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Physical AI: Smarter Manufacturing on the Factory Floor
Physical AI is shaping the future of industrial production and expanding the possibilities of intelligent manufacturing. -
How Unattended Machining Redefines What’s Possible
The most successful shops use automation to protect and elevate their workforce, stabilize production expectations and stay competitive in a tight labor market. -
The Industrial Orchestration Layer: Empowering Shop Floor Intelligence
As a secure and deterministic bridge between stochastic AI models and physical machinery, the industrial orchestration layer empowers manufacturers to safely automate real-time decision-making while ensuring safe operations. -
The Shop Floor Is Ready for AI. Is Your Network Ready, Too?
ARC Advisory Group research explains why the network is the strategic decision manufacturers can no longer afford to defer. -
How Data Maturity Brings Industrial AI Agents Within Reach
Manufacturers can build a foundational data infrastructure that enables them to adopt agents faster and with less outright risk. -
Smarter Scheduling for Custody Transfer Metering: The Case for Surrogate Spool Calibration
Decoupling ultrasonic flowmeter calibration from spool fabrication can recover weeks — often significantly more — from project schedules, without sacrificing measurement accuracy or regulatory compliance. -
Educating the Next Generation of Process Control Engineers
Which subjects should be included in the curriculum of an undergraduate process control course, and which should not? -
Will the US Machine Vision Market Ever See Consolidation?
How does vendor concentration vary by sector, and what mix of sectors makes up the machine vision market? -
3PLs Are Ramping Up Warehouse Construction: Here’s What It Means for Automation
Global supply chains are in another period of high stress and are becoming increasingly complex. -
Logistics Industry Trends: Software-Layer Solutions and Resilience Planning
The software layer is connecting data, automation, labor management, slotting and exception handling. -
Unlocking Easier Automation with Openness, Resilience and Right-Sized Design
As automation systems grow more complex, machine builders are rethinking how they design and deploy motion. -
From Industrial Sites to Work Sites: The Expanding Definition of Workplace Risk
The traditional boundaries of workplace safety are dissolving as organizations recognize that environmental hazards matter as much as human injuries, and that "industrial" risk factors extend far beyond factory floors into retail stores and customer-facing spaces. -
Standardized Function Blocks Solve Automation’s Consistency Crisis
Standardization through reusable function blocks is achievable, valuable and worthy of investment. -
Building Supply Chain Resilience: Why MOM Succeeds Where Standalone MES Fails
Here is where the MES-versus-MOM distinction stops being an academic exercise and starts costing real money. -
How Automation Is Becoming the Backbone of Tomorrow’s Clean‑Energy Ecosystems
Industrial automation in clean energy is transforming how electricity is produced, stored and delivered. -
Monolithic Namespace Is a Liability, Not a Strategy
The industry has been so focused on solving the integration problem that it has ignored the failure mode problem. -
Hands-On Automation Learning Prepares Students for the Future
Kettering University developed a collaborative program between education and industry to prepare students for meaningful, high-impact careers. -
Predictive Maintenance: Using Displacement Sensors for Real-Time Condition Monitoring
Learn how laser, eddy and other displacement sensors work and how they plug into IIoT PdM systems. They’re game changers on the shop floor. -
Industry 5.0: The Digital Journey of Enterprise-Wide Intelligence
The quest for optimization begins with digital connectivity, unlocking opportunities for insight generation, automated modeling and predictive maintenance, all essential for productivity in today’s demanding process environments. -
The One Protocol Every Data Center Will Need in 2026
Redfish-inside PLCs — driven by Unitronics — are reshaping cooling, control and DCIM integration.