Industry Week discusses innovation and manufacturing technologies in a recent article. The article talks about how over the pas 20 years manufacturing has gone through many changes including advances in materials, controls, communications, electronics and software. All of these changes have helped launch manufacturing into the future. The product now makes it to the market faster than before, there is less chance for human error due to the machinery used, and the improvements to machines have allowed for flexibility in operations. Not only has the manufacturing technology improved, but the way we service machines has also changed for the better. Machines have become more complex and more important to maintain and this is why we now have reliability engineers and predictive maintenance professionals. Manufacturing companies have realized that in order to keep their companies afloat and moving towards the future, that predictive maintenance and reliability engineering jobs are essential. By having well cared for machines, companies are able to keep up and running. And as innovation plays a bigger role in manufacturing technology, the job of predictive maintenance professionals and reliability engineers will also have to evolve over time because new technologies lead to new maintenance procedures/techniques and new problems to solve.

You can read more about innovations in manufacturing technologies by reading the article on Industry Week.