What if human operators on the assembly line had some equivalent of a red, squiggly spellcheck line that highlighted errors as they were made?

Diesel is dead, petrols are to be outlawed and the future is all-electric. So scream the headlines and it’s true that the long-term future of conventionally fuelled vehicles seems to be bleak but is the future really going to be all about battery-powered electric cars?

Wireless charging is gradually becoming a more common feature for smartphones, so why not for electric cars, too?

If you have followed the recent announcements from Google, Samsung, Apple, and recently OnePlus, you have probably noticed a handful of new devices using a new, slick, universal serial bus (USB) connector, called USB Type-C.

The proliferation of data, and the tools technology has given us to make sense of this data, has made sizeable inroads in changing the way many industries operate. In manufacturing, the rise of ‘smart factories’ has re-invented the way factories operate, leveraging data, analytics and ‘connected everything’ to enable unprecedented levels of automation and optimisation.

The recent data explosion combined with the young workforce's penchant for video games and rewards can give gamification a reset, and allow your plant to hit new high scores.

As China's government guides its private sector towards robotics and AI, America's tech companies want the US to follow suit.

It used to be that the barriers to entry in manufacturing were high. Entering the market required enormous investment. While that is still the case for many organisations, because technology is changing so rapidly, new younger and dynamic organisations are entering the market and chasing market share.

While the impacts of machine intelligence (A.I. and machine learning) have been hotly debated, and even provoke anxiety in some, this group of technologies continues to accelerate at a remarkable pace. In fact, according to IDC, global spending on A.I. solutions will continue to see significant corporate investment, achieving revenues of more than $46 billion by 2020.

Manufacturing does not have to be a wasteful or uneconomical process. Adopting sustainable manufacturing can help maintain your business. Benefits from sustainability will go beyond just the walls of your facility. Not only will your company be more productive, it can also have a lower negative impact on society, the environment and the economy.

With the way AI is developing in the computer field, CNC routers bring in different controls as a way of improving the stability and performance of the whole system. CNC technology and its equipment are developing to help meet the market’s needs. This has led to many changes in the CNC router industry in the last decade, including software and technology.

Steve Jobs once said, “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” In the manufacturing industry, collaborative robots are joining the team to achieve even greater things. Here Jonathan Wilkins, marketing director of industrial obsolete parts supplier EU Automation, explains how to manage a mixed team of collaborative robots and humans.

How should set-up time be factored into the OEE calculation?

The pace of digital transformation in the manufacturing industry is relentless. In this article Kevin discusses five key takeaways from the recently published Manufacturing 2020 industry report.

Thanks to data and the IoT, the industrial shipping journey needn't be fraught with uncharted waters and black holes.

The threat that cyber-attacks pose to manufacturing facilities can result in either physical and non-physical damage, or a combination of the two. A cyber-attack on a manufacturing facility could be purely data focused, designed to steal intellectual property, whether that is unique manufacturing processes or other trade secrets. Alternatively, a cyber-attack could be designed to create physical disruption to the industrial control systems, causing machinery to malfunction or grind to a halt completely.

Tesla did it: The arguably over-hyped EV car maker has delivered on founder and CEO Elon Musk’s bold claims of making 35,000 vehicles in the first quarter.

After-sales service is in a period of technological disruption like the industry has never seen. And leading this charge are artificial intelligence and machine learning. Set to be worth more than $9 billion by 2020, predictive analytics is poised to open up business intelligence doors for manufacturers, and also have a dramatic impact on productivity.

Atechnology company has become one of the first in the world to microchip staff so they can clock-in by waving their arm, rather than using swipe cards or ID badges.

Robots in logistics and warehouse applications are much more cost-justifiable than they used to be.