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Robotics
Workers Wanted? Contact the Robot Employment Agency
Start-up MusashiAI introduces intelligent autonomous robots for quality inspection and forklift driving—allowing the redistribution of human labor to more value-added jobs.
Cybersecurity
Assessing Your Cybersecurity Readiness
Supply Chain Management
The Pandemic is Shaping the Future Supply Chain
Communication
Cisco Aids Dairy Farmers of America’s Digital Transformation
COVID-19
How COVID-19 Generated a New Need of Collaboration Tools in Manufacturing
3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing
Automating Additive Manufacturing
To optimize 3D printing of face masks in response to COVID-19, Stratasys learned how the use of cloud-based software to automate production across numerous machines enabled production and utilization rates that would have otherwise been unachievable.
Supply Chain Management
Strengthening OEM Supply Chains for Challenging Times
Global supply chains are being impacted by COVID-19. In order to more effectively recover from the issues caused by the global pandemic and sustain success in the future, strengthening the resilience and agility of the supply chains is a must.
COVID-19
Balancing Employee Health and Safety With Business Continuity During a Pandemic
Maintaining operations during the coronavirus pandemic is difficult at best. The key to keeping personnel safe amid the global pandemic may lie in data acquisition initiatives and tracking and tracing technologies.
COVID-19
How COVID-19 is Impacting Automation Decisions
The pause in many ongoing projects as the pandemic hit gave companies more time to think about how to move forward with their automation projects. The result is an increased use of remote access and data analytics.
Robotics
More Disinfecting Robots Come to Market
Increasing numbers of autonomous mobile robots are being developed to help facilities address the need for repeated disinfecting in response to COVID-19.
Robotics
Cobot Deployment Shines in COVID-19 Pandemic
Leading up to its virtual Cobot Expo this week, Universal Robots highlighted several cases where small companies have been using collaborative automation to keep production going amid the crisis.
COVID-19
Can Robots Help Restore Manufacturing During the Pandemic?
In this episode, we connect with Joe Campbell of Universal Robots to learn how manufacturers are deploying collaborative robots to help with social distancing, line reconfiguration, and production flexibility.
Analytics
Hitachi Vantara Expands Its Digital Manufacturing Portfolio
To help manufacturers accelerate Industry 4.0 initiatives and safely restart production during the COVID-19 pandemic, Hitachi Vantara has expanded its Lumada portfolio to address health, safety, and environment issues.
Mobility
Remote Technologies From Honeywell Enable Continued Operations
Encouraged by the COVID-19 pandemic to push remote capabilities out to a wider swath of industries, Honeywell Process Solutions has released products and services geared toward remote operations, safety, commissioning, lifecycle services, and more.
COVID-19
Protect Your Staff, Protect Your Clients
As COVID-19 continues to shift the way organizations and manufacturing facilities operate, system integrators have the task of finding new ways to ensure that businesses are operating safely while protecting staff.
COVID-19
COVID-19's Impact on Industrial Automation
In this episode, we connect with Dan Malyszko of Malisko Engineering to get insights from the front lines of manufacturing about how industry is responding to the production challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Healthcare Counterfeiters Flourish During COVID-19
Healthcare Packaging's Keren Sookne makes her unPACKed with PMMI debut with PPE shortages, the potential for a vaccine and fake COVID-19 tests dominating the mainstream news.
Supply Chain Management
Operations & Supply Chains After COVID-19
How supply chain operations and processes will need to change to have the best chance of success after the coronavirus, and where system integrators can play a role in the transition.
Home
Hershey's Expectations for Suppliers during COVID-19
Hershey's Josh Becker explains how the chocolate giant has adapted and what it expects from visitors to its facilities.
Home
Field Service Technician Travel During COVID-19
What does back to work look like for field service technicians who are heading back out into the field?
Home
OEM COVID-19 #14 - Update on PACK EXPO International and Healthcare Packaging EXPO
PMMI's Laura Thompson shares the latest and greatest on planning for November's event, including variables like virtual and hybrid options.
COVID-19
COVID-19 Spawns New Opportunities for Increasing Efficiencies
Though the coronavirus has put a lot of projects on hold, virtual conferencing, screen sharing, and remote access have changed the way system integrators are interacting and working with clients.
COVID-19
COVID-19—Let’s Look Beyond Today
As the coronavirus continues to shift the way manufacturing organizations operate, figuring out how to get staff back onto the line while maintaining proper safety standards is a crucial first step to reopening.
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OEM COVID-19 #13 - Adapting Industry Training During COVID-19
Typical industry training will be anything but typical as companies pivot to fit new safety guidelines.
COVID-19
Where the Pandemic Is Impacting Automation
Though it’s still too early to tell for certain, distinct technology areas—ranging from 5G, cloud/edge, and artificial intelligence to articulated robots—are expected to grow significantly in response to the business impacts of COVID-19.
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OEM COVID-19 #12 - Readiness Tips as Regions Reopen
Vice president of safety shares the global policies that have helped Amcor's 35,000-plus employees return to work as safely as possible.
Regulatory
Using Automation to Fast Track COVID-19 Vaccine Production
Honeywell combines batch software, virtualization, cloud, and more to prepare manufacturing capabilities in parallel with clinical trials.
