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Emerson Releases Asset Monitoring Edge Device
The new AMS Asset Monitor edge analytics device is designed to increase asset visibility and provide predictive analytics.
Data
Load Sensing by Light
OEE
Epson Rolls Out Moverio Assist to Help Field Technicians
OEE
Joint Venture Targets Asset Reliability for Oil and Gas Value Chain
OEE
Network Resiliency on the Manufacturing Floor
IIoT
Combining IIoT and AI to Elevate Machine Health
Augury’s Halo platform—a turnkey offering that combines sensors, artificial intelligence, and vibration experts—can diagnose the “acoustic footprint” of a machine, flagging a problem before it impacts performance.
IIoT
Air Products Extends Business with Cloud-Based Services
By connecting equipment in the field to to its own ProcessMD platform using Siemens Mindsphere, Air Products has been able to deliver its expertise to customers to help them reduce downtime and energy costs.
Sponsored
Machines that sense the world around them
ADI gives cobots the ability to sense, adapt and interpret its surroundings. Our motion detection and machine learning expertise is transforming factory floors. From invention to breakthrough with ADI.
Motion
DuPont Improves Valve Monitoring and Maintenance
Using Siemens Valve Monitoring App, DuPont has been able to optimize its valve maintenance procedures and enable its Fayetteville, N.C., plant to move from reactive to condition-based and predictive maintenance.
OEE
Version Control Helps Keep the Steel Flowing
Auvesy’s versiondog software has been instrumental in the ability of Tata Steel Europe’s maintenance department to reduce downtime and improve efficiencies across its units.
Software
How 3D Printing Is Changing Production Models
Additive manufacturing is no longer just for prototypes. Its increasing popularity and technical capabilities have pushed it into position to change the way manufacturers manage their spare parts inventory.
Sponsored
Discover the Secrets of a Successful Automation Project
Learn about planning and project management, building your machine or automated system, and technologies to improve manufacturing outcomes. Automation World’s free resource features 150 pages on managing automation projects from start to finish.
IIoT
ABB Supports Digital Kazakhstan With Oil Refinery Modernization
As part of the Republic of Kazakhstan’s five-year plan to elevate its economic sectors with digital technologies, starting with industry, ABB has won a multi-million-dollar project to modernize the Shymkent oil refinery.
OEE
Buying Spree Furthers AspenTech’s AI Agenda for Process Optimization
The acquisition of Mnubo and Sabisu will help provide the asset optimization software company with scalable artificial intelligence-driven applications and better visualization of information and analytics.
Data
Advice on Scaling IIoT Projects
Lots of advice exists on how get started with Industrial Internet of Things projects. Insights on how to scale those pilot projects are not so common and are now being figured out by companies in real time. Petasense CEO Abhinav Khushraj offers insights he’s learned from customers going through the scaling process now.
OEE
Artificial Intelligence-Based Analytics Help Utilities Weather the Storm
GE Power has released a series of analytics packages that help electric grid operations tackle storm readiness, network connectivity, and transmission operations in an increasingly complex world of power management.
OEE
AI Module to Improve Industrial Production
The FactoryTalk Analytics LogixAI module from Rockwell Automation provides predictive analytics without a data scientist, easing decision-making.
OEE
Advanced Branch Circuit Monitors
The Series 7000 and 7100 from Leviton are for submetering in high-density applications.
Data
Digitizing Legacy Pneumatics
Emerson’s Aventics Smart Pneumatics Analyzer connects to compressed air supply on machines to prove the benefits of the Industrial Internet of Things data analysis.
Control
Mobile App Allows Remote Monitoring of CNC Machines from Handheld Devices
Mitsubishi’s Integrated Machine Analytics (IMA) mobile app allows users to monitor their CNC machines through MTConnect, an open standard that allows universal connectivity.
OEE
Predictive Maintenance System Spots Failures Before they Occur
GraceSense, from Grace Engineered Products, helps users find failures before they occur.
Networks
Epson Provides an Easier On-Ramp to Remote Assistance
Moverio Assist provides a complete turnkey system based on its smart glasses that makes it simple and more affordable for technicians to get see-what-I-see support in the field.
Data
New Imager Technology Spots Air Leaks
Fluke’s new ii900 Industrial Sonic Imager combines audio and video technologies to pinpoint the sources of compressed air leaks in production environments.
Control
Hardened Wearables Bring Help Into the Field
Voice-controlled, hands-free wearable devices are bringing virtual and augmented reality to field service, training and other uses.
IIoT
Shop Floor to Top Floor Workflow
ServiceNow’s workflow management platform aims to connect front office and plant floor workflows around one system that can connect with any MES or ERP system.
Control
Calibration and documentation for process manufacturing: Costs, benefits and feasibility
This paper reviews route-based, automated calibration practices as an alternative to traditional methods. Findings suggest that smaller teams can feasibly conduct and document device calibrations, at a lower overall cost, with additional productivity and operational reliability benefits.
Software
Shell Gives Its Remote Workers a Heads Up
The oil major is rolling out RealWear head-mounted displays to dozens of operational sites around the world to provide remote assistance for its field workers in hazardous areas.
