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  • Many in Gen Z Ditch Colleges for Trade Schools. Meet the 'Toolbelt Generation'

    Many in Gen Z Ditch Colleges for Trade Schools. Meet the 'Toolbelt Generation'

    Kirby is among the growing number of young people who have chosen to swap college for vocational schools that offer paid, on-the-job training.
    02 May, 2024 | 4 minutes
  • Five Student Teams’ Innovations Win 2023 Collegiate Inventors Competition

    Five Student Teams’ Innovations Win 2023 Collegiate Inventors Competition

    Finalist teams, consisting of 22 students from eight colleges and universities across the United States, presented their inventions to an esteemed panel of final-round judges composed of the most influential inventors and innovation experts in the nation.
    26 October, 2023 | 3 minutes
  • Enhancing Safety in Autonomous Mobile Robots

    Enhancing Safety in Autonomous Mobile Robots

    Because robots can generate large forces and move at a faster speed, they may bring certain risks, such as injuring human co-workers in an unintended collision. These risks must be carefully managed.
    By: Theo Kersjes
    21 August, 2024 | 4 minutes
  • Visual AI: Mapping Process to Productivity

    Visual AI: Mapping Process to Productivity

    Industrial sensors are essential, but offer few insights into the work performed by skilled operators. AI-driven solutions based on visual sensor data that provide continuous time and motion studies to generate insights into all manufacturing operations to increase productivity.
    By: Cyrus Shaoul
    15 August, 2023 | 4 minutes
  • IoT and Cloud Technologies: The Key to Supply Chain Automation

    IoT and Cloud Technologies: The Key to Supply Chain Automation

    Enterprises are moving toward autonomous, self-driving and self-healing supply chains, similar to how consumers are moving to driver-less, self-diagnosing, self-maintained cars.
    By: Sanjay Sharma
    23 May, 2023 | 4 minutes
  • New Flow Research Study Finds Thermal Flowmeters Capitalize on Growth in Gas Flow Measurement

    New Flow Research Study Finds Thermal Flowmeters Capitalize on Growth in Gas Flow Measurement

    Thermal flowmeters are riding the surge of gas flow measurement in both renewable and traditional natural gas applications, according to a new study from Flow Research.
    12 July, 2023 | 4 minutes
  • 3 Ways Digital Strengthens the Process Industry Talent Pipeline

    3 Ways Digital Strengthens the Process Industry Talent Pipeline

    More than 100,000 employees in the chemical processing and oil and gas sectors lost their jobs in 2020, and U.S.-based companies were already looking at a shortfall of at least 40,000 skilled positions by 2025. The knowledge drain and the related skills gap open up an opportunity to make digital solutions a key part of future operations.
    By: Andrew Soignier
    19 August, 2021 | 3 minutes
  • Manufacturers Manage Pandemic Disruption with Pricing Data Analysis

    Manufacturers Manage Pandemic Disruption with Pricing Data Analysis

    Thomas R. Cutler, President and CEO of TR Cutler, Inc., discusses how manufacturers are using price alignment automation to manage the pandemic.
    By: Thomas R. Cutler
    03 August, 2020 | 4 minutes
  • The Farm Of The Future is Here

    The Farm Of The Future is Here

    By Aniket Maindarkar, Infosys The food and farming industries are embracing technological solutions that support sustainable farming and processing. When done well, these innovations can cut costs, promote efficiency, and increase consumer trust by providing transparency into the food supply chain.
    06 July, 2017 | 4 minutes
  • Hannover Messe 2017: Insights from IHS Markit

    Hannover Messe 2017: Insights from IHS Markit

    By Alex West, IHS Markit Overall, a number of themes could be discerned at HANNOVER MESSE this year, including cost-cutting, production efficiency, downtime reduction, quicker time-to-market, product customization, and lower development costs.
    22 May, 2017 | 4 minutes
  • HANNOVER MESSE 2020 to focus on 5G, industrial climate protection

    HANNOVER MESSE 2020 to focus on 5G, industrial climate protection

    With its keynote theme of Industrial Transformation, HANNOVER MESSE 2020 focuses on the opportunities presented by innovative technologies, steadily growing and ever more readily available amounts of data, and a growing awareness of climate protection.
    12 February, 2020 | 4 minutes
  • The More Cybersecurity Changes, the More It Stays the Same

    The More Cybersecurity Changes, the More It Stays the Same

    By Neill Sciarrone, Trinity Cyber, Inc. Despite major advancements in technology, the global approach to cybersecurity has remained the same for decades: respond and recover. To slow the frequency of dangerous and costly cyberattacks, companies should be shifting their efforts towards focusing on adversary disruption.
    29 October, 2019 | 4 minutes
  • How Good Is Your Digital Transformation Peer Group?

    By Mike Guilfoyle, ARC Advisory Group Digitally transformed organizations will be able to transition to and thrive in digital economies, making digital transformation a matter of not “if,” but “when.” Given that industrial digital transformation is necessary to remain viable and competitive, why are mistakes, false starts, and dead-end investments all too common?
    15 January, 2020 | 4 minutes
  • Inside the Rise of 5G Industrial Automation Networking

    Inside the Rise of 5G Industrial Automation Networking

    Hannover Messe 2019 created a buzz with the 5G Arena showcasing the latest 5G developments, products and solutions for the industry. 5G is starting to make the goal of wireless industrial automation a reality. Companies are already starting to deploy private 5G networks within plants and are seeing increases in performance, determinism, low latency, and reliability.
    By: Bill Lydon
    10 December, 2019 | 4 minutes
  • Collegiate Inventors Competition names 2019 finalists

    Collegiate Inventors Competition names 2019 finalists

    Established in 1990, the Collegiate Inventors Competition is a program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame and is sponsored by the USPTO, Arrow Electronics (People’s Choice Award), Merck, Hologic and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
    27 September, 2019 | 4 minutes
  • Five Benefits of Cloud Managed Services and Cloud Cost Monitoring

    Five Benefits of Cloud Managed Services and Cloud Cost Monitoring

    Discover the five benefits of cloud managed services and cloud cost monitoring, including reduced costs, increased data security, and improved communication
    By: Denise Kee
    26 May, 2023 | 4 minutes
  • How Connected Buildings and Power Grids Make Cities 'Smart'

    Smart cities are not just about installing digital interfaces in traditional infrastructure. They use technology and data to help us make better decisions & deliver a better quality of life.
    By: Claudia Vergueiro Massei
    24 July, 2019 | 4 minutes
  • AI to Lead the Way in Combating Manufacturing Challenges

    AI to Lead the Way in Combating Manufacturing Challenges

    In 2024, we’ll see more condition monitoring complimented by AI assistive systems deployed across the plant, and this should help SME’s with lower entry levels to this technology.
    By: Aaron Merkin & Ankush Malhotra
    26 December, 2023 | 4 minutes
  • ISA/IEC 62443 and Risk Assessment: New Horizons in the AI Revolution

    ISA/IEC 62443 and Risk Assessment: New Horizons in the AI Revolution

    Within the realm of cybersecurity for IACS, risk assessment is deemed the most crucial action and the initial phase in ISA/IEC 62443.
    By: Mohannad AlRasan
    09 May, 2024 | 4 minutes
    Sponsored By International Society of Automation (ISA)
  • Universal Robots Emerges as Preferred Robotics Platform for AI Solutions at Automate 2024

    Universal Robots Emerges as Preferred Robotics Platform for AI Solutions at Automate 2024

    At North America’s largest automation show, the cobot pioneer will redefine the frontiers of physical AI, showcasing how the "ChatGPT moment for robots" has arrived in a wide range of applications.
    02 May, 2024 | 4 minutes
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