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Losing your current device program can cause machine performance, product quality and uptime to all suffer.

How to Safeguard Plant Automation with a Change Management System

These best practices can help you protect your plant’s automation systems from downtime and product errors due to machine failure, human error, cyber-attacks and more.

Crossing the Great Divide in Industrial Transformation

Learn what manufacturers are saying about transformation, especially as they face innovations and challenges in production, quality, operations, technology, and the supply chain.

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Creating the Monetary Information to Measure Equipment Efficiency Improvements

This column presents a simple example of the type of information needed to address the common deficiencies in typical financial accounting information.

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Palletizer Upgrade? It’s Likely Overdue

Learn what you can to do upgrade and maintain your palletizing machines.

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Minimizing Machine Downtime with Bluetooth Gateways and Smart Sensors

Using a combination of Bluetooth gateways from Cassia Networks and smart sensors from Dodge Industrial, Penn Waste provides its maintenance engineers with needed visibility into equipment operations.

Perceptiv Sentry S2100 Platform

Wireless Asset Monitoring

Regal Rexnord offers the Perceptiv™ Sentry S2100 platform for cost effective wireless vibration and temperature monitoring for industrial powertrain applications.

Palletizer Upgrade? It’s likely overdue

Though often taken for granted, palletizing systems are a critical plant asset that should not be neglected when it comes time to make automation upgrades.

Creating the Smart, Sustainable Factory

Manufacturers on a journey to lower carbon emissions and optimize energy use need to measure consumption from the supply chain to the line, the cell, and the product being produced.

The Benefits of Change Management in Industrial Automation Workflows

While long employed in the IT, change management has yet to become standard operating procedure in the OT space, despite its many benefits.

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The Importance of Change Management to Digital Transformation

The addition of a new Archive Management of Change module to Rockwell Automation's FactoryTalk AssetCentre can help end users to increase uptime, ensure code quality, and mitigate cybersecurity risks.

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Industrial Cable Qualifier and Network Tester

Fluke Corp. David Ripple explains the company's LinkIQ cable qualifier and network tester. It tests Ethernet cable performance and signal-to-noise ration transmission characteristics as well as network connectivity specifics.

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Simultaneous Power Variable Assessment

Aaron Woody of Fluke Corp. details the company's newest 3-phase power analyzer—the Fluke 1770 Series—which can capture all power variables simultaneously.

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Industrial Imaging for Air Leak Detection

Fluke Corp.'s Aaron Woody details the company's ii900 Sonic Industrial Imager at Rockwell Automation Fair 2021. It uses acoustic imaging technology to detect compressed air leaks.

Randy Otto, CEO, ECS Solutions

Flexible and Modular CIP and SIP Automation Enables Continuous Improvements

The ISA-88 and ISA-95 approach allows you to combine automated and manual operator activities required to perform consistent Clean-in-Place and Steam-in-Place processes in a procedural model, while also verifying required activities were performed.

This screen save shows how customers using Llumin software can know the status of specific pieces of equipment in real time no matter where they are located.

CMMS Specifically for OEMs

Exhibiting for the first time at PACK EXPO, Llumin, an established participant in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) space, introduced a new software called Llumin for OEMs.

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Is a Retrofit the Right Option?

While there is a strong business case for retrofitting many pieces of equipment to facilitate digital transformation, it may not always be the best solution.

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