Factory Automation encompasses the manufacturing and/or assembly of parts and subsystems to produce a product by passing it through a series of individual machines or work cells. Sometimes called ...

If the goal was to demonstrate how Bosch Rexroth harmonizes advanced manufacturing hardware, software and engineering, the drive and control technologies specialist met their mark at ATX West 2024 ...

Picking up unrecognized objects is largely an underdeveloped area of machine vision. CynLr is solving the problem with a product-agnostic robotic assembly line. In all industries, pursuing one ...

Emerson's Bonneville facility uses digitalized workflows and smart automation to produce its configurable Aventics XV valve systems.

DigiKey, a leading global commerce distributor offering the largest selection of technical components and automation products in stock for immediate shipment, announced the debut of Season 4 of the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are taking the world by storm. More and more we are seeing everyday actions turned into digitally automated tasks. While the construction industry hasn’t ...

Lights out manufacturing is gaining steam across the semiconductor industry, accelerating productivity, improving quality, and reducing costs and environment impact. These benefits are the result of ...

Luciano Sieber, CSCO of Colgate Palmolive, recently forwarded me a Wall Street Journal article about Stanley Black & Decker’s SWK “doomed” Fort Worth, Texas factory automation push. The subject line ...

There was a time when large-scale computer-driven automation usurped a large array of jobs in the economy. The time was the 1970s into 1980s, when computerized machine tools swept in and took over the ...

Factory automation involves building parts and assembling them into subsystems and finished products. Both the production and assembly processes are considered discrete manufacturing. Each process can ...