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Production Management | January 26, 2012

Survey Points to Effective Data Management

If you can't understand it, you can't control it. Big data is ubiquitous in today’s business world and the challenge going forward is how to manage a large number of data points.
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Production Management | January 21, 2012

Product Cost Management Software

aPriori 2011r2 offers new functionality and enhancements that expand the platform’s cost optimization capabilities for companies with high tolerance machining requirements in the automotive, oil &
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Control How-to Videos
Sensors | January 17, 2012

Temperature Controls Instructional Videos

New England Temperature Solutions produces an online video series providing tutorials for Eurotherm temperature controls technology.
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Operator Performance | November 14, 2011

Automation Applied: Operations Workflow

Using workflow software to director operator actions and confirm that management is aware of those actions.
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Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) | November 11, 2011

Automation Applied: Refinery Optimization

In this example, we'll see how software can be used to automate the analysis of operations data to optimize setpoints on controllers in a refinery when switching from production of a light crude blend to heavy crude.
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Ethernet | November 10, 2011

Connectivity on the Factory Floor

With Ethernet as the enabler, operators—and their machines—are getting better information faster than ever.
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Remote Diagnostics | November 1, 2011

Optimizing Maintenance through Information

Establishing an efficient and effective maintenance team requires sufficient and timely information.
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Production Management | October 20, 2011

Re-shoring and The Cloud: Two Supply Chain Strategies

Salvador Dali addressed it in his famous painting "Persistence of Memory," but manufacturers deal with varying perceptions of time as a day-to-day operational fact of life.
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EDDL and WirelessHart unlocking intelligence in Hart devices on proprietary systems.
October 11, 2011

Wireless Device Integration

How Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) can be used to integrate hardwired and wireless devices into a control system for device diagnostics and device version updates.
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Production Management | October 3, 2011

Security Simulator

By highlighting PLC and SCADA vulnerabilities, the Tofino SCADA Security Simulator is designed to help industrial companies develop security strategies for their control systems.
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Production Management | October 1, 2011

Manufacturing Metrics That Matter to Finance

MESA has just completed a revision to its Metrics Guidebook and Framework. The revision has focused on explaining the root causes of the challenges to improving financial insights into operations.
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Production Management | September 30, 2011

Remote Monitoring System

It looks as though American manufacturing is coming around to the idea of lean manufacturing principles, slowly but surely. 
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September 15, 2011

Tips for Improving Manufacturing Productivity

Productivity in manufacturing is about performing within or improving upon the budgetary boundaries that have been established for an operation.
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Production Management | September 1, 2011

How EMI Software Is Helping Companies Dig

 
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KPI | September 1, 2011

Digging Through Data to find Manufacturing Intelligence

The right software can make all the difference.
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