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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
Automation World survey results highlight the importance of corporate and plant floor alignment for digital transformation initiatives.
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.
Sponsored
MicroHAWK® Industrial Fixed-Mount Barcode Scanners
Omron high-performance barcode readers are designed for easy, fast, and reliable decoding of 1D and 2D barcodes.
OEE
Emerson Releases Asset Monitoring Edge Device
The new AMS Asset Monitor edge analytics device is designed to increase asset visibility and provide predictive analytics.
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.
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Solve Integration Challenges Using Rich Data from Your Instrumentation
Advanced communication protocols enable ultra-fast, real-time information exchange and control between PLC/DCS and intelligent digital instrumentation. Learn how the integration, start-up, and productivity of industrial process systems can be improved.
OEE
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.
Motion
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.
Data
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.
