Digital Manufacturing for Legacy Equipment Using a Standards-Based Approach: An MTconnect Use Case
Are you adding an MTConnect adapter and agent to legacy equipment? The AMT-Virginia Tech team collected and visualized data for production managers to monitor real-time metrics and build accurate reports from legacy equipment.
Automation Helps, but It’s Still a Workers’ Market
Given current economic conditions compared to where they were forecast to be at this point, this article will look at how the manufacturing employment landscape has changed and what it has meant for orders of manufacturing technology ...
Swiss Expedition: Precision with Heart, Part I
Have you ever experienced hospitality that’s both precise and artistic? Swiss manufacturer Studer AG welcomed nearly 100 attendees to its campus to unveil new products and share some of the joys of Swiss life.
Manufacturing Matters
Check in for the highlights, headlines, and hijinks that matter to manufacturing. These lean news items keep you updated on the latest developments.
Derivative, Meet Gradient
Does a year-over-year percentage growth truly reflect industry change? Do increased robot installations in sectors with less robot density look the same in ones with more density? Derivatives help expose how total change is affected when variables change.
Decisions, Decisions: Data and the Digital Manufacturing Decision-Making Process
Digital manufacturing uses operational data for more informed decision-making, which helps increase workflow efficiency. But a major challenge is the quality of data. Learn more about this crucial factor in digital manufacturing decision-making processes.
Architecture for Manufacturing Digital Systems
Digital manufacturing is company-specific strategy that uses data from manufacturing operations to support more informed decision-making and increase efficiency. Find out what goes into building a unique digital manufacturing strategy for your business.
It All Adds Up: More Additive Machine Data Provides More Insights
Additive is not a new process, but since it has begun to be used more widely in industrial settings, the one thing the technology cannot seem to manufacture is a source of reliable, consistent, and publicly available statistics on the size of the U.S. ...
Investment Trends in Additive Manufacturing: Shifting Focus
Application investments flourish while next-generation technology developers take on the future.
A Small Distillery Built on Big Data
KOVAL smartly deploys advanced monitoring technology in the service of creating a reliable, consistent (and delicious) product.