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To buy online, or to use a distributor? That is the question.
Plants are sifting through tons of plant data to get meaningful information to enterprise resource planning systems.
Mobile wireless devices, systems and software are changing the way the manufacturing world works, promising more work in less time, and offering new ways to do old things—and more importantly, new ways to do new things.
Dale and Thomas Popcorn, based in Englewood, N.J., makes a broad spectrum of retail flavored and wholesale popped corn products, supported by a 100,000 square foot warehouse of materials and ingredients.
Track-and-trace applications provide more information and benefits than expected at implementation.
Today’s information systems have an intense craving to know what’s happening up and down the supply chain.
With its Unified Architecture, the venerable industrial open connectivity standard known as OPC can be implemented on non-Microsoft systems, while retaining compatibility with older OPC.
Automation will have a significant presence at the November gathering of packaging professionals in Chicago’s McCormick Place.
Technology monitors and controls assets scattered across the landscape.
One North American manufacturer that is pursuing a low-cost, yet scalable automation solution that can work in budget-constrained global locations is General Motors Corp.
Some Global Manufacturers are deploying small-footprint automation systems as a way to cut costs and eliminate IT overhead in developing regions of the world.
Energy savings has become a major issue for companies providing manufacturing equipment.
Manufacturers have an array of good tools to help them implement proven operational excellence strategies.
Production of practically everything seems to be moving overseas these days, but the perception doesn’t always match reality.
Retrofits can be an efficient way to improve the accuracy of your machinery.
Most manufacturers know that identifying safety hazards is the first step to reducing risk.
Single-serve stick packs are one of the hottest trends in consumer packaging, and Ropak Manufacturing Co., Decatur, Ala., is poised to service that growing market with an innovative machine it calls Stik Pak.
Today’s motion control systems possess greater functionality and intelligence than in the past. But do they risk getting too smart for their own good?
Standards,the lifeblood of the technology world, are being improved by a shift to models, which reduce ambiguity and reduce the possibility that various interpretations will cause incompatibilities.
Control engineers must assure IT goals don't conflict with plant operations.
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