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 ...

A check-engine light doesn’t fix the car. It tells you something under the hood needs attention. Maybe the problem’s small.

The manufacturing process is a complex one that can be impacted by many factors: supplies, equipment, factory overhead, the need for special parts, and the people who work at all points in the process ...

To meet customer demands, manufacturers must align their supply chains and production resources. This ensures they can deliver when it counts. To bring new products to market, they must connect ...

Manufacturing involves the conversion of raw materials, usually supplied in simple or shapeless forms, into finished products with specific shape, structure, and properties that fulfill given ...

Estonian designer Reet Aus has spent more than a decade turning factory waste into new garments.

Various processes are used in the manufacturing field. One of those processes, known as jobbing processing, is one in which resources are allocated to multiple projects at the same time. Jobbing ...

Europe’s effort to strengthen control over its semiconductor supply chain has reached a significant ...

A business process manager is the overseer of the step-by-step processes that operate a business; from front to back and morning to night. Specifically, they create, measure, audit and continually ...

Mammalian cell culture is and will remain the principle vehicle for protein production in upstream manufacturing, according to Florian Wurm, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry at the University of ...

Deformation processes transform solid materials from one shape into another. The initial shape is usually simple (e.g., a billet or sheet blank) and is plastically deformed between tools, or dies, to ...