Smart manufacturing, or "industry 4.0," is transforming manufacturing back into an economic powerhouse. It’s helping companies digitally transform their manufacturing operations to provide new ...

Sustainability has long been a spoken ideal in the manufacturing world, but the complexities and costs associated with it have deterred many producers from updating their workflows. Now, however, ...

A row of cutting mills at a Proto Labs manufacturing facility in the U.S. Source: Proto Labs One of the hottest terms to arise in manufacturing lately is the term “digital thread.” Essentially, the ...

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Combining product, process and consumer into one integrated, digital thread can deliver the customized manufacturing at scale that to date has eluded the ...

Process manufacturers live in a highly regulated, risk-averse and occasionally volatile world. Those operational factors are a primary reason why the digitization of process industries have lagged far ...

The concept of everyone in a choir singing from the same page of the hymnal has deep historic and cultural roots. But for those working in manufacturing, achieving this vision has been a struggle.

Plataine, a leading provider of AI-based manufacturing optimization solutions, has extended its cloud-based automated Digital Thread technology, to help manufacturers working with composite materials, ...

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