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2024 Innovation Issue: Robotic welding system boosts Smoker Craft’s production

May 31, 2024

The company has received attention for its system and last month earned the Conexus Indiana Manufacturing Innovation Award at TechPoint’s 2024 Mira Awards gala.

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2024 Innovation Issue: Wearable devices promise improved safety, productivity

May 31, 2024

Mickey Shuey

But the devices—whether they’re used in the industrial setting or for personal reasons like health and fitness—can also raise concerns as well as questions about data privacy.

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2024 Innovation Issue: Circle Beverage expands reach with robotic sleeving

May 31, 2024 | Taylor Wooten

The company has spent millions on the mostly automated production line. That shift has allowed the company’s 30 employees to upskill to work with the technology, but he said some manual labor remains.

2024 Innovation Issue: ‘Progressive improvement’ leads to customer smiles

May 31, 2024 |

Lesley Weidenbener

TWI Institute, a consulting firm for manufacturers, describes continuous improvement as the “act of taking an established process, breaking it down to its component parts, building it back up using only the essential parts and committing to making incremental improvements over time.”

2024 Innovation Issue: 5 keys to driving Indiana’s manufacturing future

May 31, 2024 | Fred Cartwright

Innovation is the thread woven through these truths, not only in the digital sense but also as it relates to the education and training of our future workforce, providing strategic funding and proactively building the powerful partnerships necessary to effect real change.

2024 Innovation Issue: State grant program spurs Industry 4.0 investments

May 31, 2024

A total of 526 grants worth a combined $56.9 million have been awarded so far to companies and organizations in 79 counties. In 2023, $20 million was granted to 161 projects in 50 counties. See how the money has been distributed.

2024 Innovation Issue: On-demand production allows companies to respond quickly to customer needs

May 31, 2024 |

Dave Lindquist

Striving for efficiency drives the on-demand philosophies of Mach Medical, Homefield Apparel and 80/20 Inc., even if the companies have little else in common.

2024 Innovation Issue: The path to Industry 4.0

May 31, 2024 |

Susan Orr

Numerous groups are working to advance both technology adoption and related workforce development in Indiana’s manufacturing industry, especially among the small companies that represent the bulk of Indiana’s manufacturers.

2024 Innovation Issue: How automation can be a lifesaver

May 31, 2024 |

John Russell

Lilly plans to outfit its Lebanon plants—now under construction—with the latest in robotic, digital manufacturing equipment that will do much of the work that a generation ago was done by humans.

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