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Canada’s manufacturing sector has always had to work a little harder than many of its peers. Distances are long. Energy costs vary by province. Labour markets t…

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…

Shops rarely struggle because one machine is too slow. More often, the real drag on output lives in the handoffs. A machining cell runs well enough on its own. …

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…

Throughput is one of those metrics that looks simple on a dashboard and turns complicated the moment you try to improve it. On paper, it is output over time. On…

Walk through any modern automation cell long enough and you stop looking at the robot first. Your attention shifts to the business end, the gripper, torch, spin…

Manufacturing leaders talk a great deal about resilience, but on the plant floor resilience is rarely abstract. It shows up as a cell that can handle a product …

Canadian manufacturers have never had the luxury of treating energy as a background expense. Electricity rates vary widely by province, natural gas costs swing …