John Clemons is a Solution Consultant for Rockwell Automation. He's been working in the field of Manufacturing Technology for over 30 years. Smart manufacturing is transforming manufacturing back into ...

Modern manufacturing is moving towards production systems that deliver greater precision, consistent quality, and shorter ...

Enterprise resource planning and supply chain management software have been essential tools in the manufacturing industry for decades. They provide visibility into production, scheduling, inventory, ...

Manufacturing traceability used to depend heavily on labels, printed codes, paperwork and manual records. Today, many manufacturers are moving toward permanent identification methods that can connect ...

Control engineering rarely makes headlines, yet it is the invisible scaffolding holding up almost every technological promise ...

To design a new product or tool is often a lengthy, labor-intensive process. Even the most successful and streamlined physical design process is intensive and iterative by nature; it is the process of ...

Process manufacturing is a production method in which goods are created by combining supplies, ingredients or raw materials using a predetermined formula or "recipe." The approach is frequently ...