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Inside PlantFloor24: Straight Talk on Manufacturing Operations Support
 Video | April 5, 2013

Inside PlantFloor24: Straight Talk on Manufacturing Operations Support

The MAVERICK leadership team discusses the lack of operations support in our exclusive video. Topics include: Bridging the gap between IT and operations technology, the need for flexible, tiered service options and the importance of metrics and reporting.
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Feature Article
 | March 15, 2013

Vapor Clouds: Fires and Ongoing Learning

The U.S.
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Process Automation
Aaron Hand
Executive Editor
If we lose the manufacturing, then the innovation goes with it.
Rethinking Manufacturing in America
Typical products designed for hazardous areas
Feature Article
 | March 15, 2013

Products and Processes: Explosion-Proof and Intrinsically Safe

While hazardous conditions are a fact of life in industrial plants, end users, safety organizations and automation suppliers are doing everything they can to ensure products are explosion-proof, proce
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Proficy Vision enables multiple types of informaiton to be viewed side by side.
Case Application
 | February 22, 2013

Multimedia Dashboard Helps Water Plant Make Better, Faster Decisions

How much would it help you get your job done if you could see everything you needed to see side-by-side on the same screen, including structured data from ERP, EAM, MES and SCADA systems, as well as u
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Heavy Interest in Databases
Blog Post | February 20, 2013

Heavy Interest in Databases

Judging by readership and views of recently posted articles and related webcasts about industrial databases, there is apparently a significant interest among manufacturers to leverage databases beyond standard operator interface interactions.
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Kitting application
Blog Post | February 8, 2013

Automated Kitting Is Pharma Company’s Dream Come True

Whether you’re assembling products or packaging finished goods, the kitting line—which is used to organize separate components into kit boxes—can be a labor-intensive part of the manufacturing process that’s all too prone to error. Enter automation, which promises to improve the kitting process through the use of sensors, vision systems and robotics.
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Four Emerson System Plast components were part of the retrofit package.
News
 | February 1, 2013

Pepsi invests $35,000 to generate an added $300,000 annually

On a 2 liter PET bottling line at a Pepsi plant in Cheverly, MD, an optimized conveyor connection between case packer and palletizer is helping to generate about $300,000 more in revenue per year.
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Manufacturing Intelligence Software
Blog Post | January 16, 2013

Software Companies Join Forces on Intelligence

ZPI opts for Kepware product to target controller data that means the most to the continuous improvement of production operations.
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Pack Expo 2012: Optimizing Manufacturing Performance
 Video | November 29, 2012

Pack Expo 2012: Optimizing Manufacturing Performance

Parsec measures far more than just down time and up time. What kind of quality KPI’s can you analyze? TrakSys offers detailed data on line quality. Can I see breakdown of rejects? Why am I experiencing poor quality? Improve productivity throughout your value chain.
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How to Use Databases to Boost Your Production IQ
 Video | November 19, 2012

How to Use Databases to Boost Your Production IQ

In this Automation World Deep Dive video, we interview database experts to deliver detailed, how-to insights on leveraging production data for greater production efficiencies and bottom line benefit.
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