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Safety is a topic that is on everyone's mind. No one wants to be interviewed on television after an explosion at their plant or after a severe injury occurs.
Robot simulation and offline programming software is producing savings for North American Bus Industries.
By developing closer links between 3D simulation tools and factory floor automation, major PLM and controls vendors are aiming to move digital manufacturing technology one step closer to the mainstream.
Forget the politics. Doing good for the environment can be very good for the bottom line.
Global politics and economic expansion in developing countries have
shot petrochemical prices into orbit. The political and economic
pressures are forcing governments and consumers to take a greater
interest in alternative energy sources such as biofuels.
The tenets of ISA88 are now being applied to packaging, as well as to continuous and discrete manufacturing. Wireless instrumentation proved to be the best way to monitor chemicals in remote rail cars.
Automation World recently invited five major vendors of distributed control systems (DCS) to comment on the competitive impact of programmable automation controllers on their businesses.
A newsprint producer is saving $150,000 annually, thanks to wireless links from its remote scale house to its mill.
Bianca Scholten is a partner at Ordina, one of the largest publicly traded consultancy service providers in the Netherlands and Belgium in the areas of information and communication technology and management.
Can excellence be measured? While there is no easy answer, many forms of measurement can provide light.
(Sidebar to "Limit Your Liability" from the September 2007 issue of Automation World)
With millions of retiring baby boomers soon headed for the door, here’s a look at what some leading manufacturers are doing to avoid a critical skills shortage.
(Sidebar to "Technology Upgrades Boost Plant Performance" from the August 2007 issue of Automation World)
Melding both ideas into one can give your business sweet new life.
Reusable code and common language simplify process design. (Sidebar to "OPC Holes Create Swirl of Controversy" from the June 2007 issue of Automation World)
A Red Team test involves an all-out attempt to covertly gain access to a company’s critical plant control systems, using both cyber and physical means. These guys haven’t failed yet, and they’ve never been caught. Here’s a close-up look at how they do it.
The main uses of today’s MES software are found in its correlation with Lean and Six Sigma programs, plus regulatory response to increase manufacturing throughput.
(Sidebar to "The Great Safety Debate" from the April 2007 issue of Automation World) 
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