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Top Manufacturing Tech Applications in 2025

Six experts from across the industrial automation sector weigh in with their expectations about the technologies manufacturers will use most effectively this year.
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Machine Safety Best Practices for High-Risk Industrial Automation

By integrating advanced safety systems and continuously refining related protocols, companies can prioritize the safety of their workers while also protecting their equipment....
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The Case for Hardware-Agnostic AI in Industrial Automation

To democratize robotics, AI for industrial applications need to be accessible to any engineer to customize, enhance and program without the need for expensive specialist consultants...
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Rockwell Automation Updates Its Vision Tech for Closed-Loop Quality Control

The newest edition of FactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI is designed to help users not just verify quality but understand the quality of the product being produced.
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How Electrification Can Help Manufacturers Achieve Sustainability

Electrification can make numerous industrial processes — such as those using curing ovens, paint booths and drying/post-processing systems — more sustainable while improving process...
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Autonomous Mobile Robots’ Growing Impact on Intralogistics

Otto Motors shares insights on three real-world applications of AMRs to illustrate why it believes the next five years will be the “golden age” of mobile robot adoption in industry...
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The Automated Factory Ushers in a New Era of Manufacturing

Automation is revolutionizing the way products are manufactured— from traditional assembly lines to highly interconnected, data-driven factories.
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How Smart Encoders Use Integrated Sensors

Insights into the use of built-in accelerometers and additional sensors in encoders to enable predictive maintenance and condition monitoring while simplifying installation and...

Products

Identify and cluster anomalies in multivariate time series data to uncover irregular patterns or outliers that may signal critical events or emerging issues.

Product Spotlight: Spotfire for Manufacturing

A visual data science platform, Spotfire® for Manufacturing, combines visual analytics, data science, and data wrangling to help manufacturers identify production bottlenecks...

Product Spotlight: EZ5 Series Human-Machine Interface

EZAutomation, a division of the AVG Group, has released its EZTouch EZ5 series of  HMI/operator interface panels in 4, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 15-inch display sizes with free ...

Fault-Tolerant Edge Computing

Stratus Technologies has released its new Stratus ztC Endurance platform, a new family of fault-tolerant computing platforms for sustainable operations. The platform introduces...
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Robot Gripper Suction Cup

The FLIW (Foam Lip Wide) from Piab is a new addition to the company’s PiGrip series. Configurable in a multitude of combinations, it is well suited for any picking application...

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What Software-Defined Automation Means for Industrial Automation

In this excerpt from the podcast with G Brooks-Zak of Outlier Automation, we get insights on what software-defined automaton is and how it can impact manufacturing. Listen to ...
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Edge Computing Insights for Manufacturers

In this video excerpt from the podcast interview with Steve Mustard, former executive board member and president of ISA, and current president and CEO of National Automation, ...

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