Supply Chain

9 Ways Advanced Automation Improves Food Safety

Greater automation in the food industry can lead to higher quality and safer products, all while reducing costs. By and large, Americans take food safety for granted. When most of us purchase a product at the grocery store, we expect that it will be safe to eat. Large-scale food-borne outbreaks are...

5 Ways Industry Is Achieving ESG Goals through Automation

The manufacturing industry is prioritizing environmental, social, and governance policies more than ever before. Here’s how automation is helping. As the world grows increasingly interconnected, responsible corporate stewardship is becoming more of a priority for company leadership, investors, consumers, and workers who are seeking employment at a business that aligns with...

How Automation Is Enabling Semiconductor Industry Growth

The last two years have been tough for chip manufacturers. The pandemic has thrown global supply chain vulnerabilities into sharp relief, and in few places has it been more visible than in the effect of chip shortages on product availability and delivery timelines. These challenges have prompted the high-tech industry to...

How Automation Is Advancing Industrial-Scale 3D Printing

Additive manufacturing is achieving its potential with the help of existing automation technologies.   Additive manufacturing, more commonly known as 3D printing, has the potential to be a massively disruptive technology. The ability to use a single machine to produce virtually any design seems, at first glance, fundamentally incompatible with traditional large-scale...

How Warehouse Automation Increases Supply Chain Resilience

The logistics industry is an ideal application for increased use of autonomous systems. The past two years of the Covid-19 pandemic have had a profound impact across every part of society, often in unexpected ways. In particular, the pandemic exposed weaknesses in supply chain infrastructures that are still being felt today....

8 Ways Automation is Transforming Last-Mile Delivery

Automating last-mile delivery can help the transportation industry overcome the final hurdle. Businesses around the globe pour seemingly endless amounts of energy into optimizing their supply chains, from sourcing and production to order fulfillment. The irony is that, after all this work, the final mile can be logistically the most difficult...

Are High-Mix, Low-Volume Manufacturers Ready for Robots?

The high costs of manufacturing automation have long been prohibitive for HMLV manufacturers. Robots are changing that. For years, factory automation has delivered the highest ROI margins for large, high-volume manufacturers. For a production plant churning out thousands of parts a day, even the most marginal improvements will have an outsized...

Does Automation Have a Place in the Construction Industry?

To save costs and make up for a shortage of skilled labor, construction companies are turning to prefabricated components. How can factory automation help? The construction industry around the world is currently facing significant opportunities and significant challenges. On the one hand, growing demand for affordable housing, large-scale infrastructure projects, and...

Why Your Automation Partner Should Have a Broad Industry Portfolio

An automation company with a diverse portfolio of industry experience offers customers breadth, depth, and perspective. Any manufacturer looking for an automation partner hopes to find one with expertise in their industry. The wealth of background knowledge that comes from working within an industry, from common engineering challenges to regulatory standards,...

7 Applications for Factory Automation in PCB Manufacturing

Factory automation accelerates the production of printed circuit boards (PCBs) for high-end electronics. Electronics come in all shapes and sizes, but one thing almost all of them share is the use of printed circuit boards (PCBs). Circuit boards are a compact and repeatable way to structure intricate components into a small...

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