The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is often presented as a revolution that’s changing the face of industry. In reality, it’s an evolution that has its origins in technologies developed more than ...

John Clemons is a Solution Consultant for Rockwell Automation. He's been working in the field of Manufacturing Technology for over 30 years. Many tools can have an impact on manufacturing enterprises ...

The Enterprise Manufacturing Initiative (EMI) is currently funded by General Motors and is a cross Enterprise, collaborative group of students interested in learning more about manufacturing while ...

Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) International is a worldwide not-for-profit community of manufacturing companies, information technology hardware and software suppliers, system ...

A new survey points to increasing interest among manufacturers for cloud-based ERP systems. As an automation engineer or operator, here's why you should care. Before I began covering the manufacturing ...

Automation. Artificial intelligence. Machine learning. These sound more like sci-fi than actual business tools, right? If you’re like many small-to-medium-sized businesses, you might be taking your ...

John Clemons is a Solution Consultant for Rockwell Automation. He's been working in the field of Manufacturing Technology for over 30 years. This is the last article in the series on building a ...

An enterprise system is software that coordinates sales, accounting, finance, human resources, inventory and manufacturing throughout your whole business. Using such software can make your company ...

The ISA95 (IEC 62264) standards have an important place in the Industry 4.0 smart factories of the future. The key is an extended ISA95 activity model. From their inception 20 years ago, the ISA95 ...

Agentic AI is a new frontier in manufacturing. Deloitte projects that the adoption rate will grow fourfold in the next two years. Deloitte’s report on agentic AI in manufacturing looks at how ...

In his book, "Business at the Speed of Thought", Bill Gates described how an enterprise's information system, or EIS, should act like a "digital nervous system." When a heavy object falls on a finger ...