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For as long as industrial robots have existed, there’s been a vision attached to them. The robots do the work. The humans pursue higher things. Go to the beach, read a good book, watch a film — whatever you want…

People sometimes ask why a machine monitoring platform needs cameras. The data tells you the machine has stopped, an alarm code tells you why — what’s the camera for? The honest answer is that the data only ever tells you…

There’s a pattern I’ve seen in manufacturing every time the economy tightens, and I’m seeing it again now. Nobody’s signing off on new capital equipment. The quotes go in, they get filed under “next year,” and the existing kit gets…

Every machine has a reliability curve, and it’s not flat. Equipment is at its most reliable somewhere in the middle of its life — past the early teething problems, before the wear sets in. After that, things start to drift.…