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Brian Irwin, Accenture

Preparing Auto Manufacturing for the Mobility Age

Auto manufacturers are making a shift into the mobility age, meaning new technologies need to be adopted in order to be competitive. However, there is more to growth than just new technologies. These five key actions will help guide your organization into the mobility age.

This image shows how the equipment temperature (right side of blue box) changed very little over a short time frame. When viewed over a longer time period (two years), it became evident that the new 'normal' temperature was significantly higher than it had been previously.

3M and Celanese Improve with Analytics

Using Emerson technologies, 3M and Celanese have begun their digital transformation with operational analytics as a key tool. Here’s how they started the process.

Peter J. Photos of Streamline Innovations in front of a live HMI view from one the company's processing plants.

Today’s Digital Transformation Reality

Dana Inc. and Streamline Innovations show how digital transformations can start today in the discrete and process industries using Ignition to overcome legacy infrastructure’s digital shortcomings.

PTC’s digital twin demo combines real-world sensor and telemetry data with engineering calculations to highlight possible use cases.

Digital Twin Technology Highlighted with Excavator Demo

To illustrate the possibilities of digital twin technology and make it more broadly accessible, PTC created a simulation of an excavator to demonstrate the operational insights that digital twin technology can provide to industrial end users.

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 feeder systems.

Birds-eye view of a built RFSS in a two-robot configuration. Source: JR Automation

Virtual Commissioning of a Robotic Cell

To develop a new robotic system for the material handling industry, JR Automation used a combination of Siemens simulation technologies to create a digital twin of the system that included the robots, PLC, HMI, and sensors.

Brian Fenn, Avanceon

Data Collection and Reporting the Cheap and Easy Way

Most data collection and reporting software requires a lot of upfront capital to get started with. But there are ways smaller companies and manufacturers can get access to all the same tools without the high cost.

'Plan, but don’t overplan. Have a goal of where you want to be—starting with where you are today—and how you are going to get there, but don’t wait too long,” says Petasense's Khrushraj.

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.

Have You Verified Your Historian’s Data Recently?

Manufacturers rely on data historians to record and retrieve their data, but what happens if the tags, limits, or baselines aren’t set up correctly? An audit might be needed to make sure your historian’s data is accurate.

Davide Picciotto of Siemens Industry speaking at the Manufacturing in America blockchain panel discussion.

Approaching Blockchain

At this point, there’s little doubt that blockchain will be widely used to verify industrial supply chain transactions in the not-too-distant future. The question is how to prepare your business for this data intensive verification platform.

Automation World has launched its new podcast series aimed at answering reader questions. The first question addressed in the series focuses on the difference between smart and traditional instruments, as well as concerns about smart instrument cybersecurity.

The Pros and Cons of Smart Instruments

Automation World has launched its new podcast series aimed at answering reader questions. The first question addressed in the series focuses on the difference between smart and traditional instruments, as well as concerns about smart instrument cybersecurity.

Bird’s eye view of stamped parts work in process prior to weld assembly cells.

New Manufacturing Plant Opens in Detroit

The combined efforts of Ford, Flex-N-Gate and the City of Detroit has brought automotive parts manufacturing back to the city via a new 454,000-sq-ft greenfield facility.

Eric Reisz, Panacea Technologies

Managing Data: Single- vs. Multi-Platform Approaches

There are advantages and disadvantages to both single-platform and multi-platform applications and software packages. Finding the right approach will help you put your data to work.

A diagram from the patent depicting a system for quantitative measurement of texture attributes.

How Frito-Lay Applies Machine Learning

An inside look at how PepsiCo is looking to extend its manufacturing control processes with machine learning to assess quality and improve production efficiencies.

Smart Meter Verification

Smart Flowmeters Deepen Process Insight

Emerson’s Smart Meter Verification can not only improve intelligence at the device level to keep flowmeters operating properly with minimal intervention, its diagnostics can give critical insight into bigger issues across the plant.

A technician works on an Enel power pole in Italy. Source: Enel

AI and Unified Data Help Enel Manage Power Network

Continuing a five-year collaboration with the largest power utility in the free world, C3 is providing Enel with the C3 AI Suite, a range of artificial intelligence and smart grid analytics applications that has enabled a unified virtual data lake.

At the Sick press event, the company demonstrated how some Daimler factories use a variety of sensors to move car bodies and components around the facilities via AGVs.

Sensor Directions in the Early IIoT Era

At a recent Sick Sensor Intelligence event, the company highlighted specific trends impacting the current direction of industry and how it affects their development of sensor technologies. Among these trends is the increasing use of automated guided vehicles, advanced vision systems and smart sensors.

The G200 CNC machine displayed in the SAP booth at SPS to highlight SAP's remote asset management technology for OEMs.

SAP Stakes Claim in New OEM Business Model

The transfer of sensor data to the cloud is opening up new business model opportunities for OEMs. From the offer of new maintenance services to different payment options, SAP looks to help OEMs leverage these new models through easier development of support apps.

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