Every factory since the start of the industrial revolution has shared one very specific trait: tooling sets the identity of the machines, and thus the factory. To create a specific part requires ...

Industrial manufacturing usually follows rigidly programmed processes, in which individual work steps and machines are tightly scheduled. This makes production inflexible and causes problems if ...

Smart factories represent an evolution from traditional manufacturing, transforming automated processes into fully digital, interconnected, and adaptive production ecosystems. Leveraging advanced ...

It’s not an easy time to be a manufacturer. Everything from global supply chain issues to inflation to factory worker shortages to geopolitical uncertainty is causing the industry to feel the ...

Advancements in environmental sensing have played an important role in smart factories, automobiles, medical wearables and other end equipment in which electrification is becoming more common. In ...

I visited the ‘BMW No. 1 Factory’ in central Munich, Germany. Within the 500,000㎡ site—equivalent to 70 soccer fields—a third ...