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Bioethanol plant realizes start-up and operational gains
- 05/08/08
Emerson’s PlantWeb architecture enables TARKÝM plant to start up a month early and produce almost thirty percent above target levels.
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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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Follett Ice: Three years of Demand Driven Supply Chain Efficiency - Still Part of Continued Process Improvement
by Thomas R. Cutler
Follett wisely identified the key variables when selecting a demand driven supply chain three years ago. They needed a commitment from management to support lean manufacturing and supply base that is open to change. They also recognized that if the method of ordering changed, order quantities and lead-times would be reduced, yet needed people available for implementation and had to generate enough savings to cover start-up and monthly fees.
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Remote Services via Internet
Koenig & Bauer, a manufacturer of printing plants, implemented remote maintenance via Internet using open standard technologies in an integrated mGuard solution from Innominate.
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