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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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15 pieces of automation advice from ROKLive 2022

Control Engineering

Build an effective cyber resilience strategy : With cyberattacks causing unplanned downtime, contributing to supply chain shortages, and leading to ransomware attacks, manufacturers need to build a cyber-resilience program, according to Brian Deken in the session, “Cybersecurity Peer Exchange: Building an Effective Cyber Resilience Strategy.”

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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. 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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2023 Manufacturing Outlook

ATS

That component of the manufacturing industry outlook is derived from several underlying — and in some cases, ongoing — industry and macroeconomic factors that may threaten sustained growth in the near term. The following aspects of supply chain management have been identified as potential strategies to help improve these areas.

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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.

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The Positive Impacts of Blockchain in the Manufacturing Industry

ATS

Blockchain in the manufacturing industry, for example, offers numerous benefits, from supply chain monitoring to track and trace applications and beyond. In this article, we will explore what exactly blockchain is and how it can apply to manufacturing and industrial applications. What is blockchain technology?

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Digitalization, open automation cuts commissioning time 30%, creates services

Control Engineering

A digital intelligent factory, smart manufacturing, helps achieve that. OEMs also have changed from supplying only equipment to providing digital product and service system operators, or even industry-wide service providers, participating in customers’ operations processes.