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What Financial Metrics Drive Manufacturing Company Value?
Find out what metrics manufacturers should use to gain insights into their performance, drive their stock price, and create long-term financial impact—outside of just routine financial statement-oriented accounting systems.
Plant Maintenance
Optimizing Asset Performance Through Procurement
Workforce
Where Do Operators Fit With Current Manufacturing Technology Trends?
IIoT
Manufacturing Innovation – Who Do The Little Guys Turn To?
Home
Remote Access Technologies Help Keep Food Sanitation Workers Safe
IIoT
Improving Process Accessibility with Wireless Metering
Emerson’s 5700 Coriolis transmitter features Wi-Fi connectivity, but can also be delivered without Wi-Fi for applications in which such connectivity brings undesirable risk.
Home
Networks Take Center Stage
With networking technologies increasingly taking the lead role and acting as the heart of automated processes, does that change the role of controllers in more connected industrial environments?
Sponsored
Check out The Cobot Spot from Universal Robots
Looking for automation solutions for packaging and palletizing? This is your destination for all things cobot. Whether it’s webinars, video case studies or product information, you’ll find it all in this one spot.
Plant Maintenance
Smart Glasses Ease Troubleshooting Communication
Beumer has added augmented reality to the tools available to its customers while servicing equipment, enabling faster, easier support. The OEM even used the smart glasses technology to commission and install new equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Communication
S.M.A.R.T. Communication Manufacturing
Discover the five areas manufacturers should consider when responding to COVID-19's impact on communication in their plant.
Mobility
Drones Map and Inspect Energy Operations
California Resources Corp. is growing its drone program with the use of DroneDeploy software to save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year mapping and inspecting operations and enabling proactive asset management.
Sponsored
Belden HighFlex VFD Cables Available from Digi-Key
Belden's series of UL-rated, extra flexible VFD cables provides supremely pliable, flexible constructions for use on-machines (16-8 AWG) and increases ease of installation without sacrificing any crucial elements.
Analytics
How Shell Global Manages Data Across Numerous Sites
Aveva’s Engineering Data Warehouse and its digital twin models are being used by Shell Global to achieve that much sought-after goal of data management—a single source of truth.
COVID-19
Honeywell and Wolters Kluwer Connect Worker Safety Technologies
Integrating workforce management and environmental health and safety technologies provides the flexibility and intelligence companies need to operate safely during the pandemic and navigate an increasingly complex regulatory environment.
Home
High Pressure Processing Helps Emerging Brands
Join Jeff Williams of Universal Pure, and ProFood World’s Joyce Fassl as they discuss high pressure processing and the shelf-life benefits it brings to brands seeking broader distribution and the importance of Cold Pressure Council certification.
Process
Time to Revisit/Create Your Company’s Strategic Plan to Address the “New Normal”
Find out the questions System Integrators should be asking themselves to fuel success during the pandemic.
Home
Automated Door and Fencing Safety Cell
The unit combines two perimeter safety products into a single four-sided safety compartment that keeps employees and potential bystanders safe around common automated processes.
Control
Influences on Automation
Industrial technology are driven by economics, end user demands, and consumer technology trends. Justin Kolbe of Henkel offers some insights into the key factors he sees influencing current and near-term automation advances.
Control
What Factors Are Influencing Automation Technology Today?
In this episode, we connect with Justin Kolbe of Henkel to learn how economic and technology factors are affecting the development and use of industrial automation technologies.
Analytics
Automating Continuous Improvement of Manufacturing Processes
Sight Machine’s new Dynamic Recipe optimizes machine settings for the best production runs under a variety of conditions, while a manufacturer’s preferred metrics can be defined within the Productivity KPI Model.
Home
Smarter Food Safety Relies on More Data, Compute Power
Demand is rising for improved precision in food inspection. Food producers are taking advantage of the data and processing capabilities in their systems to not only improve food safety, but also to work toward improved traceability.
Plant Maintenance
Asset Performance Management Developments for Oil & Gas
Siemens and Aveva announce strategic partnerships around advanced asset performance management capabilities for the oil and gas industries.
Control
Laying the Groundwork for a Self-Optimizing Plant
Aspen Technology embeds its Industrial-Strength AI, which includes domain expertise, into the product portfolio.
Home
COVID-19 Test Medium Production Ramped Up By 20,000% in Six Months
Viral Transport Media tubes filled with liquid media are used to store and transport nasal swabs for viruses including COVID-19. Sixteen integrated lines were designed, built and installed in 20 weeks to meet demand.
Sensors
Focusing on High-Speed and Accuracy in Machine Vision
The term machine vision covers an array of products with varying capabilities, that’s why it’s important to understand the range of functions you’ll need in a camera to address your particular production requirements.
Communication
What is Industrial Single Pair Ethernet
In this episode of the “Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered” podcast series, we connect with McKenzie Reed of Harting to learn about one of the more recent advances in industrial communications technology—Single Pair Ethernet (SPE).
OEE
Death by a Thousand Spreadsheets: The Simple Yet Insidious Nature of Time Series Data
Despite their many limitations, spreadsheets are the tool of choice for engineers performing ad hoc analytics on time series data. Fortunately, there are better alternatives in the form of advanced analytics software.
