What could a plant manager from a process manufacturer that makes yarns and fabrics for industrial applications possibly learn from an automaker such as Toyota? Conventional wisdom says companies ...

To truly understand how applicable digital manufacturing technology can be for a certain industry or application, it’s important first to understand the core aspects of the technology. According to ...

Recent process industry developments such as introduction of a wireless version of the HART protocol for process sensors, plus the ISA 100 initiative for wireless process sensing, are of significant ...

Common to all types of manufacturing automation is a reliance on effective detection and measurement of real-world conditions. In the past, discrete manufacturing (production of parts and equipment) ...

Process manufacturers live in a highly regulated, risk-averse and occasionally volatile world. Those operational factors are a primary reason why the digitization of process industries have lagged far ...

For decades, MOM (manufacturing operations management) systems have enabled industrial manufacturing companies to control production and optimize efficiency — from short-term scheduling of operations ...

"The value of XR to organizations has been known for years, especially in areas like training, remote workforce enablement, and collaboration. However, the barriers to that value have also been ...