Have you ever been to an aerospace factory? As a business developer in this industry I know the numbers and a good deal about the technology behind building an aircraft. Still, seeing an airplane production hall for the first time left me dumbfounded. The sheer size of the parts, towering aircraft tail sections, large cantilevered […]

Adaptive Control and Monitoring (ACM) is a quick win for manufacturers, even for Siemens itself. Adaptive feed control continuously adjusts the feed rate based on individual cutting conditions, resulting in cycle time reduction and tool protection. Digitalization offers many options, including optimizing the core metal machining process. In conjunction with years of production know-how experience, […]

As manufacturing procedures can sometimes delay production with, waste materials handling and process change over or recipe adjustment, more plants have begun to automate their procedures than we have seen before.

As we’re gearing up for the Siemens Automation Summit, which is running June 25-28, 2018, in Marco Island, Fla., there will be a ton of sessions opening the conference concerning digitalization, smart manufacturing, cyber security and modernizing processes. So how do you modernize your process and make your system more efficient? There are several benefits […]

South African unions, government and industry need to recognise an entirely new category of worker. There used to be a relatively simple division in the workforce – blue collar workers performed manual labour, often unskilled and typically paid weekly wages, and white collar workers could be found in offices earning monthly salaries. The latter group were typically regarded as being more skilled.

In the 21st century, we have become accustomed to having a boundless digital world at our fingertips. As a result, we can find nearly any fact that you would want to know and almost any product, merely by searching for it on a digital device. And yet the vastness and resolution of the digital world is only increasing, leading consumers to demand products that meet their exacting wishes. While mass production was one of the most important trends of the 20th century, mass customization could be one of the most significant for this one. But mass customization requires that manufacturers not just meet the needs of digitally-driven consumers but to become masters of the digital realm themselves.