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PLM, a Silver Bullet for Manufacturing? Autodesk has another take on it!
By Bill Lydon, Contributing Editor
PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) is being promoted as the next investment manufacturing companies should make to improve quality, efficiency, and productivity. Autodesk is promoting Digital Prototyping as a better approach for the majority of users with significantly lower complexity and cost.
Manufacturing Visibility Achieved
Control Engineering, March 2009
By Jeanine Katzel
Once-simple manufacturing execution tools are blurring the lines between business functions and the plant floor. MESs now may be able to achieve the efficiency and agility manufacturers need to survive in today’s economy.
Can You Do Asset Management Yourself?
Control, March 2009
By Rich Merritt
Building an asset management (AM) system is sort of like building a race car. You can put a vehicle together with parts and labor, or you can buy one already built. Can you do asset management yourself? Of course you can. But can you afford to?
The grand convergence in manufacturing
InTech, March 2009
By Dan Knight and Brian Oulton
The deployment of Ethernet has pulled IT and manufacturing professionals together, often creating turmoil, but often creating opportunity to improve efficiencies, drive company-wide best practices and provide transformational change that improves the competitiveness of manufacturers.
Extend the Value of ERP
Chemical Processing, February 2008
By Fred Reever, CISUG, and Frank Kochendoerfer, SAP
Chemical companies have adopted ERP systems and made them their “transactional hubs.” Such systems have shown tremendous business benefits, but the benefits to the manufacturing arena are less defined and a correlation of ERP benefits to manufacturing hasn’t been evident.
More Than a Scorecard
Automation World, February 2009
By Gary Mintchell
The concept of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) has been developed to provide a model for defining measurements and their analysis. This is a metric that manufacturers should be even more concerned with now, given the current economic climate in which they are trying to extract more capacity from current assets.
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The Profitable and Safe Supply Chain
By Sean Robinson, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms
Product diversification strategies create opposing forces that act on profits and brand equity. The rapid pace of product launches in manufacturing can reduce operating efficiencies, and the explosion of new recipes and specifications raises the difficulty of maintaining and providing product quality and safety. Here’s how to develop work processes that incorporate data collection for both sets of problems.
Using Appliance Transaction Modules to Enable Tracking and Tracing
By Alex Cuningham, Online Development
Appliance transaction modules provide a simple, yet effective method to connect dissimilar devices, PLCs, PACs, controllers and computer systems for a wide variety of tracking and tracing applications. They enable the development of specific event-based, bidirectional transactions between different brands and types of products without programming. Intuitive screens in the setup utility, as well as drag and drop configuration, make startup fast and easy.
How Wonderware Addresses the Challenges of the Water and Wastewater Business
By Steve Garbrecht, Wonderware
Wonderware provides software to help municipal and industrial operations run more efficiently and at lower costs. While it can’t solve all of the problems the industry is facing, such as finding new sources of water, it can be of great benefit in assisting with the major concerns in the industry.
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.
Achieving Value in Packaging Line Operations
By Wonderware
Describes the Wonderware Industry Application for Packaging software, which delivers a standard and normalized data layer for all packaging line types. It address the main requirements expressed by both manufacturing companies and machine vendors/OEMs.
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How Lean are your manufacturing processes?
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ScadaPhone Alarm Dialer
By ScadaTEC
Data sheet describes ScadaPhone Windows-based alarm dialer that provides alarm announcements via telephone, PCs, text messages, and SCADA servers. It also provides alarm history reports. A free demo version can be downloaded.
Honeywell announces TheOptimizedPlant.com web site
The site focuses on four key strategies: reducing maintenance costs, reducing risk and improving cash flow, implementing high-ROI solutions and driving down operational costs.
ARC starts advisory service for asset lifecycle management
Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) service can help companies improve the effectiveness of their manufacturing/production, IT and human assets.
Onset offers 30-Day trial of Data Logging Software
HOBOware Pro 2.7.1 graphing and analysis software package for HOBO data loggers is available for a free trial.
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| Application Stories |
Univalve transforms valve asset management
HazardEx, February 2009
Asset management of thousands of valves, vital to major operators in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries, uses data capture technology from Terrington Data Management.
Areva NP uses Ubisense software in nuclear plants to find workers in emergencies
The software stores plans and other printed building documents to immediately locate and find all personnel precisely and reliably to facilitate rapid rescue and evacuation.
Emerson automates China’s Huaneng coal-fired power plant
Emerson installed an Ovation expert control system, Smart Wireless, AMS Suite predictive maintenance software, and Rosemount wireless pressure and temperature transmitters.
Coordinated Control and Optimization of a Complex Industrial Power Plant
Power Engineering, November 2008
By George Valadez and David “Glenn” Sandberg, Alcoa
The power plant at Alcoa’s Point Comfort aluminum smelting process has a DCS that was installed during the past 20 years. The system was expanded with an ABB multi-level approach that uses real-time optimization (RTO), connected to advanced process control (APC).
Filling in the Business Process Gaps
By Deacom
Taiyo America, a manufacturer of solder mask, replaced a DOS-based computer running three software applications with a Deacom ERP system to control everything from formulation to invoicing.
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| Featured Training |
ICONICS announces webcast series
April-May 2009 10:00 AM EDT
Series covers a wide range of technologies, including 64-bit solutions, GIS-integrated SCADA and energy analytics. Each Webcast lasts approximately 30 minutes.
DASYLab Training Workshop
April 29 – 30, 2009 Norton, MA
Using an evaluation copy of DASYLab Pro Version 10, workshop is a practical, hands-on training program designed to get you up and running quickly. $995.
2009 Deacom User Conference
May 6-7, 2009 Philadelphia, PA
Conference provides networking opportunities, one-on-one access to Deacom staff, and breakout training sessions to help manufacturers enhance their ERP System.
RSTechED 2009
June 21-26, 2009 Orlando, Florida
110 technical sessions, hands-on labs and user presentations on plant-floor information strategies.
MatrikonOPC offers on-line OPC Training
“Introduction to OPC” introduces students to the basics of OPC including the most common version, OPC Data Access.
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| Company & Organizational News |
Siemens announces Regional User Conference schedule
Conferences will be held in Mobile, AL, King of Prussia, PA, Park City, Utah, and Houston, Texas.
Canary Labs appoints Jack Wilkins Director of Sales
Wilkins was previously responsible for worldwide sales and global marketing strategies for GE Fanuc's Proficy Historian, Real-Time Information Portal and Shop Floor SPC software.
Trends and Outlook: EMS, SCADA & DMS
Utility Automation & Engineering T&D, February 2009
By Charles W. Newton, Newton-Evans Research
150 major and mid-size electric power utilities from the United States and Canada participated in the 2008 North American control systems market study. EMS/SCADA investments in upgrades, new applications, interfaces et al were mentioned by 42 percent of the group. Fault detection, isolation and service restoration were mentioned by 20 percent of the group.
Cisco acquires Richards-Zeta Building Intelligence
Richards-Zeta is a provider of intelligent middleware technology that enables businesses to integrate building infrastructure and IT applications over a common Internet Protocol network.
InduSoft names Dave Hellyer sales manager
Hellyer previously held management positions at Iconics, CI Technologies (Citect), and Total Control Products.
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Wonderware to supply EMI & MES to Chr. Hansen
Chr. Hansen in Denmark selected Wonderware software to manage operations at its facilities worldwide.
GE to reduce energy and water usage at its data center
GE is updating the data center with 30 products from nine different GE businesses, including power quality, chilled water, electrical, security and IT services equipment.
IFS supplies ERP to Finnish paint manufacturer
Teknos will install ERP in its operations in Finland, Scandinavia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, Slovenia and Russia.
Emerson to automate Mitsubishi advanced polymers plant
Emerson will provide PlantWeb, Foundation fieldbus instrumentation, analyzers, DeltaV controls, AMS software, valves, engineering and project management.
Honeywell to control biotech manufacturing processes
Shire Human Genetic Therapies will use Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS), Experion Batch Manager, wireless network and Uniformance Process Historian Database.
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Automation Technology Egypt 2009
May 9-11, 2009 Cairo, Egypt
Automation Fair is the premier industry event focusing on advanced automation products, integrated control and information architecture and value-add services and solutions.
3D Collaboration & Interoperability Conference
May 17-20, 2009 Estes Park, Colorado
CIC is a vendor-neutral conference addressing collaboration and interoperability in CAD and manufacturing.
Yokogawa Technology Fair & Users Conference
May 19-21, 2009 Houston, TX
The conference will offer attendees courses and product technical seminars, and to see how Yokogawa automation solutions delivery measurable results.
Sensors Expo & Conference
June 8-10, 2009 Rosemont, IL
The 2009 Conference Program will offer 18 tracks with an expanded focus on data acquisition, data analysis, wireless, M-2-M and communications.
Data Systems International Conference
September 14-16, 2009 Kansas City, MO
Includes educational sessions, exhibitor showcases, networking sessions, and keynotes from industry leaders and special guests.
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