Smart factory technologies, IIoT, and digital transformation
Futura Automation, LLC is a solutions provider for automation conveying and robotic systems. With today’s newsletter, we are pleased to provide an in-depth overview of the 10 most important types of automation conveyor systems, excluding screw, pneumatic, overhead, and magnetic conveyors, along with their key industrial applications. There are a wide variety of material handling […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries across the globe, and manufacturing is no exception. From optimizing production lines to enabling predictive maintenance, AI is ushering in a new era of smart, agile, and highly efficient factories. As manufacturers face rising consumer expectations, volatile supply chains, labor shortages, and increasing pressure to improve sustainability, AI […]
POSTED 07/03/2024 | By: Carrine Greason, A3 Contributing Editor Reshoring is gaining momentum — a lot of it. Manufacturers are rapidly bringing production back to the United States from overseas or at least closer to home in a related move called nearshoring. Both reshoring and foreign direct investment have grown, from generating 11,000 new U.S.-based jobs per year […]
Since the beginning of mankind, somewhere in central Africa about 2 million years ago, there has been a steady, if not logarithmic, progression towards reducing the amount of human labor required for output gained, thereby improving the quality of human life (assuming less work equals more quality). This week to prove the point, I have […]
Futura Automation has added a new capability to its services. As of July 1, 2021, we add CellMate(c) VPN Gateway, an advanced VPN management solution for safe interconnection of our VPN secured wireless and cellular routers and LAN networks over Internet. Connection among devices and networks can be regional or global and can combine different […]
Futura Automation’s Mission is and has been: “To Counsel and Support North American manufacturers on the benefits of Industry 4.0 by Implementing IIOT and Robotic Solutions”. The Futura Automation consulting team has diverse backgrounds and experience. As a team we have degreed engineers, in some cases with advanced degrees, in chemical, electrical, manufacturing, mechanical and […]
Register to attend our Webinars introducing cMT “X” Series, Motion Controller and IIOT Capabilities Webinar: August 4th @ 12pm EDT / 9am PDT Webinar: August 6th @ 4pm EDT / 1pm PDT The cMT Series of Weintek Human-Machine Interfaces, commonly known as HMI, are empowered with a wide variety of capabilities, such as data display, […]
Futura Automation is pleased for Mr. Don Nedved to join our Consulting Partner team from his office in Lenexa, Kansas in the Kansas City area. Mr. Nedved will support clients in the central region of the USA which includes Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. Mr. Nedved’s passion is solving problems in the industrial automation arena, and […]
SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85255, June 1st, 2020 – Futura Automation LLC is pleased to announce the addition of Ms. Lizbeth Flores to its consulting partner team. Ms. Flores is a resident of Queretaro, Queretaro state Mexico and recently joined the Chamber of Commerce there as a board member. Ms. Flores holds a bachelor’s degree in computer […]
Summary: George Wilken – will answer questions on the state of the art in Shopfloor Digitization, how it benefits manufacturers and how it helps achieve the efficiency promised by implementation of Industry 4.0. Q&A Style Agenda: Introduction of Speakers and Backgrounds The Problem: Robotics and Automation initiatives must be matched by digitizing shopfloor practices to achieve […]
