Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can competitively address data collection without compromising deterministic motion control or machine cybersecurity, all while avoiding hidden manufacturing costs – but how?

Implementing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) can help OEMs purposefully remove waste from their manufacturing processes, in turn creating a need to prepare machinery that meets current market performance metrics and provide data harvesting that is still cost-effective.

Thomas Kuckoff, product manager – controllers at Omron Automation and Control Design contributor, explains these processes in this article from Control Design.