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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

smart manufacturing and digital transformation. Control Engineering asked these questions and others about smart manufacturing and digital transformation to Jeff Winter, senior director industry strategy, manufacturing, Hitachi Solutions, and an industry expert on Industry 4.0 initiatives. Understand Industry 4.0

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Digital manufacturing, smart manufacturing, enable sustainability efforts

Control Engineering

ZF Group is using digitalization and smart manufacturing to meet sustainability goals, said Gabriel Gonzalez-Alanso, senior vice president, corporate production management, ZF Group, at the 2023 ARC Industry Forum, organized by ARC Industry Forum.

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Taking a different approach to DCS upgrades

Control Engineering

Embracing concepts and technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and smart manufacturing can help. This is a challenge because a DCS is a closed system and does not take to upgrades easily. This is because the DCS is effectively a closed system, so cannot integrate easily into other systems.

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A look at digital transformation using the cloud

Control Engineering

By applying distributed ML, it is possible to distribute the AI workload between the cloud and edge, enabling a new paradigm of smart manufacturing. How the cloud benefits manufacturing. This third tier of edge strategy helps a facility take a step closer to realizing industrial autonomy. Courtesy: Yokogawa.

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Integrating and Maximizing the Shop Floor on Display at FABTECH 2023

Fabricating & Metal Work

Highlights include the introduction of CI’s innovative press brake series, the latest in bending, welding, and laser cutting along with demonstrations of the company’s fully integrated manufacturing process.

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Pack Expo Recap: Developing automation systems for facilities

Control Engineering

Many of the advances displayed highlighted progress with the Internet of Things (IoT), smart manufacturing and artificial intelligence (AI). Manufacturers are trying to deliver products that go beyond their initial offerings because their customers need to resolve many problems at once.

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7 ways SCADA software can advance IIoT implementations, if you do it right

Control Engineering

smart manufacturing and digital transformation. SCADA also is being delivered with rapid development tools to enable high degrees of scalability through importing, exporting, and automated replication functions for cloning and multiplying configurations. Optimize SCADA data use with information models 6.