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Over the last few years in particular, you've likely at least heard of the concept of Industry 4.0. Also referred to by some as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, this is a term that describes the integration of technology at virtually every level of the manufacturing process including individual production lines, departments and even locations.  Much...

Labor Shortage Affecting Manufacturing - Automation Can Help 07-27-2022 Keeping your company’s name in the game is beginning to become tricky as the amount of competition grows and attempting to keep up with others is difficult as fewer people are available to work. Many industries are realizing that the labor shortage is becoming the root...

The rise in demand for automation in the tire industry has brought integrators committed to excellence and efficiency to the forefront.  That includes companies that build custom machines for the tire industry to help increase production and efficiency within their existing manufacturing processes. For over 20 years, Pioneer Industrial Systems has been helping tire manufacturers...

The concept of robotics and automation may have had their start in the imagination of the ancient Greeks and later gained the attention of the masses in the popular Sci-Fi stories of the 19th and 20th centuries; however, a man named George Devol is to thank for the development of the first programmable robot, Unimate, in...

For decades, injection molding has been a crucial part of many manufacturing processes. Simply put, it's a term that describes using heated materials that are then inserted into a mold, at which point they cool and form a custom-designed finish product. It's been employed to create everything from tools to automotive parts to product packaging...

One of the common misconceptions about industrial automation in any form is that it's destined to replace human employees entirely. Yes, it's true that over the course of the next decade, technology will advance to the point where a certain number of jobs will no longer be necessary - such is the nature of the...

Collaborative robots, as the term suggests, are those that are designed to work alongside human employees in some capacity. In a lot of ways, they're the next logical extension of industrial automation. If you can program a task to be performed consistently and accurately 100% of the time, that's an opportunity you would willfully take...

Also commonly referred to as BPA for short, business process automation involves automating certain complicated business tasks using advanced technologies - all to generate consistent, repeatable results that are virtually free from human error. BPA is not about replacing the human workforce, however - far from it. It's about supporting and empowering those workers so...

Pioneer Industrial Systems is the proud recipient of the 2022 Fanuc America Innovative System of the Year award!  Fanuc America Corporation presented the award last week in Miami, Florida at their annual Authorized System Integrator Conference.  Pioneer Industrial Systems won the award for its innovative use of taking a Fanuc robot from the factory to...