This story was originally published on Manufacturing Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Manufacturing Dive newsletter. The U.S. manufacturing industry lost 78,000 ...

Automation robotics jobs are transforming industries by automating repetitive tasks, allowing humans to focus on complex decision-making. Future of work technology predicts that by 2025, 85 million ...

As global supply chains face disruptions, escalating geopolitical pressures, and tariffs, manufacturing leaders must blend automation and skilled labor to shield margins and ensure continuity. This ...

In this episode, we connect with Austin Levin, lead automation engineer with system integrator ACS, to explore how strategic automation deployment addresses manufacturing's labor shortage by ...

Artificial Intelligence and automation are often used interchangeably. While the technologies are similar, the concepts are different. Automation is often used to reduce human labor for routine or ...

Nestlé transformed a critical powder production process from manual guesswork requiring decades of experience to an automated system that new workers can master within a couple of years. Discover the ...

Automation has been making manufacturing more productive, cost-efficient, competitive and safe since the first Industrial Revolution. Today, tariff policies, the shift toward onshoring and reshoring, ...

Despite rapid advances in automation and AI, I believe humans will remain central to manufacturing success in 2026.