Siemens is collaborating with Dow to showcase the future of automation with a process industry test bed at MxD, a state-of-the-art advanced manufacturing institute and innovation center near downtown Chicago. This new test bed offers a hands-on demonstration of how innovative software and IoT come together with hardware to accelerate digitalization...

Anyone looking for the future of manufacturing might want to look in Austin.

The city is home to AT&T and Samsung's 5G Innovation Zone, a new research facility where the two telecom giants are demonstrating how the fifth-generation wireless network will change manufacturing and create smart factories that use digitized, connected machines...

Some of the biggest names in manufacturing are collaborating to ensure the industry fully capitalises on the potential of augmented reality (AR) technologies.

Thomas McDermott, executive director of DMDII, said: “Augmented reality has immense potential to transform manufacturing, and early adopters are seeing impressive productivity and quality...