Video Demo: New app, SmartGlance

See below a product demo (no Sound) of SmartGlance, a real-time business monitoring service. Click here to read more about SmartGlance

Oct 11th, 2010

Dr. Ananth Seshan, member, International Board of Directors, MESA International

Digital Transformation for Small and Medium Manufacturers

Small and medium manufacturers have largely been hesitant to make the transition to a smart manufacturing system due to concerns over the cost and time investment. However, those hesitations may not actually be true when the implementation is done right.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

Bosch’s new ‘Manufacture #LikeABosch’ campaign playfully shows how digitalization is improving production and logistics.

Bosch Updates Industry 4.0 Software to Digitalize Manufacturing

Along with its launch of the second release of the Nexeed Industrial Application System, Bosch has rolled out a ‘Manufacture #LikeABosch’ campaign to raise awareness for industrial digitalization.

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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.

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.

Digital Twin Consortium Founded

Ansys, Dell, and Microsoft are among the founding members of a new consortium created to develop standard terminology and reference architectures around digital twin technology, in addition to sharing use cases across industries.

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Where the Pandemic Is Impacting Automation

Though it’s still too early to tell for certain, distinct technology areas—ranging from 5G, cloud/edge, and artificial intelligence to articulated robots—are expected to grow significantly in response to the business impacts of COVID-19.

FDT IIoT Server (FITS) Architecture

FDT Group Releases Data Exchange Standard for Next-Gen Automation

The new FDT 3.0 standard and developer toolkits are secure, scalable and platform-independent, enabling remote access to device and network data across the enterprise without PLC/DCS host intervention.

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A Step Approach to Industry 4.0

Figuring out how to approach Industry 4.0 can be an intimidating process. Starting with simple retrofitting steps coupled with obsolescence management is one way to make the process more easily manageable.

Ron Stuver, director, business consulting and Industry 4.0, Sick

Maximizing Productivity with the Power of Data

Bringing your manufacturing processes into the fourth industrial revolution.

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Cloud Cost Factors: 7 Considerations

Manufacturers looking to move data to the cloud face unique challenges due to the nature of industrial business and existing capital investments. Here’s advice on how to assess those challenges from a cost vantage point.

Technology Matters: Maintenance and the Digital Transformation, Virtual Assistants, IoT Adoption and COVID-19

A review of key developments we’ve recently covered to help you stay on top of what’s happening in the world of industrial automation.

Sven Hamann, SVP Bosch Connected Industry; Ralf Waltram, vice president IT Systems Production and Logistics, BMW Group; Dr.-Ing. Michael Bolle, member of the board of management, Bosch Group; Scott Guthrie, EVP Cloud & AI, Microsoft; Werner Balandat, head of production management, ZF Friedrichshafen AG

Open Manufacturing Platform Expands

Three steering committee members and new working groups have been added to the The Open Manufacturing Platform to help guide manufacturers through digital transformation.

The Purdue Model of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Is the Purdue Model Still Relevant?

The Purdue Model has provided a hierarchical structure for industrial communications to keep computing and networks deterministic. But in the age of IoT, data flow is no longer hierarchical. So what model should industry use now?

IoT Adoption: Before and After COVID-19

New survey data from the Eclipse Foundation on Internet of Things technology adoption provides an interesting pre-pandemic outlook on the digital transformation of industry—an outlook that could change significantly over the next year.

Steve J. Malyszko, P.E. and CEO, Malisko Engineering,

A Reliable, Healthy OT Network and The Journey of Into IIoT

As companies continue to look for ways to continue their digital transformation journey, a look into the health and reliability of the operations technology needs to be assessed in order to successfully incorporate IIoT technology.

Ron Stuver, director of business consulting and Industry 4.0, Sick

Three Steps to Leveraging the Power of Your Data

Pursuing Industry 4.0 solutions should begin with a clear understanding of your business strategy. This approach will ensure consensus and provide a common foundation when creating a roadmap with the appropriate partner to implement successful automation

More in IIoT

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End-to-End Connectivity in the Cards for Converters

For label, flexible packaging, folding carton, and corrugated industries, the entire production chain needs to become more agile, flexible, and interconnected, according to one leading converting equipment supplier.

Josh Eastburn, director of technical marketing, Opto 22

IIoT Comes to Traditional I/O

Intelligent, Ethernet-based I/O devices flatten the IIoT technology and talent stacks, speeding integration of wired devices to cloud IoT systems.

Himanshu Palsule, president, Epicor Software

Five Characteristics Reshaping Manufacturing

How Industry 4.0 is creating a connected, intelligent, global, multigenerational, and experiential world.

Brian R. May, Managing Director, Industrial North America, Accenture

OEMs Can Succeed No Matter the Economic Situation

Ideate and innovate is a mantra that OEMs are increasingly embracing during the age of disruption. Implementing solid business practices and coming up with fresh, innovative ideas could be the way of coming out ahead in times of economic uncertainty.

Ralph Rio, vice president, ARC Advisory Group

Meeting the Capacity Requirements for Industrial Blockchain

Though blockchain, as it is configured now, isn't capable of meeting the transactions-per-second needed for full-production industrial supply chain applications, private and permissioned configurations may be the key to changing that.

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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?

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.

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Cisco Focuses on Industrial Cybersecurity and the Edge

With the release of its Cyber Vision and Edge Intelligence products, Cisco looks to reduce the complexity of securing multi-vendor, multi-data, and multi-asset infrastructures and simplify edge data management.

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Emerson Automation Solutions' Edge Virtualization

In this video, Rich Carpenter of Emerson Automation Solutions explains why the company virtualizes its edge devices to take advantage of the multiple cores to perform multiple independent functions on the same device.

Peter Zornio of Emerson Automation Solutions sets the scene for the day's digital transformation discussions between CPG manufacturers and OEMs.

CPG Manufacturers and OEMs Collaborate on Digital Transformation

In a meeting co-hosted by PMMI’s OpX Leadership Network and Industry Relations Committee, manufacturers and machine builders shared their plans and concerns about IIoT in a discussion aimed at creating a digital transformation roadmap for PMMI members.

Are Autonomous Mobile Robots at the Tipping Point?

Why many industry experts and observers feel that advances in software, cloud computing, and machine learning are enabling autonomous mobile robots to become far more commonplace in industry.

Open-Source Software Meets Industrial Automation

As more automation technology suppliers incorporate open-source tools, the ability to use open-source software in automation projects no longer depends on access to arcane software knowledge commonly known only to developers and IT-savvy engineers.