Approachable automation addresses the informal barriers and technical challenges of operational complexity, encouraging teams to proceed incrementally, keep humans in the loop and use a system purpose ...

“Efficiency is concerned with doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things,” according to Peter Drucker. The entire edifice of automation is built on the premise of eliminating ...

Technology is evolving at an extraordinary pace, and automation is becoming one of the biggest forces shaping the future of ...

Simplified machine designs with fewer components run more efficiently and are less expensive to build. Older mechanical power transmission and actuator technologies, such as chain, rack and pinion and ...

In my previous article “What Manufacturers Need to Know about Software-Defined Automation”, I discussed how Software-defined automation (SDA) is changing the nature of industrial automation, with a ...