Gary Mintchell

JUNE 10, 2025

The most useful are machine learning (ML) and some pattern matching that we’ve had for decades. Senseye Predictive Maintenance utilizes AI algorithms to identify both immediate and future machine issues, which allows proactive maintenance to be performed and prevents downtime. Is it real? Is it useful? Does it solve a customer need?

Automation 130

Automation Manufacturing 130

Design World

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This new sensor family offers increased uptime due to their durable stainless-steel housing and intelligent monitoring capabilities. Applications in harsh environments such as agriculture, food & beverage, and machining will benefit from the ICF Full-Metal Inductive Sensors.

Beverage 305

Beverage 305

Gary Mintchell

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Delivering seven nines (99.99999%) uptime, its Automated Uptime Layer with Smart Exchange provides continual proactive health monitoring and automatically takes action to maintain system availability and protect against data loss when needed.

Automation 130

Automation Manufacturing 130

Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 13, 2025

Source: Getty Images If you have been working in a machine shop for many years, you will probably have been bombarded with information on how to make your shop more efficient. Machine tool dealers will tell how much more efficient you can be by utilizing their newer, faster and more capable machines.

Bottleneck 98

Bottleneck Sourcing Manufacturing 98

Design World

MAY 1, 2023

Traditional automation on the manufacturing floor has been machines that take input and give output. However, this automation equipment has offered little in the way of monitoring capabilities. Operators give instructions to the equipment which then performs the requested procedures more efficiently than people can do.

Automation 278

Automation Manufacturing 278

Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

based Teleo announced new orders for 34 machines from 9 new customers across pulp and paper, logging, port logistics, munition clearing, and agriculture industries. This approach, known as supervised autonomy, allows one operator to oversee several machines working together. Palo Alto, Calif.-based

Logistics 106

Logistics Warehousing Robotics Robotics 106

Manufacturer's Monthly

JANUARY 28, 2025

These problems include large datasets, highlighting the potential of using quantum in areas such as real-time traffic management, agricultural monitoring, healthcare, and energy optimisation. CSIROs breakthrough not only builds confidence in the benefits of quantum machine learning but also serves as a guidepost.

Function 88

Function Manufacturing 88

Gary Mintchell

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

These compact and rugged IP65/67-rated terminals can be located anywhere on a machine that boosts operational performance and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) installation productivity. VTUX is both compact and lightweight, an advantage for end-of-arm tooling and conserving space on a machine or in a control cabinet.

Electronics 130

Electronics Function Automation Manufacturing 130

Gary Mintchell

OCTOBER 28, 2024

New applications help to improve worker safety and enable responsive video for machine remote control, leading to higher operational efficiency and strengthening OT environment security. Applications can give workers real-time information to make their jobs easier and machine tele-operation more efficient.

Industry 4.0 130

Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Compliance Manufacturing 130

Design World

JULY 21, 2022

168 Manufacturing, a brand of Precision Tool Technologies that designs and develops CNC machine shop automation technologies, announces partnerships with six new North American distributors for its FullShopTM Automated Coolant Management Systems. and Canada, are: -Tool Technology Distributors — U.S. 168 Manufacturing. 168mfg.com.

Automation 263

Automation Manufacturing 263

Manufacturer's Monthly

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Image: IFM Machine vibrations are crucial indicators for assessing the current condition of machinery. ifm’s new smart IO-Link vibration sensor offers a simple and scalable condition monitoring solution with just one device. It also calculates machine operating hours based on vibration levels, aiding modern maintenance.

Industry 4.0 70

Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Value chain Supply Chain 70

Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 2, 2025

Image: iLAuNCH Trailblazer Australian-developed plant monitoring technology is set to be flown to space in this University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) led, iLAuNCH Trailblazer project. The technology is aimed at demonstrating a key technology capability for sustainable plant-based food production in space and on Earth.

Food Production 68

Food Production Automation Sourcing Manufacturing 68

Cisco Industrial Automation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The program helps machine builders and niche solution integrators to create repeatable, scalable, and reliable solutions with Cisco IoT technology embedded within. Mazak iConnect is a comprehensive service that connects customers, machine tools, and Mazak’s support center with cloud network technology.

Automation 256

Automation Manufacturing 256

Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 1, 2025

Reeves says that MiConnect has simplified the act of connecting machines to Woodward’s overall digital factory. When recently asked to connect one Colorado facility’s Okuma machines to the digital factory, two of Reeves team members had the machines connected and running within four hours. ” At Woodward Inc. ,

Revision control 98

Revision control Robotics Robotics 3D printing 98

Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2025

.” “The nature of manufacturing work will change with roles for robot programmers and for developing models for machine learning tools coming to the fore,” he added. For example, technicians are concerned with avoiding unplanned downtime and improving a machine’s overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).

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Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Robotics Robotics Manufacturing 111

ATS

JANUARY 13, 2025

Often, machine troubleshooting is regarded as an art rather than an essential maintenance technician skill. The technician attends to the machine, investigates the problem and, if possible, carries out repairs. Temperature, pressure and flow sensors, along with vibration monitoring and thermal imaging, are some of the most widely used.

Form 95

Form Function Manufacturing Sourcing 95

Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 20, 2025

The DMG MORI Manufacturing USA (Hoffman Estates, IL) brand CELOS celebrated its premiere more than 10 years ago as the name of the worlds first app-based machine control system in machine tool manufacturing. The ecosystem provides holistic support in customers digital transformations to maximize machine performance.

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Artificial Intelligence Value chain Automation Function 52

Robotics Automation News

MAY 5, 2025

B&R Industrial Automation has unveiled what it describes as AI-enhanced fitness tracking for machines or a new artificial intelligence-based system that monitors the health of industrial machines, aiming to help manufacturers prevent costly breakdowns and extend equipment lifespan.

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Fit Artificial Intelligence Function Automation 59

Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 29, 2025

Incidentally, this is the first print edition of Modern Machine Shop in recent memory dedicated solely to a single technology topic (albeit a broad one) and how that technology is being deployed in real time at American companies. Doran’s article shows how meaning, not just volume, represents data’s true power on the shop floor.

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) 85

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Manufacturing Cycle time Artificial Intelligence 85

Robotics Business Review

MARCH 9, 2025

“By combining AI Nose’s cutting-edge olfactory sensing with ugo’s advanced robotics, we will create a new category of intelligent machines that can see, hear, and now smell.” This demonstrates its potential to enhance real-time safety monitoring and environmental analysis, said Ainos. 15, 2024. .

Robotics 111

Robotics Robotics Artificial Intelligence Automation 111

Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A closeup of Kemppi’s cobot ready welding machines. Kemppi’s cobot-ready welding machines can be easily connected to many different cobot brands via their network of skilled system integrators. They use our handheld machines and have integrated cobots equipped with a Kemppi welding system,” said Burt.

Robotics 74

Robotics Robotics Automation Industry 4.0 74

ATS

JUNE 5, 2025

Share In the realm of manufacturing, idle time refers to any period when resources — whether machines, employees, or production lines — are available but not actively engaged in value-adding tasks. Unplanned idle time (or abnormal idle time ): Includes machine malfunctions, material shortages, and planning errors.

Manufacturing 59

Manufacturing Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Compliance Lean manufacturing 59

Modern Machine Shop

MAY 31, 2025

Connect Plan collects machine tool data and presents detailed machine operational information to operators, shopfloor leads, managers and owners in a simplified, engaging format. It’s an IIoT software that helps you measure, monitor and manage the performance of and returns on your machine tools in three simple steps.

Sourcing 52

Sourcing 52

Robotics Automation News

JUNE 18, 2025

Yokogawa Electric has formalized a long-term agreement with Shell Global Solutions to integrate and further develop technologies for utilizing robots and drones in plant monitoring and maintenance. The […]

Robotics 59

Robotics Robotics Automation 59

Gary Mintchell

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

She further expands on the topic: Mission Secure technology will enable ServiceNow to provide OT asset visibility, making it easier for organizations to track and manage their OT, such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs), human-machine interfaces (HMIs), sensors, robotic systems, and control modules.

Pharmaceutical 130

Pharmaceutical Logistics Robotics Robotics 130

Picomto

JUNE 18, 2025

Did you know that remote maintenance of industrial machines can reduce your maintenance costs by 25% while increasing your equipment availability? Remote maintenance uses IoT sensors and digital platforms to monitor, diagnose, and [.] This revolutionary technology transforms how companies manage their facilities.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In the most unlikely event, if required, ELGi can service air-end and motor separately which isn’t possible with most permanent magnet machines available in the market. Machine comes with optional Air Alert; which is an IoT-enabled monitoring and alert system compatible with ELGi’s range of air compressors.

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing Fit 98

Gary Mintchell

MARCH 11, 2025

AWS): Leveraging advanced machine learning and automation, new capabilities available today include Anomaly Detection, Data Discovery and Classification, and soon, Threat Hunting and Threat Monitoring. Advanced Security Features for Azure & Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Automation 130

Automation Compliance Sourcing Manufacturing 130

Modern Machine Shop

OCTOBER 28, 2024

“Production monitoring, at its core, is about the collection of data,” says Greg McHale, founder and CEO of Datanomix. Turning this raw data into actionable insights is a key part of modern machine shop software. The latest generation of software can even analyze this data and predict production outcomes in real time.

Fit 59

Fit Form Automation Robotics 59

Fabricating & Metal Work

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

TRUMPF has introduced Remote Operations Support, a new service for automated laser cutting machine customers in the United States. But what if a machine stops while no one is onsite? In addition to observing the process, the team can intervene and resolve errors to keep the laser cutting machine producing parts.

Automation 59

Automation Manufacturing 59

Robotics Business Review

MAY 15, 2025

Cattron unveils XBMCU multi-interface machine control unit Cattron, a developer of radio remote controls , engine and generator control panels, and cloud-based monitoring technologies, showed its XBMCU Multi-Interface Machine Control Unit at Automate. NovAI Capture brings machine vision into the robotic welding process.

Automation 66

Automation Robotics Robotics Fit 66

ATS

JUNE 11, 2025

Consider that downtime costs manufacturers between 5% and 20% of their productive capacity, meaning they lose at least that much potential revenue until machines are back up and running. A P-F curve shows the relationship between machine health and time. Ideally, machine inspections should happen within this interval.

Function 52

Function Compliance Manufacturing Form 52

Robotics Business Review

APRIL 10, 2025

This enables the detection of anomalous behavior, monitoring of vessel traffic, and the protection of national interests in strategically sensitive waters. The company said it hopes to deliver a critical advantage in monitoring and securing subsea infrastructure.

Robotics 101

Robotics Robotics Sourcing 101

Cisco Industrial Automation

APRIL 27, 2022

No monitoring. Automate deployment and monitoring. Machines on different lines typically don’t need to communicate, for example, and keeping them in different segments prevents an infection on one line from spreading to the other. Enterprise IT teams monitor these complex systems using tools for full-stack observability (FSO).

Manufacturing 235

Manufacturing Digital manufacturing Automation Smart manufacturing 235

Design World

AUGUST 13, 2024

Human-machine interfaces or HMIs (until recently called man-machine interfaces or MMIs) are access terminals on machinery, in management stations, and countless remote locations that give plant personnel and other end users a way to visually monitor and adjust automated operations, machine controls, and output functions.

Function 130

Function Automation 130

Design World

AUGUST 2, 2024

SMW Electronics, a new division of SMW Autoblok, launched a new line of grippers — Motiact — to automate key processes for industrial and electronic applications including machine tools, material handling, inspection, assembly, and more.

Electronics 147

Electronics Automation Robotics Robotics 147

Robotics Business Review

APRIL 1, 2025

New robots address safety concerns Standards exist for machine and robot safety , but safety standards for “dynamically stable industrial mobile robots” such as Digit that require balancing are still in the development.

Robotics 96

Robotics Robotics Logistics Function 96