IEN What strides do you see in ease of integration? Flexibility and scalability? Safety management? Personal injury prevention? Risk management? Safety design? Emergency response/management? Hazardous substance ID/evaluation? PPE? Egress/fire... Learn more

IEN What are the major machine and worker safety issues facing industry? How can they be addressed?Rice Ergonomics -- fitting the task to the person How can the equipment be modified so that the employee is comfortable and injury free? Employees... Learn more

IEN How can this sector meet rising demand for greater automation and flexibility?Rice Companies should continue to focus on a team approach using the human resources as efficiently as the mechanical and technological resources are used Supply... Learn more

Soldering irons piled on top of soldering spools A collage of cords power strips tweezers Pliers and rolls of labels peek through transparent electrostatic dissipative packaging bags.This might have been what one experienced before Steve Darmanin... Learn more

Rice: Production Basics is a little different in that we are not directly involved with machinery in a manufacturing or marketing sense However our workstations must integrate seamlessly with new machinery that manufacturers choose for their... Learn more

Open communication standards advances in software and the paradigm of the integrated enterprise continue to extend the reach of human-machine/machine-machine interfaces.Joe Bartolomeo director of Rockwell Software's visualization business tells... Learn more