For decades, industrial automation has helped manufacturers increase production, improve consistency and reduce the amount of manual intervention required on the factory floor. Across Gauteng and South Africa, PLCs, industrial robots, sensors and automated production lines have become fundamental to keeping plants productive and competitive. But conventional automation has always had a limitation: it performs best when the process is predictable. A traditional robot can repea

Seven operational checks every plant manager should use to evaluate their maintenance provider There is a familiar scene that plays out in manufacturing plants every day. A machine stops unexpectedly. Operators gather around the equipment while production supervisors begin estimating the impact on the shift. Maintenance is called, a technician arrives, the fault is diagnosed, the failed component is replaced and, after a period of disruption, the line begins moving again. Pro