Dennis Scimeca

1 week ago | industryweek.com | Dennis Scimeca

John Deere, founded in 1837, is best known for manufacturing heavy machinery for agriculture, construction and forestry. The company has evolved from manufacturing steel plows to selling smart farming systems and breaking ground on the development of fully autonomous tractors. While the term 5G has for years been familiar to anyone that uses smartphones, tablets and other consumer electronics, 5G technology is still finding its place in the manufacturing world.

4 weeks ago | industryweek.com | Dennis Scimeca

In an agentic AI model, rather than a trigger telling a control function to [slow down the machine], you actually have the machinery recognizing that the input speed has slowed down. Dennis Scimeca: If each station in a production line can control itself and read what’s happening before and after it on the line and make its own decisions, doesn’t that take the human entirely out of the equation?

1 month ago | industryweek.com | Dennis Scimeca

Augmented reality (AR) is one of the most accessible advanced technologies available to manufacturers today. Anyone who’s worn a pair of glasses knows precisely how to use the hardware. But if you order up some AR devices without a plan, you’ll probably only wind up with another toy sitting on a shelf somewhere. James Massey, senior team leader at Ford’s Rawsonville Components Plant near Detroit, historically doesn’t wear a smile when going about his duties in the shop.

1 month ago | industryweek.com | Geert De Lombaerde |Anna Smith |Dennis Scimeca |Ryan Secard

Editor’s note: Welcome to So That Happened, our editors’ takes on things going on in the manufacturing world that deserve some extra attention. This will appear regularly in the Member’s Only section of the site. Would supporters of tariffs consider them a success if they led to one in three manufacturing businesses increasing their domestic production capacity? It strikes us as quite likely that they would raise a glass to that outcome.

1 month ago | manufacturingtechnologytoday.com | Dennis Scimeca

Augmented reality (AR) is one of the most accessible advanced technologies available to manufacturers today. Anyone who’s worn a pair of glasses knows precisely how to use the hardware. But if you order up some AR devices without a plan, you’ll probably only wind up with another toy sitting on a shelf somewhere. James Massey, senior team leader at Ford’s Rawsonville Components Plant near Detroit, historically doesn’t wear a smile when going about his duties in the shop.