More demand, more production, more chaos and other things that need managing add up to create the reality of today’s manufacturing professional. As you find yourself trying to keep everything together, you might want to consider increasing automation.
I’m not just talking about automating a few simple processes; I’m talking about embracing a strategy of automation. I see that’s where advanced discrete manufacturing is heading. Here just a few trends that seem to show the conversion to automation is accelerating:
3 Trends With Advanced Discrete Manufacturing and Automation
Building customized products for customers can be big business, but many manufacturers increase lead-time and decrease productivity when they create one-off products.
Is the answer to the question used in my headline too obvious? At least part of it certainly should be, as ‘budget reductions’ is certainly one of the key trends driving lean.
Integration can help optimize business systems to work more efficiently. Integration can help simplify processes in the manufacturing supply chain. Integration can help meet business objectives.
The integration buzz recently has been over 
As we move into the fourth quarter, American Industrial Equipment Manufacturing (IEM) companies have reason to feel hope. This is not opinion or hyperbole. Rather, this is a statement backed up by the results of the eighth annual Prime Advantage Group Outlook (GO) Survey, which you can read more about in 
At the most fundamental level, the funding of a job is dependent on one thing: the funding being available. As such, for a manufacturing company to be able to fund new – or bring back recently eliminated – positions, the funding must be in place to support such an initiative.
The solar movement is picking up steam, and with it, is coming both uncertainty and 
