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How AI-enabled vision technology helps manufacturers improve quality and address labor challenges.

Human-in-the-loop AI helps industrial organizations amplify human expertise, preserve institutional knowledge, and make smarter decisions.

Lights out machining gets the headlines. But today, we’re exploring how automation’s biggest impact often happens with the lights on. Explore how the right solution can increase capacity, reduce scrap, and help skilled machinists focus on higher-value work.

The article sets three conditions that qualify a task, names six places to start, and argues that the real question is not which model you subscribe to but whether your software platform can give one structured access to its own engineering model.

This article explores how a resilient software foundation and a microkernel architecture can isolate critical workloads, contain faults, and support lifecycle cybersecurity. It highlights how foundational platforms such as QNX can enable secure and safe software-defined industrial modernization approaches that are essential in building and managing resilient systems throughout the systems lifecycle.

The newly updated Fourth Edition of A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge is the only officially authorized book covering ISA’s body of knowledge core competencies. This revised guide provides an overview of important automation concepts and processes, while also describing the technical skills required to implement them in today’s industrial environment.

The new mark of five million robots operational in factories worldwide is more than double the number seven years ago. The strongest growth is taking place in Asia, followed by Americas. Europe is moving ahead more slowly.

Factories generate enormous quantities of sensor data, yet most of it is never translated into timely operational decisions, leaving significant production capacity unrealized. The next industrial advantage will belong to companies and countries that build infrastructure capable of interpreting this data in real time and using it to improve factory operations.

America’s manufacturing expansion faces not only a labor shortage but a loss of institutional knowledge as experienced workers retire. Factories must capture human decisions alongside machine data to create a sovereign knowledge repository that helps future workers diagnose problems, act faster, and avoid repeating mistakes.

The rapid expansion of newer sectors is contributing to manufacturing growth.

A manufacturer’s response to the hiring challenge should have two parts: upskill the workforce you have and partner with education to build the skilled workforce you'll need.

The new lab will support system-level demonstration, validation and joint development for robotics and broader physical AI applications.

Critical Manufacturing will bring its vision of the factory of the future to life, showing how manufacturers can transform operational complexity into actionable intelligence through a unified platform. 

Mouser Electronics, Inc., stocks a wide range of authorized products from Nordic Semiconductor, a leading manufacturer of low-power, high-performance wireless technologies and development tools.

Electric vehicles and battery manufacturing; aerospace and defense; semiconductors; life sciences; and the decarbonization of heavy industry account for a significant share of the country’s largest industrial investments.

This resource center supports faster prototyping, streamlined integration and accelerated development of smarter consumer products.

Femtosecond lasers are used to manufacture components for AI data center equipment, including parts used in advanced optical connections that speed up data transfer.

AI is forecast to be one of the primary drivers of growth in the machine vision market through 2030.

Robot orders are increasing in Q2 as automation demand broadens across industries. New A3 data shows second-quarter growth across semiconductors/electronics, automotive components, food and consumer goods, metals and life sciences.

The 40-hour, self-paced program open to engineering students, career changers and working professionals with no prerequisites.