Heavy truck manufacturing of high quality "customized" vehicles is a marketing environment which is beginning to be attacked by foreign competition offering vehicles of essentially similar mechanical ...

Like many of manufacturing's epochal transformations, the digital manufacturing revolution is being driven by the automobile industry and its evolving needs to become more collaborative, adaptive, ...

Description: A study of the development of CIM (computer integrated manufacturing) from the application of basic automation to a fully integrated system for the operation of the business enterprise.

Smart manufacturing is, by its very nature, flat. Most businesses — and manufacturing operations are no exception — tend to be organized hierarchically, with layers of employees, supervisors, managers ...

Rob Thomas gets to work with robots every day. He graduated from Front Range Community College in December after studying automation engineering technology. Now, he does programming, wiring and ...