The Manufacturing Revolution will be Digitized

Manufacturing aids, like jigs and fixtures, are essential to delivering quality products in a reliable, repeatable and efficient way. In this 30-minute webinar, you'll learn how 3D printing these custom tools can help you bring production online quickly, optimize designs by consolidating components, improve worker comfort and safety and address assembly challenges.

One of the most exciting parts of the robotics and automation movement is the tooling that does the heavy lifting: the End of Arm Tool (EOAT). From a dollar perspective the end of arm tool market is as big as the robot market and has recently seen an innovation renaissance with electronics, integrated sensing, soft technologies and tool delivery at the speed of Amazon. Join us for a conversation about who is innovating and delivering these key technologies and what the future holds for EOATs.

The continuous demand by the oil and gas industries to use steels with superior and consistent mechanical properties in a wide range of wall-thicknesses and diameters provides both exceptional opportunities and challenges to steel companies located in Pennsylvania.

Smart factories are becoming more important as companies re-evaluate the resiliency and agility of their supply chains. A smart factory is a highly digitized and connected production facility that uses technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and robotics to manufacture products. Smart factories can self-adapt and autonomously optimize manufacturing operations.Smart factory technologies can dramatically improve business performance. In a recent Deloitte study, 86 percent of manufacturers surveyed believe that the smart factory will be the main driver of manufacturing competitiveness in five years. The study also showed that early adopters of smart factory initiatives are observing double-digit improvements across labor productivity, factory capacity utilization and total production output.