Physical AI and advanced robotics are rapidly becoming key to modern manufacturing, supply chains, and industrial services as they boost productivity and competitiveness. This transformation is accelerated by breakthroughs in largescale AI models, simulation driven innovation, and powerful compute architectures spanning devices, edge systems, and datacenters.
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While fully autonomous manufacturing remains an aspirational goal, the building blocks are already in place. Production-integrated metrology is a key component of this evolution, enabling the transition from reactive quality assurance to proactive quality control.
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Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in industrial inspection, but its role is often misunderstood. In practice, AI is rarely a standalone solution. Instead, it functions as one element within a broader verification architecture, deployed selectively where conventional approaches reach their limits.
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For the new generation of the Cayenne, Porsche is using high-voltage batteries developed and manufactured entirely in-house. In doing so, the sports car manufacturer is continuing to expand its own battery expertise in a focused manner and deepening its technological expertise in the field of electromobility while also laying the foundation for maximum performance, efficiency and quality – made in Europe.
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As manufacturing continues to demand higher precision and greater flexibility, the limits of single-technology measurement systems are becoming increasingly apparent. Today’s components often combine complex external geometries with features that require deeper, point-based verification.
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Traditional quality control methods are becoming outdated due to inefficiencies, reliance on manual labor, subjective assessments, tooling obstructions, and human error. In additive manufacturing, the challenges of complex geometries, tight tolerances, and scalability demands make quality control even more difficult. AM-Flow aims to solve this with fully automated, lights-out production powered by cutting-edge technology.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become indispensable in many companies. Examples such as AI agents, early defect detection in manufacturing, or logistics process optimization show that AI is already being used across a wide range of business functions. Although AI is increasingly recognized as a key technology, sustainable value creation remains elusive in many organizations.
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For decades, manufacturing has generated enormous volumes of data, yet much of it has lived a quiet life in databases, reports, and archived quality records. Measurement results were stored for traceability. Machines logged process parameters. ERP and MES platforms tracked orders and output. But these streams rarely converged in a way that allowed production to adapt in real time.
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As manufacturing continues its shift toward digital transformation, the concept of the digital thread has become central to initiatives around smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and data-driven quality. The digital thread represents the seamless flow of information across the product lifecycle — from design and engineering through manufacturing, inspection, and ongoing improvement.
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ABB has announced what it describes as a first for industrial automation: the seamless integration of AI-based machine vision directly into the machine control system. By embedding deep learning capabilities into its automation architecture, the company, through its machine and factory automation division B&R, has enabled vision data to feed advanced, real-time machine control loops.
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