The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development says there’s a new program to support automation at manufacturers, the latest component of the $97 million State Small Business Credit ...

Georgia Northwestern Technical College’s Automation Engineering Technology program prepares students to design, implement and troubleshoot automated industrial processes on robotic equipment and other ...

In my previous article “What Manufacturers Need to Know about Software-Defined Automation”, I discussed how Software-defined automation (SDA) is changing the nature of industrial automation, with a ...

Non-manufacturing sectors, those that don’t create physical goods, are experiencing a massive boom in automation, partly ...

Maintaining legacy automation systems might seem like a routine part of an engineer’s job, but with industry’s growing focus on data analytics to continuously improve operations, long-existing ...

Manufacturing equipment is designed for extended use. It’s pricy. Manufacturers purchase it with the idea of extending its value across many productive years. Much of the equipment in US factories is ...

Automating production is a lot easier in manufacturing than in construction—particularly in a make-to-stock environment. In construction though, which is characterized by one-off projects with ...

This past February, two automated straddle carriers were deployed as part of an automation pilot project at BNSF’s Logistics Park Kansas City (LPKS) Intermodal Facility. The straddle carriers can ...

Fig. 2: By standardizing on AutomationDirect C-more HMIs, PMi2 has streamlined the development effort and end-user interface experience for their equipment automation, regardless of what PLC model is ...

BISMARCK, N.D. – The North Dakota Department of Commerce announced the application program is now open for primary sector businesses wishing to utilize the Automation Tax Credit for automation ...