AI-driven factories of the future

A couple of years ago, I toured the Ford Rouge Complex in Michigan, where the F-150 trucks are assembled. From…

Advanced Robotics for Industrial Manufacturing

Many factory floors rely on conveyor belt networks to transport everything from raw material to final products. But these networks…

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Industrial machinery – talking shop with Rahul Garg

In a recent article published in Industrial Machine Digest, Rahul Garg, Vice President of Industrial Machinery and Heavy Equipment at Siemens…

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Virtual commissioning and the digital twin – minimizing risk in automation and design

What is driving the success of virtual commissioning? In a recent post in the International Society of Automation, we published…

Today meets tomorrow: The opportunities and limitations facing AI and the digital twin (Part II)

In our previous blog, we discussed the challenges of simulation and the digital twin as well as how artificial intelligence…

The future of AI and human intelligence

The future of AI is unfolding and it worries me.
I’m a software engineer and a large portion of my work day revolves around completing mundane tasks like writing emails, attending meetings, filli…

AGCO uses digitalization to help farmers feed the changing world

AGCO uses digitalization to help farmers feed the changing world

By designing 80 percent of its assembly processes at one site, and then reusing these plans worldwide, AGCO is improving its speed to market, and ultimately, is making farmers more productive.

Will advanced robotics and industrial automation replace employees?

Many times, when I talk about what we do or when I visit a customer, I am asked, will automation and robotics replace our employees?

We have all seen and heard about the risk that industri…