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| CERN uses LabVIEW and PXI to control particle accelerator. |
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| Teamed with IBM, ABB, Aker Kvaerner and SKF |
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Automation Weekly - Going wireless, embedded and green, Returnable packaging, Motion control services, Marketing & Sales summit
The August 6, 2008 issue of our Automation Weekly eNewsletter is online now. This issue includes review from National Instruments' NIWeek on graphical programming, wireless, embedded and green; a new article on returnable packaging for lean manufacturing; plus the latest automation news and products. Sponsored by SIXNET, Northwire and ARC Advisory Group.
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Returnable Packaging - The Next Phase of Lean
By Thomas R. Cutler
As industrial automation continues down its lean manufacturing journey, the area of packaging waste has taken center stage. The way to reduce this packaging waste is returnable packaging.
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State of Manufacturing & Automation in the U.S. Looks Good
Could it be that high fuel prices, the weak dollar and crises in the U.S. manufacturing industry are creating opportunities? Andy Chatha of ARC Advisory Group thinks so. He says the U.S. industry has suddenly become competitive on the world market, and companies are no longer moving operations overseas. Instead, many are expanding their facilities, and he predicts a boom in automation right here in the U.S.
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Establishing Change Management to Reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of Your HMI/SCADA System
By GE Fanuc
There are more to costs than just those incurred through project development and ongoing maintenance. Change management technology offers an automated way to help an organization assess, monitor, manage, control—and lower—project costs as well as ongoing maintenance costs of HMI/SCADA and control systems. Registration required.
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Nesting Heuristics Less Effective than Vision Emulation
By Thomas R. Cutler
Previously, most nesting algorithms were simple heuristics, and did not consider the alternatives; Vision Emulation combined with Multi-Dimensional-Combinatorial-Nesting technology guarantees the highest efficiency while insuring that production schedule and priorities are optimized.
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NUM provides customized CNC platform for integrated aluminum processing line
- 08/04/08
A single Axium CNC platform from NUM controls the entire machining centre, including the 10 motion axes on the robot heads plus various sensors and actuators.
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Statoil pumps up production through information sharing and smart practices
By IBM Corporation
With oil and gas production the backbone of the Norwegian economy, Statoil–the nation’s largest producer–needed a way to offset the natural trend toward declining production levels. Statoil sought to incorporate new technologies into production processes in order to transform, streamline and improve them.
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OPC Drives Overall Equipment Efficiency from 65% to 75%
By Thomas R. Cutler
"Supporting OPC creates great new opportunities for collecting data from production equipment in real time, performing statistical analysis on the data and then feeding information back to operators, engineers or to the equipment itself," says Byron Shetler, Chief Technology Officer for Hertzler.
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Code reading with In-Sight saves Sony money
By Cognex
Sony in Malaysia is using the In-Sight 5110 for code reading on PCBs for their MP3 players. Each PCB passes along a conveyer on 9 production lines and is marked with a Datamatrix code containing product information in 10 characters measuring only 1 mm x 1 mm in size.
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Vision System Aids Weyerhaeuser Printing Operations
By Jim McMahon
Weyerhaeuser uses the Vision Plate Mounter/Proofer from Leader Engineering-Fabrication to increase pre-press production, cut downtime between runs, reduce pre-press waste and improve safety.
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