MT Magazine May/June 2022

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Smart Manufacturing and the Small Manufacturer Companies of all sizes can benefit from smart manufacturing technologies. As larger companies work to develop more resiliency in their supply chains, smaller manufacturers who don’t avail themselves of the tech may find themselves no longer a link in the chain.

BY GARY S. VASILASH CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Let’s face it: When it comes to things like video analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous mobile robots, and other advanced manufacturing technologies, it is very easy to figure that they’re being deployed with comparative ease in facilities of companies like General Motors, Boeing, or Caterpillar. After all, these