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Manufacturers using digital transformation to future-proof operations

Control Engineering

Future-proofing manufacturing goes beyond acquiring data; manufacturers also need to evolve their business models and how they sell, acquire and distribute items to better serve their customers. Leading manufacturers are making the digital transition with help from trusted partners. That’s the future of manufacturing.

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Manufacturer marks 50 years with manufacturing, R&D expansions

Control Engineering

The first facility opened in 2018 in Billerica, Mass., Supply-chain issues and other disruptions are causing regionalization and localization to rise. must expand manufacturing. manufacturing growth. Festo personnel also engage in market-focused product and system development at a TEC. is growing year over year.

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Tariffs & the Factory: What Plant Leaders Can Do to Fight Back

Machine Metrics

discrete-manufacturing plants. Manufacturing executives have already begun taking action, flexing their supply chain muscles to identify new sources of material, bring manufacturing back to the US, and, in many cases, simply stockpiling resources before material prices raise.