How Blockchain is Impacting Industrial Manufacturing and Supply Chain Logistics

April 11, 2018

Blockchain is essentially a ledger technology that uses cryptography to provide an authoritative record of secure transactions. By doing away with a trusted centralized middleman responsible for the ledger, blockchain allows for a trustless trust. The three primary transformative features are immutability, transparency, and autonomy.

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What First Time Robot Owners Can Expect for Maintenance, Uptime, and Costs

whitePaper | December 22, 2022

Most manufacturers have a limited understanding of what it’s like to own and manage a robotic automation system. In fact, according to an MITsourced survey, 90% of U.S. manufacturers have zero robots in their facility1 .

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The Value of Augmented Reality in Manufacturing Technology

whitePaper | February 24, 2020

This white paper is part of AMT’s resource library on transformative technologies. There is enormous opportunity for learning, collaboration, and investment between the manufacturing and technology communities to accelerate innovative solutions and product development in the coming decade. Industry leaders agree that every part of the manufacturing value chain will be transformed by technology-R&D, the supply chain, factory operations, sales, and service. Digital connectivity among designers, managers, workers, customers, and physical industrial assets will unlock enormous value and change the manufacturing landscape.

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Discrete manufacturing in a changing world

whitePaper | March 2, 2020

Discrete manufacturers in Great Britain and around the world have undergone huge transformation in this fourth Industrial Revolution – for a number of reasons. A combination of factors that include economic and market uncertainty, changing customer expectations around technology and a fast-moving green agenda are putting pressure on businesses to hone their supply chains and explore more sustainable and digital business models.

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HP 3D Printing materials for the HP Jet Fusion 5200 Series 3D Printing Solution

whitePaper | June 26, 2022

At HP, we are committed to providing part designers and part manufacturers with the technical information and resources needed to enable them to unlock the full potential of 3D printing and prepare them for the future era of digital manufacturing. The aim of this white paper is to illustrate the mechanical properties of HP 3D Printing materials that can be achieved with the HP Jet Fusion 5200 Series 3D Printing solution.

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Cybersecurity in manufacturing

whitePaper | August 1, 2022

The story of manufacturing is one of constant technological change and evolution. It is also a story with a sweeping geopolitical arc from the industrial revolution in 19th century Britain to modern day China accounting for nearly 30% of the world’s manufacturing1 . The march of the machines is relentless and for large portions of society, alarming. Today’s technology is even imbued with the ability to learn – Blake Lemoine, a software engineer at Google, believes a chatbot his firm has created is capable of conscious thought2.

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You can’t fix what you can’t see on the factory floor

whitePaper | April 13, 2021

The Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is the channel of information from the shop floor to the top floor in a manufacturing organization. An Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP) is often not enough to understand what is actually happening in the factory.

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