Some of the biggest challenges facing consumer packaged goods manufacturers include product proliferation, the need to provide more product options and variants to the market, life cycle reductions, ...

For years, decades even, manufacturers have been trying to make production and packaging lines more agile and efficient. Oftentimes, that includes the use of robotics, diagnostics, integrated safety, ...

Process control is moving forward as quickly as data collection and processing can carry it, and a recent research effort demonstrated how fast and flexible, and adaptive, machining operations can be.