Control Engineering

MAY 3, 2023

Dedicated controllers are optimized for pumping applications, have a defined feature/function set, are easy to specify and are supported by the manufacturer. It would be built on an open platform that supports application development in a variety of programming environments from different sources.

Automation 102

Automation Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Function 102

Mold Making Technology

APRIL 9, 2025

Source | GF Machining Solutions GF Machining Solutions is highlighting the Intelligent Spark Protection System (ISPS) and iWire with Spark Track technology, which give shops the ability to fully optimize their entire moldmaking process with electrical discharge machining (EDM).

Process manufacturing 52

Process manufacturing Sourcing Manufacturing 52

Control Engineering

AUGUST 22, 2022

Researchers believe using a more automated process will reduce system complexity and system maintenance needs. A uniform interface gives manufacturers the ability to uniformly control and program robot systems through the integration and use of an integrated PLC. Source: Profinet. With innovation, also comes new challenges.

Robotics 98

Robotics Robotics Function Automation 98

AU Manufacturing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

We have been able to showcase how the virtual twin can support businesses in mitigating changes in consumer habits, optimising manufacturing processes and creating a positive impact on the environment. By optimising factory processes, manufacturers react faster and produce new products more efficiently.

Supply Chain 83

Supply Chain Process manufacturing Sourcing Manufacturing 83

Automation Mag

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Omega Engineering, part of the DwyerOmega family of brands, is an international, integrated, single-source supplier of highly engineered products and customized solutions for industrial process measurement and control applications, including sensing, control, and monitoring technologies.

Discrete manufacturing 62

Discrete manufacturing Process manufacturing Sourcing Automation 62

Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 27, 2023

3M ’s housing solutions solve problems for customers in a variety of manufacturing sectors, the oil and gas industry and food and beverage processing. Manufacturers’ Monthly finds out why the DuoFLO bag technology is fit for a broad range of environments. In filtration, there’s classifying filters and clarifying filters.

Fit 98

Fit Form Beverage Manufacturing 98

Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

She said about two billion people worldwide use a drinking water source that has some level of fecal matter in it and can cause health issues ranging from diarrhea to stunted growth – especially in young children. Emily Bedell (PhDEnvEngr’22) is the lead author on the paper from the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering. Patent Office.

Sourcing 98

Sourcing Function Artificial Intelligence Process manufacturing 98

Control Engineering

MARCH 10, 2023

Embracing concepts and technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and smart manufacturing can help. The traditional DCS has reached a point of diminishing returns as a source of unlocking major incremental value (flexibility and agility) for transitioning to digital and autonomous operations.

Pharmaceutical 98

Pharmaceutical Smart manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking 98

Control Engineering

MAY 25, 2023

Process valve insights Proper process valve maintenance in a manufacturing facility can help companies prevent serious damage and injury. Valves contribute to the safety of industrial processes by controlling fluid flow through pipelines and improving the precision of different operations. Torque requirements.

Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 52

Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Manufacturing Automation Process control 52

Control Engineering

JANUARY 4, 2023

Understand the shift toward the smart factory and the challenges process manufacturers face. Will companies be dealing with vendors that work in a proprietary world, or vendors that manufacture hardware that work in an open world? Learning Objectives. Learn how IEC 61499 and IEC 61131-3 are impacting universal automation.

Automation 98

Automation Control Algorithm Process control Industry 4.0 98

Mold Making Technology

MARCH 4, 2025

Source | PCS Company PCS Company is now serving as a seller/distributor for Goodway heavy-duty, industrial portable descaling systems for mold maintenance , water line cleaning and general plant uses. The systems feature clean in place (CIP) technology to materials from HVAC and process manufacturing equipment without pulling machines apart.

Process manufacturing 52

Process manufacturing Sourcing Manufacturing 52

Control Engineering

AUGUST 2, 2022

Now, a team of scientists at MIT and elsewhere has developed a system based on silk that could provide an inexpensive and easily manufactured substitute. Each of these sources may require its own kind of solutions for reducing its spread, Marelli said. Ten percent of a big number is still a big number.

Form 69

Form Sourcing Fit Electronics 69

Canadian Manufacturing

JULY 17, 2023

Qualifying projects must focus on critical mineral processing, manufacturing and recycling; however, mining projects that show exceptional innovation benefits and strong vertical integration to grow domestic value chains will be considered.

Value chain 40

Value chain Process manufacturing Advanced manufacturing Sourcing 40

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

MAY 3, 2023

TrendMiner has specific expertise in the development and consultation of pattern recognition and analytics functionality for the chemical, oil and gas, energy, water, food and beverage, and other process manufacturing sectors. Moreover, the company covers 50% of the top 50 chemical industry companies as customers.

Beverage 52

Beverage Pharmaceutical Function Process manufacturing 52

Control Engineering

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Learning Objectives Understand how a 360-degree visualization overview is possible for manufacturing and processing companies to derive intelligence from software integrating multiple enterprise levels. Understand that integrated visualization software can deliver data-derived intelligence.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 52

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Bill of Materials Sourcing Value chain 52

Control Engineering

JULY 9, 2023

insights Manufacturers are discovering the traditional architecture of keeping operational technology (OT) isolated from the internet is no longer viable. Improving operations at the enterprise level by leveraging the software and technology available to optimize operations and interaction among multiple plants and process lines.

Industry 4.0 52

Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Automation Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 52

Additive Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This low and unusually stable shrinkage allows the manufacture via binder jetting of large parts, up to 10s of cms in length. The benefits of its uniform, ultra-low porosity, high flow materials are not limited to print and sinter steps but also to secondary process steps, including de-powdering and sintered part finishing.

3D printing 52

3D printing Additive manufacturing Process manufacturing Sourcing 52

Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Digital transformation can help process manufacturers improve sustainability. Process manufacturers can use key performance indicators (KPIs) to reduce inefficiencies caused by steam traps, pressure relief valves (PRVs) and more. Keywords: sustainability, process manufacturing . Learning Objectives.

Process manufacturing 52

Process manufacturing Automation Manufacturing Process control 52

Automation Mag

JANUARY 15, 2024

Combined with the growing trend towards open, plug-and-play hardware, these new, ‘programming-free’ approaches also help to address the labour and skills shortages being experienced by both manufacturing companies and robotics integrators. The time savings are impossible to ignore.

Robotics 78

Robotics Robotics Automation Fit 78

Control Engineering

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software was initially designed to aggregate information from distributed sources and provide operators with the information needed to best control processes. Below find 7 key SCADA developments critical for manufacturers to know today. More industrial integration for SCADA 1.

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) 52

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Function Industry 4.0 52

Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

IIoT projects focused on connecting with these data silos to provide monitoring and visibility, and enable analytics, are key to integrating all available source data. The manufacture of biomass fuel pellets requires material grinding, moisture control, extrusion, cooling and packaging. Advanced automation for a biomass application.

Automation 98

Automation Artificial Intelligence Bill of Materials Function 98

ATS

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Rather than monitoring one or a few items, it uses analytical tools that combine multiple data sources with comprehensive history to anticipate maintenance needs. For an organization seeking to adopt a higher level of manufacturing and maintenance maturity, this is how it’s done. Contact ATS to get started.

Industry 4.0 59

Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Function Process manufacturing 59

Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 18, 2023

COVER STORY Metalworkers can build supply chains that can bend without breaking thanks to innovative strategies, processes and products. In response, metalworkers continue to invest in automation, robotics and machinery to speed up their processes, manufacturing highly precise and accurate components and parts. Excelta Corp.,

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Form Automation 52

Control Engineering

AUGUST 24, 2022

But these conventional chips and power sources will likely be too bulky for next-generation chip-free sensors, which are taking on smaller, thinner and more flexible forms. Most wireless sensors today communicate via embedded Bluetooth chips that are powered by small batteries.

Electronics 105

Electronics Form Sourcing Process manufacturing 105

Control Engineering

MARCH 30, 2023

Global efforts to achieve zero carbon emissions from industry are gathering pace as a variety of environmental, economic and geopolitical factors are driving the development of sustainable energy sources such as green hydrogen. The growing viability of hydrogen as an energy source is changing this.

Sourcing 52

Sourcing Process control Automation Function 52

Manufacturer's Monthly

OCTOBER 4, 2022

3M ’s housing solutions solve problems for customers in a variety of manufacturing sectors, the oil and gas industry and food and beverage processing. Manufacturers’ Monthly finds out why the DuoFLO bag technology is a fit for a broad range of environments. Excellent flow characteristics reduces overall capital investment.

Fit 52

Fit Form Beverage Manufacturing 52

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This results in a highly convenient single platform where customers can access multiple data sources, gain valuable insights, and accelerate decision-making. “As Seeq solutions integrate with existing customer software, including cloud services, ML pipelines, business intelligence tools, and data science notebooks.

Pharmaceutical 52

Pharmaceutical Artificial Intelligence Process manufacturing Sourcing 52

Control Engineering

JULY 13, 2023

Source: MRFR Database and Analyst Review Wheel in the trojan mice Back in 2012, the digital thought leader, Euan Semple, talked about the concept of the Trojan Mouse in an organization’s digital journey. In the process industries, this approach is successful when applied to self-service advanced analytics solutions.

Sourcing 52

Sourcing Automation Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 52

Control Engineering

AUGUST 25, 2022

Dyes are used across multiple industries, and are a known source of pollution and health risks for humans. Equated to oil and water, researchers performed visual tests to study the synthetic polymer, and discovered that it grabs onto the dyes and then is later able to be separated through a draining process.

Pharmaceutical 52

Pharmaceutical Sourcing Process manufacturing Manufacturing 52

Fabricating & Metal Work

AUGUST 27, 2024

Epicor, a global leader of industry-specific enterprise software, works hand-in-hand with its customers to create software solutions and services in a single source to improve efficiencies and productivity in the manufacturing sector, which results in major competitive advantages. It is the next step, right?”

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 52

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Function Process control Supply Chain 52

Infinite Uptime

MAY 10, 2022

Predictive Maintenance in process manufacturing plants such as the cement industry can identify deviations in machine health at the nascent stage before they escalate into full-blown problems that may result in unplanned downtime. Finding the root cause of machine failure, sourcing & transporting the spare parts takes a long time.

Function 52

Function Automation Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 52

Control Engineering

JUNE 5, 2023

It’s essential to diversify clean energy sources. Yet clean energy sources such as wind and solar power are still heavily dependent on atmospheric conditions. While fossil fuels have had the advantage of being able to deliver power daily, wave power could give renewable energy the same reliability.

Prototype  52

Prototype  Sourcing Form Automation 52

Control Engineering

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It enables efficient management of the interactions between critical asset items, permitted work, and isolations of power, fluid, or motive sources in one centralized platform. Monitoring safety critical asset items and linking them to permitted activities will provide significant benefits to plants.

Function 52

Function Process control Sourcing Process manufacturing 52

Control Engineering

JUNE 13, 2023

The ever-changing technological landscape is seeing the emergence of edge computing – the analysis of data at source. As well as allowing water networks to use the carbon reduction to evidence sustainable operations, engineers are able work to a hybrid pattern for improved productivity and a better work/life balance.

Function 52

Function Sourcing Process manufacturing Industry 4.0 52

E&T

AUGUST 5, 2022

“Despite manufacturers today facing quite unprecedented economic challenges, most businesses have moved decarbonisation to the top of their company’s agenda. These are just two of the top-line findings to come out of Make UK’s most recent research survey document, ‘Decarbonising Manufacturing: Challenges and Opportunities’.

Manufacturing 45

Manufacturing Supply Chain Energy Optimization Compliance 45

Control Engineering

JULY 13, 2022

For example, pressure-reducing regulators control pressure from a source before it arrives at the main process. Use a pressure-reducing regulator to control pressure from a source before it arrives at the main process and a back-pressure regulator if you need to control pressure from upstream. Courtesy: Swagelok.

Sourcing 52

Sourcing Form Process manufacturing Manufacturing 52

Control Engineering

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The lab may also look into embedding more components into the prototype, such as on-board power sources, sensors, computational resources or wireless communication capabilities. – Edited by Chris Vavra, web content manager, Control Engineering , CFE Media and Technology, cvavra@cfemedia.com.

Prototype  52

Prototype  Robotics Robotics Form 52