Find practical explanations for choosing equipment, improving measurements, connecting production, and working with manufacturing materials and data.
Browse 30 updated guides below. Earlier reporting is preserved in a separate, subject-organized historical collection.
Machines and workshop processes
Variable Frequency Drives: Selection and Acceptance
Match motor, load, duty cycle, and commissioning evidence before selecting an industrial drive.
Industrial Dust and Fume Collection: Plan the System
Prepare a process and contaminant brief for specialist design, source capture, and acceptance testing.
Vertical Machining Centers: Evaluate Against Your Parts
Build a part-family brief and acceptance-cut plan that measures the complete production cycle.
Precision Grinding: Investigate Burn, Chatter, and Finish
Connect grinding symptoms to wheel condition, dressing, coolant, and controlled trial evidence.
High-Pressure Hydraulic Hoses
Explore hose construction, fittings, routing, monitoring, and the demands of hydraulic equipment.
Measurement, inspection, and improvement
Predictive Asset Monitoring
Turn equipment measurements and operating history into investigated maintenance decisions.
Industrial Infrared Thermometers: Check the Reading
Control target size, optics, emissivity, reflections, and comparison conditions for useful temperature readings.
Vibration Data Acquisition: Make Measurements Comparable
Document sensor mounting, conditioning, sampling, units, and machine state for repeatable vibration records.
Machine Vision Systems
Plan imaging, defect definitions, and measured decision errors for industrial inspection.
Continuous Surface Inspection: Validate Defects and Coverage
Connect defect definitions, line-scan geometry, error rates, and material location to inspection acceptance.
Six Sigma Training: Choose a Course and Apply DMAIC
Compare training support and build a first improvement project around trustworthy measurements and evidence.
Connected production and material flow
Digital Plant Architecture
Define data ownership, interfaces, and control boundaries across a connected plant.
Industrial Ethernet Gateways: Reliable Device Integration
Define serial messages, PLC mappings, data freshness, and failure recovery for industrial gateway connections.
Paperless Factory Floor
Connect current work instructions with traceable production records at the point of use.
Plant-Floor Material Visibility: Track and Reconcile WIP
Define material events, quantities, locations, and owned exceptions that reconcile with physical production.
Operations Monitoring
Build reliable production states, downtime records, and performance measures.
Guided Vehicles and Mobile Robots
Plan material routes, handoffs, traffic, charging, and acceptance evidence for mobile automation.
Product design, prototypes, and assembly
Product Lifecycle Management
Keep product definitions, revisions, approvals, and manufacturing changes connected.
3D Parametric Modeling
Understand design intent, constraints, feature relationships, and practical CAD workflows.
Rapid Prototyping
Choose a prototype process and test plan around the question a physical model must answer.
3D Manufacturing
Compare additive process families, materials, post-processing, qualification, and production needs.
Virtual Assembly Lines
Model assembly flow and test production assumptions before changing a physical line.
Materials, semiconductors, and sensors
Polyester Materials and Manufacturing
Compare polyester families, production methods, applications, and recycling approaches.
Polypropylene Properties and Applications
Explore PP grades, processing methods, component uses, and material tradeoffs.
Modern Lithography
Compare optical, EUV, imprint, and direct-write patterning within manufacturing processes.
Advanced Process and Equipment Control
Connect semiconductor process measurements to bounded, validated control decisions.
Automotive Sensors
Explore vehicle sensing, signal interpretation, diagnostics, and integration across major systems.
Planning, industry, and AI
Supply Chain Planning
Connect demand, capacity, inventory, scenarios, and accountable responses across planning horizons.
Global Manufacturing
Explore regional production networks, resilience, industrial technology, and the 2026 operating context.
AI in Manufacturing
Explore applications across maintenance, inspection, process control, planning, and production.
Historical manufacturing coverage
These 59 articles preserve earlier product announcements, installations, and industry reporting. Their dates provide context; product specifications, availability, and service details reflect the period covered.
Machining, coatings, and process materials
- Industrial Epoxy Primer (2017)
- Ceramic Piston Heads (2006)
- Part Curing (2005)
- Micro Machining (2004)
- Polymer Spray Coating (2017)
- Fireproof Composite Materials (2003)
Polymers, films, and packaging
- Oxygen Scavenger (2007)
- Corner Wrap Labeling System for Narrow Aisles (2007)
- Prototype Plastic Accura 25 (2005)
- Optical Diffuser Film (2005)
- Shrink Film (2005)
- Metallized Film (2005)
- Titanium Dioxide for Paper (2003)
- Packaging Research: Polypropylene and RFID (2002)
- Plastic Printing (2003)
Semiconductor fabrication, MEMS, and testing
- Protective Tape for Semiconductor Manufacturing (2017)
- MEMS Laser Scanning (2005)
- Microelectronics Filtration (2005)
- Low K Film (2005)
- Wafer Reader (2005)
- Wafer Testing (2005)
- PVD (2005)
- Defect Detection (2004)
- Transistor Manufacturing (2004)
- Packaging Lithography (2004)
- Cluster Probe (2004)
- Pressure Chamber Probe (2004)
- FLOOPS Semiconductor Process Simulator (2003)
- EUV Lithography - Extreme Ultraviolet (2003)
- Microelectromechanical Systems (2003)
- Parametric Testing (2003)
Design software and additive development
- Desktop Metal Production System (2017)
- Composites Process Simulation Software (2017)
- CAD to Metal Rapid Manufacturing (2006)
- 3D PLM Software (2005)
- Prototyping Plastic (2005)
- Photopolymer Jetting (2005)
- Metallic Rendering (2004)
- Immersive Modeling (2004)
- Real Time Rendering (2004)
- Thermoforming Software (2004)
- 3D Printer (2004)
- Industrial Design Rendering Software (2003)
- CAD Visualization (2003)
- PLM Software and Collaboration (2003)
Measurement and instrumentation
- UV Monitor (2004)
- Temperature Sensing Instruments (2003)
- High-Speed Time Measurement (2003)
- Virtual Instrumentation and Measurement Logging (2003)
Plant operations, logistics, and industry
- Manufacturing Growth (2004)
- E-Procurement Software Solutions (2003)
- Sequential Parts Delivery Sequencing Software (2003)
- Biometric Timeclocks (2003)
- Ecommerce Solutions for Manufacturers (2003)
- Agile Manufacturing (1995)
- Product Recall Service (2003)
- Supply Chain Execution (2003)
- Supply Chain Optimization (2004)
- Zero Emissions Manufacturing Facility (2003)