Weekly Brief

Thursday, April 22,2021

Feature of the Week

Get Off to a Good Lean Manufacturing Start with These Tips

Lean manufacturing seeks to provide consumers with continuous real and perceived value. Continuous progress is important for achieving those objectives. Read more ‣

Emerging Technologies Empowering Electronics Design and Manufactruing

Today, electronics manufacturers are utilizing technologies to streamline processes, including automation of repeated tasks in the purchase order as well as the Request for Quotation (RFQ) process. Read more ‣

Significant Applications for Industrial Robots

The application of industrial robots is increasing in processing and manufacturing as it helps to improve the safety of the workspace. Read more ‣

CIO Viewpoint

The Changing Role of the CIO

By Michael Day, VP & CIO, Cannery Casino Resorts

Change is inevitable. Change is upon you now, and more is coming. You cannot prevent it, and you cannot slow it down. Change is like a water faucet that keeps opening wider, with no way to turn it down or off. Read more ‣

IoT Facilitates Enhancements to Water Management Systems

By Patrick Stephens, CIO, Rain for Rent

What the IoT enables is extending sensors to all aspects of our lives, and then giving these sensors parameters that allow them to control the world for us via a computer Read more ‣

Featured Vendors

Machine Ethics: Machine Repair and Rebuilding Done Right

By Bill Keller, Owner

Machine Ethics is dedicated to providing reliable solutions for the machine repair needs of industrial customers. With its 150 years of combined experience and knowledge in all aspects of machining, the company can enhance processes, tool life,... Read more ‣

IVISYS: Increasing Productivity with Standardised Vision Control

By Stefan Bohman, CEO

IVISYS helps implement automated QC solutions on the factory floor, replacing expensive low-level manual labour to increase production output Read more ‣

Teknic: Offering High-Performance, Easy-to-Use Brushless Servo Motors

By Abe Amirana, Director of Sales and Applications Engineering

Teknic has designed, manufactured, and supported servo motors, drives, and controllers for the motion control industry for over 30 years. For much of that history, their customer base consisted entirely of high volume OEM companies. This created a... Read more ‣

CXO Insights

Empowering Automotive Manufacturers with Digitalization

By Martin Weidlich, EVP, North America, BENTELER Group

We want to be leading in smart manufacturing within our peer group. Our goal is to combine the real... Read more ‣

The Countdown to Net Zero Carbon Buildings

By Brian Livingston, Global Head of Oaklins’ Building Materials, Oaklins Smith and Williamson

The best way to reduce construction impacts is to build less, use less, and build smarter. Using... Read more ‣