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

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A thermal loop solution is a closed loop system with several essential components, including an electrical power supply, power controller, heating element, temperature sensor and process controller. In addition, the complete design of modern thermal loop solutions includes energy-efficient heating and overall ease of use.

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Building on analytics foundations to improve operations

Control Engineering

OPC is the shortened name for OLE (object linking and embedding) for Process Control, which was based on Microsoft Windows COM (component object model) technology. 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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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). View how digital tools are helping to deliver better processing control, less machine downtime and are addressing spiralling costs.