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Manufacturing leaders struggle with the choice between embracing change or risking stagnation, often delaying the adoption of lean manufacturing. Despite its benefits, resistance stems from entrenched habits and misunderstandings of its full potential.

With BuildOS, engineers drop in a CAD file, and the software automatically generates path plans, sequences assembly steps, produces 3D renderings and animations, and generates text for each instruction.

Companies face a pivotal decision when choosing a machine vision system: develop in-house or partner with a system integrator. Balancing control and expertise against potential challenges is essential, and key factors like expertise, time, budget, and complexity must be evaluated.

The ASSEMBLY Show South will host dozens of suppliers offering the latest fastening technology.

The Baja SAE Carolina competition is a pinnacle event in automotive engineering, offering university students a unique platform to design, build, test and race rugged off-road vehicles.

Nominees include a flexible gripper, a nutrunners for cobots and no-code MES software.

Mercedes is testing humanoid robots at its assembly plants in Berlin, Germany, and Kecskemét, Hungary, and the automaker plans to bring them to other factories in the near future.

In January, the World Economic Forum added 17 manufacturing facilities to its Global Lighthouse Network. Two of the new Lighthouse facilities are in the United States: the Novelis aluminum factory in Uhrichsville, OH, and Nucor Corp.’s steel mill in Sedalia, MO.

During the last 100 years, Caterpillar has grown and prospered by subscribing to a unique philosophy of vertical integration, globalization, lean production processes, high quality products and state-of-the-art metal fabrication technology.

Hikrobot smart cameras from Absolute Gauge Technologies are compact, all-in-one machine vision systems for image acquisition, processing, storage and communication.