Control Engineering

APRIL 4, 2023

The measurement and automation company Endress+Hauser invested 240.5 million, 43 new products and 235 patent applications, noted Endress+Hauser, Swiss-based automation and measurement company with US headquarters in Greenwood, Indiana, at its annual media conference, Aug. million euros in new buildings and machinery, 24.7%

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Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Cobot Systems , Hirebotics , Kane Robotics , MidAtlantic Machinery , PCC Robotics , Robotiq , Schunk , Vectis Automation , VersaBuilt. Automation. MFA Alliance — You may have noticed several items about private 5G networks for manufacturing and industrial applications. These partners exhibited within the booth.

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Factory Worx

JULY 26, 2022

Manufacturers can use digital technologies to improve operational efficiencies and optimise many business areas, such as product development and supply chain management. Digitisation boosts productivity instantly, allowing projects to proceed more quickly and manufacturers to meet more aggressive deadlines.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Advanced process control (APC) brings regulatory control elements together to create a more sophisticated structure, fully unlocking the power of automation. APC lets manufacturers leverage the capabilities they often already have in the existing control system. Advanced Process Control Insights.

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i4.0 today

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Being a first mover towards the digital age enables us to actively lead the way in reshaping how our customers navigate the engineering supply chain. demands digitalisation.Without digital data and processes, manufacturing and engineering cannot unlock the benefits offered by automation and AI.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 1, 2023

Understand the costs and challenges process manufacturing plants face due to running legacy control systems. Today’s process manufacturing plants are under a lot of pressure. Supply chain issues make it harder to find replacement parts for aging control systems, generating long lead times and extended outages.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 5, 2022

On its face, there’s lots to like about modular automation. In oil & gas, modular automation offers significant savings across the lifecycle of a floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO). However, to realize the potential of modular automation the industry must come together around a common objective.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Also: See additional discrete sensor and process sensor stories. Automate 2023 Day Three: Sensors gaining insights under the surface Manufacturers highlighted sensors and information systems designed to go beyond what is shown on the surface and give customers real insights.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 23, 2023

Manufacturers can improve the customer experience and satisfaction while also achieving better product production through shorter innovation cycles. At a higher level, many manufacturers view such endeavors as part of a wider smart manufacturing strategy linked with Industry 4.0

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 31, 2023

Leveraging MQTT, industrial edge devices in automation projects Message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT) and industrial edge devices remove systemic limitations, communicate more data and improve system security for IIoT implementations. See top 3 covers and top 10 articles posted prior to 2022.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When that’s the case, six strategies can simplify the process. Processes described make it easier to find optimal PID settings using standard tuning routines that can be the basis for autotuning and makes it easier to implement adaptive control. What makes an engineering trailblazer? See diagrams, equations.

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Automation Mag

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The company’s product portfolio includes both general-purpose and high-tech specialty products manufactured to ISO 9001-2015 standards and backed by 58 years of experience.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 10, 2023

Today, pharmaceutical production plants must embrace more flexible production and faster process implementation to reduce time to market for new product developments. They also need improved supply chain management to ensure better product quality and more stable/reliable product supply, and they need to reach target yields faster.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 15, 2023

Control Engineering’s top 5 content over the past week covered universal automation, MQTT benefits, SI Giants, control system management and more. Universal automation lays the foundation for smart factories. Leveraging MQTT, industrial edge devices in automation projects. Links to each article below.

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Control Engineering

JULY 12, 2023

be changing how stakeholders approach automation, controls and instrumentation? Control Engineering asked these questions and others about smart manufacturing and digital transformation to Jeff Winter, senior director industry strategy, manufacturing, Hitachi Solutions, and an industry expert on Industry 4.0 on LinkedIn.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 17, 2023

Offset a mile recession in 2024 and depression in 2030 in part with manufacturing automation. Be prepared: Companies have the opportunity to pull ahead and improve automation and efficiency in operations and reduce supply chain bottlenecks. Automation will help. The world is going to need you for decades.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 9, 2023

Leveraging MQTT, industrial edge devices in automation projects. Supply chain, staffing and COVID-19 are main concerns among SI Giant system integrators. SI Giants 2023 average system integration revenue increases.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

6-9, included discussions about digitalization helps optimize operations, helps with energy efficiency, workforce shortages, supply chain, climate change and cybersecurity. 2023 ARC Industry Forum keynote insights Automotive, industrial and energy manufacturer ZF Group provides motion controls for automotive, industrial and wind power.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Distributed control systems (DCSs) are at the heart of process manufacturing operations and have evolved to focus on digitalization. Using pre-made and pre-tested automation software modules will allow companies to use DCSs more effectively. One organization helping map out this evolution is NAMUR.

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i4.0 today

AUGUST 7, 2024

Even in today’s automated, process driven society, delivering consistently great service is what keeps the cogs turning and business returning. Communication is a critical part of certainty and filters across all aspects of the manufacturing process. Great expectations Customer underpins the value of most organisations.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 17, 2023

The most common automated multivariable control technology is model-predictive control (MPC), which uses dynamic process models to predict future process responses. In multivariable process control, many variables are measured, and decisions are made based on some, or all, of this data.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

AUGUST 27, 2024

The software is specialized for make-to-order manufacturing, discrete manufacturing and process manufacturing. Epicor Advanced MES collects data directly from equipment and operators on the shop floor in real time, maximizing data accuracy and process automation.

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Control Engineering

JULY 27, 2022

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) can make automation a lot easier for manufacturers, but organizations don’t always get the full picture. A critical detail they sometimes miss is the health of everything that isn’t being connected to automation. Asset Management Insights.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 1, 2022

After exploring the market and experimenting with integration competitors, the manufacturer found an integrator that possessed the required industry knowledge as well as extrusion and batch processing experience with large-scale migrations, which would be needed to make the project a success.

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Modern Machine Shop

AUGUST 4, 2024

Representatives from these companies, along with those from Siemens, Autodesk and Hexagon, will showcase cloud services, artificial intelligence, additive manufacturing and automation. ” Apollo is an AI-powered robot introduced by Apptronik in August 2023 and designed to addresses labor challenges in manufacturing.

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ATS

MARCH 6, 2025

Mixed mode manufacturing refers to any production environment that uses more than one manufacturing mode and does so under the same roof or within the same system. For example, carrying out discrete manufacturing in one facility and process manufacturing in another is not mixed mode.

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