The rise of smart manufacturing has enabled a wide selection of industries to benefit from real-time data integration and IoT technologies, with TV broadcasting one.

With the ongoing adoption of Industry 4.0 initiatives, manufacturers are endeavoring to equip their production machinery with network connectivity, providing highly precise, efficient access to machine status in real time, for the comprehensive analysis critical to data-driven decision making.

Rotating equipment including motors, pumps, air and other types of compressors, decelerators, and blowers definitely plays an essential role driving economic growth in a wide variety of industrial applications. Failure of or damage to such vital equipment can result in considerable financial loss.

The fabrication of semiconductor devices comprises a sequence of processing steps including etching, lithography, diffusion and thin film. How to ensure all process equipment is in tip-top shape is critical to semiconductor manufacturing.

E-commerce markets in Asia continue to flourish in recent years with China particularly enjoying significant growth year after year, thanks in part to Singles' Day and 618 shopping festivals spurring online sales. The spike in e-commerce demand, however, presents enormous challenges to logistics, such as delivery delayed by unexpected volume.

According to Accenture, 95% of manufacturing firms worldwide intend to initiate IIoT-based operations in the next three years, in hopes of automating production monitoring to replace conventional process and implement preventive maintenance. 73% of the companies polled, however, admit that their IIoT plans have yet to make any progress.

The manufacture of LCD and related display devices is widely expected to experience dramatic expansion in the near future. Global production of flat panel displays is conservatively forecast to treble or more by the end of the decade.

There is no doubt that surface mount technologies (SMT) have been instrumental in the development of the electronics manufacturing industry. Every step carried out during the SMT process, including glue dispensing, coating, solder paste inspection (SPI) and automated optical inspection (AOI), plays a critical role in the successful production of each device. Any machine malfunction or component failure could result in poor performance or even a production halt. In either case, the consequences are unacceptable to equipment suppliers and end users.

As portable phones continue to evolve functionally, their physical appearance has changed commensurately, with plastic body shells giving way to slim and lightweight metal casings. Despite its appeal to consumers, the sleek design adds to complexity of the manufacturing process, with cutting and machining of the casing demanding extreme precision, where even slight deviations can result in scrapped work pieces, eroding profit margins.

Since SONY introduced the 18650 cylindrical lithium-ion battery in 1992, kick-starting the commercialization of lithium-ion batteries, the technology has been advancing with applications becoming more and more widespread, ranging from consumer electronics to electric cars and solar panels. Among these, electric cars are considered a high growth market for lithium-ion batteries.