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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Identify how to determine if your company is moving quickly enough with Industry 4.0 Review differences in Industry 4.0, Understand Industry 4.0 It has been a dozen years of Industry 4.0 Is there an Industry 5.0? How should Industry 4.0 initiatives.

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Building a traceability 4.0 foundation for automation

Control Engineering

Internal drivers include manufacturing flexibility, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and product compatibility, whereas external ones include regulatory compliance, industry standards and customer requirements. Industry 4.0 To maximize the benefits of Industry 4.0

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IIOT – How Ready are You (Really)?

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

Manufacturing executives all over the world are looking at IIoT/Industry 4.0 Industrial Internet of Things) as a way to transform their business. You can view the entire article here. So, what are some of the issues that are causing these bumps in the roads with these projects? Where do you stand in IIoT readiness?

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Improving worker optimization on the factory floor with artificial intelligence

Control Engineering

Kuntz described it later as, “Think of it is overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) for people.”. AI-drives insights to decide who has to be reskilled and who should be upskilled. This helps improve productivity and increases engagement.

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How does OEE Help in the Food Manufacturing Industry?

Factory Worx

How does OEE Help in the Food Manufacturing Industry? Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is the go-to metric for food manufacturing facilities to recognise losses and benchmarking advancement toward improving throughput performance. Why OEE Is Critical for Food Industry. Industry 4.0.

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Thermal Loop Solutions: A Path to Improved Performance, Sustainability and Compliance in Heat Treatment

MEM

In this article, Peter Sherwin, global business development manager for heat treatment and Thomas Rüecker, senior business development manager for heat treatment at industrial heating technology supplier Watlow, explores the possibilities of thermal loop solutions. Thermal loop solutions can also be integrated with Industry 4.0

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Building on analytics foundations to improve operations

Control Engineering

Technology innovations in the industrial automation arena have and will continue to create competitive advantages for manufacturers by enabling the accurate and understandable data acquisition that is key to driving manufacturing efficiency. Industrial communication evolution. IIoT plays an important part of Industry 4.0