On Demand Few business leaders in the world have applied lean strategy as successfully as Art Byrne—and none has the ability to explain how to do it with such succinctness and clarity. Famous for turning around the wire management company Wiremold, where he rethought every aspect of operations from the customer’s standpoint, Byrne has successfully implemented lean strategies at more than 30 companies in 14 different countries.

On Demand Manufacturing companies across nearly all industries have expanded their reliance on adhesive bonding of dissimilar materials for their assemblies. Process automation, light weighting goals, and the incorporation of novel materials has made the need to control adhesion processes extremely urgent. 

On Demand As more companies automate their screwdriving processes with collaborative robots, there are many factors to consider to ensure employee safety, consistent required torque high degree of repeatability and zero defect products

On Demand In this age of hyper-innovation, new game-changing products are designed, created and launched faster than ever before. And yet, most new products fail because they are not products that people actually want to buy. What if there was a secret formula that could predict how successful a new product will be in each of its target markets?

On Demand Manufacturing has been undergoing a significant transformation as digital technologies are used to help industrial operations and their people be more productive. In this webinar, Sudhi Bangalore, vice president of Industry 4.0 at Stanley Black & Decker Inc., will discuss how manufacturing operations will change post-COVID and how they leveraging digital technologies to create sustained continuous improvement.

On Demand The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on all industries, with manufacturing being hit particularly hard. As the industry restarts operations following shutdown, leaders struggle to create the “new normal.”  Experts cite automation and technology as two key factors in helping companies succeed going forward. Leading the automation pack are collaborative robots or “cobots” – robots that are safe, easy to program and cost-effective.

On Demand Bin picking comes in many shapes and sizes, from high payload automotive and heavy equipment manufacturing applications, to pick and drop e-commerce order fulfillment and part sortation applications. But one area with unique requirements is bin picking applications for machine tending where precision pick-path-and-place and rapid deployment is required. 

On Demand This webinar will provide industrial controls engineers insightful and actionable information on how to best design control panels for modern manufacturing environments. The thought-leadership style of the content will offer a credible viewpoint on how to transform plant floors and machine designs for an era of rapidly increasing data capture. 

On Demand Manufacturers are turning to collaborative robots in record numbers to solve automation challenges. But what is a collaborative robot, and how can this technology be safely applied to screwdriving processes? Traditionally, automated screwdriving was thought of for large manufacturers.

On Demand Machine vision is becoming more of the rule than the exception for plant floor automation. For faster and easier adoption, vision software needs to become more standardized and scalable like many other automation devices.