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Seven Metrics to Understand Your Factory’s Financial Health

6 minutes read

There are many factors involved in evaluating manufacturing competitiveness, but financial health is certainly top of mind both for manufacturing executives and for key stakeholders outside of a company, like investors. We outline seven financial ratios used to evaluate manufacturing operations and assess their financial health, and how each is impacted by the adoption of smart automation.

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Lessons from the Front Lines of Manufacturing: Ford, Honeywell, and My Journey to Bright Machines

5 minutes read

Bright Machines’ new CMO talks about the opportunity to combine her experiences across the high-tech and industrial worlds, leveraging what she learned while working at some of the most established leaders in their industries and recreating the magic of those iconic brands.

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Is your Automation Automated? How Software is Opening the Door for Increased Innovation in Manufacturing

5 minutes read

Software-defined manufacturing enables anyone to build anything anywhere, on-demand.

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Innovation Latency in Industrial Automation

7 minutes read

If the invention of industrial robotics is to realize its full potential, the software architectures and algorithms used in other domains must be mapped to the factory.

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Be Paranoid, Android: Here Come the Humans

4 minutes read

Let’s make sure we have a well-educated manufacturing workforce, and then let’s get out of their—and our—way.

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Four Factors to Ensure Success on First Automation Projects

6 minutes read

A little planning goes a long way in ensuring your first automation project’s success. Here are four steps that will help identify the right products and processes ripe for automation and the right initial project to put a “win” on the board and catalyze automation.

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An Intelligent Platform for Innovation

5 minutes read

With the move to a more digital experience, innovators everywhere will have a more straightforward way to submit their designs for manufacturing, receive feedback, and track progress.

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Finding the Bright Spots in a Dark Year: 2020 Year in Review

4 minutes read

We started Bright Machines to fundamentally change the way manufacturers build products – so that no disruption (however big or small) can get in the way of scalable production. This year validated that goal more than ever, and we’re proud to have been able to support our customers.

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Five Predictions For The Manufacturing Industry In 2021

5 minutes read

In 2021, manufacturing will see a fundamental shift in how its leaders view progressive change – from unrealized vision to practical reality. As a result, an industry that’s nimbler and more flexible will emerge. Here are five ways we believe the industry will evolve next year.

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Top 6 Manufacturing Stories of 2020

3 minutes read

2020 has been a whirlwind for just about everyone, but it has been a roller coaster in the world of manufacturing. To reflect on this tumultuous time, we’ve assembled six important manufacturing stories from 2020.

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Automating Assembly – Crucial Step for Day One

5 minutes read

Early automation shouldn’t be an afterthought for product assembly. When leveraged early, automation allows for rigorous process development, seamless retooling, and ultimately gets products to market faster.

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AQS and Bright Machines Raise the Bar for “Quality”

3 minutes read

By implementing Bright Machines Microfactories into AQS factories, their vision to streamline their assembly is becoming a reality – they look forward to outstanding outcomes, including improved OEE.

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National Manufacturing Policy Desperately Needs a Revamp

5 minutes read

US manufacturing policies should enable the industry to compete and thrive in a global marketplace while optimizing for sustainability and job creation.

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Design for Automated Product Assembly

5 minutes read

There isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach to building out an assembly playbook, but well-thought-out implementation can make factory output much smoother when automation is introduced into the process.

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‘Antifragility’ Meets Manufacturing: Turning Crisis Into Opportunity

5 minutes read

Every so often, we are reminded that modern manufacturing is actually quite fragile despite years of optimization. The coronavirus pandemic has provided a brutal reminder of this fact, but significant manufacturing disruptions are not new.

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5 Reasons Smart Automation Is a Good Investment

5 minutes read

Software-Defined Manufacturing strategies leverage software, computer vision, machine learning, adaptive robotics … and the current workforce.

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10 Reasons to Abandon Traditional Approaches to Production

5 minutes read

Bright Machines offers the industry ten fundamental differences, including being software-defined.

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Three Misconceptions, And One Popular Lie, About Industrial Automation

7 minutes read

Lately, it appears to have become fashionable to bash robots and automation. The talk track goes something along the lines of “more hype than reality” or “humans are better” or “even the smartest have failed.”

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Bright Machines Brings New Value to Machines and Humans

3 minutes read

Bright Machines announces new features to microfactories that equip manufacturers with the tools they need to be both informed and efficient as well as help them manage pandemic specific risks and future-proof against such unforeseen outlier events.

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