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Manufacturers are reimagining data collection as real-time visibility becomes essential in industrial operations. IO-Link sensors provide a cost-effective solution, cutting hardware...
Sept. 26, 2025
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Labor shortages and rising costs make automation essential. Join Schneider Electric’s Christine Bush to explore how robotic machine tending boosts productivity, safety, and flexibility...
Oct. 23, 2025
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Shift left with a science-based Virtual Twin to prove manufacturability before Day 1. We’ll show EBOM →MBOM sync, assembly simulation, 3D work instructions, PFMEA, and virtual...
Oct. 14, 2025
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The modern edge—as in edge computing—is not just a buzzword but an architecture with “untapped potential that will fundamentally redefine” industrial automation...
Sept. 12, 2025

Great Question Podcast

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How can the two converge and operate in less “siloed” ways, especially to ensure cybersecurity? Scott Achelpohl of Smart Industry explores these questions with Almog Apirion, ...
Sept. 23, 2025
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From Samuel Pasquier of Cisco Systems’ Industrial IoT Connectivity Portfolio, learn about the implications of increased digitization of OT, the emerging manufacturing use cases...
Sept. 4, 2025
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In this episode of Great Question, Lean Driven Reliability's Joe Kuhn joins Anna Townsend, managing editor of our sister brand Plant Services, and talks about turning maintenance...
Aug. 20, 2025
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In this episode of Great Question, Rosemary Coates of the Reshoring Institute joins Thomas Wilk, chief of Smart Industry's sister brand Plant Services, to debate how companies...
Aug. 1, 2025

Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing

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It adds the dimension of time to 3D printing.
June 27, 2023
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The turmoil in the additive manufacturing space continues as new investors buy Desktop Metal out of insolvency while Nano Dimension considers “strategic alternatives”—which translates...
Sept. 17, 2025
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Parent company Nano Dimension has been looking to divest Desktop Metal assets since being forced to buy them earlier this year.
July 31, 2025
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That language typically means selling or bankruptcy restructuring.
April 22, 2025

IT/OT Convergence

Vladimir Salman
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As the boundaries between physical operations and digital technologies blur, the integration of IT and OT emerges as a cornerstone of innovation and competitive edge.
Sept. 23, 2025
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The move toward connected, autonomous, and AI-driven operations offers incredible promise but also introduces new pathways for compromise of systems by bad actors.
Aug. 22, 2025
Hrishchenko Oleksandr
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While OT and IT convergence delivers operational efficiencies, it also generates dangerous friction: OT was designed for reliability and uptime, not cybersecurity.
July 25, 2025
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While IT often pushes for modernization and innovation, OT teams, responsible for the smooth operation of production lines, often resist change for fear of any disruption.
March 10, 2025

Cybersecurity

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Forescout’s cybersecurity guru discusses how criminals are hiding their work and what manufacturers can do about it.
Aug. 24, 2023
H Zero
Zero trust is a model that leverages controls, policies, practices, ownership, transparency and audits.
July 25, 2023
Thanapol Mongta
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Process manufacturers must evolve beyond traditional defense models, and zero trust is emerging as the key to protecting critical assets in a connected, performance-driven world...
Sept. 10, 2025
Aree Sarak
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Unlike systems that merely flag threats, agentic can supervise, detect, analyze, and respond to threats in real time, significantly reducing vulnerability.
Aug. 19, 2025

IIoT Platforms

Viorel Dudau
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The push for IoT threatens to leave some manufacturers behind unless they overcome the numerous challenges inherent with legacy equipment that wasn’t built to be easily interconnected...
Sept. 18, 2025
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Production lines with robotics, metrology, AGVs and AMRs are boosting accuracy, efficiency, and safety for the appliance maker.
Aug. 26, 2025
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Why these technologies deliver tangible benefits that tackle many of industry's biggest challenges head-on.
Aug. 12, 2025
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These technologies provide a powerful framework for organizations seeking to modernize their operations, improve productivity, and reduce security risks.
Aug. 6, 2025

Artificial Intelligence

Nataliya Hora
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In new PwC poll, more than 500 execs also lean into trends in AI in the workforce, industrial realignment, reshoring and nearshoring, and product line reconfiguration as PwC’s...
Sept. 19, 2025
Aree Sarak
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The convergence of agentic AI and “vibe coding” is paving the way for manufacturing facilities to become smarter and more agile than ever.
Sept. 15, 2025
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While artificial intelligence has proven itself capable of delivering significant advantages, fast-paced adoption has introduced an array of new security and compliance risks....
June 17, 2025
Tero Vesalainen
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New Kiteworks report finds manufacturing, historically a leading target of cyberattacks, still appears to be maintaining a risky status quo despite unique vulnerabilities brought...
June 16, 2025

Multimedia

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Now that New York investor Arc Public Benefit Corp. has bailed the 3D printing system and software maker out of bankruptcy, Editor-in-Chief Robert Schoenberger landed an interview...
Sept. 25, 2025
Endeavor Business Media | Kermit Mulkins
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Smart Industry's Scott Achelpohl and Industry 4.0 thought leader Jeff Winter get back into what's practical in your factory floor tech transformations. An intriguing discussion...
Feb. 18, 2025
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Rewatch as Alan Raveling of Interstates helps Smart Industry’s Scott Achelpohl predict which manufacturing technologies will rise next year to the hype and the apparent staying...
Nov. 15, 2024
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Smart Industry's Scott Achelpohl and Industry 4.0 thought leader Jeff Winter are back at it, this time delving into a two-part chat on imagination ... how to dream about what'...
Nov. 14, 2024