Articles

In the chemical industry, reactors are often a bottleneck in the manufacturing process. There is significant latency in chemistry, which makes control difficult and losses can be identified by collecting process data and reconciling it with human context.

Combining OEE and IoT Data to Improve Production

Andreas Eschbach, CEO of Eschbach, explains how capturing operations data via Internet of Things tools supports OEE in a proactive manner, potentially leading to year-over-year OEE improvement of 3% to 15%.
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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.
How IO-Link Benefits OEMs and End Users

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 ...
Timothy S. Matheny, P.E., President, ECS Solutions

Manufacturing Digitalization That Works

Though digitalization is a process that is often seen as great, the benefits are not the same for everyone. Asking how digitalization is going to benefit your organization may...
Ricardo Romero is a systems analyst at Interstates Control Systems

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...
Combining IIoT and AI to Elevate Machine Health

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 ...
Air Products applied the Mindsphere IoT platform as a third-party data broker via the Siemens MindConnect Nano—a pre-configured device that connects equipment to MindSphere for the transmission of data encrypted through a secure internet connection.

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...
Epson's T3 All-in-One SCARA robot.

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...

Products

Load Sensing by Light

Load Sensing by Light

SKF Fiber Optic Sensing uses optical fibers to measure forces in real time in difficult environments and without electronics.
The CNC Total Care Package Service helps maintain Mitsubishi’s M800 Series, but it also supports CNC products including the M600 Series.

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.
AI Module to Improve Industrial Production

AI Module to Improve Industrial Production

The FactoryTalk Analytics LogixAI module from Rockwell Automation provides predictive analytics without a data scientist, easing decision-making.
Mobile App Allows Remote Monitoring of CNC Machines from Handheld Devices

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.

Videos

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Why OEE Still Matters

Though some say OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) is outdated, its use to continuously improve production operations across industry prove the value provided by this key metric...
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Augmented Reality Maintenance Demo

There’s been a lot of buzz the past few years about how augmented reality can be used to guide workers through various maintenance and repair procedures. At Hannover Messe 2019...
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Calibration tools for reliability, uptime and asset optimization

Documenting calibrator from Fluke is HART-enabled, AMS-aware tool that interfaces with Emerson's AMS information exchange manager.
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Remote monitoring for industrial work stations—virtualized environment out in the field.

Pepperl + Fuchs offers remote monitoring to interface with Emerson Delta V or Sincaid for MES. Serves tank farms, oil and gas facilities, chemical plants, water/wastewater—even...