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  • GE uses its own manufacturing software to lower costs

    GE companies deploying the solutions have already realized significant benefits such as: 70% faster order-to-delivery, 15% reduced WIP, 12% less rework and 24% reduced warranty costs.
    12 December, 2012 | 2 minutes
  • Successful Collaboration Enables MES Application Deployment

    Automation.com, December 2012 By Rebecca Guthrie, Dan O'Brien, et al. Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies approached Honeywell Process Solutions for assistance on a solution for a standard manufacturing execution system (MES) platform that would reduce total cost of ownership and take advantage of industry standards.
    08 December, 2012 | 5 minutes
  • Honeywell to supply MES to six power plants in Siberia

    Honeywell will install its MES solution at four power plants in Kuzbassenergo and two power plants in Yenisei, Siberia, as well as at SGK’s head office in Moscow.
    06 December, 2012 | 1 minutes
  • DARPA to use aPriori product cost management software

    DARPA will use aPriori as an automated back-end solution for optimizing manufacturing cycle time and product costs for the Adaptive Vehicle Make (AVM) program.
    03 December, 2012 | 2 minutes
  • Simplifying Automation System Hierarchies

    Automation.com, November 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor The automation industry has been centered on a five layer hierarchical architecture for years but new technology is making it possible to streamline this model to eliminate layers, increase performance, and lower software maintenance costs.
    30 November, 2012 | 3 minutes
  • Siemens and Bentley Systems to unify PLM & FIL software

    The two companies will unify Siemens' Teamcenter Product and Production Lifecycle software and Bentley's ProjectWise Factory Infrastructure Lifecycle software.
    19 November, 2012 | 3 minutes
  • Uponor uses Catalyst Historian to improve operations

    Uponor is using the Catalyst Historian to improve performance characteristics of its assets and identify areas of potential improvement in each OEE area. During the past six months, scrap has been reduced by 6 percent, saving more than $100,000.
    13 November, 2012 | 7 minutes
  • Exele provides TopView Alarm Notification to Sunapsys

    Sunapsys uses TopVew in its SCADA systems for municipalities using voice callout of alarms over standard dialout telephone technology.
    05 November, 2012 | 3 minutes
  • 85% of manufacturers need ERP but few have it

    IFS says traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is not meeting all of the needs of project-driven companies.
    04 November, 2012 | 1 minutes
  • TS3 Technology uses Aegis Software across manufacturing sites

    The Aegis suite is being used for process management including route control, quality data collection and alarming, material validation and internal and external reporting.
    04 November, 2012 | 2 minutes
  • Modernization Program with Broader Analysis of Existing Systems

    Automation.com, November 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Invensys Foxboro describes their Modernization Program as taking a holistic approach based on business requirements with four major goals - Reduce risk of failures, operational improvements, new & existing systems integration, and securing automation systems from cyber-attack.
    02 November, 2012 | 3 minutes
  • IFS to supply ERP to Maersk Drilling

    The contract includes licenses and services worth $11.5 million.
    01 November, 2012 | 1 minute
  • Cambashi Releases E-Learning Training Courses

    The training sessions are intended for salespeople of vendors providing infrastructure products and services to the manufacturing, distribution and energy industries.
    28 October, 2012 | 2 minutes
  • Softing to supply Profibus boards to Emerson for AMS Suite

    Softing's interface boards provide AMS Suite with PROFIBUS asset capability needed to access diagnostic information from PROFIBUS DP and PA devices when connecting to third party host systems.
    28 October, 2012 | 1 minutes
  • Sechan Electronics uses Aegis Quality System Software

    The software replaces a paper-based defect mapping process at the electronics manufacturer.
    28 October, 2012 | 3 minutes
  • Aervoe Industries Replaces Aging ERP Solution

    Aervoe’s ERP system, installed 8 years ago, was unable to keep up with the multiple acquisitions and product line expansions being undertaken at Aervoe.
    24 October, 2012 | 1 minutes
  • OPC UA enables Industrial Information Revolution

    Automation.com, October 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor OPC UA technology provides an efficient and secure infrastructure for communications and has the potential to be the standard of choice to complete the vision of IP to the edge, commonly referred to as the "Internet of Things."
    22 October, 2012 | 3 minutes
  • Honeywell to supply Experion system to Hyundai in Kenya

    Honeywell will supply an Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) to Hyundai Engineering for Kenya Electricity Generating (KenGen) Company’s two geothermal plants in Olkaria.
    16 October, 2012 | 1 minutes
  • Invensys Acquires Spiral Software

    Spiral Software in the UK provides integrated solutions ranging from crude assay management to refinery supply chain optimization.
    15 October, 2012 | 3 minutes
  • IFS supplies ERP to Merrill Technologies

    The ERP software will be used at MTG's machining and fabricating manufacturing sites located in Michigan and Indiana.
    12 October, 2012 | 2 minutes
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