This guide offers engineers guidance on successfully integrating automation into manufacturing practices, enabling increased productivity, reduced downtime, improved worker safety, and lower operating costs.

Parts auditing, risk assessment and partnering with trusted suppliers are crucial to avoiding unnecessary downtime.

EU Automation launches a campaign to recognize those who maintain a robust supply chain in the face of parts and materials shortages.

New products require new materials, and the rapid advancement and uptake in the electric vehicle (EV) and green energy industries means that demand for rare earth metals, for use in batteries and other components, is only set to increase.

Today, customers are not content with standard products, but are looking for differentiated and personalized goods or services. Thanks to the new information technologies and innovative manufacturing processes, mass customization has become available in a multitude of sectors. In this article, Claudia Jarrett, US country manager at automation parts supplier EU Automation, discusses the main challenges of mass customization in manufacturing.

It’s already become a cliché to say that 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, will revolutionize manufacturing and supply chains. From prosthetic limbs to automation parts, this disruptive technology is quickly amassing a dazzling array of applications. Here, John Young, APAC sales director at automation parts supplier EU Automation, looks at four novel applications that sound like they are from the future.

A report by Adamas Intelligence predicts that if the global rare earth industry continues to exploit these resources in the same way, in three to five years demand will outgrow supply.

In 2020, Siemens Smart Infrastructure and WUN H2 GmbH partnered up to build one of the largest hydrogen production plants in Germany. The plant will run on renewable energy and will be carbon-free, contributing to Germany’s pledge to become gas-neutral by 2050.

In the era of rapid developments in technologies, newer components or technologies are launched every day.

Considerations for manufacturers expanding their operations.