Conventional wisdom is that there’s not much to selecting an industrial enclosure. Yet the last likely item chosen for an industrial control system turns out to have an outsized impact as a simple ...

Incremental upgrades are no longer enough. What the industry needs is to fundamentally rethink what an automation platform ...

ABB YuMi cobots in operation at SUS Corp.’s manufacturing facility. Headquartered in Shizuoka, Japan, SUS Corporation (SUS) is an aluminum profile manufacturer. With operations in 16 countries, the ...

Factory Automation encompasses the manufacturing and/or assembly of parts and subsystems to produce a product by passing it through a series of individual machines or work cells. Sometimes called ...

The dictionary defines automation as “the technique of making an apparatus, a process or a system operate automatically.” ISA defines automation as "the creation and application of technology to ...

Supply chain disruptions, once sporadic and localised, have surged in frequency and severity in recent years. Manufacturers are facing ever-increasing challenges from natural disasters, geopolitical ...

The headline statistic is sobering: studies and industry analyses commonly report that roughly 60–70% of large-scale digital transformation (DX) initiatives fai ...

Factory automation involves building parts and assembling them into subsystems and finished products. Both the production and assembly processes are considered discrete manufacturing. Each process can ...