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Solving the Industrial Skills Gap
While the skills gap facing industry has been well publicized, overcoming the challenges it presents requires a targeted approach that considers the nuances of the problem.
Business Intelligence
Rethinking Manufacturing Investments for a Learning Economy
Discover how investing in companies where intangible capital is the key to building long-term value.
Take Five
Real-Time, Voice Programming for Robotic Applications
Comau's MI.RA/Dexter software allows end users to program robots in real-time using simple verbal commands, such as “look,” “touch,” and “execute.”
Take Five
How Industry is Using Cloud, Edge, and Fog Computing Today
Comparing 2021 survey data on industrial cloud, edge, and fog computing use to a similar 2019 survey shows how the pandemic is transforming industry’s use of these technologies.
OEE
Demystifying Digital Operations: Why OEE isn’t the Only Tool You Need
Discover how emerging digital IoT platforms can help orchestrate operator and equipment to effectively bridge the OEE diagnosis-to-action gap.
Business Intelligence
Don’t Fall Victim to Commissioning Gremlins: The Value of a Controls Expert
Having an experienced controls expert on your design team will bring valuable insight into what needs to be addressed during the design phase and how to implement it.
Take Five
New Cloud & Cybersecurity Strategy for Rockwell Automation
Rockwell acquires Plex, Fiix, Oylo, and Avnet adding cloud-based software and cybersecurity services to its industrial control portfolio.
Cybersecurity
Remote Access Cybersecurity Management
The next big cybersecurity challenge for manufacturers is how to secure the remote access points that have been implemented on the plant floor during the pandemic before hackers can exploit these new channels into the organization.
Business Intelligence
Analytics Decision: Buy or Make Capabilities
Three value drivers of analytics platforms are confidence in vendor, development effort, and platform cost. Discover how software-as-a-service platforms and opensource platforms compare in these categories.
Take Five
When is a Retrofit Appropriate?
Retrofits can result in substantial cost savings, and enable an incremental approach to Industry 4.0 initiatives. However, they may not be the correct option in every case.
IIoT
Accelerating the Industrial Enterprise
Using insights and lessons learned from industry executive surveys, discover a framework that companies can use to assess their own growth efforts and build accelerated growth into the DNA of their business.
Control
Why Quality Management Systems Are So Essential
Learn the history of QMS systems, how it can extend beyond manufacturing, and recommendations for your production line.
Business Intelligence
Producing Omega-3 Oils from Marine Algae
A broad automation project, for a joint venture by Evonik and DSM, enables initial annual production to meet about 15% of the industry’s current total demand for omega-3 oils.
Business Intelligence
Common Questions on Cloud Deployments After Internet Disasters
What happens if the internet goes out? What happens to our data during an outage? Will my HMI/SCADA still talk to my PLCs? Discover answers and solutions that will set you up for success in the face of an internet failure.
Business Intelligence
Why You Should Invest in a Training Program for Your Employees
In today's job market, its essential to consider implementing a training program for new employees. Discover why Superior Controls created their automation training program and how it's paid dividends to both them and their clients.
Take Five
Public-Private Partnerships for Vocational Training
Collaboration between industry, government, and academic institutions is increasingly becoming the go-to strategy for remedying the skills gap.
Business Intelligence
Sustainability, Supply Chain, Labor Shortages Contribute to End-of-Line Machinery Market Growth
How a variety of business trends are driving innovations in end-of-line packaging machinery and what to expect at PACK EXPO East 2022.
IIoT
Three Ways Artificial Intelligence is Changing Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Artificial intelligence can aid in remedying some of the pain points in manufacturing, such as maintaining consistent product quality, need for predictive maintenance, and demand for actionable insights from sensor data.
Home
Automation Drives Danone Variety Multi-packs in Mexico
Festo and Hybernya Industrial develop an end-of-line automated packaging solution for multi-packs for Danone and Danup yogurts in Mexico.
Business Intelligence
Choose a System Integrator to Help Navigate Your Digitization
System integrators go beyond merely answering the question of why digitization on the shop floor is essential by providing how to complete your digital transformation seamlessly and efficiently.
Take Five
Remote Access for Navigating The Skills Gap
While the manufacturing skills gap is a complex issue that will need to addressed from many different angles, remote access technology could help to lighten the burden. Find out more on today's Take Five with Automation World video.
Business Intelligence
New Technology Companies to Watch
The complexities of industrial automation are leading innovators to develop new technologies aimed at improving production and supply chain issues. This article highlights eight companies helping manufacturers chart a path toward industry’s future.
Control
A Tale of Three Clients and Their Journeys to MES
MES implementation can take many routes, with some more successful than others. In this article, we follow three different clients and discover how their early MES implementation steps led to success or setbacks down the line.
