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Plant Maintenance
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.
IIoT
Can Operations Technology Be Secured and Managed With IT Tools?
Find out how operations technology devices can be discovered, secured, and managed with the same kinds of tools used by IT, with an eye toward downtime avoidance and change management for asset management and cybersecurity.
IIoT
Supporting Manufacturing IT Starts with Understanding Others
The key to delivering successful IIoT solutions to modern manufacturing problems begins with connecting with individual manufacturers and understanding their current technology, their day-to-day tasks, and where inefficiencies can be improved.
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Low cost, compact DIN rail AC-DC power supplies
The XP Power DRC series compact DIN rail AC-DC power supplies designed for low cost applications in industrial & control electronics.
Control
The First Commercial Open Industrial Control System Rolls Out
The Coalition of Open Process Automation unveils COPA QuickStart for open process automation.
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Metered Dose Inhaler Line Centralizes Control from Canisters Through Pallets
A deep dive into a “one machine” concept for a metered dose inhaler line, with system integration for 18 pieces of machinery and components from a variety of OEMs.
Communication
IO-Link Gets North American Support Community
An agreement between PI North America and the IO-Link Community will educate the North American market about the IO-Link technology through seminars, workshops, technical training, trade fairs, and managing related product test and certifications.
IIoT
Digital Continuous Improvement Can Deliver the Promise of Industrial Transformation
In order to achieve your company's Industry 4.0 goals, it is essential to understand the drivers of digital continuous improvement (CI), where your company is starting from in their 4.0 and CI maturity, and what aspects of your organization to start with.
Workforce
How Automation is Helping Industry Adapt to Today’s Workforce Reality
Though it represents one of the greater job skill challenges for new entrants, technology is increasingly viewed as a key attractor for the next-generation industrial workforce.
Communication
Fieldbus in the Industrial Ethernet Age
With Ethernet having become the preferred industrial network type, do fieldbus networks still play a role? The answer depends on the application, even though Ethernet is clearly winning out.
Supply Chain Management
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.
Take5
Why Remote Access is Popular in Continuous Processing
Find out in this Take Five video why the use of remote access tends to be higher in the processing industries than in discrete manufacturing and where processing companies tend to use the technology most.
Analytics
Hidden Opportunities in the Order-to-Cash Process
The order-to-cash process is thought of as an accounting process, but it involves most elements of a manufacturing organization. Discover how to improve your business outcomes by evaluating each step in its procedure.
Analytics
Analytics Overload: Why You’re Confused
And if you aren’t confused, you aren’t paying attention!
Plant Maintenance
Colgate-Palmolive Focuses on Machine Health to Improve Supply Chain Operations
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the connection between production operations and the supply chain. In response, Colgate-Palmolive is connecting asset health and the supply chain to free up capital for strategic growth.
Home
Smart Manufacturing Platform Transforms Poultry Processing
U.S. government-funded CESMII is using ThinkIQ’s intelligence platform to drive smart manufacturing in a pilot project at a chicken rendering plant. The findings could help improve efficiencies across all kinds of energy-intensive industries.
IIoT
U.S. Air Force Looks to Fly with 3D Printed Parts
Metal additive manufacturing is being applied to the production of oil lubrication system parts for the GE F110 engine, which powers the Air Force’s F-16 jet fighter.
Take5
Robotics Use in the High-Mix, Low-Volume Space
As prices come down and the business landscape changes, automation is becoming increasingly popular for small manufacturers in the high-mix, low-volume space. This Take Five video has all the details your company needs to know.
Cybersecurity
Top 20 Secure PLC Coding Practices
From splitting PLC code into modules and validating HMI input variables at the PLC to monitoring and trending PLC memory use, these coding practices help secure controllers and the operations connected to them.
Communication
Work on OPC UA at the Field Level Advances
Support for 5G wireless, controller-to-device and device-to-device communications, time-sensitive networking, and Ethernet advanced physical layer are among the highlights of OPC UA’s extension to field level devices.
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Manufacturing Skills Gap Widens in the Wake of COVID-19
A new study by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute says the pandemic erased 1.4 million U.S. manufacturing jobs. And, even as the industry rebounds, the remaining unfilled jobs could cost the U.S. economy $1 trillion.
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Batching Module Eliminates Errors, Ensures Lot and Material Traceability
Helps achieve proper batch and mixing results
Communication
Is Fieldbus Technology Still Effective?
Learn about the combined use of fieldbus and Ethernet industrial networking technologies, even as Ethernet increasingly becomes the plant floor network of choice, in this discussion with Duane Grob of system integration company Avanceon.
