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4 Smart Manufacturing Trends to Look for in 2022

Polytron

Instead of celebrating economic growth, many manufacturers have been struggling with the ongoing logistical effects of the COVID-19 pandemic – supply chain issues, transportation problems, and even worker shortages! The post 4 Smart Manufacturing Trends to Look for in 2022 appeared first on Polytron. View Webinar.

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Pack Expo Recap: Developing automation systems for facilities

Control Engineering

Automation insights Manufacturers at Pack Expo are focusing on delivering comprehensive yet user-friendly solutions, addressing challenges like the skills gap and high customer demand in the packaging and logistics industries.

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Motion control, ease of use, sustainability: Pack Expo Las Vegas 2023

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand how advances in PC-based controls, motion controls and robotics for food and packaging are making automation for food and beverage packaging easier to automate. Learn how motion controls and related standards, contextualization technologies and easier programming are helping in packaging implementations.

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Why Use HMI/SCADA, Six Examples

Gary Mintchell

Room in the Inn (RITI) was using four disparate software packages, Excel, and email to run their operations, but there were still too many gaps and the logistics were too complex for the existing solutions. And Vertech offered to do it for free. For more than 130 years, Merck & Co.,

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Digitalization, open automation cuts commissioning time 30%, creates services

Control Engineering

Manufacturing, OEM value reconstruction, service digitization Creating a digital factory has been the inevitable choice of manufacturing enterprises to improve production efficiency, flexibility or reduce energy consumption and costs. A digital intelligent factory, smart manufacturing, helps achieve that.