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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.
Energy savings has become a major issue for companies providing manufacturing equipment.
Samsung Fine Chemicals Co. (SCF) recently revamped its heat power plant at its chemical facility in Ulsan, South Korea, in an effort to increase efficiency and reduce emissions.
Retrofits can be an efficient way to improve the accuracy of your machinery.
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.
Most manufacturers know that identifying safety hazards is the first step to reducing risk.
It’s no secret that automakers are facing increased demands from shareholders to curb their exposure to warranty/recall issues and are, in turn, passing that pressure onto their suppliers in the form of stiff penalties for missing deadlines, substandard quality or even merely delivering assemblies out of sequence.
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.
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.
The newly approved NERC CIP standards covering cyber security in the electric power industry may be controversial, but there are big fines for lack of compliance.
Hank Kenchington is a senior manager with the Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE).
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.
Five to ten times per day in the United States, a worker is severely injured or killed in an electrical arc flash accident, according to Joe Weigel, product manager in Square D Services Marketing for automation and electrical products supplier Schneider Electric, in Palatine, Ill.
Gartner Inc., the Stamford, Conn., market research firm, has identified the top 10 technologies and trends that it says will be strategic for most organizations.
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