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Important Smart Factory KPIs

Gary Mintchell

Through Microsoft, I discovered this 59-page IoT Signals Report – Manufacturing Spotlight (August 2022), published by Microsoft and Intel, with research conducted by IoT Analytics. One of the findings from the research tells us 72% of manufacturers have partially or fully implemented a smart factory strategy today. Why it matters.

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Leadership Strategies for Industrial Maintenance Management

ATS

While the primary goal in maintenance strategy is to keep machines running, it also impacts larger corporate objectives such as lean manufacturing initiatives or overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). For example, lean processes focus on reducing waste. This starts with strategic alignment.

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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

smart manufacturing and digital transformation. Control Engineering asked these questions and others about smart manufacturing and digital transformation to Jeff Winter, senior director industry strategy, manufacturing, Hitachi Solutions, and an industry expert on Industry 4.0 initiatives. Review differences in Industry 4.0,

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Building a traceability 4.0 foundation for automation

Control Engineering

insights Easier traceability results from advances in technologies such as machine vision combining with the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to make manufacturing more flexible. Manufacturers want to know where a product is located within the wider production or distribution context. Traceability 4.0 Industry 4.0

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Decoding plant reliability in manufacturing and a process to reach there.

Infinite Uptime

Process manufacturers typically operate in data-rich environments and know their plants inside out. Even if this information exists within the manufacturing ecosystem, the plant maintenance and operational heads don’t really know how to use it to achieve optimum plant productivity. .

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Predictive Maintenance as a Service: A game-changer for Manufacturing.

Infinite Uptime

Manufacturing encompasses a diverse and wide array of processes, industries, and raw materials. Yet all manufacturers everywhere share a common enemy: Unplanned Downtime, which harms productivity, asset health, brand reputation & dotted line. How can Predictive Maintenance as a Service be a gamechanger for Manufacturing?

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More answers on bridging the gap from edge to cloud MES to make automation more effective

Control Engineering

Question: Can you provide insights into the future trends of MES in manufacturing? This is how we build our products, this is the steps that each product takes, this is, if in a process manufacturing environment, we have our recipes. Question : How should an MES interact with other systems in a manufacturing environment?