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Honeywell's Matrikon OPC UA SDK selected by Emerson for Machinery Health System
Honeywell’s OPC UA stack is initially deployed in the new CSI 6500 ATG protection system. Evaluation for further deployment within Emerson Process Management is ongoing. -
Holiday Shipping Approaches: Increasing Demand for Rules Based Warehouse Control Systems
By Thomas Cutler, Manufacturing Media Consortium The old warehouse is no more as the RF gun, constant verifications, small keypads, and hard to read screens are quickly becoming yesterday’s technology. -
Rockwell Automation to feature smart manufacturing at IMTS
At IMTS, Rockwell Automation will feature a pre-engineered, automation solution for powertrain applications using FANUC CNCs and robots integrated with its cell controllers over an EtherNet/IP network. -
UEGA of Brazil turns to ABB to automate control system monitoring
The ABB ServicePort Service Delivery Platform allows users to view, scan and track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that impact equipment and process performance, so that actions can be taken to improve site performance. -
Choosing the Right PLM Software
By Bob Hillier, Design Rule This article discusses the ideal process of selecting the product lifecycle management (PLM) software for today's technological organization. -
Flowserve Collaborates with NI, HP and PTC to Enable Predictive Maintenance for Process Control
By Cory Fogg, Automation.com Efficient predictive maintenance has been a goal of the process industry for ages. This article discusses the efforts of Flowserve, with NI, HP and PTC, to create a effective solution for the process control industry -
Real World Results When Demand-Driven Production Planning and Scheduling is Synchronized
By Thomas R. Cutler and John Maher In today’s complex manufacturing environments, the physical processes of manufacturing involve so many moving parts; just digitizing respective components will yield demand-driven results. It is a start toward Best-in-Class lean manufacturing. -
Axiomtek partners with SYSCON-PlantStar to facilitate Asian manufacturing
Axiomtek is a design and manufacturing company in the industrial and embedded computer field. The company also employs an international service network. SYSCON-PlantStar's plant monitoring and data acquisition systems are ideally suited for companies that are establishing facilities in Asia. -
Sekisui Plastics establishes Mexican operations with $7M manufacturing facility
The 61,000 square foot facility houses administration, customer service, and sale functions and will create around 80 area jobs. -
Machine Condition Monitoring Market Bolsters by Demand for Predictive Maintenance across Industries
Machine Condition Monitoring Market is driven by transition from preventive to predictive maintenance across industries, in North America and Europe, machine condition monitoring market witnessed a significant demand, energy and power is largest segment in machine condition monitoring market. -
Eclipse Automation joins newly formed Smart Automation Group
This partnership – which includes Eclipse Automation, Insys Industriesysteme AG, Transmoduls Ltd, SMZ Wickel-und Montagetechnik AG, JULI Technology, and ITE Automation – is forming to share best practices and industry IP to provide customers with automation solutions -
TrendMiner announces $1.1 Million funding from The Innovation Fund
This is a symbolic investment after the Fund’s recent series A funding to TrendMiner of $6 million in December 2015. The investment group supports promising companies identified as creating exceptional value to the chemical industry. -
The past, present and future of smart factories
Technavio recently published a report detailing the top three emerging trends impacting the Global RTLS Market for industrial applications to 2020, and found that Ubisense is behind smart factories for many of the globes’ leading manufacturers. -
Manufacturing Software: Taking a Step Back to Reach the Digitized Future
By Kapil Venkatachalam, Technology Crossover Ventures While manufacturing software vendors want their customers to focus on the technological bells and whistles of the future, many manufacturers are still grappling with the clunky and highly customized systems they’ve relied on for the past 20 years. -
Manufacturing Execution System Enables Aerospace Manufacturer to Produce Safety Critical Electronics
By Anthony Borges, PINPoint Information Systems This document summarizes the manufacturing execution system (MES), or manufacturing operations management (MOM) solution implemented by an Aerospace parts manufacturer in order to introduce full-accountability into their assembly processes. -
Engineering vs IT: A Perfect Storm for Manufacturing
By Jonathan Wilkins, EU Automation Technology is advancing at a phenomenal pace and now, many industrial components are becoming obsolete in as little as three years. As the worlds of engineering and IT continue to band together, this article discusses what this combination means for manufacturing. -
Brenntag turns to Implico's OpenTAS to run mineral oil terminal
Since June 2016, Brenntag GmbH has been using the OpenTAS Terminal Management System to load its heating oil and diesel products at its terminal in Britz, Berlin. -
Bruce Rodewald joins EPLAN Americas as President and CEO
Rodewald brings to EPLAN over 24 years in industrial business development and corporate sales leadership. He succeeds the retiring Raymond Gaynor, who had led the Americas division since 2011. -
HIMA announces investment in IFS' ERP solution
IFS Applications 9 will be used at HIMA as a central ERP system to unify the enterprise’s complex global business processes. The order placed with international ERP provider IFS includes licenses and services with a total value of about EUR 3.1 million. -
Schneider Electric Broadens Hybrid Systems at Connect 2016
By Bill Lydon, Editor The Schneider Electric Connect 2016 event was buzzing with energy and Schneider fueled the excitement with the introduction of products that increase the performance and power of hybrid system offerings