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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bottleneck detection and management remain central challenges in modern manufacturing systems, where limited resources constrain overall production throughput. Recent methodological advances have ...

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 ...