At the Shuoke sports equipment factory in southern China’s Dongguan city, workers at the end of an assembly line box finished sports water bottles for shipment. It’s rare for workers to touch the ...

The vision of fully automated factories has already existed for some time now. Customers order online, with electronic transactions that negotiate batch size (in some cases as low as one), price, size ...

In a modest 600-square-foot shop in Ballston Lake, New York, one man has achieved what many small business owners only dream of—a fully automated factory capable of generating millions in product ...

The unsuccessful effort to launch a highly-automated factory for Craftsman tools in the U.S. underscores the challenges American businesses face in bringing manufacturing back from overseas. Craftsman ...

The discussion about reshoring apparel manufacturing from outsourced factories in Asia, back to Europe and the US, has heated up during the pandemic. As online apparel shopping surges, brands’ ...

Recent advances in the internet of things (IoT) have resulted in an explosion of new products and applications for automation, including smart homes and cities, autonomous vehicles, fastening ...

While plenty of people recognize the heavy investment in automated systems at modern factories and processing plants, it is easy to overlook the automated systems we interact with on a regular basis.

“Tesla makes a car in 10 hours, but we take over 30 hours,” said Herbert Diess, chairman of Volkswagen Group, the world’s second-largest automaker, during a town hall meeting with employees at the ...