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John Clemons is a Solution Consultant for Rockwell Automation. He’s been working in the field of Manufacturing Technology for over 30 years. This year, we’re taking a close look at the use of ...

Unit manufacturing processes are the building blocks of a nation's manufacturing capability. They are the individual steps required to produce finished goods by transforming raw material and adding ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Manual processes and slow digital transformation within the manufacturing industry are inhibiting professionals from utilizing data to improve efficiency and ...

The arrival of Additive Manufacturing (AM) as a valid alternative to the original five manufacturing processes is really going to shake up the factory. Within 3 to 5 years, engineering and ...

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OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On October 15, 2019, IBM Japan, Ltd. and Panasonic Corporation’s subsidiary, Panasonic Smart Factory Solutions Co., Ltd. (hereafter "Panasonic"), announced that the ...

Historically, pharmaceutical products have been produced in a traditional ‘batch’ system, in which every operation is executed separately using a defined quantity of materials. In batch manufacturing ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Purdue Energetics Research Center (PERC) has received approximately $7 million from the United States Department of Defense to modernize manufacturing processes for ...

Integrated processes are those that combine more than one specific unit process into a single piece of equipment or into a group of work stations that are operated under unified control (NRC, 1992).