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igus helps automate German red worm factory
This company is using igus components almost exclusively to automate labor-intensive processes in the breeding and growing giant red worms, with the goal of expanding its automated units to support other small businesses who are searching for robotic solutions. -
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Omega Engineering announces Predictive Maintenance online resource
On the site, customers can learn how their current maintenance program stacks up and calculate how much time and money their plant can save with a predictive maintenance program. -
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Keeping Pace with Technological Innovation through Finance
By Peter Austin, Siemens Financial Services Today more than ever, manufacturing leaders must understand the value of digitalization, how it applies to this industrial shift and establish the capital to enable this transition. -
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Reliable Controls' Michael Osborne announced as BACnet Chair
BACnet has been an international standard since 2003, and has 877 listed products from 180 manufacturers, with over 1,000 vendor IDs from 50 different countries. -
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Integrated Plant Performance Management as a Means to Improve Profitability
By Yasunori Kobayashi, Yokogawa In today's competitive environment, process industry companies need to balance multiple objectives including safety, profitability and delivering value to customers. However, these objectives are often conflicting goals not aligned across departments, plants, or enterprise boundaries. -
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Smarter Tech and Safer Food: How is smart technology improving food safety?
By Robert Glass, Food & Beverage, ABB Food safety has been one of the top priorities for food manufacturers and consumers for many years. This article explains how smart technologies are helping manufacturers exceed food safety standards. -
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Moxa's SDS-3008 Smart Ethernet Switch earns Red Dot Award for Product Design
This year, Moxa competed with over 6,300 entries produced by designers and manufacturers from 59 countries. A jury of 40 experts assessed the submissions based on criteria such as degree of innovation, functionality, ergonomics, longevity and ecological compatibility. -
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What Does the TDC ExxonMobil Migration Mean for The Open Process Automation Forum?
By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com The industrial automation industry has dramatically lagged in the adoption of technology, and a major reason for this has been closed ecosystems. Will the Honeywell TDC3000 migration approach eliminate the reason for The Open Process Automation Forum (OPA) initiative? -
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Renishaw partners with Bristol Music Trust charity to combine music and STEM education
As part of the collaboration, Renishaw is demonstrating the role that fun and creativity plays in engineering by supporting Beat Lab, an interactive music-tech initiative. -
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USMTO Report: Manufacturing technology orders up 22 percent in first half of 2018
The latest U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report from AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology showed that orders totaled $417 million for the month, down 14 percent compared to May’s totals, and sit at $2.55 billion for the year. -
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Beckhoff Automation to highlight EtherCAT and TSN networking, Smart Factory technologies at Hannover Messe USA 2018
Beckhoff will exhibit in the Integrated Automation, Motion & Drives (IAMD) USA section in booth 134417. During the show, Beckhoff will also support the EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) at partner booth 134117. -
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exida introduces ISA-18.2 / IEC 62682 Alarm Management certificate program
The AMP program will be offered in conjunction with the exida Academy Training course ALM 101: Introduction to Alarm Management Practices & Principles, which is offered generically or for specific control systems. -
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Move to Smart Automotive Manufacturing With Standardization
By Larry Smentowski, Rockwell Automation Smart manufacturing or Industry 4.0 initiatives present an opportunity to help all automakers address their challenges. But those initiatives will only be successful if automakers first have network, control and software standards in place. -
FeatureIndustry 4.0 Make to Order Manufacturing at Valpak, Who Would Have Guessed?
I was impressed by a tour of the Valpak Manufacturing Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, hosted by Siemens, which is a great example of a company applying Industry 4.0 make to order manufacturing concepts. -
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Siemens to highlight Digital Enterprise portfolio at AMB
Siemens will be demonstrating to users and manufacturers of machine tools at its 270 square meter Booth B03 in Hall 2 how end-to-end digitalization solutions work from the machine tool right up to the corporate management level and the cloud. -
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7 Switch Myths Busted
By John Sestito, United Electric Controls Seven common myths surrounding switches are analyzed in this paper in conjunction with new high-tech electronic switch designs that are proven to solve historically problematic implementation in the industrial process industries, from the plant to OEM manufacturers. -
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Honeywell Process Solutions announces partnership with aeSolutions for process safety integration
This integration pairs the HAZOP/LOPA, SRS, and SIL Verification requirements from aeShield with Honeywell’s Safety Builder, Process Safety Analyzer, and Trace into a Process Safety Suite. -
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Siemens helps PAR Systems enhance crane operation safety
This solution, EXPERTOPERATOR, was developed by PaR Systems (PaR). PaR is a global manufacturer of advanced automation, robotic, and specialty material handling solutions. PaR supports global customers in automotive, aerospace, nuclear, life science, marine and other core industries. -
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Johnson & Johnson and Fluke Corporation to discuss IIoT and Asset Maintenance at MaximoWorld
Executives from Johnson & Johnson, the health care company, and Fluke Corporation, a specialist in professional electronic test tools and software, will provide insight into those issues and more in the learning session entitled “IIoT: Connecting the Unconnectable Assets at J&J,” -
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NI works with Innovari to enhance efficiency in grid operations
Innovari’s Interactive Energy Platform (IEP) uses artificial intelligence, “big data” analytics, proprietary optimization routines and grid-edge hardware built on NI technology to deliver capacity and address grid demand.
