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Data-Driven Maintenance: Transforming Industrial Automation with IoT

Data-Driven Maintenance: Transforming Industrial Automation with IoT

Connected technology is the backbone of data transfer – data that can be used to predict failures and optimize workflows to enhance industrial operations.


Enhancing Durability and Reliability With Connectors for Harsh Environments

Enhancing Durability and Reliability With Connectors for Harsh Environments

Choosing the right connector for industrial applications is no small feat. This article will discuss factors you must consider, including electrical, mechanical, and shape.


Can Generative AI and Large Language Models Help Catch More Krill?

Can Generative AI and Large Language Models Help Catch More Krill?

This article reviews the challenges and opportunities when incorporating generative AI and Large Language Models in industrial applications. It also examines how a Norwegian fishing and biotech company improved operational productivity and efficiency using generative AI.


Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS): What Is It and Why Would You Want It?

Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS): What Is It and Why Would You Want It?

Traditionally, automation requires a sizable investment and integration risks. RaaS empowers manufacturers to let someone else adopt the risks in exchange for an hourly or monthly subscription rate.


5 Reasons Why Sensors Are Crucial For Modern Manufacturing

5 Reasons Why Sensors Are Crucial For Modern Manufacturing

Data has become the currency that enables operational excellence. Sensors are the key links, acting as the eyes and ears of modern manufacturing units by providing real-time data on machine performance.


Outstanding in the Field: Robots That Can Pick Fruit

Outstanding in the Field: Robots That Can Pick Fruit

Agriculture is an industry ‘ripe’ for technology, but what obstacles and opportunities lie in front of the cutting-edge innovators of the field?


5-Point Guide To Set Up A Lean Production System

5-Point Guide To Set Up A Lean Production System

The Lean process uses a method of implementation focusing only on actions providing value to customers. The following five steps break down the process into discrete modules when introducing efficiency to production.


Challenges to Sustainability: What Can Manufacturers Do to Go Green?

Challenges to Sustainability: What Can Manufacturers Do to Go Green?

Setting sustainability goals is an important step, but there are a number of real challenges that lie in implementing initiatives that can deliver these targets and lead to long-term program success.


5 Best Reliability Techniques For Analyzing Fault Tolerance

5 Best Reliability Techniques For Analyzing Fault Tolerance

Faults and failures are an unavoidable part of any system, but it is important to reduce downtime risks by mitigating failures and designing fault tolerance into critical system elements.


Building Seamless and Secure Industrial Networks Using TSN

Building Seamless and Secure Industrial Networks Using TSN

Moving toward Industry 4.0 is about implementing highly automated and interconnected factories and infrastructure. Learn how time-sensitive networking (TSN) technologies can make this a reality.


AI-enabled Platforms Achieve New Levels of Production Efficiency

AI-enabled Platforms Achieve New Levels of Production Efficiency

Digitalization is steadily gaining importance to help manufacturers meet changes in the process industry, however, modern digital solutions must represent the interaction of both machine parameters and tribal knowledge.


How To Know When Predictive Maintenance Isn’t An Ideal Solution

How To Know When Predictive Maintenance Isn’t An Ideal Solution

To know if predictive maintenance is the right strategy, it might help to first recognize if it isn’t. Here are some indicators that your organization should improve before implementing predictive maintenance.


Memory: A Challenge on the Road to Industry 4.0

Memory: A Challenge on the Road to Industry 4.0

Memory for data is among the most pressing challenges to Industry 4.0. Given the evolving nature of Industry 4.0 and associated memory solutions, however, some memory-based trends are becoming apparent.


Electromechanical Integration Using Fusion 360

Electromechanical Integration Using Fusion 360

Nearly every electronic product depends on the unity of electrical components and PCBs with physical enclosures and parts. Learn how Autodesk’s Fusion 360 offers a complete solution for electromechanical integration and design.


8 Steps To Successful Predictive Maintenance Implementation (with examples)

8 Steps To Successful Predictive Maintenance Implementation (with examples)

We'll run through the eight basic steps for implementing a predictive maintenance strategy in your business to improve critical asset availability, reduced maintenance costs, and enhanced revenues over time.


The Importance of Collecting and Using Maintenance Data

The Importance of Collecting and Using Maintenance Data

Learn about how a CMMS helps maintenance teams increase the quality of decisions and improve efficiency by providing timely access to maintenance data that is current, accurate, and complete. 


High-Power Laser Diodes for Industrial Autonomous Mobile Robots

High-Power Laser Diodes for Industrial Autonomous Mobile Robots

LiDAR and SLAM enable AMRs and drones to effectively navigate dynamic industrial environments. The right selection of high-power laser diodes is critical for accurate performance of LiDAR/SLAM systems


The Journey of a Product through the Smart Logistics Cycle

The Journey of a Product through the Smart Logistics Cycle

Industry 4.0 impacts all parts of the value chain, including logistics, which makes smart logistics a key aspect of digital transformation. In this article, learn about the smart logistics cycle and selecting the right components for the tools needed.


Introduction of Cobots in classrooms accelerates with new state and industry endorsements of Universal Robots

Introduction of Cobots in classrooms accelerates with new state and industry endorsements of Universal Robots

Two major recognitions of Universal Robots’ education programs from the U.S. federal Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute (ARM) and the State of Ohio’s Department of Education pave the way for schools and industry to further leverage cobots, offering employability in robotics careers while upskilling existing workforce.


 Universal Robots opens 100th training center

Universal Robots opens 100th training center

Universal Robots has reached a new milestone with 100 certified training centers worldwide. This comes following the opening of a new center in Täby near Stockholm in Sweden, with other centers spread across 23 countries.