Knowing the environment, or being aware of your surroundings, is key to many a task. It’s at least one of the ways we express the importance of having all the information we need in order to reach a goal.

With the resurgence of manufacturing in the United States has come a high demand for flexible quality inspection systems in the production environment. 

By considering the pattern of all accidents, including those near misses, a predictive model can be created, isolating the cultural root causes of workplace injury and larger scale disasters.

Automation may seem like a relatively modern concept, with its buzzworthy contribution to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and already monumental importance to the future of global enterprise. However, the technological birth of automation as we know it today dates
back centuries.
 

The award is presented by the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association.

The flight tests are part of a FAA certification process that will make the sensors widely available to U.S. airlines.