Simultaneous Power Variable Assessment

Aaron Woody of Fluke Corp. details the company's newest 3-phase power analyzer—the Fluke 1770 Series—which can capture all power variables simultaneously.

David GreenfieldDirector of Content, Automation World

Nov 29th, 2021

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Losing your current device program can cause machine performance, product quality and uptime to all suffer.

How to Safeguard Plant Automation with a Change Management System

These best practices can help you protect your plant’s automation systems from downtime and product errors due to machine failure, human error, cyber-attacks and more.

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Creating the Monetary Information to Measure Equipment Efficiency Improvements

This column presents a simple example of the type of information needed to address the common deficiencies in typical financial accounting information.

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Palletizer Upgrade? It’s Likely Overdue

Learn what you can to do upgrade and maintain your palletizing machines.

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Minimizing Machine Downtime with Bluetooth Gateways and Smart Sensors

Using a combination of Bluetooth gateways from Cassia Networks and smart sensors from Dodge Industrial, Penn Waste provides its maintenance engineers with needed visibility into equipment operations.

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Wireless Asset Monitoring

Regal Rexnord offers the Perceptiv™ Sentry S2100 platform for cost effective wireless vibration and temperature monitoring for industrial powertrain applications.

Palletizer Upgrade? It’s likely overdue

Though often taken for granted, palletizing systems are a critical plant asset that should not be neglected when it comes time to make automation upgrades.

Creating the Smart, Sustainable Factory

Manufacturers on a journey to lower carbon emissions and optimize energy use need to measure consumption from the supply chain to the line, the cell, and the product being produced.

The Benefits of Change Management in Industrial Automation Workflows

While long employed in the IT, change management has yet to become standard operating procedure in the OT space, despite its many benefits.

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The Importance of Change Management to Digital Transformation

The addition of a new Archive Management of Change module to Rockwell Automation's FactoryTalk AssetCentre can help end users to increase uptime, ensure code quality, and mitigate cybersecurity risks.

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Industrial Cable Qualifier and Network Tester

Fluke Corp. David Ripple explains the company's LinkIQ cable qualifier and network tester. It tests Ethernet cable performance and signal-to-noise ration transmission characteristics as well as network connectivity specifics.

Cognex In-Sight 2800 | Machine Vision Made Simple

Cognex In-Sight 2800 | Machine Vision Made Simple

Cognex In-Sight 2800 vision system enables users of all skill levels to use the power of deep learning to automate error detection. See for yourself by entering for your chance to win one of five In-Sight 2800.

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Industrial Imaging for Air Leak Detection

Fluke Corp.'s Aaron Woody details the company's ii900 Sonic Industrial Imager at Rockwell Automation Fair 2021. It uses acoustic imaging technology to detect compressed air leaks.

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Flexible and Modular CIP and SIP Automation Enables Continuous Improvements

The ISA-88 and ISA-95 approach allows you to combine automated and manual operator activities required to perform consistent Clean-in-Place and Steam-in-Place processes in a procedural model, while also verifying required activities were performed.

This screen save shows how customers using Llumin software can know the status of specific pieces of equipment in real time no matter where they are located.

CMMS Specifically for OEMs

Exhibiting for the first time at PACK EXPO, Llumin, an established participant in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) space, introduced a new software called Llumin for OEMs.

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Is a Retrofit the Right Option?

While there is a strong business case for retrofitting many pieces of equipment to facilitate digital transformation, it may not always be the best solution.

Augmented Reality Software to Streamline Operations

A new collaboration that pairs Lenovo’s ThinkReality software platform with augmented reality headsets from RealWear could help facilitate an information pipeline between enterprise planners and frontline personnel.

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Bringing Artificial Intelligence to Remote Access

A new collaboration between IBM and Black and Veatch will help end-users to more effectively sort through the large volumes of data gathered via remote monitoring technology.

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The Maintenance-Finance-Safety Connection

Did you know computerized maintenance management systems can be used to mitigate financial and safety risks faced by manufacturers?

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Understanding Maintenance Metrics

The “mean time to repair” and “mean time before failure” metrics can be used to track asset performance as well as maintenance teams and individuals.

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Emerson Combines LNG Inventory Management and Tank Gauging

The Rosemount TankMaster system can predict the release of liquid natural gas vapors to reduce loss of product, safety risks, and failures to meet environmental regulations.

What is MTTR and MTBF?

In this episode, we explore Meantime to Repair (MTTR) and Meantime Before/Between Failure (MTBF) to better understand how these metrics are applied and calculated and how they can benefit manufacturers.

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Managing Operations Technology with IT

As enterprise and operations networks converge, IT will increasingly help manage plant floor assets and their data because of its systems management experience. This is developing around a mix of workflow software and IT-driven business systems.

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Rockwell Automation Has Its Sights Set On the Cloud

The industrial automation supplier’s recent acquisitions of Plex and Fiix expand its supply chain and operations management vision.

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Using the Digital Thread to Deliver CAD-Based Instructional Materials

PTC’s Vuforia Instruct allows OEMs to use computer-aided design data to deliver interactive training materials to frontline workers.

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Creating the Digital Thread to Connect OEMs and End Users

Siemens and SAP expand their partnership to connect plant floor operations, remote condition monitoring conducted by OEMs, and product development via digital twins to facilitate collaboration across an asset’s entire lifecycle.

Lessons Learned: Powering the First Remote Wireless Device

Long-life lithium batteries have been instrumental in powering remote wireless devices used for a variety of Industrial Internet of Things applications.

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Amazon’s Cloud-Based Machine Learning for Predictive Maintenance

The new Lookout for Equipment service from Amazon Web Services analyzes machine data in the cloud to predict machine failures.

Festo uses predictive maintenance in the automotive industry to increase efficiency in the maintenance of servo-pneumatic welding guns by avoiding unforeseen downtimes and service and complaint costs. Source: Festo.

How Festo Applies Artificial Intelligence for Predictive Applications

To showcase the use of AI in its automation technologies, Festo highlighted two use cases involving predictive maintenance and predictive energy.

Blake Griffin, senior analyst, Interact Analysis presenting on predictive maintenance strategies at PMMI's Executive Leadership Conference.

Live at the ELC: OEMs Can Monetize Predictive Maintenance

Predictive maintenance is an emerging technology for packaging and processing equipment that has the potential to disrupt the OEM business model.

ServiceNow combines data from equipment and systems to align operations, maintenance, quality, safety, and reporting processes.

How Digital Workflows Improve Manufacturing Operations

Operations workflow software is about more than directing workers from point A to point B; it can also dramatically reduce downtime, improve cybersecurity, and reduce labor and maintenance costs.

What Are Digital Workflows for Manufacturing?

In this episode, we connect with James Destro of ServiceNow to learn how digital workflow software can provide visibility into plant floor equipment and direct operations on a day-to-day basis to connect people, functions, and systems.