Manufacturers are experiencing a perfect storm, with stretched supply chains, increasing cost of goods and materials, and the ever-present skills gap. At times it can be challenging to survive – let ...

Automation is now table stakes and accelerated automation with intelligence is the new mantra post-pandemic. The days of expanding beyond a few functional areas into an enterprise-wide automation ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

Automated assessment in programming education represents a paradigm shift in how instructional evaluation is conducted in computer science courses. By leveraging algorithmic techniques and artificial ...

For many years in the industrial automation sector, end-user petitions for openness and flexibility had been at odds with what suppliers were willing to offer. Especially in the case of digital ...

Though PLC (programmable logic controller) programming languages may not receive the attention that general computing programming languages, such as JavaScript, C#, or Python do, they remain critical ...

‘That need for automation, that need to drive efficient business processes across a dispersed workforce, the need to give customers a set of products and services is something they didn‘t even know ...

The next phase of collaborative robots eliminates the need for programming. Applications such as machine tending and palletizing can be deployed in a few simple steps. Robot programming has come a ...