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Lean for Digital Manufacturing: The Human Factors Critical to IoT Success

Lean principles can help your people deploy the right IoT technology at the right time. Manufacturing is evolving. Digitization, improved monitoring and sensors, and faster computing and data networks have produced a new, smart factory environment. This evolution has been described as Industry... Continue Reading

Not Being There: How Augmented Reality is Changing the Oil Industry

A design engineer at Chevron’s sprawling El Segundo refinery in California used to travel from her office to the plant as many as five times a day to assess operations. Each time, she would bike to where she was needed, suit up with safety gear, assess the problem, and bike back to the... Continue Reading

MTI Educational Foundation Raised Over $100,000 So Far

The MTI Educational Foundation is excited to announce an update on its year-end fundraising campaign. Between the FNA 2018 donation, MTI matching campaign, and member contributions from the Rick Deibel Challenge, the Foundation has raised $116,200 as of this week. The Foundation would like to... Continue Reading

Improve Production with Smart Safety

A smarter approach to industrial safety can increase productivity and uptime, and enhance safety. Industrial safety gets a bad rap as being a detriment to productivity. But what if you could use safety to better understand and improve the performance of your operations? Smart safety can help you... Continue Reading

Smart Factories: Stepping into the Future

Andrew Minturn explores how new technologies can revolutionize traditional processes to maximize manufacturers’ potential in an increasingly digitized global marketplace. Even the smallest improvements to a process can have a big impact – both on efficiency and the bottom line.... Continue Reading

American Manufacturers Growing at Fastest Pace in 14 Years, ISM Finds

ISM manufacturing index leaps to 61.3% in August. U.S. manufacturers are putting the pedal to the metal - except, that is, for suppliers of metals hurt by recent tariffs. The numbers: American manufacturers are on a roll: business conditions surged in August to a 14-year high, according to a... Continue Reading

Companies Ramp Up Worker-Retraining Efforts

Tight labor market pushes companies to invest in teaching current workers to do more sophisticated tasks. Dwayne Mace has been a painter and a construction worker throughout his 37 years at Lamar Advertising Co. Now he’s a digital billboard repairman training the next generation of... Continue Reading

Can Robots Replace Humans? Just Ask Elon Musk

Elon Musk had a dream: a car factory that looked more “alien” than human, with hundreds of robots working cooperatively on the assembly line like a hyper-efficient hive. A handful of humans would oversee the work, but for the most part, the manufacturing of Tesla’s Model 3... Continue Reading

Natural Gas…Be an Informed Consumer

The price of energy is an important component to any form of large-scale industrial production. Natural gas has long been a chief source of energy for many industrial users, but it has become even more attractive lately given the sustained low-price environment. Improvements in shale gas... Continue Reading

A Jam Packed Tour of Common Hazards in the Heat Treat Industry

Originally Posted by Rick Kaletsky A wealth of the “same old” classic hazards have not been properly dealt with in the heat treat industry. It is critical to address these basic (often severe) risks/violations rather than simply trying to identify new-to-the-forefront... Continue Reading

Robots on Warehouse Floor Show a Surprise Perk of Hot Job Market

(Bloomberg) -- Instead of displacing American workers, robots may soon make many of their jobs more efficient. Intelligent machines increasingly scooting across America’s warehouse floors show just how. Companies use automated transporters to move packages without a human forklift driver. A... Continue Reading

MTI Graduates 32 Executives in YES Management Training Program

MTI is excited to announce it graduated another 32 executives from the 2018 YES Management Training Program in Indianapolis, IN during the MTI Fall Meeting. As each of the 32 executives’ names were read off to come to the podium to receive their graduation certificates on the final night,... Continue Reading