The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) announced Hiroshi Fujiwara, Executive Director of the Japan Robot Association (JARA), and Robert Little, co-founder of ATI Industrial Automation, as the winners of the 2026 Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Awards, the world’s most prestigious robotics honor.
Mukesh Kumar discusses how high-stakes regulatory environments have shaped his approach to building resilient quality systems, and how AI and automation are now extending those capabilities across modern enterprise operations.
Mukesh Kumar, a SAP Premium Engagement Leader and enterprise transformation strategist, has spent more than two decades designing and delivering large-scale quality, compliance, and digital transformation programs across regulated industries.
Nearly 90% of material resources across the European Union are lost after their first use, highlighting how linear today’s manufacturing economy remains.
Exercise is good for you. That’s hardly a newsflash: In the 400s BCE, Greek philosopher Hippocrates wrote “Eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise.”
Let’s look at several steps in a typical seamless production process and how they ultimately ensure that quality products are produced and delivered on time.
FANUC America has expanded its popular CRX collaborative robot series with the introduction of the CRX-3iA , an ultra lightweight cobot designed for fast redeployment across small, high mix tasks.