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Walk through almost any busy shop floor and the bottlenecks reveal themselves quickly. A machining center sits idle for three minutes waiting for an operator to…

Industrial automation in Canada has moved well past the stage of being a capital project reserved for the largest plants. It is now part of basic operational di…

A good HMI does not draw attention to itself. Operators move through it without hesitation, maintenance technicians find what they need without digging, and sup…

End of arm tooling is where automation either proves itself on the shop floor or starts making excuses. A robot can have excellent reach, repeatability, and cyc…

Walk through enough Canadian plants and a pattern emerges. The pressure rarely comes from one direction. Labour is tight, margins are under strain, utilities co…

Walk through enough Canadian plants and a pattern emerges. The pressure rarely comes from one direction. Labour is tight, margins are under strain, utilities co…

Walk through almost any busy shop floor and the bottlenecks reveal themselves quickly. A machining center sits idle for three minutes waiting for an operator to…

Canada’s industrial base has always been defined by distance, climate, and scale. A plant in southern Ontario serving automotive OEMs does not operate under the…