In my last blog, I discussed some of the challenges software developers face in building next-generation machine-centric Industrial Internet solutions as well as how the industrial sector can ...

Let’s say you’ve gone and bought yourself a sweet sweet metal lathe. Maybe it’s one of the new price-conscious Asian models, or maybe it’s a lovely old cast iron beast that you found behind a ...

While Judgment Day(Opens in a new window) has come and gone with little more than than the emergence of a Jeopardy! winning computer(Opens in a new window), a recent ...

When he founded MakerBot eight years ago, Pettis made a multi million-dollar bet that at-home 3-D printing would become the future of manufacturing. Today, that prediction still hasn't materialized.

He said he's found it is usually the machine operators, not the managers, who will underestimate a machine's risk level. Veteran operators frequently tell him they've never been hurt on their machines ...