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Digitization and Adaptation to a Changing World
The Aveva World digital conference focused on the factors accelerating industry’s digital transformation and how Aveva is not only supplying the technologies to support this, but using them to transform the way they do business themselves.
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Plant Maintenance
Technology Matters: Remote Access, Virtual Workforce Training, and Functional Machine Safety
Supplier Submitted
Bluetooth Sensor and Mobile App Simplifies Machine Monitoring
Communication
FDT Group Releases Data Exchange Standard for Next-Gen Automation
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Fast-Track Fulfillment of a Frozen Food Favorite
Now better positioned to keep up with yearly double-digit growth of its popular Uncrustables line, The J. M. Smucker Company creates a highly automated facility that boasts the largest single baking line in the world.
Cybersecurity
Technology Matters: Cybersecurity, Safety, IoT Sensors, Artificial Intelligence
A review of some of the more interesting topics we’ve recently covered to help you stay on top of what’s happening in the world of industrial automation.
Communication
The Benefits of Virtual Troubleshooting
Use of remote access technologies for maintaining and troubleshooting equipment has been gaining in popularity over the past several years. Now, amid the COVID-19 crisis, remote access is getting a whole new appraisal of value.
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Syntegon Technology Services at the Virtual Show 2020
The company debuts new digital solutions for pharma and food, sustainability as a service focus for food manufacturers, and remote Service—from machine support to platforms for spare parts management and training.
Analytics
Building Industrial Apps—No Programming Skills Required
GE Digital unveils Proficy Operations Hub 1.5, a centralized dashboard for everyone in the organization. The tool also enables plant floor operators to create data aggregation and visualization applications via code-free development tools.
Control
Tools to Help the Digital Transformation
Inductive Automation rolled out enhancements to its Ignition Edge industrial application platform and new partner and development communities that will help turn data into actionable information.
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Siemens Targets Co-Creation and Edge Computing
Working with customers to advance digitalization based on user-directed value generation is driving Siemens edge technology developments and related acquisitions.
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Digitalizing Your Manufacturing Ecosystem
Though every ecosystem is unique, taking steps to understanding the ins-and-outs of your own system is amongst the first steps to take when looking to digitalize your manufacturing ecosystem.
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Empowering Digital Operations in Manufacturing Using Business Process Automation
As new technologies continue to breach the manufacturing industry, it’s becoming increasingly beneficial to utilize these advanced technologies to help enhance both process and manufacturing operations.
Analytics
New Software Readies Industrial Data for Analysis
HighByte releases its DataOps software to standardize device and machine data for use by enterprise analytics.
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Integrating Edge Computers with Legacy Systems
In this episode, we connect with Josh Eastburn and Benson Hougland of Opto 22 to learn more about connecting edge computing technology with legacy automation technologies in industrial environments.
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How Kellogg Manages Cybersecurity Risks in Manufacturing
Seeing the writing on the wall as Mondelēz and other global companies became collateral damage in ransomware attacks, Kellogg set out to create a cybersecurity strategy that would keep it out of the headlines.
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The End of the Road for Spreadsheets?
Long the preferred tool for data analysis in industry, spreadsheets are not up to the task of handling the massive amounts of data created by Industry 4.0 projects. Here’s a look at three analytics trends that may move past our reliance on the spreadsheet
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The Edge-to-Enterprise Strategy
As advances in automation technology make plant-floor-to-corporate-office connectivity a tangible reality, Aveva claims to be the first supplier to deliver a complete edge-to-enterprise system.
Plant Maintenance
GE Digital Releases Asset Model that Adds Context to Data
Proficy Historian 8.0 leverages web-based tools to broaden access to manufacturing information.
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Where Are They Now? An Open Process Automation Forum Update
As the group readies version 2.0 of its open process automation standard, there’s an overarching feeling of unity but an underlying concern about what this architecture really means for manufacturers and industrial control suppliers in the future.
Factory
How IO-Link Benefits OEMs and End Users
Already popular in Europe, the IO-Link industrial communication technology is reportedly growing by double digits in the U.S. Learn why this point-to-point data communication method is increasingly preferred across industry for delivering device data.
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Rockwell Builds Digital Ecosystem for Customers With Accenture Partnership
Announced this week at Automation Fair, the partnership with Accenture’s Industry X.0 will focus on bringing expertise together to help industrial clients transform their connected operations.
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Are DataOps the Missing Link to Industry 4.0?
In digital industries where data is the lifeblood of decision-making, the ability to contextualize data for use by multiple systems is critical. That’s where DataOps software comes in.
Software
The SaaS-ification of PTC
PTC’s pending acquisition of Onshape will add a cloud-based Software as a Service product development platform to the company’s CAD and PLM portfolio.
Networks
The Machine Economy is Upon Us
The IOTA Foundation has been working on an IoT communication protocol that will enable machines to autonomously conduct transactions in a fee-free, secure, and trustworthy exchange.
Software
Bringing Industry 4.0 to the Australian Defense Force
This article lays out the four key benefits when adopting Industry 4.0 technologies in your organization.
