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Imagine being adrift in the sea during a storm and looking down 60 feet
at your rescue ship. That was the experience of one of the people
rescued by the crew of the USCGC Tamora during the storm known as “The
Perfect Storm.”
To buy online, or to use a distributor? That is the question.
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.
The pharmaceutical industry has been aggressive in sharing data between enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and manufacturing systems.
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.
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.
Wireless sensor networks had an easy and inexpensive installation for this refiner.
Technology monitors and controls assets scattered across the landscape.
Plants are sharing information with IT, maintenance and along the supply chain.
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.
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.
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.
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