It's been described as the "engine room" of an organization – a transformational place where steel gets molded into cars, textiles get woven into jackets and plastic springs to life in the form of ...

John Clemons is a Solution Consultant for Rockwell Automation. He's been working in the field of Manufacturing Technology for over 30 years. Manufacturing enterprises know it takes people and ...

In the wake of Industry 4.0 and the mass digital transformation efforts that have taken place over the last five years, manufacturers can now make their operations more connected and efficient than ...

Resilience in manufacturing is the ability to face challenges head-on and come out stronger than ever. The need for a resilient manufacturing operation is a lesson well learned during the pandemic and ...

A manufacturer designs, develops and creates products from raw materials for sale to distributors or retailers. Manufacturing operations management refers to the ongoing process of monitoring and ...

MES software evolved from rigid, expensive platforms into flexible, cloud-based solutions that bridge business strategy with ...

Amid all the interest in the digital transformation of the manufacturing and processing industries, most discussions tend to focus on data and analytics. These factors are, of course, integral to ...

Lean manufacturing starts with “buy in” at the shop-floor level, by individual workers. Those who do the work need to be fully invested in the process for it to succeed. Lean manufacturing is perhaps ...

Authors, Tom Seubert and Grant Vokey, explain how the newest edition of their book, Manufacturing Execution Systems: An Operations Management Approach, Second Edition, helps MOM practitioners ...

The company expects the additions to increase production flow and reduce manual touchpoints.

Manufacturing optimization once operated by a fairly straightforward, if narrow, definition: Cost reduction. And while for some manufacturers that equation may still be standard operating procedure, ...