Manufacturing Technology

A former CIA analyst draws on his experience combatting jihadi terror movements and the history of totalitarian regimes to show how citizens lose touch with reality. Some of history’s greatest empires have devolved into genocidal lunacy—often with shocking compliance from their own people...

Take a tour with the author inside more than 30 world-class facilities to experience the most remarkable innovations and highly sophisticated robotics and automation in action. Capture a front-row seat to top-brand, big-budget manufacturing in action with complex machines communicating with other machines. However, you can also learn from small-to-medium size manufacturers. Discover how some simple, tried-and-true, old-school, low-budget manufacturing processes can be game changers for industry.

Factories create massive amounts of data from IoT sensors, MES, SCADA, quality systems, supply chain, maintenance, and others. Yet most organizations can’t turn it into decisions fast enough. The result is reactive firefighting and AI pilots that stall. The Unified Manufacturing Data Architecture (UMDA) is a practical framework built for industry, not adapted from IT. It shows you how to handle real-time streams, integrate legacy systems, enforce security, and scale AI across sites.

That’s the promise, and peril, of the third digital revolution, where anyone will be able to make (almost) anything Two digital revolutions—computing and communication—have radically transformed our economy and lives. A third digital revolution is here: fabrication. Today’s 3D printers...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is an audio adaptation of the ⁠OpenStax Additive Manufacturing Essentials textbook⁠. The audiobook is produced by ⁠Audileo⁠. What OpenStax says about their textbook: Additive Manufacturing Essentials is an introduction to the core...