EIS InsightsManufacturing Technology

The Machines on Most Factory Floors Are Older Than the Software Watching Them

Connected factory discussions tend to assume equipment that can be connected. Most production floors run machines installed decades before anyone thought to ask them for data, and replacing working capacity to obtain telemetry rarely survives a capital committee. The workable ro…

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Manufacturers Are Testing Factory Changes in Software Before Touching the Floor

A manufacturer planning to add a new robotic welding cell to an assembly line used to find out about collision problems and bottlenecks only after the physical installation began. Increasingly, that discovery happens weeks earlier, inside a continuously updated virtual replica o…

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