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Digital twin benefits for process manufacturers

Control Engineering

Individual point solutions with digital twins do exist today, serving different purposes such as fit-for-purpose simulation models and individual data sources. The post Digital twin benefits for process manufacturers appeared first on Control Engineering.

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Improving sustainability with advanced analytics applications

Control Engineering

Analytics insights Sustainability has been recognized as an area of significant importance in the process industries, but many organizations face challenges accessing and connecting data from siloed systems. Benchmarking is invaluable when identifying performance targets, which are often derived from plant models, simulators and optimizers.

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Exploring the impact of Industry 4.0 on manufacturers

MEM

Big data analytics – Big data analytics uses advanced analytic techniques against huge, diverse data sets from various sources, including equipment, CRM systems and IoT. Manufacturers must rapidly invest in digitalised systems to remain competitive and integrate into customers’ supply chain systems.

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Accelerate Program of Pittsburgh Robotics Factory opens applications for its third cohort

Robotics Business Review

Source: Robotics Factory The Robotics Factory has opened the application window for its Accelerate program. Reclamation Factory : This startup creates automated, modular plastics recycling machines producing high-quality and manufacture-ready source materials from disposed plastics.

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Sensor for E. coli risk detection for wastewater environments developed

Control Engineering

She said about two billion people worldwide use a drinking water source that has some level of fecal matter in it and can cause health issues ranging from diarrhea to stunted growth – especially in young children. Emily Bedell (PhDEnvEngr’22) is the lead author on the paper from the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering. Patent Office.

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How open process automation will shape the future of pump control

Control Engineering

It would be built on an open platform that supports application development in a variety of programming environments from different sources. Data sharing: Open platforms enable data sharing across different systems and applications essential for process optimization and greater efficiencies.

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How Industry 4.0 Influence Today’s Asset Management

Factory Worx

In this blog, we will check out the influence of manufacturing 4.0 Why does manufacturing asset management software matter to process manufacturing plants? As the sector gets more competitive and customer demand and market conditions change more frequently, manufacturing businesses need every advantage they can get.