People often use the terms maintenance and reliability interchangeably. However, they are two separate concepts. Although there is some overlap, their scope and focus are quite different.

(SymphonyAI Industrial, Woburn, MA) -- SymphonyAI Industrial, a SymphonyAI division, announced that European industrial and medical gases company Nippon Gases has signed a long-term agreement to extend its use of APM 360 to improve asset performance supporting plant operations and output across i

(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The feedstock used to additively manufacture, or 3D-print, metal parts is often a fine powder of metallic particles. The traits of these powders play a key role in determining the quality of printed parts, but many questions stand about how to optimize them.

“The best is the enemy of good,” wrote French historian and philosopher Voltaire. Today that quote seems more appropriate than ever.

There’s a certain irony in the recent attention paid to the application of robots on the shop floor. On a couple occasions in the past year, I’ve heard manufacturing colleagues talk about the benefits of deploying robots to handle material conveyance.

MathWorks, creators of MATLAB and Simulink, and the embedded software safety and security company Green Hills Software have announced new features in Simulink that help engineers produce safety-related applications for Infineon’s AURIX TC4x family of automotive micro

(IDS: Obersulm, Germany) -- In quality assurance, it’s often necessary to reliably detect deviations from the norm. Industrial cameras have a key role in this, capturing images of products and analyzing them for defects.

(Schreiner PrinTrust: Shanghai) – Schreiner PrinTrust, a developer of customized radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions and security labels for system and service providers with a focus on identification and authentication, is supplying RFID-enabled films for seventhings, a German softwa

(Critical Manufacturing: Maia, Portugal) -- At Hannover Messe, Critical Manufacturing will be highlighting how its manufacturing execution system (MES) empowers manu

Producing high-quality products is crucial for any business. But designing quality into the product from the start is the only significant way a business can improve its product margins.