The good news? Robots are no longer reserved for the giant OEMs with endless floor space and million-dollar budgets. Compact, ...

Customers’ rising expectations, a widening labor gap, and supply-chain uncertainty mean that automation – which can provide a productivity advantage – is becoming increasingly essential for machine ...

Whether in a production job shop or other high mix manufacturer, many machine shop managers think their automation options are limited due to all the variability of their parts that are run in ...

If you’re a job shop or other high-mix manufacturer you may not assume that automation is the right solution for you. But there are a variety of automation solutions that can be applied in high-mix ...

Meeting rising levels of demand in a consistent, cost-effective manner can be a complicated problem for a machine shop. The operations group at Ultradent Products Inc. in South Jordan, Utah, is a ...

The days are long gone from when manufacturers could add more staff to solve their operational issues. In fact, as the realities of long-term shifts in the workforce have set it, manufacturers ...

OT data is accessed from such components as Festo valve manifolds, servo drives, energy efficiency modules and remote I/O.

Hadrian Automation has raised $90 million in Series A and A-Prime rounds to build a second highly automated machine shop. The startup is attempting to consolidate the U.S. aerospace parts ...

Retailers are quietly reshaping how stores operate. As labour costs rise and staffing gaps widen, machines are stepping in to handle the routine jobs that keep shelves stocked, floors clean, and ...

Affordable Robotic and Automation Limited’s shares were trading 0.34 per cent higher after gaining nearly 6 per cent on Monday. The company had earlier announced its entry into machine shop automation ...

Automation can be a powerful tool for any manufacturer – especially as labor shortages and rising consumer expectations force businesses to do more with existing resources. However, the high cost of ...