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Sustainability: Operational Risk Management by Any Other Name
Many companies today are exploring how to improve the success of their corporate sustainability initiatives. These companies have ambitious goals for improving performance in energy, water, carbon, waste, employee health and safety, product safety and more. Unfortunately many companies fall short on these goals, and the reasons for failure are pretty common...
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Column
 | 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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Feature Article
 | May 10, 2012

The Connection Between Change Management and Risk Management

Management of change is a concept that has been around for more than 25 years.
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Feature Article
 | May 10, 2012

Changes to Change Management

A brief timeline in Change Management evolution since the 1980s.
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Feature Article
 | May 5, 2012

Food Producer Success: New Automation Strategy Drives Control System Migration

A major food producer sought to replace its legacy distributed control system to handle a greater variety of automation tasks.
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Column
 | 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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Column
 | 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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Column
 | March 27, 2012

From Control to Optimization and Simulation

The notion of finance providing control insights to operations is outdated.
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Feature Article
 | March 12, 2012

MES Implementation Best Practices

Once the selection and purchase of a manufacturing execution system has taken place, what are the most important aspects of the implementation process?
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Feature Article
 | March 12, 2012

Can ERP Replace MES?

As developers of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems continually add functionality that reaches down to plant floor operations, some question the need for a separate manufacturing execution sys
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Column
 | March 7, 2012

Building Quality Management into Operational Excellence

Initiatives around Operational Excellence have been internally focused on building a culture of continuous improvement and improving manufacturing processes with Lean techniques.
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Column
 | March 7, 2012

Fast-Track Projects Without Taking Shortcuts

Make sure everyone agrees on the functional specification first. Running to get a project done is a complete waste of time if you are running in the wrong direction.
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Column
 | February 23, 2012

Standard Costs Are Not Dirty Words

Manufacturing and operational metrics are often available in real time; operations management places a high priority on immediate response and preventative actions to avoid failures from diminished pe
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Product
 | February 17, 2012

Modular Industrial Patch Panel

The new MIPP is a termination panel for cables that need to be connected to active equipment such as switches, Industrial Ethernet devices and any other device with an Ethernet link.
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Product
 | January 30, 2012

Optical Coordinate Measuring Machine for Quality Control

Boulder Imaging, Inc., a leading imaging solutions company for machine vision applications, is releasing a new version of its Benchmark in- or off-line optical coordinate measuring machine (CMM).
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Perspective
 | 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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Laser Quality Plasma Cutting
Case Application
 | January 25, 2012

Precise Control for Complex Fabrication

Metal fabricator Waymatic achieves laser-level accuracy with a punch plasma machine using Sigma-5 servos and controllers and EtherCAT networking (CONTAINS VIDEO).
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Product
 | January 21, 2012

Model-Adaptive Combustion Optimization System

Updated software solution reduces power-plant emissions and facilitates compliance with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR).
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Column
 | January 20, 2012

MESA: A Table On Which to Stand

The Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA International) has been a part of my career for nearly a decade.
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Column
 | December 22, 2011

Top Technology Trends for 2012 That Will Affect the Automation Team

LNS Research is establishing benchmarks in key areas of interest to industrial automation, manufacturing line-of-business and corporate information technology executives.
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IT DEPARTMENT SUPPORTS LEAN
Case Application
 | December 12, 2011

IT’s Contribution to Continuous Improvement

The IT department at ARPAC, a packaging machinery manufacturer, ensured lean automated processes by using real-time visualization systems and other technology linked to its ERP system.
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