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 | May 13, 2012

Sustainability: Operational Risk Management by Any Other Name

Manufacturing companies and process plants need to proactively manage all areas of operations that may impact their “social license” to do business in a particular community.
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 | May 13, 2012

Cycle Counting: Tool for Inventory Management, Records Accuracy

Verify perpetual or continuous inventory records remain accurate without incurring the costs and business disruptions associated with conducting wall-to-wall physical counts.
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 | May 13, 2012

MESA International’s Global Education Program

Manufacturers and producers have been asking for a full MES/MOM education program.
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 | May 3, 2012

Food Manufacturing: Batch Control for Multiple Kitchens

With only 11 weeks before the first production trials, a systems integrator concurrently creates hardware designs and programming based on the ISA 88 Batch standard to support three cooks and more tha
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 | May 1, 2012

Interoperability and Ethernet

We want things to work together. If I add a printer to my network, I expect it to join the network and to start working.
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 | May 1, 2012

Device-Level Wireless Solutions Gain Traction in Process Manufacturing

The incremental value proposition for wireless networks in process manufacturing is much larger than for serial and Ethernet-based networks.
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 | May 1, 2012

The Expansion of Thin

For a couple of decades, the personal computer (PC) has been the workhorse of computing and has appeared almost everywhere in the factory and plant environment.
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 | April 1, 2012

It's Time for New Organizational Structures

I’ve lived the engineering/operations divide, and we at Automation World often write about the information technology (IT)/control engineering divide. All of these silos are still alive.
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 | March 31, 2012

Make Plans—2012 Is Looking Good!

Key leading indicators, such as the Conference Board’s U.S. Leading Indicator, are pointing toward more economic expansion in the second half of the year.
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 | March 31, 2012

Gearing Up for Green Vehicle Manufacturing

Some degree of alternative fuel transportation will be part of the foreseeable future. To be prepared, automakers must be ready to modify their platforms to support a variety of fuel technologies.
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