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AI-Driven AR Melds Manufacturing and Data

Augmented reality (AR) is a software–hardware fusion that enables creators to display information and 3D models digitally in the real world, giving users the sense that they are actually there. AR is not new, but the hardware and powerful software needed to use it conveniently are becoming more common. With this level of accessibility, AR is gaining use in manufacturing environments to solve many information access challenges.

Digital Twins: Bridging Product Design and Manufacturing

Design manufacturability is the general engineering practice of designing products so that they are efficient to manufacture. The use of digital twins is emerging as a solution that bridges the gap between design and manufacturing, with long-term potential to maximize efficiency and minimize wase.

How IIoT Enables the Smart Factory

There are well-known benefits to industrial manufacturing, adopted over time as standalone functional improvements, such as production rate optimization and increasing the data collected to improve operations insights. But as manufacturing takes a more holistic view to integrating the information technology (IT) infrastructure with operations technology (OT) to create the smart factory, manufacturers can realize the full benefit of this “industrial IoT” (IIoT) propelling their industries forward.

Industrial Robots and Automation

Ever since industrial robotic systems were first introduced, they have faced numerous challenges. Emerging technological developments in hardware, software, and advanced analytics could address these challenges and better support modern robotic systems by improving interactions both among robots and between humans and robots, increasing productivity, and reducing costs.

Customers Driving Industrial Automation Innovation

Although the traditional manufacturing goals of efficiency, accuracy, and safety remain relevant, manufacturing environments are trending toward new characteristics, such as being agile, accessible, data-driven, collaborative, resilient, and sustainable. This whitepaper examines these characteristics and how they help meet customers’ rapidly evolving needs and expectations.

Why Manufacturing 4.0 Will Succeed

This article explores the role of sensors, programmable logic controllers, low-power components and systems, and vision systems as vital—and often under-recognized—technologies that are helping to advance Manufacturing 4.0.

Industry 4.0’s Impact on Industrial Automation Branches

This whitepaper examines the roles of systems, process, and design engineering within the lifecycle of bringing new industrial automation products and projects to fruition and how those roles are expanding and evolving because of Industry 4.0.