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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software gathers and disseminates critical management information across your entire organization.

Fixed automation systems and conventional blind robots have a role in automated assembly, but it’s limited.

Lithium-ion batteries have been used in portable consumer electronics for decades, primarily because they offer excellent energy density, no memory effect and a slow loss of charge when not in use.

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in North America and the leading type of cancer found in males.

Reshoring is a welcome trend, but maintaining product quality will not be a given.

SEATTLE—Boeing will continue to produce 787s as it works to get the grounded planes back flying again. Boeing’s newest jet was grounded worldwide last week after one plane suffered a battery fire.

WASHINGTON—Some 16.2 million vehicles were recalled last year, a 4.5 percent increase compared with 2011, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

WASHINGTON—Scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have developed an instrument that identifies silicon wafers that are too fragile to make it through the photovoltaic manufacturing process.

LAKE ORION, MI—Leoni Vision Solutions has become the first machine vision integrator to successfully complete the Automated Imaging Association’s Certified Systems Integrator program.

ANN ARBOR, MI—A new generation of machine vision systems can inspect parts using infrared, ultraviolet and other nonvisible light spectra.