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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Identify how to determine if your company is moving quickly enough with Industry 4.0 Review differences in Industry 4.0, Understand Industry 4.0 It has been a dozen years of Industry 4.0 Is there an Industry 5.0? How should Industry 4.0 initiatives.

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Building a traceability 4.0 foundation for automation

Control Engineering

Internal drivers include manufacturing flexibility, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and product compatibility, whereas external ones include regulatory compliance, industry standards and customer requirements. Industry 4.0 To maximize the benefits of Industry 4.0

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Thermal Loop Solutions: A Path to Improved Performance, Sustainability and Compliance in Heat Treatment

MEM

In addition, the complete design of modern thermal loop solutions includes energy-efficient heating and overall ease of use. Thermal loop solutions can also be integrated with Industry 4.0 The effectiveness of heat treatment thermal loop solutions can be measured using metrics such as overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).

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The Role of AI in Predictive Maintenance

ATS

If critical machinery is suddenly operating at half capacity — or not at all — the results could range from production slowdowns to complete functional failures. For AI tools to function effectively, two components are needed: reliable access to data and machine learning (ML) algorithms. Key AI components. First up is data.

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Building on analytics foundations to improve operations

Control Engineering

As new Ethernet protocols were developed, a second trend was the use of “tag names” instead of register names, providing easier association of the PLC register being used and its programming function. . A second conceptual model of this trend is called Industry 4.0, IIoT plays an important part of Industry 4.0

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How to Improve Industrial Energy Efficiency

ATS

With lighting, switch to higher efficiency fluorescent or LED when replacement is needed, but note that unless revamping a large area, discarding functioning units may not be very “green” or cost-effective. On individual pieces of equipment Industry 4.0

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TCO Tipping Point: Revealing the Real Value

i4.0 today

Additionally, equipment that is poorly maintained will likely breakdown more frequently. This impacts quality, as well as productivity and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Whatever machine architecture you opt for, reliability will, to a large degree, be dictated by build quality.