Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

State-affiliated Groups Responsible for nearly 60% 60% of incidents result in operational disruption, driving the need for proactive OT defenses and incident response The topics of this time are Cybersecurity, Sustainability, and Workforce with the impact of AI playing on all three. This news from Rockwell Automation focuses on Cybersecurity.

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ATS

DECEMBER 30, 2024

One consequence is to leave maintenance data in silos, making it harder than it should be to implement effective maintenance strategies and optimize spare part inventories. This blog describes how a holistic approach to maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) data management builds a solid foundation for improving operational efficiency.

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ATS

MAY 29, 2025

Capacity planning Accurate reporting of wrench time data helps companies estimate the workforce capacity needed to complete preventive and predictive maintenance tasks. Techniques like work sampling can provide helpful observational data to support wrench time analysis and improvement.

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ATS

MAY 13, 2025

Recent data from Empowered Automation and regional economic studies rank Chicago among the top U.S. Robotics, AI-driven analytics, and interconnected systems are delivering gains in productivity, cost efficiency, and quality. manufacturing markets, thanks to its infrastructure, logistics capacity, and skilled labor force.

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Modern Machine Shop

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

My colleague Derek Korn and I were recently asked to select a metalworking and machining topic and conduct a live Q&A about it on the main stage at IMTS 2024 this past September. ” The discussion focused on how shops can make informed decisions using data-driven feedback to improve shopfloor efficiency and profitability.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Source: Adobe Stock The agriculture industry is faced with tremendous changes driven by climate change, a growing global population, and the increasing scarcity of resources such as water and farmable land. There is also legal footing regulating the use of autonomous machines on farm fields, which is a heavily discussed topic in the industry.

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ATS

MARCH 25, 2025

This approach relies on data, requiring leaders to access both historical performance records and real-time information from Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) enabled sensors. Here, performance data is critical to justify budget requests. Strategies for effective maintenance leadership A good maintenance manager defines clear goals.

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Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This topic is slightly outside my usual area of expertise but shows extension of digital technologies (should we say even digital transformation?) Hexagon’s DESIGNER software accepts CAD data from any vendor, and helps manufacturers easily visualise and analyse part model geometry. into the machine shop market.

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i4.0 today

APRIL 15, 2025

Key agenda topics include: Automation and Efficiency in Manufacturing: Exploring how IoT-driven automation enhances manufacturing processes. AI-Driven Predictive Maintenance in Industrial IoT: Success stories highlighting the integration of AI in predictive maintenance. Discover more on TechEx here: www.techexevent.com.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

MARCH 5, 2025

This topic has emerged as the most sought-after and in-demand subject for our team, captivating the attention of our clients. Digital Transformation: Embedding data-driven decision-making, automation, and customer-centric innovations. Data & Cybersecurity Readiness: AI thrives on high-quality, secure data.

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Gary Mintchell

JANUARY 10, 2023

Video as a sensor has been a topic for several posts here at The Manufacturing Connection. They would be presented with data visualization designed to help them get to root causes of problems, assist worker ergonomics, improve safety, and boost productivity. Proof in the data. The video is captured and run through analytics.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Usage data & demand forecasting : Analyzing historical consumption data and consulting OEM recommendations helps establish accurate reorder points. A data-driven approach minimizes stockouts and reduces unnecessary overstock.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

JANUARY 10, 2025

Key advancements by SuccessKPI that cut through the noise among other WEM providers SuccessKPI’s patented Playbook Builder allows businesses to automate real-time actions (such as sending an email or SMS, invoking a fraud identification routine, or sending a conversation to the evaluation workspace) based on data, to improve business outcomes.

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Gary Mintchell

JULY 12, 2023

From Data to Data Sources Stacey Higginbotham writing in Stacey on IoT Bringing AI to the farthest edge requires new computing. Most of her topics are commercial/consumer and chips (her reporting background). This is a vast amount of data. Stacey writes about IoT generally. We have tools, but we will need more.

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ATS

MAY 14, 2025

Launch a pilot line , gather real-time data, and iterate. Digital tools & data requirements Digital infrastructure amplifies the effectiveness of production leveling. By linking machines, systems, and data streams, manufacturers can respond faster to changes and maintain smoother production flow.

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Quantis

JUNE 5, 2024

The arguments range from "collecting worthless data" to the assumption that it is impossible to seamlessly connect the individual layers and thus enable smooth communication among them. This enables us to guarantee security, data quality and smooth communication. Likewise, the security of such a structure is often questioned.

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ATS

DECEMBER 18, 2024

AI systems learn by being trained on a set of data. This can be supervised, where the data is labeled, or unsupervised. This will flow from the ability to work with ambiguous records and data while simultaneously identifying trends and relationships that provide new insights into maintenance activities.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Future of Logistics Automation Speaker: TBD 10-10:45 AM The future of logistics automation is evolving rapidly, driven by advancements in robotics, AI, and autonomous systems. It will also illustrate how the system uses a data-centric architecture to protect itself against unauthorized access.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In this application of the idea, decision-makers rely on heavy amounts of data pertaining to cycle times, production rates and queue lengths to guide their efforts. For example, poor data collection can paint the wrong picture of what’s truly going on in the production process.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2024

launch, by covering key topics crucial to their growth, including: Understanding U.S. Source: MassRobotics Cohort from Korea represents a range of innovations The Korean startups represented a wide range of cutting-edge technologies, from autonomous drones to AI -driven robotics and logistics solutions.

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Canadian Metalworking Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

Establish data-oriented practices to optimize performance and continually improve the efficiency and impact of marketing channels. You have strong analytical skills and make data-driven decisions based on thorough analysis of campaign performances. Develop strong relationships with analysts (Gartner, Forrester, etc.)

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ATS

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And perhaps most importantly, 92% of large manufacturers have seen a positive ROI on their data and AI investments. Benefits of AI in manufacturing AI in manufacturing offers numerous benefits, including: Data collection & data-informed decisions Connected facilities collect vast amounts of data throughout every cycle, every day.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JUNE 11, 2024

Agenda overview The recently released Summit agenda outlines how these speakers and other industry leaders will discuss critical technology topics that impact sustainability including AI, hydrogen, renewable energy transition, grid resilience, energy efficiency in the built environment, industry funding, mandatory climate reporting and more.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

JULY 29, 2022

This is being reinforced by customers’ demand for vehicles that integrate seamlessly into their highly interconnected, digitally driven lifestyle. Key agenda topics for discussion include: The evolution of electrical/electronic (E/E) architectures and software-hardware decoupling.

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Control Engineering

JULY 20, 2022

A good cloud platform helps users manage data along the lifecycle, which supports curation and utilization to enable effective data analytics and machine learning (ML) to generate insights that can make manufacturing operations better. This is the OT side of the operation. How do they connect to the IT and the cloud?

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i4.0 today

JANUARY 15, 2025

O’Reilly , the premier source for insight-driven learning on technology and business, today announced the findings of its annual Technology Trends for 2025 report , offering data-driven insights into the most popular technology topics consumed among its 2.8 million users. and Java dropping by 13%.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 26, 2024

The company ’s electrically driven and modular grippers are easier to deploy and use than other soft grippers, according to Onder Ondemir, president of Ubiros. Ubiros Gentle grippers promise benefits Ubiros’ Gentle grippers use electric servo motors and a cable-driven system similar to the tendons of the human hand.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The role of systems integrators has evolved to encompass diverse talents, project management, and a broad range of functions in plant-floor data analysis. For example, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) used to be almost solely a plant-floor concern. million manufacturing jobs unfilled by 2030. SIs have changed.

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i4.0 today

JANUARY 7, 2025

O’Reilly , the premier source for insight-driven learning on technology and business, today announced the findings of its annual Technology Trends for 2025 report , offering data-driven insights into the most popular technology topics consumed among its 2.8 million users. and Java dropping by 13%.

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Canadian Metalworking Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The TNMT newsletter reaches over 10,000 internal and external subscribers, and the entire innovation team is dedicated to setting the standard for cutting-edge, data-driven strategic research. Our mantra is unconventional data perspectives. LIH publishes the only regular report with in-depth research on this topic.

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 22, 2025

Five Reasons You Should Speak at TASC Shape the Rapid Transformation of Our Industry Each year, hundreds of billions of dollars flow in and out of the metalworking industry globally, driven in no small part by how small- and mid-sized job shops are automating their facilities. They shape best-practices that will be emulated by others.

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Additive Manufacturing

JANUARY 6, 2023

We are thrilled to offer these funding opportunities to our members and partner with industry experts who are driven to advance AM on a national level.”. RIC award winners and related topics/projects: Topic 3: Process-Structure-Property Relationships for Directed Energy Deposition (DED). Winner: Edison Welding Institute (EWI)

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Modern Machine Shop

AUGUST 13, 2024

Case in point: Earlier this year, Gardner Business Media, the parent company of Modern Machine Shop, appointed a correspondent to cover the topic of sustainability in manufacturing. While Europe and Asia seem to confront the issue more directly than we do in the U.S., A key focus of the event was the company’s sustainability mission.

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Control Engineering

JULY 12, 2023

aims to improve productivity, efficiency, flexibility and overall competitiveness in manufacturing and industrial sectors by leveraging these advanced technologies and concepts, but few agree on the included technologies or scope and reach of the topic. Most would agree that industry 4.0 provides valuable insights into industrial processes.

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Control Engineering

JULY 17, 2023

Learning Objectives Understand data from an Augury survey that explains how artificial intelligence can identify and improve manufacturing production goals. The resulting study also covers manufacturing production topics include challenges, roadblocks, sustainability, workforce, technology among others.

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It’s data, and rather than being used directly to manufacture products it’s a crucial component of how the industry builds its processes and procedures. As one of the driving forces behind how the sector operates in the 21 st century, big data in manufacturing is big business. In fact, it doesn’t even physically exist.

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AU Manufacturing

APRIL 30, 2023

Due to the sensitive nature of the topic and the potential damage – both financial and reputational – cyberattacks can wreak and result in a whole new level of threat. The rising use of technology in manufacturing supply chains means the sector is more at risk of cyber breaches.

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