Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...

3D Systems plans to sell its Geomagic 3D scanning software suite to Hexagon AB for $123 million as the additive manufacturing company looks to streamline its product offering and add more cash to its ...

Frontline operations software startup Tulip Interfaces Inc. said today it has raised $120 million in a late-stage funding round that brings its valuation to more than $1.3 billion, joining the ranks ...

For much of manufacturing’s modern history, the quality of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) has set the boundaries for achieving innovation. An MES captures data from equipment and, to some ...

Manufacturers need scalable platforms that support real-time visibility, flexible deployment and seamless integration across machines, lines and facilities regardless of operation size. Modern control ...

Legacy MES software was often inflexible and vendor-dependent, requiring massive upfront investments and making upgrades difficult, but modern MES offers modular ...

A case study in aerospace manufacturing provides an overview of how physics-informed digital twin systems transform robotics processes—from adaptive process planning and real-time process monitoring ...