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Taking control of your control system

Control Engineering

Understand the costs and challenges process manufacturing plants face due to running legacy control systems. Today’s process manufacturing plants are under a lot of pressure. In many cases, the control system is reaching end of support, which can lead to many problems. Courtesy: Emerson.

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Leadership Strategies for Industrial Maintenance Management

ATS

This means providing lead time whenever possible about major repairs and keeping teams up to date about the status of unexpected maintenance tasks driven by predictive analytics. Leaders must find and maintain the balance between whats needed and whats available to maximize repair ROI.

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The Benefits of Early Engineering Involvement in an Automotive Build

MEM

Through specialist engineering advice, costly non-standard parts can be eliminated from the design process, ensuring cost savings and reduced lead-times compared to those associated with the production of custom parts.

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PTXPO 2025: Mold Builders Showcase Innovation, Automation and Efficiency Across the Supply Chain

Mold Making Technology

Garecht: I think that this mold shows that higher cavitation, precision gear molds are possible as long as you have a team focused on accuracy in the tool build, good gear geometry, and consistency in the molding process.

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Embrace Disruption: The Supply Chain

Fabricating & Metal Work

Delivering components and parts to customers in a timely manner is more critical than ever. In response, metalworkers continue to invest in automation, robotics and machinery to speed up their processes, manufacturing highly precise and accurate components and parts.

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Building Bridges: The Power of Connection at IMTS 2024

Modern Machine Shop

Visitors to the ETC can also learn about Apollo, a commercial, humanoid, AI-powered robot introduced by Apptronik in August 2023 and designed for user-friendly operation, mass production, performance, and safety.

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Tech talk: It’s the end of robot programming!

Automation Mag

Photo: OnRobot) Decades in the making User-friendly interfaces and programming techniques reduce deployment lead times and costs, benefitting end-users and integrators alike. In the process, manufacturers and end users are liberated from tedious manual programming tasks forever – and they feel fine.