Castrol’s SmartControl system is the new way to monitor and manage metalworking fluid (MWF), automatically and in real time.
Toyota Research Institute is using AI-based diffusion policy to teach robots complex tasks.
Unplanned downtime and production loss due to equipment failure is one of the leading losses for manufacturers. Most shops perform maintenance on a fixed schedule or on failure. This means a machine will be maintained regardless of how often it is used and unexpected breakdowns will stop production.
Mazak Corp. (Florence, KY) continues its steady advance toward the complete factory digitization of all its manufacturing operations with the recent transformation of its Oguchi, Japan, facility into yet another Mazak iSMART Factory.
When you walk into the Redeye On Demand facility in Eden Prairie, MN, you enter into one version of the factory of the future. There you will see a bank of 100 high-end Fortus fused-deposition modeling (FDM) machines from Stratasys that provide the capacity to build real, functional parts with production-grade thermoplastics directly from CAD data.
How to create complex, customized parts with ease
CESMII assembles a national Think Tank to advocate for the transformation of the U.S. manufacturing ecosystem
Interoperability will make the autonomous mobile robot’s world go ‘round
AI software enables the company to capture relevant runtime metadata and put it into context to create useful information in real time.
Larger manufacturing enterprises have benefitted from smart-manufacturing innovations while smaller manufacturers have lagged behind—but that is changing.
