The Industrial Internet of Things (or IIoT) is a key aspect of Industry 4.0—the fourth wave of innovation in the history of technology. As the trend towards smart factories grows, it is important to ...

Editor's Note: This story is publishing in partnership with the Financial Times. It originally appeared in the series Robots: Friend or Foe. Walking across the floor of SEW-Eurodrive’s factory in ...

GE Aviation in Hooksett, N.H., continues to transform the factory floor of a 2015 expansion it undertook to produce blisks for the LEAP aircraft engine. The only constant in life is change. Those ...

Imagine the day when the packaging machine on the plant floor automatically detects that it needs more materials and it alerts the supplier—ordering and paying for product and scheduling delivery, all ...

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Despite housing some 50 robots and 50 people, Tempo Automation’s gleaming connected factory relies on industrial IoT and looks more like a high-tech startup office than a manufacturing plant. As ...

Siri can tell you when to take your medication and Google can play your favorite tunes. All you need to do is give the voice command. If voice assistants are transforming the way we live, it surely ...

Will the factory of the future be completely automated, with only the proverbial man and a dog—the man to feed the dog and the dog to keep the man from touching anything? It’s hard to tell at this ...

Global supply chains will be under a great deal of strain in the next 12 months. Nine in 10 manufacturing leaders anticipate more frequent disruptions, according to Augury’s latest State of Production ...