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  • Guiding the Industry: AGVs and the Smart Factory

    Guiding the Industry: AGVs and the Smart Factory

    This article discusses how automated guided vehicles have advanced from simple materials handlers to intelligent autonomous robots.
    By: Jonathan Wilkins
    11 March, 2020 | 4 minutes
  • Open Systems International announces Dr. Thierry Godart as Senior Vice President of Industrial Technology

    Open Systems International announces Dr. Thierry Godart as Senior Vice President of Industrial Technology

    Dr. Godart is known for developing high-performance teams and applying groundbreaking technologies to improve business productivity and sustainability. He comes to OSI well equipped to provide strong strategic leadership to the company’s industrial energy management business unit.
    24 February, 2020 | 1 minute
  • Sustainable Manufacturing Through Obsolescence

    Sustainable Manufacturing Through Obsolescence

    The amount of worldwide e-waste generation is expected to exceed 50 million tons by 2020. Americans specifically, throw away an estimated 55 billion USD in e-waste material each year. This article explains how manufacturers can achieve sustainable manufacturing through obsolescence management.
    By: Mark Howard
    19 February, 2020 | 2 minutes
  • Applied Manufacturing Technologies announces Craig Salvalaggio as COO

    Applied Manufacturing Technologies announces Craig Salvalaggio as COO

    As COO, Salvalaggio will lead overall operations of Applied Manufacturing Technologies services along with sales, engineering, and talent management.
    04 February, 2020 | 1 minute
  • CIMdata releases eBook on CGTech's VERICUT manufacturing program verification solution suite

    Since 1990, CIMdata has provided coverage of the CAM and Digital Manufacturing software market spaces. This is eBook on CGTech's manufacturing program verification and optimization solution suite
    08 January, 2020 | 1 minute
  • Exploring Technology in the Food and Beverage Industry

    By Darcy Simonis, ABB food and beverage Many manufacturers are turning to new technology to help them keep up. This article discusses the technology being used and the impact it is having on the industry.
    07 January, 2020 | 3 minutes
  • The Industrial Automation Transformation Change Agent - Inside Inductive Automation's ICC 2019 Conference

    The Industrial Automation Transformation Change Agent - Inside Inductive Automation's ICC 2019 Conference

    By Bill Lydon, Automation.com The 2019 Inductive Automation Ignition Community Conference was another high energy, creative, and stimulating leadership event. With the company illustrating the power of the next level of software technology and leveraging this with a new business model, Inductive Automation illuminated their progression to be more responsive to industry and customer requirements.
    By: Bill Lydon
    19 November, 2019 | 6 minutes
    Sponsored By Inductive Automation
  • Reducing the Risk of Recalls

    Reducing the Risk of Recalls

    By Darcy Simonis, ABB food and beverage With research showing that only 21 per cent of all product recalls over the last decade were detected by the company themselves, it is more important than ever that food and beverage manufacturers review and prevent contamination and mislabeling. This article explores the rise of recalls and what food companies can do to mitigate this alarming trend.
    18 November, 2019 | 4 minutes
  • Fast-Growing Small Manufacturers Transformed with Automated Inventory Control

    Fast-Growing Small Manufacturers Transformed with Automated Inventory Control

    By Thomas R. Cutler Only when a small manufacturer has a grasp on operation elements can the promise of lean manufacturing and continuous process improvement be realized
    25 October, 2019 | 3 minutes
  • Epicor Strategy Empowers Digitalization for Small & Medium Manufacturers

    Epicor Strategy Empowers Digitalization for Small & Medium Manufacturers

    While many manufacturers are aware of the benefits of digitalization, it can be difficult to figure out where to begin, in order to reap those benefits. EPICOR has put together an architecture for companies, particularly small and medium manufacturers, to implement Industry 4.0, and Internet of Things conceptsy.
    By: Bill Lydon
    24 October, 2019 | 5 minutes
  • Rockwell Automation announces acquisition of MESTECH Services

    Rockwell Automation announces acquisition of MESTECH Services

    MESTECH offers technology consulting services, solutions design and deployment, support, plant asset management, and staffing solutions for discrete, hybrid, and process applications across multiple industries including Life Sciences and Automotive.
    02 October, 2019 | 1 minute
  • Gourmet Mass Production

    Gourmet Mass Production

    By Darcy Simonis, ABB Food and Beverage Gourmet food or haute cuisine is expected in high-end restaurants.Recently this style of cuisine has started to feed into daily cuisine choices, with more processed foods going gourmet. This article explains how manufacturers can get on board with this new trend.
    12 September, 2019 | 2 minutes
  • Siemens helps Vietnamese car manufacturer produce first vehicles

    Siemens helps Vietnamese car manufacturer produce first vehicles

    The VinFast plant in Hai Phong went live in June 2019 and has a total design capacity of 250,000 cars per year.The first vehicles have been E-Scooters, compact cars, sedans, and SUVs. These will be followed by battery electric passenger cars as well as electric buses.
    06 September, 2019 | 2 minutes
  • The Meat Retreat

    The Meat Retreat

    By Darcy Simonis, ABB Food and Beverage While many of us are cutting animal products from out diets, it is vital the manufacturers adapt and work closely with their customers to develop a transparent, secure and efficient process.
    14 August, 2019 | 3 minutes
  • OSIsoft announces Michael Siemer as President

    OSIsoft announces Michael Siemer as President

    Siemer, an energy industry veteran with extensive experience in leveraging software technologies to transform complex industrial operations, comes to OSIsoft from Devon Energy Corporation
    24 July, 2019 | 1 minute
  • 2018 Pharmaceutical Automation Roundtable (PAR) Insights – Survey

    2018 Pharmaceutical Automation Roundtable (PAR) Insights – Survey

    By Bill Lydon, Automation.com The PAR meetings to represent one of the most knowledgeable groups of automation professionals gathered in one place, at any one time, to discuss automation issues, and the 2018 event was no exception.
    22 July, 2019 | 5 minutes
  • Food Date Confusion and Traceability: Reducing waste in food manufacturing

    Food Date Confusion and Traceability: Reducing waste in food manufacturing

    By Darcy Simonis, ABB This article discusses how food manufacturers can help reduce consumer food waste due to label confusion.
    18 July, 2019 | 3 minutes
  • Rockwell Automation to help Lonza digitize pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities

    Rockwell Automation to help Lonza digitize pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities

    The Switzerland-based company, founded in 1897 with approximately 15,500 employees, chose Rockwell Automation’s PharmaSuite Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software to digitize the operations in their manufacturing environments
    17 July, 2019 | 1 minute
  • iBASEt announces collaboration with Amazon Web services for MES software in the cloud

    iBASEt announces collaboration with Amazon Web services for MES software in the cloud

    Working with AWS, iBASEt provides A&D manufacturers with a platform to leverage native services to create and deploy a variety of applications and manage regular platform updates.
    19 June, 2019 | 1 minute
  • Insights from 2019 3DEXPERIENCE Forum: Inside Boeing's Digital Transformation Journey using ISA-95

    Insights from 2019 3DEXPERIENCE Forum: Inside Boeing's Digital Transformation Journey using ISA-95

    The digital transformation continues to flow throughout manufacturing, generating electricity among the audience at event after event. At the 2019 Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE in May, it was Boeing, and Lucia Chung, Senior Director, IT Factory Operations, who provided insights into Boeing’s digital transformation effort.
    By: Bill Lydon
    11 June, 2019 | 3 minutes
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