Adam Wiltsie, plant manager at Vanamatic company, had 30 people cycle through a CNC operation in a year. It got increasingly hard to keep people in these positions, as labor shortage is high and people prefer doing value added tasks rather than...

“Michigan’s unemployment rate is 4% right now, it’s at a 10 year low, which is great for the economy - but trying to find employees to fill the positions we have - not many people want to work in manufacturing anymore, that’s a big issue.”

Manufacturing is often characterised by 3D tasks: they’re dull, dirty and dangerous. Many workers in manufacturing still spend their days performing repetitive actions in a noisy, messy and hazardous environment. This can affect employee welfare...

Automation is a process that’s very worth your while, but it can be tricky and even a bit intimidating when you’re just starting out. We get that. That’s why one of our core missions from day one has been to support you before, during and after...

“Today’s automation revolves around keeping head count down and keeping cost low in production environments.”

That’s what Jerry Reamer, the director of the Product Engineering department at KYB Americas, replied when we asked him about the...

Move over, 4G. 5G is all the rage now! Nowadays, this next generation wireless system is one of the most talked about technological evolutions. The general public immediately relates it to faster internet on their smartphone, but there is also a...

A giant KUKA, an ABB, a Universal Robot and lots and lots of Pickit vision systems: those were the main ingredients of Pickit's first Demo Day, which took place on April 23rd in our hometown Leuven. Our certified partners and their customers were...

Forgive me for the clickbait title, but I just had to get your attention. Some robotics related articles that appeared online recently really - how shall I put this gently - raised my eyebrows. They claimed 'robotic vision being solved', 'robots...

Recent studies show that 4.6 million manufacturing jobs will be created in the next decade in the US alone due to retirements and natural growth of the industry. However, many job-seekers aren’t interested in doing the repetitive and dull tasks...