Manufacturer's Monthly

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It seems that the balance between dependable suppliers and cost-effective materials has reached its end for discrete manufacturers. Identify and resolve potential bottlenecks in your supply chain before they impact your operations. In todays dynamic market, SCM is crucial for enhancing efficiency and reducing costs.

Supply Chain 59

Supply Chain Manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Logistics 59

Control Engineering

AUGUST 2, 2023

Learning Objectives Understand how a sorting company upgraded their automation systems to improve operations. Automation insights NPI, a Texas-based mail sorting design company, worked on emphasizing and shortening the time to a return on investment (ROI) by upgrading its automation systems.

Automation 98

Automation Pharmaceutical Bottleneck Industry 4.0 98

Control Engineering

JANUARY 17, 2023

Offset a mile recession in 2024 and depression in 2030 in part with manufacturing automation. Be prepared: Companies have the opportunity to pull ahead and improve automation and efficiency in operations and reduce supply chain bottlenecks. Automation will help. Keywords: Manufacturing economics, automation helps.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Bottleneck Supply Chain Automation 52

Control Engineering

APRIL 12, 2023

Closed-loop digitalization uses data from the real world to create accurate simulations and find and resolve any bottlenecks in design. System integrators and end users in material handling understand and learn how automation can improve operations, making it more horizontally and vertically sustainable.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 52

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Artificial Intelligence Warehousing 52

Control Engineering

APRIL 11, 2023

However, the rise of automation is leading to the growth of static manipulation roles within warehouses. There are currently 132,000 robotic engineers in the US and this will need to increase to avoid labor becoming a major bottleneck to market growth. We estimate there will be around 7.5

Robotics 52

Robotics Robotics Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence 52

Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To give an example, an automated guided vehicle (AGV) making its final approach to a machine for docking may pose a collision risk between two industrial assets. a new event-triggered, dynamic risk assessment and automated validation of safety measures approach is required. Adaptive safety To meet the new needs of I4.0,

Industry 4.0 52

Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Value chain Smart manufacturing 52

Control Engineering

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Siemens, DMG Mori USA, Walter and Trak Machine Tools collaborate on next-generation part-manufacturing digital thread , involving software, machine tool building, tooling hardware and machine tool CNC automation. It offers additional opportunities for the manufacturer to use the Siemens Teamcenter digitalization portfolio.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 52

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Function 3D printing Additive manufacturing 52