For engineers and operations managers seeking to improve production performance, selecting the right throughput metrics is critical. This article outlines practical measurement approaches to help monitor, diagnose and improve your manufacturing operations.
OSHKOSH, Wis. – Oshkosh Defense is working with Marine Depot Maintenance Command to support the Digital Manufacturing Exchange, a platform designed to accelerate production through advanced manufacturing. The system allows validated technical data from original equipment manufacturers to be transmitted securely so components can be produced at the point of need while maintaining configuration control and protecting intellectual property.
Although Industry 5.0 is still a relatively new term, engineers are already talking about another buzz word called Physical AI. The term refers to augmenting physical systems with intelligence that scales.
The Augmentir connected worker platform is designed to help manufacturing and service teams improve operations, close skills gaps, capture tribal knowledge, and drive continuous improvement efforts.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.–After years of experimentation, artificial intelligence is now a core priority for manufacturers, but a new study shows that adoption is moving faster than the foundations needed to support it.
Microfactories are not just smaller replicas of mega-factories. They operate with radically different assumptions. Data is real-time and transient, not batch-processed. Production is modular, not linear. And, decision-making is distributed, not centralized.
The factory reduced lead times by 78 percent and increased productivity 14 percent.
January 15, 2026
NANJING, China—The World Economic Forum (WEF) has named Siemens’ electronics assembly plant here to its Global Lighthouse Network of the most advanced manufacturing facilities in the world.
To increase collaboration up and down the supply chain, a coalition of European automotive manufacturers created Catena-X, the first end-to-end, collaborative and open data ecosystem for the automotive industry.