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Happy New Year from EWI! If the past 20 months have proven anything, it's that companies need to be nimble and adaptive to succeed in a rapidly changing and often uncertain economy. While EWI has always responded quickly to external challenges, our flexibility was put to the test in 2021. Many interrelated issues – including...

Over the past several years, there has been great interest in developing ways to remotely execute critical manufacturing processes like welding, machining, and inspecting across long distances. In 2018, a joint research team led by EWI identified the challenge of creating a “tele-manufacturing” system that could do exactly that – enable workers to operate functional...

At EWI, we've noticed that the global mindset toward inserting automation into the production line has shifted in a positive direction. Companies have realized that people really are the most important resource, and simply replacing them with robots is not the best approach. The greatest opportunities lie in the right mix of people and machines....