Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

APC lets manufacturers leverage the capabilities they often already have in the existing control system. Advanced Process Control Insights. Advanced process control (APC) is a way for process manufacturers to augment and enhance the technology that often already exists on plant floors.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 27, 2023

The ability to gather and record data on the whereabouts and timing of works-in-process undergoing a specific manufacturing operation or finished products making their way through the supply chain is essential for ensuring quality, identifying bottlenecks and minimizing product waste during recalls.

Automation 98

Automation Supply Chain Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Industry 4.0 98

Control Engineering

JANUARY 31, 2023

Links to each article below. See top 3 covers and top 10 articles posted prior to 2022. Universal automation lays the foundation for smart factories Universal automation can help make smart factories a reality in process industries and giving users more freedom and flexibility in their day-to-day activities.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 9, 2023

Links to each article below. Control Engineering’s most clicked articles in December 2022 included stories on HMI/SCADA systems and solutions, MQTT, SI Giants and System Integrator of the Year winners and more. Supply chain, staffing and COVID-19 are main concerns among SI Giant system integrators.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 15, 2023

Links to each article below. Universal automation can help make smart factories a reality in process industries and giving users more freedom and flexibility in their day-to-day activities. Supply chain, staffing and COVID-19 are main concerns among SI Giant system integrators. Taking control of your control system.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Links to each article below. Beyond PID: 6 advanced strategies to add value to modern process control While PID control is a good choice for most process control applications, sometimes the application is too challenging or complicated. See diagrams, equations. What’s new in wireless, RFID for IoT asset tracking?

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 1, 2023

Understand the costs and challenges process manufacturing plants face due to running legacy control systems. Today’s process manufacturing plants are under a lot of pressure. Supply chain issues make it harder to find replacement parts for aging control systems, generating long lead times and extended outages.

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Process manufacturing Automation Process control Benchmarking 98

Control Engineering

MARCH 10, 2023

Today, pharmaceutical production plants must embrace more flexible production and faster process implementation to reduce time to market for new product developments. They also need improved supply chain management to ensure better product quality and more stable/reliable product supply, and they need to reach target yields faster.

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Pharmaceutical Smart manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking 98

Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

6-9, included discussions about digitalization helps optimize operations, helps with energy efficiency, workforce shortages, supply chain, climate change and cybersecurity. 2023 ARC Industry Forum keynote insights Automotive, industrial and energy manufacturer ZF Group provides motion controls for automotive, industrial and wind power.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Networks, people, supply chain and cyber-physical systems (CPS) are among the ways the cyber attack surface is growing and an intrusion can happen from any one of them because many vulnerable devices were created before the internet. Supply chain. OT security insights.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 17, 2023

Offset a mile recession in 2024 and depression in 2030 in part with manufacturing automation. Be prepared: Companies have the opportunity to pull ahead and improve automation and efficiency in operations and reduce supply chain bottlenecks. The worst things companies can do is not be ready or think everything is going well. “As

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Control Engineering

JULY 12, 2023

The primary objective of smart manufacturing is to increase productivity, efficiency and flexibility while reducing waste, energy consumption and operational costs. not only includes smart manufacturing but also extends to other functions, such as logistics and supply chain, transportation, energy and even healthcare and retail.

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Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Smart manufacturing Manufacturing 98

Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Distributed control systems (DCSs) are at the heart of process manufacturing operations and have evolved to focus on digitalization. Using pre-made and pre-tested automation software modules will allow companies to use DCSs more effectively.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 17, 2023

The most common automated multivariable control technology is model-predictive control (MPC), which uses dynamic process models to predict future process responses. One often overlooked option for getting more out a process are multivariable process control improvements.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 1, 2022

All stakeholders were interviewed: global IT personnel, operators, plant floor staff, supply chain and raw materials experts, maintenance workers and managers. Using interview information and other information, a comprehensive plan in two parts was developed.

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Process control Supply Chain Manufacturing 52

Control Engineering

JULY 27, 2022

Using a plant-wide asset monitoring platform can help close some blind spots manufacturers face. . With today’s labor and supply chain challenges, more companies are leaning into automation to a greater degree.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Supply Chain Automation Function 52

Control Engineering

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Command center integrates disparate IT/OT/ET systems Many large companies use a centralized approach to view the supply chain end-to-end so they can optimize activities on a macro-level regionally or globally.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 23, 2023

Manufacturers can improve the customer experience and satisfaction while also achieving better product production through shorter innovation cycles. At a higher level, many manufacturers view such endeavors as part of a wider smart manufacturing strategy linked with Industry 4.0

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Automation Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Manufacturing 52

Mold Making Technology

APRIL 2, 2025

He has written over 60 articles for PT and MMT. Garecht: I think that this mold shows that higher cavitation, precision gear molds are possible as long as you have a team focused on accuracy in the tool build, good gear geometry, and consistency in the molding process. He is a 37-year veteran of moldmaking and repair.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 5, 2022

On its face, there’s lots to like about modular automation. Breaking a production facility into modular units – or modules – is a good way to build, maintain and upgrade production systems. At the same time, it can be very industry specific.

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