Arguing that automation doesn’t provide value to manufacturers is like arguing that springtime is bad for farmers. No one, least of all the authors, would hold that there’s no room for ...

In pharmaceutical and especially advanced therapy manufacturing, the pressure to scale up, accelerate timelines, and cut costs has never been greater. In response, many organisations have turned to ...

Repeatability and accuracy - improved product quality or consistency and reduced scrap rates. Robots deliver limited production loss and lower error rates compared to ...

Viking Plastics embraces automation to help improve productivity, "and we do this while growing people," says Shawn Gross, engineering manager. Lean—be it lean manufacturing or the lean enterprise—has ...

New technologies are known for changing how we do things as a society or industry. The increasing popularity of collaborative robots appears to be changing how system integrators are structured The ...

Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma principles are more important for the medical device industry than ever before, says Dave Schleder, director of OEM/international operations at B. Braun (Allentown, PA ...

Lean manufacturing has proven to be a powerful way for many companies to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. To be good at lean, companies must commit to it and pursue lean techniques ...

Learn how the tenets of lean automation and new technology can let engineers reduce or eliminate the need for PLCs in control systems from Amy Beaudry, a technologist from Eaton Corp. 3:11 Learn how ...