Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Process control insights. Distributed control systems (DCSs) are at the heart of process manufacturing operations and have evolved to focus on digitalization. – This originally appeared on Control Engineering Europe’s website.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 4, 2023

If you switch on your printer, you don’t have to do anything else,” Altendorf said, suggesting industrial automation and process control communications also need to be interoperable and easy to use. The post More sensors, despite strained supply chain appeared first on Control Engineering.

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Automation Mag

JANUARY 10, 2023

However, the one that it has reinforced is the importance of being able to control the entire manufacturing process. Without complete process control, manufacturers are vulnerable to ever-changing buyer demand, unpredictability in supplier delivery, threats of substitutions and the rise of new competitors.

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Gary Mintchell

JUNE 22, 2023

CLOUD-BASED DIGITAL TWIN Honeywell Digital Prime solution —a cloud-based digital twin for tracking, managing, and testing process control changes and system modifications. Supreme is a standard solution with process enhancement that adds a control and safety system, advance process control, and asset performance monitoring.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Robotics and Automation: The integration of robotics and automation enhances pharmaceutical manufacturing by boosting productivity, ensuring compliance with industry standards, and providing greater process control. Together, they improve efficiency, reduce contamination risks, and facilitate rapid responses to operational changes.

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iBASEt

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Real-time process control switches away from defect tracking to defect prevention. Extending Quality Management Beyond the Factory A&D manufacturers often depend on extensive supply chains, with external suppliers accounting for up to 70% of components used in final assemblies.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It is also working with various partners to establish and meet high industry standards for cold spray applications, especially in sectors with stringent process controls. Cold spray is an additive process versus a subtractive process, which translates to less material wastage and more efficient use of resources,” he said. “One

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i4.0 today

JUNE 4, 2024

As part of its broader and ongoing quality enhancement initiatives, SolarEdge strives to better monitor, control, and improve manufacturing operations across all plants, including EMS partners, emphasizing how quality is paramount to the organization.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

JUNE 28, 2024

Enhancing Supply Chain Resilience Geopolitical chaos is driving the need for robust PLM solutions that can enhance supply chain resilience, manage risks, and ensure compliance with varying international regulations, crucial for maintaining continuity in industrial operations.

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i4.0 today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This latest Series combines AI and automation to immediately respond to customer supply and demand changes through continuous, autonomous updates and offers flexibility and customisable options to address production needs, to make autonomous factories a reality.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Geopolitical Chaos Building Supply Chain Resilience Through Automation Implementing automation to mitigate supply chain disruptions caused by geopolitical uncertainties. How can your organization leverage these strategic imperatives to unlock new growth opportunities in the industrial domain?

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ATS

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

High-tech manufacturing considerations Process and technology mastery is just the price of admission to the high-tech manufacturing world. Sustained success demands competency in maintenance, procurement, supply chain management, quality assurance and every other manufacturing support function.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As the world continues adapting to environmental concerns, supply chain shortages, rising prices and lean business practices, it is important to work smarter, harder and more efficiently. Saving money while optimizing process control is a key aspect of success in manufacturing, especially when it comes to solvents and vapor degreasing.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Hot topics in Control Engineering, for September 2023, for stories posted in the last three months included PID Control, Control Engineering’s 2023 Leaders under 40, model predictive control and more. When that’s the case, six strategies can simplify the process. Links to each article below.

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Control Engineering

JULY 29, 2022

Build an effective cyber resilience strategy : With cyberattacks causing unplanned downtime, contributing to supply chain shortages, and leading to ransomware attacks, manufacturers need to build a cyber-resilience program, according to Brian Deken in the session, “Cybersecurity Peer Exchange: Building an Effective Cyber Resilience Strategy.”

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E&T

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The nature of the factory floor and supply chains continues to evolve, hailing a new era of efficiency and agility driven by automation, data analytics, and interconnected systems. Innovative technologies have the potential to revolutionise every aspect of the value chain.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Hall, discusses gold mine SCADA modernization and COVID-19 vaccination process controls. In addition, a COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer sought to quickly develop the process controls for automating its production system. Pharmaceutical manufacturing: COVID-19 vaccine process controls. Learning Objectives.

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Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

. • ABB helps businesses of all sizes embrace the flexibility afforded by robotics to efficiently adapt production to satisfy their customer’s most pressing needs, especially as reshoring becomes a prominent means to address ongoing supply chain backlogs. For more information. For more information.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MAY 16, 2023

This is notwithstanding broad challenges facing the industry, with 75 per cent expecting increases in operating costs and 92 per cent saying lingering supply chain issues are holding back capacity or growth. Most are navigating rising costs, inflationary pressures and supply chain issues, which often combine to constrain cash flows.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

AUGUST 27, 2024

The Connected Process Control platform delivers a powerful, web-based solution enabling process control, operator guidance, traceability and data collection down to the task level. In addition, the Connected Process Control also provides focus on areas such as financial and supply chain management.

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Gary Mintchell

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Honeywell announced that Imperial Brands, a British multinational tobacco company, has chosen Honeywell to provide the Honeywell Track & Trace solution (“Honeywell Track & Trace”) to digitalize and transform the monitoring and tracking of their supply chain operations.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A plastic manufacturer wanted to overhaul their legacy control system to reduce inefficiencies and waste. The system integrator chosen for the project improved process control and information flow to provide real-time data through the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Learning Objectives. MORE ANSWERS. CONSIDER THIS.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

MARCH 22, 2023

For example, Rockwell Automation offers Plex, a multi-tenant SaaS, cloud-native smart manufacturing offering that includes fully integrated, easy-to-deploy solutions for advanced manufacturing execution systems (MES), quality management systems (QMS), supply chain management (SCM), asset performance management (APM), and production monitoring.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JUNE 6, 2023

These magnetoelectronic signals can also monitor process information related to vibration peaks, hours of operation, distance traveled, and more. Designed with industry in mind, the TWIIST offers substantial benefits across the supply chain. gefran.com Subscribe to learn the latest in manufacturing.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Networks, people, supply chain and cyber-physical systems (CPS) are among the ways the cyber attack surface is growing and an intrusion can happen from any one of them because many vulnerable devices were created before the internet. Supply chain. OT security insights.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 10, 2023

Today, pharmaceutical production plants must embrace more flexible production and faster process implementation to reduce time to market for new product developments. They also need improved supply chain management to ensure better product quality and more stable/reliable product supply, and they need to reach target yields faster.

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Cisco Smart Manufacturing

JUNE 21, 2018

Supply chain relationships. Some of the challenges that have arisen out of increased completion include more pressure on supply chains, customer consolidation and the potential impacts of tariffs on pricing. Advanced process control. Changing product/service mix. Technology on the factory floor.

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AU Manufacturing

MARCH 5, 2023

Ever-changing customer expectations and demand for faster time-to-market, coupled by soaring inflation, supply chain disruptions and production backlogs are putting a strain on the region’s production. However, the world’s manufacturing powerhouse is now at a critical inflection point.

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ATS

MARCH 26, 2024

Production optimization: Advanced sensors and continuous monitoring allow tighter process control, leading to less variability and waste. By reducing breakdowns, they improve schedule adherence and simplify production planning and control. This improves inventory record accuracy and helps meet traceability requirements.

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Nexus Integra

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Today, companies are embracing digitization as new technologies enable automation and process control in a much more accurate way. The main benefits of using data analytics in industrial performance are: Process optimization. Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to industry provides much more precise quality controls.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

6-9, featuring discussions about digitalization helps optimize operations, helps with energy efficiency, workforce shortages, supply chain, climate change and cybersecurity. Investing in controls upgrades and sustainability helps reduce Shell’s carbon footprint and increases its ability to attract younger engineers.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Photo Credit: iStock The certification of a company’s quality management system (QMS) to a recognized international standard proclaims the achievement of an effectively implemented management system whose process controls are adequately robust. Well-controlled design processes can mitigate costly re-engineering activities.

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Control Engineering

MAY 10, 2023

Connected plants have the potential to transform manufacturing industries by bringing real-time data into a manufacturing execution system (MES), which helps reduce supply chain uncertainty and increase throughput. However, for the controls engineer tasked with building a connected plant, the challenge can be daunting.

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Production line monitoring: Real-time tracking of production rates and process conditions, plus the results of quality control checks carried out by automated tests and measurement equipment. ATS helps manufacturers improve equipment reliability and availability and better manage their maintenance costs.

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iBASEt

AUGUST 4, 2022

While all manufacturers are straining in the current environment due to COVID pandemic-driven supply chain and labor scarcity issues and the growing impact of inflation on the economy, small and mid-sized business (SMB) manufacturers are being hit particularly hard. The primary beneficiary then was the ERP system.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Visibility of control and optimization data in real-time. Personnel shortages, supply chain pains, sustainability initiatives and a cloud-connected world have all acted as catalysts for change in process manufacturing. The DCS is evolving, empowering worker skillsets.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

JANUARY 10, 2024

VK: Post-covid, there were some disruptions in the global supply chain. The tailwinds supporting us are a skilled and young workforce, competitive manufacturing, which is world-class in terms of process control, quality, and engineering capabilities — which can help us address technology gaps. There is massive C.A.S.E

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