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Emerson Adds Augmented Reality for Asset Management

This summer’s update to Plantweb Optics will include augmented reality capabilities to help users locate troublesome assets and correct issues with the aid of experts via real-time collaboration.

Software as a Service Enters Engineering and Manufacturing Circles

PTC introduces Atlas, a SaaS-based product development platform, and teams up with Rockwell Automation and Microsoft to deliver Factory Insights as a Service.

View Product Demos On Demand

View Product Demos On Demand

Missed part or all of PACK EXPO Connects? Browse dozens of demos by category or search by keyword. Find solutions to your packaging and processing challenges now through March 31.

Swiss machine builder Credimex deploys Beckhoff transport technology to maximize small parts production.

Modular Machine Maximizes Production With Linear Transport Technology

With modular machines making their way onto the factory floor, the Swiss machine builder and system integrator, Credimex, took advantage of linear transport technology to enhance production and create flexible and expandable processing stations.

Artificial Intelligence Drives New Industrial Inspection Drones

Digital Aerolus has created autonomous industrial inspection drones using a combination of artificial intelligence and multi-dimensional mathematics, allowing them to operate without external sensors or navigational aids such as GPS.

Michael Kaldenbach, Shell’s digital realities lead, demonstrates a head-mounted HMT-1Z1 device.

Top Articles of 2019: Wearable Technology

Coverage of Shell’s use of head-mounted displays to provide remote assistance to field workers is one of Automation World’s top 5 articles of the year.

Check out The Cobot Spot from Universal Robots

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.

Ge Proficy Historian Dec2019

GE Digital Releases Asset Model that Adds Context to Data

Proficy Historian 8.0 leverages web-based tools to broaden access to manufacturing information.

Nicholas Imfeld, principal engineer, Avanceon

How Developing a Batching System’s Phases Is all About Balance

There are a lot of parts to be aware of when developing a flexible batching system. However, if you want to ensure operational efficiency, developing well-balanced phases is the most integral piece.

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.

Balluff Io Link

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.

Robert Resendez, control and automation team manager at Bechtel Oil, Gas, & Chemicals

Schneider Electric Releases New Line of Intelligent Enclosures

To speed up project execution and decrease the costs that come with plant start-ups, Schneider Electric offers a new generation of intelligent enclosures for Triconex and Foxboro.

Oden Technologies

Creating Algorithms to Improve Production

Golden Run optimizes machine performance with artificial intelligence algorithms.

While few people argue against the use of OEE as a helpful guideline, some are questioning how much it can help direct specific production improvements.

Is OEE Too Abstract?

OEE has long been a popular method for calculating asset performance, but some are beginning to question its value in providing direction to staff on how to improve production.

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 problem before it impacts performance.

John Scheible, MVE Analytics

Data Analytics Strategy Provides Continuous Improvement

Data analytics including machine learning algorithms can deliver breakthrough improvements by making the data exploration phase efficient and real-time monitoring and prediction easy.

Chris Hough, ProMach/ZPI

OMAC Tackles Machine, Operator Efficiency

Providing updates at the Automation World Conference & Expo, group leaders outline efforts to provide guidance on line-level OEE implementation and machine interface standards.

Polytron’s PolySim three-dimensional animated simulation was on display at ProFood Tech, demonstrating the following real-world case study. A well-known global consumer goods manufacturer had several bottling lines that were underperforming. There was pressure to make upgrades and improvements in order to meet KPIs; mitigate investment risk; and meet growing market demand. Lines needed to operate more efficiently and profitably. The company's goal was always clear: Increase production by 50 percent. They decided to pilot some changes on one line before universally reconfiguring the others. Fixated on the wrong issue Prior to Polytron’s engagement with this company—and fixated on line speed and throughput—the client determined that one of the machines on the line needed to be replaced as the culprit of poor performance and limited capacity. The new machine had the capacity to run at 300 bpm when coupled with improved bottle handling, but would that be enough to get them to the output goal? Without clar

Line Simulation IDs OEE Improvement Opportunity

Polytron used its platform at ProFood Tech to demonstrate a case in which OEE metrics were improved in a real-word bottling application.

Daimler’s truck assembly plant includes 1,500 ft chassis assembly lines with more than 125 workstations on each.

Data Foundation Helps Daimler Trucks Improve OEE

The maker of large-duty trucks like Freightliner and Western Star brands overhauled downtime issues on its long assembly lines with the implementation of SCADA and MES platforms.

Artificial Intelligence Makes Its Way Inside Machines

Artificial Intelligence Makes Its Way Inside Machines

Omron unveils a controller that executes machine learning to perform predictive maintenance.

Engineering a Digital Transformation

Engineering a Digital Transformation

L&T Technology Services rolls out “Factory D.0,” a set of technology and engineering services designed to help manufacturers identify areas within the organization that will benefit the most from digitalization.

Frank Latino, Festo

Pneumatics in the Age of IIoT

Using Industrial Internet of Things pneumatic solutions to improve OEE, energy efficiency and agile manufacturing.