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Utilizing controllers successfully in smart manufacturing, digital transformation

Control Engineering

In the rapidly evolving landscape of smart manufacturing, control units such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs) remain essential components in automated operations, helping to streamline processes, enhance productivity and optimize plant performance. “As

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NSO Playground, A New Environment Available on Cisco Code Exchange

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

The article is co-authored with Jesus Illescas, Cisco Software Engineer The Cisco Code Exchange platform gathers shared code repositories related to Cisco and open-source technologies for security,… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Polytron Awarded 2024 System Integrator of the Year

Polytron

Richard Phillips, director of smart manufacturing, Ron Rich, CEO, Rande Allen, VP, sales, Damien Stahl, VP operations. Too many manufacturers struggle with how they should start this journey, not to mention lack of awareness of best practices, technologies to use and architecture, Phillips said.

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Today’s Connected Plant: A Unified Machine for Making Food

Polytron

Polytron, a CSIA Certified Member, helps manufacturers develop and implement their digital transformation strategy and road map, which includes integrating data from all of the different manufacturing systems into one contextualized source of information, according to Richard Phillips, PE, PMP, director of smart manufacturing.

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Taking a different approach to DCS upgrades

Control Engineering

Embracing concepts and technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and smart manufacturing can help. The traditional DCS has reached a point of diminishing returns as a source of unlocking major incremental value (flexibility and agility) for transitioning to digital and autonomous operations.

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15 pieces of automation advice from ROKLive 2022

Control Engineering

Digital transformation is crucial for sustainability in water operations, according to Kelvin Hurdle and Ali Rose, in the session, “Water Wastewater Peer Exchange: Water Sustainability Initiatives Drive Smart Water Adoption for Industrial Users and Water Utilities.”. Drive higher margin with operational rigor and data visualization.

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5G’s role in the adoption of enterprise augmented reality

Control Engineering

The article examines how the enterprise AR ecosystem perceives the coming of 5G, which enterprise AR solutions can be developed using 5G deployments, what are the difficulties in achieving, and what are the benefits. To smart manufacturing enterprises, the ratio is 1 to every 4. who are testing for AR enabled remote operations.