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  • Rockwell Automation to focus on digital transformation and Industrial IoT at Hannover Messe 2017

    Rockwell Automation to focus on digital transformation and Industrial IoT at Hannover Messe 2017

    Rockwell Automation will be showcasing the technologies, solutions and services that can help companies successfully and securely take advantage of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) at Hannover Messe 2017, April 24-28 in Hannover, Germany.
    By: Rockwell Automation
    29 March, 2017 | 2 minutes
  • ABB chooses Omnify PLM software to enhance design processes

    ABB chooses Omnify PLM software to enhance design processes

    ABB Drives and Controls was lacking a component information management system with a centralized database for their Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) components and the mechanical parts that included PCBAs. They selected Omnify Empower PLM
    By: ABB
    28 March, 2017 | 2 minutes
  • HighJump's 3PL WMS solution brings Canadian frozen storage company to the cloud

    HighJump's 3PL WMS solution brings Canadian frozen storage company to the cloud

    HighJump’s cloud solution is designed to simplify each step of the supply chain while assuring levels of service through system uptime, response time and security.
    27 March, 2017 | 1 minutes
  • RedViking helps GKN Driveline ensure manufacturing visibility

    RedViking helps GKN Driveline ensure manufacturing visibility

    GKN, a manufacturer of automotive driveline products, was seeking an end-to-end traceability strategy and discovered the Argonaut system from RedViking
    By: RedViking
    27 March, 2017 | 4 minutes
  • Magic Software's Magic xpi brings Industry 4.0 to Swiss manufacturer

    Magic Software's Magic xpi brings Industry 4.0 to Swiss manufacturer

    Assa Abloy AG, the Swiss global leader in locking systems and security technology, has put the Magic xpi Integration Platform at the heart of the company’s new fully automated manufacturing system for its KESO keys.
    13 March, 2017 | 1 minute
  • Bringing Data Visualization to the Forefront in Fastening Operations

    Bringing Data Visualization to the Forefront in Fastening Operations

    By Anthony Borges, PINpoint Information Systems Patterns, trends and associations that might go undetected in text based information can be understood easier with manufacturing execution software that puts data visualization forefront.
    07 March, 2017 | 4 minutes
  • Closing the Loop on Manufacturing Error-proofing with MES

    Closing the Loop on Manufacturing Error-proofing with MES

    By Anthony Borges, PINpoint Information Systems Considering that quality and efficiency are the life blood of any manufacturing company, closing the loop on error-proofing is not only important but often ignored.
    28 February, 2017 | 5 minutes
  • Scalable MES Can Increase Speed to Smart Manufacturing

    Scalable MES Can Increase Speed to Smart Manufacturing

    By Greg Schmidt, Rockwell Automation Manufacturing execution systems (MES) can help companies better understand their operations and get more out of their workforce, equipment and materials. However, traditional MES is often an all-in, enterprise-wide investment.
    By: Rockwell Automation
    28 February, 2017 | 3 minutes
  • The New Era of Automation Architectures: What does it mean for users?

    The New Era of Automation Architectures: What does it mean for users?

    By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com The application of revolutionary new concepts and technologies, including the Internet of Things (IoT), sensor advances, embedded controllers, and improving technology, are rapidly changing automation architectures.
    27 February, 2017 | 4 minutes
  • How Your Automation Infrastructure Can Meet Demand for Quality Ingredients

    How Your Automation Infrastructure Can Meet Demand for Quality Ingredients

    By Dave Sharpe, Rockwell Automation Whole and healthy ingredients can create obstacles in production, while ingredient transparency is also an issue. Luckily, an automation infrastructure that lets IT and OT communicate can solve many of these complications
    By: Rockwell Automation
    22 February, 2017 | 3 minutes
  • Omnify announces technology partnership with SiliconExpert

    Omnify announces technology partnership with SiliconExpert

    The integration between SiliconExpert and Omnify Empower PLM supplies detailed part information to users when creating new, corporate parts/part numbers within Empower.
    21 February, 2017 | 1 minute
  • Cloud-Based MES: The Effort to Empower Small Manufacturers

    Cloud-Based MES: The Effort to Empower Small Manufacturers

    By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com In this day and age, it can sometimes seem like the small manufacturer is getting buried underneath the bigger entities in the industry. Yet, many of today’s advances, like the cloud-based MES, are making it possible for small and medium size manufacturers to improve their operation
    20 February, 2017 | 3 minutes
  • Enhanced productivity to be on display at the 2017 HANNOVER MESSE

    Enhanced productivity to be on display at the 2017 HANNOVER MESSE

    What happens when a machine fails or a customer changes its order? Production has to be re-configured, which is time-consuming and expensive. What if there was a better way?
    20 February, 2017 | 3 minutes
  • Werum announces service partnership with EIS

    Werum announces service partnership with EIS

    Since January 1, 2017, EIS is thus a "PAS-X Endorsed Service Partner" and will support Werum customers in Europe and in the USA in the on-site-implementation of Werum's PAS-X MES.
    14 February, 2017 | 1 minute
  • Lockheed Martin chooses Aegis' MES for Colorado facility

    Lockheed Martin chooses Aegis' MES for Colorado facility

    Operators at Lockheed Martin Space Systems will use the MES solution to increase factory speed, control, and visibility for several government satellite programs.
    By: Aegis Solutions
    07 February, 2017 | 1 minute
  • Bill's Top 10 Automation & Control Trends for 2017 - Convergence, Divergence, or Chaos?

    Bill's Top 10 Automation & Control Trends for 2017 - Convergence, Divergence, or Chaos?

    2016 was an exciting year of innovation and exploration in industrial automation. All this cutting-edge development fuels the excitement, but also begs a relevant question: Will these developments lead to convergence, divergence, and/or chaos in 2017?
    06 February, 2017 | 11 minutes
  • Advancing Error-Proofing via MES Control

    Advancing Error-Proofing via MES Control

    By Anthony Borges, PINpoint Information Systems With the advent of advanced automation techniques, the IIoT and Industry 4.0 concepts, the question remains the same; what is the optimal method to eliminate or mitigate defective products made by human or machine?
    26 January, 2017 | 4 minutes
  • Savigent Software and Actemium announce strategic partnership

    Savigent Software and Actemium announce strategic partnership

    As a Savigent Authorized Partner, Actemium will work with manufacturers to build top-to-bottom solutions using Savigent's manufacturing operations management software.
    By: Savigent Software
    25 January, 2017 | 1 minute
  • Is MES On Its Way Out?

    Is MES On Its Way Out?

    By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com The convergence of IT and OT is one of the more fascinating trends that has spawned many discussions throughout the industrial space., but does it sound the death knell for Manufacturing Execution Systems?
    17 January, 2017 | 3 minutes
  • Casa Systems chooses Omnify Empower PLM software to manage engineering products

    Casa Systems was growing and they needed to find a solution to support formal engineering change control processes in order to eliminate issues they were experiencing with accountability, delays and lost information.
    17 January, 2017 | 1 minute
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