The industrial environment is undergoing a significant transition in a time of fast technological advancement, and Industry 4.0, or smart manufacturing, is at the vanguard of this transition.

The nature of manufacturing is changing, and at the heart of this transformation is the use of real-time data, automation, robotics and machine learning — to name just a few technologies that ...

Full-time working professionals who complete our Smart Manufacturing Graduate Certificate gain advanced business and industry-relevant skills that enable them to lead and support manufacturing system ...

Purdue University’s online smart manufacturing graduate certificate is aimed at men and women working full time in manufacturing, supply chain and information technology industries and businesses.

Smart manufacturing is all about the latest technology—the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), artificial intelligence (AI), digital twins, digital threads, manufacturing execution systems (MES), ...

While there has been significant support of digitization innovation, the manufacturing sector has been relatively slow to adopt digital technologies. This is problematic as digital ...

The dream of smart manufacturing is becoming a reality. For industry leaders, smart manufacturing is a path to accelerated production through close collaboration between designers and builders and a ...

If you are in manufacturing, you probably have heard of Industry 4.0, smart factories, the fourth industrial revolution, and smart manufacturing. But what exactly is the difference between all of ...