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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

smart manufacturing and digital transformation. be changing how stakeholders approach automation, controls and instrumentation? Figure 2: Smart manufacturing enablers and enhancers include technologies and concepts that help manufacturers take advantage of Industry 4.0 initiatives. Understand Industry 4.0

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What does it take to truly achieve smart manufacturing in Asia Pacific?

AU Manufacturing

To increase competitive advantage, many manufacturers in Asia Pacific are hoping to capitalise on “smart manufacturing” – the concept of integrating technologies, data, processes, and human interactions to improve production results. This, is the future of smart manufacturing.

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What does IO-Link mean in Smart Manufacturing?

Marshall Wolf Automation

Since 2006, when the term “Smart Manufacturing” was first coined, industrial manufacturers have been focused on improving the transmission and analysis of production data. PROFIBUS uses a unidirectional master-slave communication in between the components of the control network. Read more about MODBUS here.

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Taking a different approach to DCS upgrades

Control Engineering

Embracing concepts and technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and smart manufacturing can help. In the past, upgrading a distributed control system (DCS) typically involved ripping out the old system and replacing it with a new one from a different vendor, or undergoing a hardware or software upgrade.

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Five things to know before diving into edge technologies

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand how edge computing can help companies realize Smart Manufacturing goals. Edge computing technology insights Edge technologies help manufacturers get the most out of a Smart Manufacturing initiative. One of the cornerstones of the Smart Manufacturing or Industry 4.0

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Why Use HMI/SCADA, Six Examples

Gary Mintchell

In what Chris McLaughlin from Vertech describes as “stupidity or altruism,” he offered to build RITI one cohesive software platform that would encompass all the existing functionality and add the missing features required to scale their service for the homeless. There are three categories of nodes: inputs, functions, and outputs.

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Assembling success with a private mobile network

Manufacturer's Monthly

This allows the cobots and other smart manufacturing equipment, such as computer numerical control (CNC) machines to go cable-free and become nomadic, improving mobility, reducing complexity, and creating more dynamic facilities that can quickly change their production layouts to adapt to new customer demands and product requirements.