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OEE
How Automation Advances Affect OEE
Overall Equipment Effectiveness is a long-used equation to determine the effectiveness of production machines. But as automation technologies—and their associated analytic capabilities—rapidly advance, what role does OEE serve as industry digitizes?
IIoT
Next-Generation Andon
The ‘Christmas-tree’ stack lights of yore are all grown up. Thanks to the rise of smart communication technologies, today’s Andon systems are IIoT- and intelligent-messaging-enabled indicators of real-time shop-floor KPI performance.
Control
Changing the Controller Redundancy Paradigm
Honeywell highlights how its Experion PKS HIVE products are designed to change industry’s approach to controller redundancy by creating a mesh of controllers in which backup can be provided by any available controller’s compute power.
OEE
Does OEE Have a Role in the Digital Transformation?
In this episode, we connect with Sam Russem of Grantek to get a better understanding of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) metrics, how they're applied, and the impact on the digital transformation of industry.
Workforce
The Value of a Peer Group
Coming into any industry without much background knowledge or experience can be difficult. A peer group can help ease the transition through idea sharing and general conversations of the specific industry by peers with a deeper knowledge base.
Products
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Yaskawa America Introduces Yaskawa Compass Software
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Miniature Strain Sensors Measure Large Forces Even in Confined Spaces
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Advantech Launches UNO-220 Raspberry Pi-Ready Industrial Gateway Kit for IoT Application Development
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New Cable Entry Plates from Icotek
Factory
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Increased dose reliability from Clariant
OEE
How Automation Advances Affect OEE
IIoT
Next-Generation Andon
Workforce
The Value of a Peer Group
Process
Control
Changing the Controller Redundancy Paradigm
IIoT
Digitization and Adaptation to a Changing World
IIoT
Emerson Plantweb Optics
Plant Maintenance
Emerson Adds Augmented Reality for Asset Management
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Control
Technology Matters: Automated Quality, Valves, Software as a Service
IIoT
How Aveva Insights is Used in Schneider Electric's Batam Factory
IIoT
Emerson Plantweb Optics
Sensors
Technology Matters: Wearable Sensors, Vision Systems, Industrial Networking
Plant Maintenance
Technology Matters: Remote Access, Virtual Workforce Training, and Functional Machine Safety
Communication
The Road to 5G Starts Now
Proponents make the case for 4.9G wireless technology as a stepping stone to 5G to empower new Industry 4.0 applications, from cobots to augmented reality-enabled predictive maintenance.
Control
Technology Matters: Automated Quality, Valves, Software as a Service
In this episode we look at how quality inspections are evolving in light of new automation technologies, how CIP valves helped reduce downtime and waste for Noosa Yoghurt, and how the rise of software as a service is changing industrial software.
Communication
Delivering IIoT Data Across the Enterprise
How the Sparkplug Working Group is defining data transmitted using MQTT for use by any system, anywhere.
Mobility
Molex Joins Single Pair Ethernet Industrial Partner Network
To help advance its Industry 4.0 technologies, Molex joins other technology suppliers in supporting the adoption of an Ethernet technology that reduces wiring requirements and enables miniaturization.
IIoT
Conducting Virtual FATs: Best Practices
Brand-new guidance from PMMI's OpX Leadership Network addresses the critical need for virtual factory acceptance testing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
IIoT
How Aveva Insights is Used in Schneider Electric's Batam Factory
Learn how Aveva Insights software is used to monitor machine operating parameters and send alerts if operating parameters are not within set levels. Also see how machines are retrofitted for IIoT with plug-and-play sensors and edge computing technology.
Robotics
Packaging Robotics Playbook
This new playbook from Packaging World showcases the trends, case studies, and how-to tips to help you make the best possible robot purchasing and application decisions for your operation.
Supply Chain Management
Operations & Supply Chains After COVID-19
How supply chain operations and processes will need to change to have the best chance of success after the coronavirus, and where system integrators can play a role in the transition.
IIoT
Enterprise Connectivity and Home Version Announced for Ignition
The Ignition software platform from Inductive Automation can now connect more easily to SAP ERP systems; also a personal home version of the software is available for the maker community.
Robotics
Application Kits for Cobots
Expanding its UR+ platform, Universal Robots adds software and hardware kits for collaborative robot applications.
IIoT
Digitization and Adaptation to a Changing World
The Aveva World digital conference focused on the factors accelerating industry’s digital transformation and how Aveva is not only supplying the technologies to support this, but using them to transform the way they do business themselves.
Robotics
BMW Outfits Robots with Artificial Intelligence
To help produce its custom-configured cars more rapidly, BMW used Nvidia’s Isaac robotics platform to add advanced computing and visualization to its factory logistics robots.
Home
ERP Upgrade Enables Direct-to-Consumer Model for Avery
QAD’s latest cloud-based enterprise resource planning system has helped Avery better integrate its operations to provide the flexibility needed to depart from its traditional big box pallet model.
Plant Maintenance
Emerson Adds Augmented Reality for Asset Management
This summer’s update to Plantweb Optics will include augmented reality capabilities to help users locate troublesome assets and correct issues with the aid of experts via real-time collaboration.
Workforce
Georgia-Pacific’s Approach to IT/OT Convergence
Like many industrial organizations, Georgia-Pacific was struggling with the loss of operating expertise created by a retiring workforce. Coordinating the company’s IT and OT departments is helping to solve the issue and improve the way the company operate
Design
Closing the Loop Between CAD, PLM, Digital Twins, and the Cloud
Siemens Digital Industries Software adds to its Xcelerator portfolio to enhance design, engineering, and manufacturing software, and partners with IBM on service lifecycle management.
OEE
The Road to Reducing Unplanned Events
Reducing unplanned events is high on the priority list of many industrial facilities. However, it is possible to leverage technology and talent to optimize an organization to reducing these events.
IIoT
Doosan Bobcat Moves from Paper-Based to Digital Production
Implementation of FactoryTalk InnovationSuite is helping Doosan Bobcat create a five-year technology advancement program to take its operations digital and enable data-driven decision-making at all levels.
Analytics
By Seeing Patterns, Analytics Software Models Improve Process Control
Translating raw data into usable information has been a difficult task for industrial companies. Using TrendMiner, a self-service industrial data analytics software, Sitech was able to overcome this problem.
Sensors
Technology Matters: Wearable Sensors, Vision Systems, Industrial Networking
In this episode we look at wearable sensor technologies for social distancing, using vision systems to inspect liquids and solids, and the rise of publish/subscribe communication protocols in industrial networking.
Home
Noosa Yoghurt Cuts Downtime, Product Loss With Valve Upgrade
The TrueClean CIP’able air blow check valve from Central States Industrial enabled the yogurt maker to save hours of downtime and many pounds of product every week, with an expected savings of $350,000 a year.
IIoT
Is The Digital Transformation Changing Industry’s Approach to Quality?
An update to the Automation World survey on the use of automation for quality inspections detects some surprising changes in the era of digitalization. Quality may be becoming associated more with process feedback than classical inspection technologies.
