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The Automation of Access and Its Impact on Manufacturing
By Dean Wiech, Tools4ever One of the primary issues that employees in manufacturing facilities encounter, regardless of if they are front office or plant floor, is the number of user names and passwords they need to remember. -
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Hispanic Workforce Growth in Automation Requires New Communication Leadership
By Thomas R. Cutler The Hispanic share of the labor force is expected to increase more than that of any other demographic group, because of both overall population growth (from higher births and increased immigration) and higher labor force participation rates. -
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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. -
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Zero Unplanned Downtime – A Dream or Reality?
By Leroy Spence, EU Automation Predictive analytics is not quite magic, but it could make a world of difference for companies who want to improve efficiency. This article discusses how manufacturers can use predictive analytics to manage assets and minimise downtime. -
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Automation Continues to Redefine What it Means to "Work"
By Rick Delgado, Freelance Automation Writer The trend in computer advancement supports the oft-cited prediction that machines will continue to replace human jobs. While new demand can’t be predicted with certainty, individuals can take advantage of new opportunities as they emerge alongside automation. -
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The Benefits and Challenges of IT/OT Convergence: Rewriting the rules
By Martyn Williams, COPA-DATA UK In the modern industrial realm, automation should provide a consistent way of executing tasks and processes – including those usually associated with information technology (IT). This article explains the changing responsibilities of IT and OT. -
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Intrusion Detection for the IIoT: How do we detect threats on the factory floor?
By Alan Grau, Icon Labs As industrial facilities become more connected, hackers are getting more sophisticated, resulting in greater vulnerabilities and increased risk of cyber-attacks. Intrusion detection, the ability to detect when hackers begin probing, is a critical first step to building a secure IIoT. -
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Visibility and Inventory of Manufacturing Assets – The Baseline for OT Security Management
By Shmulik Aran, NextNine A manufacturer and its connected production environment are exposed to a full range of cybersecurity threats. Mitigating the risk of cyberattacks is a rigorous process that requires the hardening of security controls around the IT, ICS and SCADA platforms. -
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Holiday Shipping Approaches: Increasing Demand for Rules Based Warehouse Control Systems
By Thomas Cutler, Manufacturing Media Consortium The old warehouse is no more as the RF gun, constant verifications, small keypads, and hard to read screens are quickly becoming yesterday’s technology. -
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Choosing the Right PLM Software
By Bob Hillier, Design Rule This article discusses the ideal process of selecting the product lifecycle management (PLM) software for today's technological organization. -
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Lighting Controllers – The Hidden Power Behind Automating Machine Vision
By Peter Bhagat, Gardasoft Vision The ability of industrial vision systems to monitor, regulate, check, analyze, sort and classify with high precision, repeatability and safety makes vision an essential enabling technology in a host of automated manufacturing processes. -
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Real World Results When Demand-Driven Production Planning and Scheduling is Synchronized
By Thomas R. Cutler and John Maher In today’s complex manufacturing environments, the physical processes of manufacturing involve so many moving parts; just digitizing respective components will yield demand-driven results. It is a start toward Best-in-Class lean manufacturing. -
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Keeping Industrial Automation Fit and Healthy
By Jonathan Wilkins, EU Automation discusses how this new development helps bring legacy systems forward. -
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How Much of Our Lives Will be Automated?
By Rick Delgado, Freelance Technology Writer Our lives are becoming more automated every day, but how much will be automated, and how will it affect us? This article provides a glimpse into the future of our automated lives. -
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Why Lack of Visibility into Manufacturing Operations is a Security Problem
By Barak Perelman, Indegy Monitoring industrial networks in the manufacturing sector poses unique challenges. The emergence of ICS-native monitoring and control technologies is addressing these challenges. -
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Automating IT Compliance Audits
By Dean Wiech, Tools4ever Having the proper controls in place at the front end of the process can make audit reporting relatively painless. IM and AG systems are designed to automate the user account lifecycle, all the while ensuring that the access provided to users is appropriate -
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Automating Traceability Getting Easier
By Thomas Cutler, Manufacturing Media Consortium Traceability challenges surface in many different forms throughout lean manufacturing and warehousing processes. Leveraging automation and data technology can help make this process easier -
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Manufacturing Competitiveness Requires Awareness
By Bill Lydon, Editor The fall of 2016 presents a great opportunity for manufacturing teams to learn about the latest automation and related manufacturing technologies. Here, Bill discusses September's giant manufacturing technology event in Chicago -
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Global RFID Readers segments is expected to result in its impressive market growth rate of more than 21% by 2020.
The Report Global RFID Readers Market 2016-2020 provides information on pricing, market analysis, shares, forecast, and company profiles for key industry participants. - MarketResearchReports.biz -
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Servo Loop Tuning – A Practical Approach
By IntelLiDrives Although servo motors have an unquestionable performance capability, the final performance is mostly determined by the servo loop tuning. This application note provides some practical guidelines how to make servo loop tuning a deliberate engineering exercise.