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How do You Know What Automation is Right For Your Shop or Factory?
As automation has become more sophisticated and more widespread it has solved many problems for manufacturers; not the least of which is helping with workforce depletion. However, that’s not the only thing it can help with. In fact, automation can help improve many...
How to Get the Most Benefit Out of Your Data
Using the cloud and IoT (Internet of Things) to gather data that will make your manufacturing business run more efficiently and increase your productivity seems easy; but how do you decide what data you need? In this article, we’ll explore how to figure out what...
How Implementing Industry 4.0 Data Can Have a Positive Impact on Optimization for Manufacturers
Industry 4.0 is essentially about harnessing the connections in the latest digital automations, manufacturing technologies, and the data we can gather from these to make all these systems work better together and produce better results. How Data Analysis Can...
Automation Vs. People: What to Invest In to Improve Your Productivity
The pandemic caused many manufacturers to face a stark reality: the work-force they had depended on so much, may not be there when needed. This uncertain climate has caused many companies the need to pivot quickly by downsizing their production, or adding robotic,...
Iteration of Your Digital Transformation is the Key to Building a Successful, Efficient Company in 2022
Change is never easy, especially in today’s world of rising costs and workforce depletion. Implementing a digital transformation in these circumstances can seem futile, but it’s not impossible. When a digital transformation was urged in the past, it was usually an...
How Edge Computing is the Next Logical Step in Industry 4.0
It’s been clear for a while that Industry 4.0 and the digital technologies revolution is here to stay for manufacturing. In fact, since the concept was introduced in 2011, it’s been adopted, innovated, and iterated on. One of the latest trends in the Fourth Industrial...
3 Ways to Use 3D Printing to Improve Your Manufacturing Business
3D printing gets a bad rep sometimes as a process that produces products that are lower quality. While that can be true, it doesn't mean that 3D printing has no place in the manufacturing process. In fact, there are several ways you can use 3D printing to improve your...
How to Protect Your IoT Deployments from Cyber Attacks
With the rise of cyber attacks in the news, companies should be wary of vulnerabilities own IoT deployments. In this article, we’ll cover some things you can do to help protect against cyber attacks. Know Your Vulnerabilities Every piece of hardware and software that...
How Automation Can Help You Deal with Current and Impending Labor Shortages
If this last year has taught us anything, it’s that the availability of our labor force is easy to interrupt. Yet, the labor force is still one of the manufacturing industry’s most important commodities. Even in today’s age of more automation, we still need people in...
Why it’s Important to Focus on Outcomes During a Digital Transformation
We’ve written before about how digital transformations and the Internet of Things (IoT) can solve problems. It’s a philosophy that works and has worked for many companies. However, thinking about the problem and how to solve it is not the only method of...
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