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Accelerating the Digital Transformation of the Machine Tool Industry with Siemens Xcelerator
Siemens Xcelerator includes selected portfolio of IoT-enabled hardware, software and digital offerings as well as a marketplace. -
Digitalization Accelerates Sustainability in the Process Industry
Siemens Xcelerator and the entire Siemens portfolio support sustainability management along the production chain. -
Industrial Readiness and Maturity: Walking the Path of Digital Transformation
For a company willing to start digital transformation, it is paramount to assess readiness and maturity. This feature originally appeared in InTech magazine's August issue, a special edition from ISA's Smart Manufacturing and IIoT Division. -
5 Ways Manufacturers Can Protect Their IP
In smart factories, manufacturers must protect their intellectual property from those who would compromise and misuse it. -
IDM Can Improve Plant Reliability and Reduce Downtime
Intelligent device management is a set of tools that are installed on PCNs or on a plant’s business network and collects smart diagnostics info. -
Digital Twin and Simulation: Replicating Industrial Systems to Enable Improvement
Digital models, digital shadows, and digital twins are helping transform and optimize industrial and business operations. This feature originally appeared in InTech magazine's August issue, a special edition from ISA's Smart Manufacturing and IIoT Division. -
The Opportunities and Obstacles in Using Automation for PCB Assembly
There are several opportunities to improve the production yield by completely automating the PCB manufacturing process. -
Why Do Manufacturers Benefit from Digital Transformation?
Before long, digital transformation will be a necessity if manufacturers hope to remain competitive in the industry. -
Smart Manufacturing Extends to Digital Sales Enablement
Configure, price, quote (CPQ) software tools that take full advantage of the digital plant can provide benefits to manufacturing companies. Some key factors influence go-to-market digitization success. -
How 3D Printing Can Help in Your Medical Device Manufacturing Project
3D printing is economical and offers quick PCB prototyping without the need for complex manufacturing steps. -
Modular 5G Cells Enable Real-time Communications
The COM-HPC server standard for developing real-time capable 5G cells with integrated edge servers is key for industrial companies’ digital transformation. This feature originally appeared in the ebook Automation 2022: IIoT and Industry 4.0 (Volume 3). -
Five Ways to Combat Cybersecurity Risk in Digital Manufacturing
With digital advancements in AI, IoT and automation becoming increasingly critical to manufacturing success, organizations face growing threats from bad actors who wreak digital havoc via ransomware, theft of sensitive data, disruption of critical national and international infrastructure and more. -
Getting Started with Digital Transformation
Smart manufacturing can optimize performance across a network, adapt to and learn from new conditions in real time, and autonomously run production processes. This feature originally appeared in the ebook Automation 2022: IIoT and Industry 4.0 (Volume 3). -
Industry IoT Consortium and Digital Twin Consortium Publish IoT Security Maturity Model for Digital Twins
The Industry IoT Consortium (IIC) and the Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) announced the IoT Security Maturity Model (SMM) Digital Twin Profile. -
The Future of the Manufacturing Labor Force
Let’s explore how manufacturing businesses can invest in the future. -
Siemens and NVIDIA to Enable Industrial Metaverse
The partnership will transform the manufacturing industry with immersive experiences across the lifecycle from design through operation. -
Is Quality Part of Your Digital Transformation Journey?
Understand why you should care about quality and how digital QMS can improve document information flows, avoid recalls, and improve manufacturer profitability. -
Six Key Design Principles of an Industrial 4.0 Smart Factory
This article highlights one of the critical pillars of Industry 4.0–the smart factory. -
Bentley Education’s Digital Twin Design Contest Challenges Students to Reimagine Apartment Living
Bentley Systems announced the winners of Bentley Education’s Digital Twin Design Challenge. The contest invited students from age 12-25 years to explore infrastructure digital twins, providing an opportunity to reimagine a real-world structure designed with the popular Minecraft video game and Bentley’s iTwin technology. -
Interoperability: What It Is and Why It Matters in the Age of Automation
Interoperability brings enormous benefits, but it would be a mistake to assume that the path to it is always completely smooth. Standards are being developed continuously, so many uncertainties remain.