Automation Portals
- Automatic Identification
- Building Automation
- Design & Simulation
- Digital Factory
- Electrical & Control Panels
- Embedded Automation
- Factory Automation
- Fieldbus Networks
- Fluid Power, Valves & Pumps
- HMI & Operator Interfaces
- Industrial Communications
- Industrial Computers
- Industrial I/O
- Machine Control
- Machine Safety
- Machine Tools, CNC & DNC
- Manufacturing Intelligence
- Material Handling
- Motion Control, Motors & Drives
- OPC
- Packaging
- Plant Engineering & Maintenance
- PLCopen
- Power & Energy
- Process Control
- Process Instruments
- Process Safety
- Programmable Automation Controller (PAC)
- Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)
- Robots & Robot Controllers
- SCADA & RTU
- Security
- Sensors
- Systems Integration
- Test, Measurement & LIMS
- Vision
- Wireless Connectivity
Find all the latest information on these topics:
Manufacturing Intelligence Portal: Products, News, Articles & Resources
Manufacturing Intelligence Software Products, News, Articles, Events & Resources
Welcome to Automation.com's portal for Manufacturing Intelligence Software including MES, ERP, Asset Management, Process Optimization, Quality, LIMS, etc. The portal provides controls and automation professionals with valuable information and resources to apply in creating reliable automation systems. Manufacturing Intelligence is comprised of software and hardware used to gather and understand manufacturing data together from many sources throughout a production process, including ERP, supply chain management, lean manufacturing, and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). The goal is to understand the current production status and improve business results. Subscribe to our e-Newsletter or get the latest information on Manufacturing Intelligence Software sent to your desktop as soon as they are published on this page.
Articles
 |
Lean Production with Work Process Management
By Greg Millinger and Alicia Bowers, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms By maintaining automated control over a process with Work Process Management, companies can have a much better chance of reducing waste for the longer term. Includes Lean Six Sigma glossary. |
|
Building dynamic value networks
- 03/19/10 Manufacturers’ Monthly, March 2010 By Colin Masson The discipline of Supply Chain Management requires multi-enterprise collaboration. Is your multi-enterprise supply chain responsive, adaptive, agile, and efficient? How well does your multi-enterprise supply chain enable your people to profitably meet the demands of your customers? |
|
What is 'IT in manufacturing' about? - Part 3
- 03/13/10 South Africa Instrumentation & Control, March 2010 By Deon van Aardt, Wonderware Southern Africa Today, we have companies with what amounts to two IT departments – one in charge of making the money (production) and the other in charge of managing it (traditional business IT). |
White Papers
|
Integrating Your ERP and MES to Improve Operations
Integrating the top floor with the shop floor in real time can help companies drive increased operational efficiency, faster responsiveness to changing customer demands, and tighter inventory control—value-added results that enable a sustainable competitive advantage. |
|
Automation and the Smart Grid: Energy Management Today
By Opto 22 This white paper takes a look at electrical power in the United States today, investigates the nature of the Smart Grid, and suggests ways that small and medium-sized companies can - without waiting for future technological development - gather energy data and control electrical energy costs today. |
|
Information Strategies for Manufacturing Sustainability
By GE Intelligent Platforms Manufacturers can greatly benefit from an integrated “big picture” view of their operations, whereby they can measure environmental factors alongside other operational metrics to gain visibility into where they may be disrupting stable processes, or conversely, where they are accepting waste simply because they do not realize it. |
Application Stories
|
Emerson controls cut fuel costs for INEOS Chlor
- 03/17/10 Using PlantWeb control and predictive maintenance technologies, INEOS Chlor has been able to reduce venting of hydrogen gas and instead use it as a fuel to heat onsite boilers for power generation. |
|
Bottling Plant Decreases Downtime and Achieves Swift Payback
Invensys Operations Management Just like consumers selecting a soft drink, Pepsi Bottling Ventures had a number of choices to consider for its new manufacturing performance system. With Wonderware software, the plant achieved 50% reduction in changeover time and 10% increase in line efficiency, with payback in less than one year. |
|
Focus on Critical Assets Pays Off
- 03/10/10 Chemical Processing, February 2010 By Joel Holmes, Monsanto Since an Emerson AMS asset optimization program was initiated more than two years ago at the Monsanto herbicides plant in Muscatine, Iowa, it's prevented several potentially expensive process interruptions, saving the company tens of thousands of dollars. |
Resources & Literature
|
|
Poll Question - How many different networks do you have in your facility?
How many different communication networks do you have implemented in factories and/or plants? The list of available networks includes, but is not limited to: Foundation Fieldbus, ControlNet, PROFIBUS, Interbus, AS-Interface, CanOpen, CC-Link, PROFINET, HART, Ethernet, EtherCAT, Ethernet Powerlink, SERCOS, Modbus, LonWorks and DeviceNet. |
|
|
How Lean are your manufacturing processes?
Motorola Survey Find out how lean your manufacturing processes are by completing a survey customized to your area of responsibility. We’ll immediately calculate your Lean and Mobility scores and benchmark them against an industry standard. You’ll also receive a FREE customized report, prepared with the assistance of R. Michael Donovan & Co., an internationally recognized lean consultant. This comprehensive report analyzes your scores and identifies ways to boost the impact of lean practices in your organization. |
|
|
AutomationDirect Industrial Automation Product Reference Catalog
Desk Reference contains detailed product descriptions complemented by plenty of technical illustrations, step-by-step procedures for selecting various PLC hardware and software, PC-based control, operator interface, motor contactors, drives, sensing equipment, connection systems, and much more. |
Training & Seminars
|
|
Catalyst SDP Introductory Webinar
Free, hands-on webinar covers Catalyst SDP, an event-driven System Development Platform for manufacturing operations that unifies systems within the manufacturing environment. |
|
|
MatrikonOPC offers on-line OPC Training
- 01/27/09
“Introduction to OPC” introduces students to the basics of OPC including the most common version, OPC Data Access. |
Featured Products
Product Announcements
 |
_thumb.jpg){kind=small}
|
GE Intelligent Platforms announces Proficy Pulse
- 03/17/10
Proficy Pulse empowers operators, engineers and analysts to view, analyze and co-relate real time operational situations and historical intelligence. |
|
EDSA introduces Paladin Gateway for power analytics
- 03/16/10
Paladin Gateway software development kit (SDK) and application programming interface (API) can imbue virtually any system with power analytics capabilities. |
||
|
_thumb.jpg)
|
GE introduces Open Enterprise software
- 03/15/10
Open Enterprise allows bi-directional messages to and from enterprise systems so companies can integrate data at the business level with the plant floor. |
Company & Organization News
|
ISA selects Automation.com as advertising sales partner
In addition to daily and weekly digital and online content, ISA will publish 6 print issues of InTech magazine in 2010. ISA selected Automation.com as the advertising sales representative for InTech magazine’s print, digital, and online editions. |
|
ARC says prices are coming down on automation products
- 03/07/10 One element contributing to the price erosion is that controllers are rapidly becoming an automation commodity in some sectors. |
|
IDC launches Engineering Institute of Technology distance learning
- 03/07/10 Engineering Institute of Technology focuses on advanced distance learning in engineering and technology in areas such as industrial automation, electrical and mechanical engineering and industrial IT. |
Project News
|
Scottish Power selects PAS to improve automation
- 02/19/10 HazardEX, February 2010 Scottish Power selected PAS comprehensive alarm management and control performance software and services to improve the operations of twelve sites comprising gas-fired, coal-fired, and hydro-electric power generation stations. |
|
Matrikon to supply Control Performance Suite software to BASF
- 02/16/10 Matrikon Deutschland entered a license agreement with BASF for all production facilities worldwide to integrate and use Matrikon’s Control Performance software. |
|
GE Intelligent Platforms to control Qatar Steel
- 02/11/10 GE will supply Proficy software including Plant Applications, Historian, iFIX and Portal rolled out in a phased format led by a significant pilot project. |
Events
|
NiagaraAX product update webinar
- 09/30/09 Tridium will host two sessions of the What's New in NiagaraAX 3.5 webcast on October 13 and 15, 2009. |
Contribute to Portals
Send your articles, white papers, application stories, resources, training and events for publication consideration to content@automation.com. Learn more about our portals.
