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Setting Up the Building Blocks for a Digital Factory

Modern Machine Shop

a manufacturing company that tackles energy control in both aerospace (think fuel management) and power generation, smooth operation of the digital factory means gathering real-time data from machines, making decisions from that data, and sending instructions back down to the shop floor. Images courtesy of Woodward, Inc.

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Real-time Robot Workspace Monitoring for Precision Manufacturers

Gary Mintchell

By partnering with Flexxbotics , a leader in robotics process improvement technology, Datanomix extends its automated production intelligence coverage to Universal Robot cells, helping power lights-out and automated operations at precision manufacturers.

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Datanomix, Flexxbotics to automate production monitoring for Universal Robots

Automation Mag

Together, the companies will offer automated production intelligence coverage to Universal Robot cells, helping power lights-out and automated operations at precision manufacturers. Precision manufacturers will be able to leverage this ability inform their decisions when automating their factory.

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Can Connecting ERP to Machine Tool Monitoring Address the Workforce Challenge?

Modern Machine Shop

Providing for real-time evaluation of performance was the initial promise, but the system has proven effective for something even more powerful: assuring NC program revision control, and the correct assignment of programs and work instructions to every part. Peter Zelinski writes about manufacturing technology and how it is changing.

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Why Use HMI/SCADA, Six Examples

Gary Mintchell

Using the Enterprise Administration Module, Vantage Data Centers is able to monitor the health of all the systems from a single location, perform remote revision-controlled changes to projects and trend data, and monitor KPIs from anywhere in EMEA. For more than 130 years, Merck & Co.,