Remove Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Remove Process control Remove Robotics
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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

Popular examples include overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), quality, flexibility and even innovation. This includes the use of modular production lines, collaborative robots (cobots), and reconfigurable manufacturing systems, allowing companies to adjust operations quickly and efficiently.

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Building on analytics foundations to improve operations

Control Engineering

OPC is the shortened name for OLE (object linking and embedding) for Process Control, which was based on Microsoft Windows COM (component object model) technology. This model represents a fundamental shift, introducing artificial intelligence (AI), analytics and advanced robotics into traditional manufacturing.