is or how it works.
Kentucky printer maker Lexmark lent its IoT tech to another company that calls the Blue Grass State home—Big Ass Fans—which has made Lexmark’s software engine the core of its new automated comfort solution control system, CommandSense.
