Smart manufacturing is evolving beyond traditional automation toward autonomous "lights-out" factories where digital twins ...

Talk of smart manufacturing has reached a fever pitch in the past year, but recent market conditions shed light on where most manufacturers stand in their journeys to digitize the factory floor. Many ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Growing digitization and significant technological advancements have propelled the innovation and growth of smart manufacturing. There are various crucial benefits to adopting ...

In the 1970s and 80s, we witnessed a revolutionary wave of productivity improvements in manufacturing. New technologies, including personal computers (PCs), numerically controlled (NC) machines, ...

There’s a rumor going around, centered in Germany, that we’re now in our fourth Industrial Revolution. According to this rumor (in which I believe): 1. The first Industrial Revolution started in ...

Intelligent manufacturing in many forms has gained momentum and much press. The industrial systems market is flooded with new terms and concepts that have different meanings from industry to industry: ...

WASHINGTON — A national effort is needed to advance smart manufacturing in the U.S., says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The report, Options for a ...