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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.
Automation will have a significant presence at the November gathering of packaging professionals in Chicago’s McCormick Place.
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.
Wireless sensor networks had an easy and inexpensive installation for this refiner.
Technology monitors and controls assets scattered across the landscape.
One type of collaborative tool that’s gaining traction among manufacturers and their supply chain partners is the third-party, software-as-a-service platform.
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.
Energy savings has become a major issue for companies providing manufacturing equipment.
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.
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.
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.
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