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CPGs Need to Adapt to Meet Growing Food Demand
PACK EXPO East offers the latest solutions and industry education to help consumer packaged goods companies keep up with industry changes.
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Digital Maturity: A United View
Factory
How IO-Link Benefits OEMs and End Users
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Manufacturing Digitalization That Works
OEE
Emerson Releases Asset Monitoring Edge Device
Data
Load Sensing by Light
SKF Fiber Optic Sensing uses optical fibers to measure forces in real time in difficult environments and without electronics.
OEE
Epson Rolls Out Moverio Assist to Help Field Technicians
Using smart glasses for hands-free remote access, on-site personnel can see instructions and videos while collaborating with remote experts.
OEE
Joint Venture Targets Asset Reliability for Oil and Gas Value Chain
The joint venture launched in June by Baker Hughes and artificial intelligence specialist C3 has released its first product, BHC3 Reliability, a software application focused on predictive maintenance in oil and gas.
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Network Resiliency on the Manufacturing Floor
Unplanned downtime is a significant detriment to any business. In order to make sure that processes remain uninterrupted, consider implementing these resiliency protocols when designing your industrial network infrastructure.
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.
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Epson Expands Industrial Automation Reach
Extending its high-speed, high-precision technologies across a range of price points, Epson is positioning itself to be a major player in small part handling robots, vision, and feeder systems.
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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.
OEE
On-Site CNC Maintenance Program
The CNC Total Care Package Service helps maintain Mitsubishi’s M800 Series, but it also supports CNC products including the M600 Series.
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.
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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.
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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.
