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Four analytics areas for manufacturers to emphasize

Control Engineering

Furthermore, they also identify special conditions in which performance is sub-standard compared to other, more “normal” conditions.

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Navigating the road to sustainability at the edge

Control Engineering

Reducing operating expenditure: This can be achieved by reducing overall energy consumption and comparing energy metrics across plants. Maximizing capital expenditure utilization: This is achieved by reducing machine downtime, reducing machine underutilization and improving your overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).

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Maximizing ROI: How Allen-Bradley Drives Can Save You Time and Money in the Long Run

DO Supply

In this article, we will review how Allen-Bradley drives enable users to maximize their ROI. We also have more articles, like the one you have just read, here! ROI can be maximized by improving the efficiency of operations, simplifying drive installation and commissioning, minimizing system downtime, and reducing maintenance costs.

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Automating overall equipment effectiveness in a facility

Control Engineering

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) insights OEE helps manufacturers determine how effective productivity is for equipment, line or an operation. Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a method of measuring the manufacturing productivity of equipment, line or operation.

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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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IIOT – How Ready are You (Really)?

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

They understand the potential of the technology that can drive better overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), drive process improvements and reduce waste while also innovating ways to bring new products out the door for their customers. You can view the entire article here. Where do you stand in IIoT readiness?

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Gaining actionable insight with SCADA systems

Control Engineering

In one example, Catania Oils, partnering with a system integrator, used a HMI/SCADA suite along with a plant data historian to improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and key performance indicators (KPIs).