Here's how manufacturing leaders can help their businesses prepare for the changes likely to come in 2026 and beyond.

Explore 5 essential digital upgrades powering smart factories—from ERP and MES to Digital Twins and AR - boosting efficiency, ...

It's been described as the "engine room" of an organization – a transformational place where steel gets molded into cars, textiles get woven into jackets and plastic springs to life in the form of ...

While traditional AI and GenAI differ in their technologies, operations and objectives, they are far more powerful when used ...

Purdue University’s recently launched eXcellence in Manufacturing and Operations Purdue Engineering Initiative, or XMO PEI, is positioned to strengthen the U.S. advanced manufacturing industry’s ...

Lean manufacturing starts with “buy in” at the shop-floor level, by individual workers. Those who do the work need to be fully invested in the process for it to succeed. Lean manufacturing is perhaps ...

Authors, Tom Seubert and Grant Vokey, explain how the newest edition of their book, Manufacturing Execution Systems: An Operations Management Approach, Second Edition, helps MOM practitioners ...

OEE recently celebrated its first birthday at manufacturer Caterpillar Forest Products in LaGrange, Ga., and the anniversary has been a good one. The metric, more formally referred to as overall ...

Both service operations and manufacturing operations are in the business of satisfying customers, and that requires organization and planning. While the mechanisms and inputs for creating customer ...