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15 pieces of automation advice from ROKLive 2022

Control Engineering

Sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) are increasing in importance for manufacturing. Keeping the system current has never been more important, but the scale of that task continues to grow in size and complexity, said Dave Rapini. Process automation software can combat the skilled workforce shortage.

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Case Study: Lockheed Martin’s Flight to Perfect Quality

iBASEt

Clearwater has more than 400 employees, more than 500 suppliers, and produces a low-volume high-mix of ruggedized, high-reliability electronic data and signal processing equipment. For example, Lockheed Martin implemented iBASEt’s Manufacturing Execution System (MES) to streamline and remove paperbased procedures on the shopfloor.

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Turnkey approach for automating first-of-a-kind red sorghum extract process

Control Engineering

System integration insights When kicking off a project with a key process control scope, the state of the art of the process technology should be as well known by the team as possible. New process valves and instruments were selected to support potential developments in process control and monitoring.

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Machine Data Collection in Manufacturing

ATS

The types of signals and records a machine data collection system can gather include: Sensor data Some of the i ndustrial machine sensors used for process control can also capture machine health data. Yield improvement: Process data reveals sources of variation that result in product being outside of specifications.

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Epicor: Solutions that are Made With You, For You

Fabricating & Metal Work

The Connected Process Control platform delivers a powerful, web-based solution enabling process control, operator guidance, traceability and data collection down to the task level. In addition, the Connected Process Control also provides focus on areas such as financial and supply chain management. “We

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Leveraging real-time data across the enterprise

Control Engineering

Manufacturers have many crucial systems that need to talk with one another. The traditional manufacturing stack includes human-machine interfaces (HMIs), supervisory controls and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, manufacturing execution systems (MES) and ERP layers.