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The global semiconductor market is demonstrating signs of robust growth, with a 17.9% year-over-year rise in sales in January 2025 reaching $56.5 billion during the month, per the latest report of the ...

While transforming to Industry 4.0, manufacturers invested heavily in cleaning, standardizing, and integrating data streams from IoT sensors and production lines. That groundwork is now paying off, ...

Why viewing MES not just as a monitoring tool but a data contextualizer is critical to digital transformation, as it provides meaning to disparate machine and sensor data. How integrating control and ...

The plastics industry continues to be a powerhouse in the American economy, generating $550.7 billion in shipments and supporting over one million jobs in 2024, according to a new report from the ...

There is now broad consensus that data-driven decision-making is essential to success in today’s highly competitive manufacturing environment. Customers’ price-consciousness, combined with demands for ...

Enabling direct system coordination without centralized bottlenecks allows robots, conveyor systems and equipment to interpret data, make decisions and adapt together as an integrated manufacturing ...

The semiconductor industry stands at an inflection point. As Moore’s Law scaling becomes increasingly challenging and system complexity explodes through advanced packaging and chiplet-based ...