The world of manufacturing is undergoing a significant step change. Terms like Smart Manufacturing, Digital Transformation, and Industry 4.0 are top of mind for many manufacturing executives. There’s ...

Talk of smart manufacturing has reached a fever pitch in the past year, but recent market conditions shed light on where most manufacturers stand in their journeys to digitize the factory floor. Many ...

Smart manufacturing is, by its very nature, flat. Most businesses — and manufacturing operations are no exception — tend to be organized hierarchically, with layers of employees, supervisors, managers ...

Discover how industry organizations need to converge on concrete guiding principles and a definition for smart manufacturing, in order to achieve the next phase of Industry 4.0—democratization of ...

Smart manufacturing is evolving beyond traditional automation toward autonomous "lights-out" factories where digital twins ...