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The suppliers of enterprise resource planning systems have bolstered their MES applications to support manufacturing processes.
North America is the new low-cost manufacturing center, with its stable labor costs, proximity to customers and robust supply chain.
Driven by practical, bottom-line considerations, more manufacturers are getting serious about alternative energy sources.
As the market for solar photovoltaic technology heats up, robot vendors see a bright future.
As plants trim engineering staffs, systems integrators take on more control responsibility
Kepware integrates plant equipment with a single OPC server for leading container manufacturer Amcor, to bring real-time production data into the Apriso/SAP business system.
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.
Today’s information systems have an intense craving to know what’s happening up and down the supply chain.
Using wireless sensor technologies in process automation is finally getting out of the labs and into the plants. There remains a reluctance to publicly come out of the closet about using it.
Can excellence be measured? While there is no easy answer, many forms of measurement can provide light.
More manufacturers are turning to human capital management software to help fuel the next round of factory gains.
U.S. manufacturing companies discover what it takes to be competitive here and how to grow in Asia.
(Sidebar to "Exciting Times For Terminology Standards" from the April 2007 issue of Automation World)
This supplier of injection molding equipment uses OPC tools from MatrikonOPC to provide turnkey solutions for plant and equipment monitoring. Trevor Jones, a Canadian-based executive for Thermo Electron Corp., was elected last January as President of the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the North American robot industry trade organization. Jones spoke recently with Automation World Managing Editor Wes Iversen about his goals for his two-year term, and the prospects for growth in the robotics and automation markets. The best system integrators often bring their varied experiences across multiple industries to bear in developing new and innovative automation solutions. William “Willy” Geary, 2006 president of SME, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, recently took a pit stop during an SME conference on high performance manufacturing featuring auto race cars to speak with Automation World Editor In Chief Gary Mintchell about the society as a business and hopes for his term in office.
Tom Burke, president and executive director of the OPC Foundation, discusses five hot topics surrounding OPC technology. Lean is more than just a manufacturing toolbox. Successful companies have discovered that it means changing their world—for the better. Advances in software help engineers and managers to boost the efficiency of their operations.
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