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A miniature conveyor belt can be used in small spaces. It’s safe to say that manufacturing machines and equipment are not designed around a conveyor system. Conveyors are often an afterthought in the ...

A common theme in automation today is interoperability and openness. For many small to medium-sized manufacturers however, achieving this level of interoperability requires time and resources that ...

SICK, one of the world’s manufacturers of sensors, safety systems, machine vision, encoders and automatic identification products for factory and logistics automation, today announced the launch of ...

Small shops can reap significant benefits in flexibility and production throughput with the same automation system, according to Mazak Corp. Combined with advances in metalworking technology, such as ...

Automation is often thought of in terms of robotics and assembly lines. That’s certainly accurate, but anywhere a business is using humans for repetitive tasks such as data entry and information ...

But not every business process is a good fit for automation, so it's incumbent upon companies to determine which processes are best suited to automation and which ones are best handled by humans. How ...

At most companies, the profile of a large-scale technology initiative has looked astonishingly similar over the last several decades. The initial pledge of US$30 million and two years soon balloons to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aytekin Tank is the founder and CEO of Jotform. Armed with the right tools, business leaders can offload repetitive tasks, ...

With automation technologies improving, small businesses do not have to worry about experimenting with automation. They can safely incorporate some of the proven technologies that serve practical ...

The past year was marked with a lot of uncertainty for businesses. A new study from Zapier, which allows users to automate tasks for web applications, found that 63% of small businesses said ...