Monthly Archives: December 2014

Growing Automate 2015 Show Illustrates Growing Interest in Automation

The Association for Advanced Automation (A3) announced that the new and returning exhibits of the Automate 2015 show have already secured over 150% of exhibit floor space compared to the last show in 2013. The event was recently named one of the “Top 10 Manufacturing Shows” in the United States. Industrial automation is rapidly growing… Read more »

3 Small but Critical Inventions

Rexroth’s Indramat and Indradrive components are integral to the functioning of your equipment. Often the components have been in service longer than 30 years before they have a problem, and their owners realize just how critical they are. Let’s stop to celebrate some other critical inventions that we may sometimes overlook, but which affect our… Read more »

Encouraging Innovation

It’s often joked that if you laid all economists end to end they would not reach a conclusion. The inability of academics and business leaders to reach an understanding about what is undeniably good or bad or an economy may be part of why economics is referred to as “the dismal science.” Yet beneath the… Read more »

The Coming Drone Revolution

A few decades ago when you heard the word “drone” you thought of a boring lecturer. Today, drones, or small-scale unmanned aircraft are poised to change everything from defense to business to personal recreation. While drones may be unlikely to become part of our daily lives in the immediate future, the possible applications are limitless…. Read more »