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Oxipital AI's approach combines 3D scanning with AI-generated training data to inspect products without manual image annotation.

Learning Resources

Manufacturers have no shortage of data—but AI needs more than raw input to deliver real value. Learn how MES creates the foundation for smart, scalable AI by transforming disconnected...

Discover how proven welding automation strategies—paired with the right partner—can boost revenue, attract talent, improve quality, and reduce costly rework. Go beyond ROI. Learn...

Rip, replace, repeat? Get out of costly obsolescence and re-engineering traps with a solid foundation for future-proofed automation and controls technology.

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Get industry expert insights on how to transform your packaging operations with automation. Discover how advanced robotics, intelligent gripping systems and sophisticated programming...

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Processors, chips, vision sensors, and flow meters are experiencing the biggest price increases … as manufacturers struggle with rising costs from imported components.

Find out how agentic AI can address asset data management issues, such as: Data points using different naming conventions, having asset data stored in different places and dealing...

Learn how PLZ is digitally transforming its brownfield facilities with its digital transformation strategy around improving safety and product quality, increasing productivity...

Güdel’s Matt Berch explains 7th axis robot applications and how the air bearings in the TMF-4-B work. Learn more about Güdel's new CoboMover and the TMF-4-B. Chapters...

Factory

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OEMs are looking to adopt more AI-powered motion control, distributed drives and digital twins as the industry navigates cost challenges to enable smarter, more efficient packaging...

The investment aims to achieve a reduction in robot vision deployment time of up to 80% and targets the logistics, healthcare and food and beverage manufacturing sectors.

OT managed services offer proactive support, cybersecurity management and expert teams at fraction of the hiring costs.

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Most manufacturing AI pilots stall due to fragmented data and IT/OT disconnects. Here's how to build scalable automation systems.

Process

A pharmaceutical company’s automation upgrade shows how simulations can be used to test equipment limits, standardize systems and save valuable product.

How the technology frustrations of industrial system integrators led to Inductive Automation's Ignition platform and its unlimited licensing and open architecture that continues...

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The benefit comes from combining cycle counts and process monitoring data from the historian database instead of relying on hours-based scheduling methods.

Understanding why the journey toward digitalization and AI-driven reliability begins with data integrity and matures through awareness, predictability and optimization.

Products

For medium- and high-voltage applications, Kollmorgen’s latest DDL motor offers a new capability to support 400/480V AC-powered applications. It delivers a continuous force...

The Genesis platform (also referred to as Genesis version 11) features unlimited licensing, scalability, advanced visualization, comprehensive alarm management and enhanced system...

Wago’s new Power Supply 2587 Base series comes in robust metal housing, delivers up to 94% efficiency, and has a mean time between failures of more than 1 million hours....

AutomationDirect has added Autonics BTF, BTS and BPS series miniature photoelectric sensors featuring ultra-compact slim or narrow housings that are easy to install in tight spaces...

Control

Why industry is turning toward high-performance HMIs to increase safety and operational efficiency.

A look at how the Finnish specialty chemicals company used decades of formulation data to revolutionize its polymer compounding operations in the United States.

Remote monitoring, visualization and historian project enables remote monitoring and unattended cell cultivation, advancing cultured meat production toward fully autonomous manufacturin...

Ignition 8.3 adds enhanced security, streamlined data management, advanced visualization tools and OT-IT integration for next-generation industrial automation applications.

Robotics

Capable of performing tasks ranging from complex welding applications to precision picking and multi-point inspections, the UR8 Long combines extended reach with coordinated multi...

Humanoid robots are poised to reshape manufacturing and warehousing operations due to their ability to perform very different tasks, low IT integration requirements and high levels...

Mujin’s new integrator partner program focuses on equipping experienced automation partners with the MujinOS platform featuring real-time digital twins to expand use of advanced...

North American robot orders surge 4.3% in the first half of 2025, driven by automotive industry investments and collaborative robot growth, which captured nearly 25% market share...