In a lot of plants, motion-control equipment stays in service far longer than anyone originally expected. Servo drives, spindle amplifiers, operator panels, encoder interfaces, and power supplies often keep running for years after the OEM has shifted its attention elsewhere.

That long service life is great for capital efficiency. But it creates a quality problem that many teams…

The way we think about our process will shape the way we collect, analyze, and interpret our data when things go wrong. This in turn will shape the actions taken and the results obtained. In this column, we look at an example of the difference between the traditional approach and an alternate approach to thinking about your processes.

Product 26 is a specialty…

There’s no shortage of AI in manufacturing. There is, however, a shortage of AI that works when things get complicated—AI that can move the needle.

If you spend any time in industrial service environments, where assets go down and the fix is buried in five different systems and 4,000 pages of technical documentation, you already know this. The problems that actually cost real money and…