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New wireless devices are emerging that can gather and report back on information that was previously stuck out in the field—promising savings for manufacturers.
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.
The OPC Foundation, in Scottsdale, Ariz., began work on Unified Architecture a few years ago in an attempt to modernize and enhance OPC, while maintaining compatibility with traditional OPC.
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.
Production of practically everything seems to be moving overseas these days, but the perception doesn’t always match reality.
The fact that wireless industrial standards are so new provides an excellent vantage point for observing the process of making a standard. Standards depend on consensus, and the means for reaching consensus can be intrinsically interesting.
Everyone likes a good technical standard. But they tend to like it only when it is done, and there are plenty of competitive products that meet the standard.
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.
According to ARC Advisory Group Inc., in Dedham, Mass., the conflict between the plant and the information technology (IT) group stems from a long list of conflicting missions, systems and priorities.
The information technology (IT) department at an enterprise offers a range of ways to secure the plant network.
Control engineers must assure IT goals don't conflict with plant operations.
A 10-year roadmap for achieving control system cyber security in the energy industry has been hailed as a model for other industries. Here’s a look at progress to date.
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