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An Appeal to Support Our Essential Services and Critical Infrastructure Workers
The COVID-19 pandemic is proving to be a tremendous global challenge that we must work together to defeat. Now, our essential and critical workers are being relied upon to provide the services we expect every day and we must do everything to support them.
Sensors
Plug-and-Play Safety Sensors
The installation of safety sensors has, traditionally, been a long and expensive process, but newer safety sensor models are changing the requirements of this process.
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Distilleries Refit to Fill Hand-Sanitizer Gap
During World War II, Ford made tanks instead of cars and Maytag made plane parts instead of washing machines. With hand sanitizer being the small-arms munitions of today’s pandemic crisis, cosmetics and distilleries are joining the war effort.
Analytics
How to Get a Quick ROI from Analytics Software
In this episode, we connect with Matt Boese of Columbus Global to better understand how to assess analytics software and how manufacturers and processors can effectively apply analytics for a fast return on investment.
Sponsored
MPLS-TP Explained: A Packet-based Technology for Industrial Applications
Discover why MPLS technology is replacing traditional circuit-switched TDM backbone networks like SONET and SDH. As well as what to look for as you consider using MPLS-TP in your industrial network
Products
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Harting Americas Launches Single Pair Ethernet Technology
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Expanded Communications and Analog I/O Capabilities for the BRX PLC
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E2EW Series Proximity Sensors From Omron Feature IO-Link and World’s Longest Sensing Range
Products
Red Lion Launches FlexEdge Intelligent Edge Automation Platform
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Sensors
Plug-and-Play Safety Sensors
COVID-19
The Potential of ERP Amid a Pandemic
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Why Women are Under-Represented in the C-Suite
IIoT
Is Our Approach to Artificial Intelligence Wrong?
Process
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An Appeal to Support Our Essential Services and Critical Infrastructure Workers
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Modular Machine Maximizes Production With Linear Transport Technology
Communication
Where Ethernet (Still) Isn’t
Control
Bardstown Bourbon Upgrades HMI for Strategic Connectivity
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Motion
Nord Gear's Condition Monitoring Software
Plant Maintenance
Artificial Intelligence Drives New Industrial Inspection Drones
IIoT
Emerson Automation Solutions' Edge Virtualization
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Emerson's KNet Analytics
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Aveva's Discrete Lean Management Software
IIoT
Is Our Approach to Artificial Intelligence Wrong?
Will our use of AI doom humans to Alan Turing’s prediction that machines will one day take control, or can a different approach to the technology still deliver the benefits without endangering us?
Analytics
How to Get a Quick ROI from Analytics Software
In this episode, we connect with Matt Boese of Columbus Global to better understand how to assess analytics software and how manufacturers and processors can effectively apply analytics for a fast return on investment.
Design
Ford Motor Drives COVID-19 Medical Mission
Responding to the Coronavirus crisis, the automotive manufacturer teams up with 3M and GE Healthcare to expand production of much-needed medical equipment.
Plant Maintenance
Maintenance Leads Dana Inc.’s Digital Transformation
A look at how Dana Inc. is digitizing to improve production operations, reduce costs, and train workers using Fluke’s emaint CMMS as a core tool in the process.
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Packaging and Processing Industry COVID-19 Resources
PMMI collated resources for the industry to navigate business in uncertain times.
Workforce
Don’t Forget the Operator—The Importance of Proper Training With New Systems
When designing a new system, there are many things that need to be considered and thoroughly planned out. But one aspect of a system is typically thrown to the wayside, and that is its user-friendliness.
Motion
Nord Gear's Condition Monitoring Software
Dan Breitbarth of Nord Gear demonstrates how the company’s condition monitoring software works on Nord’s variable frequency drives, which have internal PLCs for data analysis and Ethernet communication capabilities to transmit data to dashboards.
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Modular Machine Maximizes Production With Linear Transport Technology
With modular machines making their way onto the factory floor, the Swiss machine builder and system integrator, Credimex, took advantage of linear transport technology to enhance production and create flexible and expandable processing stations.
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OEM Covid-19 Response #4: Morrison Container & F.R. Drake
Special UnPACKED with PMMI podcast series offers operational best practices for dealing with the pandemic.
Communication
Where Ethernet (Still) Isn’t
Automation World’s latest poll revisits our 2016 survey on the state of industrial Ethernet adoption. The numbers seem to suggest nothing much has changed. But is that what’s really going on?
Control
Bardstown Bourbon Upgrades HMI for Strategic Connectivity
Moving to a new HMI built from Inductive Automation’s software platform allows Bardstown Bourbon to automatically deliver work orders from its ERP system, implement a custom batch tracking system, and deliver data to mobile devices.
Plant Maintenance
GE Digital Responds to COVID-19 Concerns
To help manufacturers work remotely and keep production going, the company is offering free remote monitoring licenses to iFix and Cimplicity customers.
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OEM Covid-19 Response #2: Pearson Packaging Systems
Special UnPACKED with PMMI podcast series reveals how packaging offers certainty during uncertain times.
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OEM Covid-19 Response #1: ProMach, Inc.
Special UnPACKED with PMMI podcast series offers candid insight from a global OEM supplier on surviving in a world that changes from day to day.
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AI-Based Analytics for Oil and Gas
An agreement between Emerson and Quantum Reservoir Impact is designed to deliver an industry-specific offering for the global oil and gas industry to optimize analytics used for on-site decision-making.
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Are Virtual Assistants Headed to the Plant Floor?
Intelligent agent technology promises to boost operations and engineering efficiencies by delivering ready access to critical data and encouraging more natural interactions with industrial equipment.
Workforce
Wearable Sensor for Worker Safety
The Fuse sensor is designed to be worn by workers to capture data up to 300,000 times per shift for safety analyses.
3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing
RobotStudio Brings 3D Printing Capabilities to ABB Robots
New capabilities added to ABB’s RobotStudio software aim to eliminate the manual programming associated with traditional 3D printing software.
Data
Centralizing Your Systems
Not having a centralized system is a risk to your organization, as it can make everyone incapable of accessing key information and can leave important data unprotected and vulnerable to cyberattacks.
Design
Sustainability and the Economy
In the circular economy there is a growing need for durability in product packaging. Not only could a model of packaging reuse help the environment, but, when done right, it could also be financially effective for manufacturers.
Sensors
How to Select IoT Sensors
In this episode of the 'Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered' podcast series, we connect with Allan Hottovy of Telemecanique Sensors to learn how to evaluate sensor selection for Industrial Internet of Things/Industry 4.0 applications.
Robotics
Making Industrial Robots Collaborative
With its FreeMove system in use in the aerospace, automotive, appliance, and construction equipment manufacturing industries, Veo Robotics is proving that high-speed, heavy-payload robots can be cobots too.
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