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Industrial motor communications: Optimization

Control Engineering

Understand motor-drive communications and smart manufacturing benefits. Examine how motor-drive communications contribute to smart manufacturing. Cycle times may vary by network, motors, drives and applications. Motor-drive communications, Smart manufacturing. Learning Objectives.

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Top Trends in 2025

Automation Mag

Canadian companies have had a rough start to the year as discussions on the potential economic impact of tariffs point towards difficult times ahead. Manufacturers are in strict saving-mode, hoping to emerge from this potential crisis mostly unscathed. More manufacturing moving to the U.S.A.?

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End-to-End Solution for Sheet Metal Fabrication

The Fabricator

Optimizing raw material sheet utilization, designing sheet metal parts faster, ensuring first time right manufacture every time, optimizing manufacturing cycle times, ensuring smooth execution of manufacturing activities, and optimizing the overall product and project cost.

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The Comprehensive Guide to Turning

Dinesh Mishra

Turning is a foundational process in machining, integral to manufacturing precision components that meet the rigorous demands of various industries. The lathe’s ability to rotate the workpiece allows for precise shaping and finishing, making turning one of the most widely used processes in manufacturing.

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Controllers through the ages

Control Engineering

One of the most obvious examples is the advances in processing power of PLCs as the requirement for faster cycle times has become a common denominator of competitive companies. Many process operators and manufacturing companies now integrate their PLCs through OPC UA to ERP, PAT and manufacturing execution systems (MES).

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Utilizing virtual twins to improve manufacturing operations

Control Engineering

Virtual twin insights Manufacturers face many challenges including evolving technology, rising costs, shrinking profit margins with sustainability concerns and persistent supply chain instability. Benefits include discovering layout problems sooner, detecting interference during simulation and improving manufacturing agility.

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Bosch implements generative AI in manufacturing to improve efficiencies

Automation Mag

Bosch has shared in a press statement that it is piloting generative AI and foundation models in manufacturing. Bosch expects that this will reduce the time needed for planning, launching, and ramping up AI applications from the current six to twelve months to a few weeks. . Bosch plans to expand the AI approach to other locations. “In