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Navigate the future of industrial automation with this essential handbook on industry’s digital transformation. Discover how to cut through data overload and prioritize ...
Oct. 23, 2025
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Manufacturers have no shortage of data—but AI needs more than raw input to deliver real value. Learn how MES creates the foundation for smart, scalable AI by transforming disconnected...
Nov. 13, 2025
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Discover how proven welding automation strategies—paired with the right partner—can boost revenue, attract talent, improve quality, and reduce costly rework. Go beyond ROI. Learn...
Oct. 30, 2025
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Oxipital AI Vision Tech Explanation
Anthony Romeo with Oxipital AI explains their V-CortX vision technology for food inspection. Learn more about this at: https://www.automationworld.com/55321091 CHAPTERS 0:07 How...
Oct. 22, 2025
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Processors, chips, vision sensors, and flow meters are experiencing the biggest price increases … as manufacturers struggle with rising costs from imported components.
Oct. 8, 2025
agentic AI
Find out how agentic AI can address asset data management issues, such as: Data points using different naming conventions, having asset data stored in different places and dealing...
Sept. 17, 2025
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Learn how PLZ is digitally transforming its brownfield facilities with its digital transformation strategy around improving safety and product quality, increasing productivity...
Aug. 13, 2025

Factory

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Machine tool manufacturers are working with Siemens to create an industrial AI foundation model, pooling machine data to automate programming and boost manufacturing efficiency...
Oct. 17, 2025
Engineers Analyze Data in a Smart Factory Using Augmented Reality Software. Advanced Manufacturing Facility Shows Industry 4.0 Technologies, Optimizing Production Processes Through Digital Integration
Explore how digital twin technology can help manufacturers grow their factory businesses without the added hassle and cost of replacing existing equipment.
Oct. 17, 2025
TwinCAT for Linux
New containerized and scalable virtual control cuts costs and simplifies automation in the TwinCAT software ecosystem.
Oct. 16, 2025
Toyota manufacturing
Toyota's manufacturing sites were drowning in data silos and duplicate work until engineers discovered their digital infrastructure was creating the very waste they sought to ...
Oct. 15, 2025

Process

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Yokogawa's autonomous control AI reduced beer fermentation from 336 to 240 hours while maintaining quality in successful Japanese brewery test.
Oct. 20, 2025
Oxipital AI's vision inspection of chicken
Oxipital AI's approach combines 3D scanning with AI-generated training data to inspect products without manual image annotation.
Oct. 16, 2025
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A pharmaceutical company’s automation upgrade shows how simulations can be used to test equipment limits, standardize systems and save valuable product.
Oct. 13, 2025
Colby Clegg (left) and Carl Gould deliver the opening keynote at Inductive Automation's Ignition Community Conference 2025.
How the technology frustrations of industrial system integrators led to Inductive Automation's Ignition platform and its unlimited licensing and open architecture that continues...
Oct. 8, 2025

Products

SMC ZHV Vacuum Flow Unit
The ZHV from SMC can function either as a blow-off unit or a vacuum unit depending on the direction of the output port.
Oct. 23, 2025
Piab piCobot Electric and MX Suction Cups
Piab has released its piCobot Electric and MX Suction Cups.
Oct. 22, 2025
Faulhaber 14GPT and 16GPT metal planetary gearhead family
New members of the Faulhaber metal planetary gearhead family are the 14GPT and 16GPT. These compact additions to the series deliver high torque with minimal volume. They are capable...
Oct. 20, 2025
Advanced Illumination AL325 series modular bar lights
The AL325 series modular bar lights address the limitations encountered with traditional, fixed-configuration machine vision lights by featuring a modular system built around ...
Oct. 17, 2025

Control

Mitsubishi Electric GOT3000 HMI
Why industry is turning toward high-performance HMIs to increase safety and operational efficiency.
Sept. 30, 2025
The new Premix facility in North Carolina
A look at how the Finnish specialty chemicals company used decades of formulation data to revolutionize its polymer compounding operations in the United States.
Sept. 25, 2025
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Remote monitoring, visualization and historian project enables remote monitoring and unattended cell cultivation, advancing cultured meat production toward fully autonomous manufacturin...
Sept. 22, 2025
Ignition 8.3 beta
Ignition 8.3 adds enhanced security, streamlined data management, advanced visualization tools and OT-IT integration for next-generation industrial automation applications.
Aug. 26, 2025

Robotics

Inverted Fanuc LR Mate 200iD six-axis robot
An innovative approach to automation design used inverted six-axis robots and a gravity-fed tray system to boost throughput by 20% while reducing labor by 66.7%.
Oct. 14, 2025
ABB IRB robot
ABB sells its robotics division to SoftBank for $5.375 billion, pivoting from its previously planned spin-off to become part of SoftBank's physical AI ambitions.
Oct. 13, 2025
operator programming robotics vision AI application
The investment aims to achieve a reduction in robot vision deployment time of up to 80% and targets the logistics, healthcare and food and beverage manufacturing sectors.
Oct. 9, 2025
Universal Robots UR8 Long welding
Capable of performing tasks ranging from complex welding applications to precision picking and multi-point inspections, the UR8 Long combines extended reach with coordinated multi...
Sept. 24, 2025