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The Open Group Open Process Automation Forum Announces Certification Program

Gary Mintchell

I have two pieces of news regarding The Open Process Automation Forum. I have unfortunately seen enough of these open automation standards attempts to wonder if this one will go much farther—especially given the maturity of the market. These came just as I was wondering if the organization had been making any more progress.

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Flexible and Affordable Purchase Options for Shop Floor Software

Fabricating & Metal Work

ShopFloorConnect is scalable and well-suited for manufacturers in a variety of industries, including metalforming and metal fabrication, machining, injection molding, discrete manufacturing, packaging, food, beverage, and more. All purchase options include ShopFloorConnect Equipment Summary and Performance Tracker functions.

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Revving Up Discrete Manufacturing: Is Your Manufacturing Data Ready for AI?

iBASEt

The Current State of AI in Complex Discrete Manufacturing AI clearly has staying power and will continue to gain momentum as new use cases and applications are discovered. The complex discrete manufacturing industry is already making strides in AI adoption. As always, data is the key to these benefits.

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Cameras give industrial vision-guided robots human-like functions

Control Engineering

The automated forklift will sense obstructions along its pre-programmed paths and its movements to avoid contact with people or objects while precisely selecting items off pallets to meet customer orders. The post Cameras give industrial vision-guided robots human-like functions appeared first on Control Engineering.

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How to automate: Best Control Engineering advice, August 2023

Control Engineering

How to automate insights Automation continues to enable manufacturing efficiency with fewer experienced workers available, Control Engineering explains in the “How to automate” August 2023 print and digital edition. Industrial automation, including state-of-the-art motion controllers, need to effectively share data.

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Automation upgrades reduce sortation system wiring and lower costs

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand how a sorting company upgraded their automation systems to improve operations. Automation insights NPI, a Texas-based mail sorting design company, worked on emphasizing and shortening the time to a return on investment (ROI) by upgrading its automation systems.

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Machine vision, automation streamline logistics and warehousing operations

Control Engineering

Due to staffing shortages and major supply chain issues, manufacturers are willing to emphasize automation more to meet surging demand. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and automated guided vehicles (AGVs) used machine vision and sensing technologies to move around freely and a key part around automation when it comes to logistics.