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Dawn Fichter, owner of Tools 4 Hiring, discusses why so many manufacturing roles remain open for months and what hiring managers are often getting wrong. She shares practical advice on how manufacturers can move faster, simplify job requirements and focus less on the perfect resume and more on trainability, mindset and soft skills.

GE Appliances' first in-house water filter manufacturing operation includes fully automated assembly and packaging, robotic pick-and-place systems guided by machine vision, 100 percent in-line leak testing, and end-to-end traceability.

Here’s a look at some of the latest motion control devices.

Greg Dyer, Chief Commercial Officer at Randstad USA, shares what the current labor market looks like for manufacturers, why reshoring is creating new workforce pressures and how companies can rethink recruiting to meet today's hiring challenges.

When the GM Tech Center opened in 1956, its engineers were busy working on projects related to automatic transmissions, gas turbine engines and turbochargers. Today, the R&D facility's focus has shifted to artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, batteries, connectivity, lightweight materials, power electronics, robotics and other topics.

The Trump administration has throttled the domestic EV industry while simultaneously sending gas prices through the roof.

This approach can be used to predict the mechanism of self-loosening of bolted joints without additional tests, and it is possible to make predictions with very low error rates using AI, which promises to reduce the costs associated with testing new bolted joint designs.

The Meditec series from PIA Automation includes cells for manual, semiautomatic and fully automatic assembly.

Following the introduction of CADDi, Subaru succeeded in reducing the time spent on drawing searches by several hundred hours per month.

The MEP is a program administered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The program’s mission is to strengthen and empower small and medium-sized U.S. manufacturers.