From sports shoes to car accessories - there is an increasing demand for individualized products. The economic and competitive production of industrial and consumer goods with a high degree of ...

Manufacturers have always had to be nimble, adjusting their production processes to meet their customers’ needs, and that means using technology to create a flexible manufacturing process in today's ...

By enabling the creation of modular workcells and lot-of-one production, AMRs are the key to replacing linear assembly lines ...

When I was a kid, there was one kind of Oreo. When my kids were young, there were two or three different Oreos, including seasonal varieties (orange filling during Halloween, for example). These days ...

Automatically loading MCH-C machines makes them well suited for flexible manufacturing systems Shops that work with large or difficult-to-handle parts benefit when being able to perform 5-sided ...

Adaptive production is a smart manufacturing approach that uses real-time data, AI and automation to continuously adjust processes. Source: Siemens In this exclusive interview with Automation World, ...

WARSAW, Poland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ficomirrors, an automotive global supplier to automakers worldwide, has selected the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform to improve production efficiency and power a ...

Flexible production system: Higher force and precision, for example when assembling a bicycle frame. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

October 16, 2005 When English physicist, futurist and science fiction master Arthur C. Clarke wrote “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” (in “Profiles of the ...

Manufacturing systems performance analysis is a multidisciplinary field that rigorously examines the efficiency, reliability and overall productivity of production systems. The analytical methods ...