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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.

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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.

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Building a traceability 4.0 foundation for automation

Control Engineering

Traceability is one of the most critical strategies for bringing true transparency to the manufacturing environment. Internal drivers include manufacturing flexibility, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and product compatibility, whereas external ones include regulatory compliance, industry standards and customer requirements.

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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

While any manufacturing plant- whether discrete or process-based can deliver a clear impact with Predictive Maintenance as a Service measures, the process-based manufacturing plants can truly thrive because of their unique workflow of interconnected processes. Read more on our ATEX Certification.

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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. In industrial digital transformation, these technologies may be applied to monitor production equipment, predict maintenance needs or optimize energy consumption in a factory setting.

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

Control Engineering

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. Harrison : The MES should be secure to protect sensitive data. We have a lot of information in these systems. So, we need to be aware of cybersecurity events and protect our assets.