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During the keynote, Norbert Hanke will lead attendees on a search for ‘smart’ – challenging manufacturers to find the data in their factories and put it to work. Doug Woods will share his insights on the state of the manufacturing industry, assessing its readiness for digital transformation and discussing the risks and rewards of pursuing a smart manufacturing strategy.

By Daymon Thompson, Beckhoff Automation Many tools enable capturing the potential value that Big Data and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) provide, but companies need to know what kind of information they want and how to gather it securely.

With the OPC UA FLC initiative, the OPC Foundation aims to build an open, standards-based communication solution for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) by extending the OPC UA machine-to-machine communication protocol from sensors in the field to IT systems or the cloud.

The MFGWatch 2019 Manufacturing Report was based on a survey completed by both sourcing professionals and custom manufacturers who have used the MFG.com Global Custom Manufacturing Marketplace to expand their supply chain and win business.

Designed for electrical and computer engineering students, the lab includes advanced technologies and equipment donated by Omron.

By Erik Josefsson, Ericsson What is the best way to harness the power of Industry 4.0? Make sure that your connected factories have intelligent connectivity solutions­, solutions that are smart, stable, secure, simple to useand leverage ever-growing amounts of data to create value.

In this webinar, Kepware and JPI introduce the KEPServerEX Configuration API and discuss two advanced use cases that allowed JPI to quickly implement critical connectivity for their customer’s operations

Philip Harting, Chairman of the Board of the HARTING Technology Group, has been elected the Chairman of the AUMA (Association of the German Trade Fair Industry). The AUMA board member will accordingly head the association for the next three years.

By Bill Lydon, Automation.com Amazon is clearly focused on manufacturing and, based on industry events, interviews, analysis, and briefings with users applying AWS technology, is causing another round of disruption in industrial automation.

Prediktor will provide a solution for time-series data management that will enable BKK’s operations.

With the acquisition of Icon Labs, Sectigo is a third-party Certificate Authority that offers end-to-end security for every connected device from the point of manufacture and throughout the entire lifecycle.

By Barrett Thompson, Zilliant The manufacturing plant floor has been automated and optimized for years; yet revenue and profit growth remain stagnant. Two functions at manufacturing organizations are prime for process improvement: selling and pricing.

The diamond composite will be unveiled at the RAPID + TCT show in Detroit May 21 - 23, 2019, North America’s event for Additive Manufacturing.

Combining the expertise from ISA, NEMA, and DOD advisors, the working group has spent several months developing a proposed program in preparation for a roll-out to a wider audience of industry peers.

The free tool determines the register values of a CAN, CAN FD, or SJA1000 controller for user-defined CAN and CAN FD bit rates. In addition, the result list can be adjusted using various parameters such as clock frequencies and sample point.

Based entirely on NUM’s Flexium+ 68 CNC platform, Chien Wei’s machines are designed to speed the production of both involute and cycloidal profile precision gears.

By Andre Blanchard, Data Analyst Data mining continues to be a useful tool for industries all over the world. The rise of big data has brought about an even larger and richer pool of information available, which means that companies who rely on data mining are now incorporating automation as the necessary next step.

Vuzix, which holds 153 patents and patents pending and numerous IP licenses in the video eyewear field, sees the contest as a way to bring the most innovative AR smart glasses applications to light.

With Parsable’s Connected Worker Platform, Honeywell is gaining visibility into the human-led work done across its manufacturing operations, capturing critical data insights to drive continuous improvement.

BASF will implement Emerson’s hybrid automation solution that replaces existing programmable logic controllers (PLCs), used to control 20 reactors, with Emerson’s DeltaV PK Controller.