Control Engineering

JUNE 24, 2023

Using the power of prediction, University of Wisconsin-Madison mechanical engineers have quickly discovered several promising high-performance polymers out of a field of 8 million candidates. The post Machine learning tool accelerates polymer discovery appeared first on Control Engineering.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 3, 2024

Digital transformation is becoming a major concern for engineers across industries. Source: Adobe Stock Over the past year, I’ve spent a lot of time speaking with manufacturers about their digital transformation projects. Connect with the engineering community Those are just two examples of the presentations at this live event.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Source: NVIDIA Vision-language models, or VLMs, combine the powerful language understanding of foundational large language models with the vision capabilities of vision transformers ( ViTs ) by projecting text and images into the same embedding space. It is fully open source and runs on-device. How to reason over a spatial memory.

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Robotics Robotics Sourcing Artificial Intelligence 126

Control Engineering

MARCH 13, 2023

Learning Objectives Understand how an interface node is set up on a network where a data source is located and uses interfaces or connectors to obtain the data and write it to a historian. Interface nodes and connectors can be used to aggregate data from diverse sources into a single historian. AVEVA PI System to PI.

Sourcing 52

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Advances in machine tool hardware, software, subtractive and additive manufacturing processes and related system integration were among four major Siemens IMTS announcements. The Y-turning and Advanced Rapid Movement functions provide greater machine tool productivity and up to 10% faster machining.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 7, 2022

It’s been a best practice for years to collect all the data you can. However, collecting data isn’t always enough to allow for all of the newer solutions out there to work at their best and deliver the results you want. The post Data warehousing provides more than analytics benefits appeared first on Control Engineering.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Achieving a secure OT environment demands alignment in standards, practices, and tools, often necessitating expert help from partner organizations well-versed in digital transformation and the complexities of the crowded cybersecurity market. This originally appeared on Control Engineering Europe.

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Mold Making Technology

OCTOBER 29, 2024

New Series: Emphasizing the Basics In this article series, Dennis Czubin, a seasoned plastics professional, shares valuable insights from his 40+ years in the industry, focusing on fundamental principles in part and mold design to help mold builders and molders enhance their practices and avoid common pitfalls.

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Polytron

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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. This involves identifying potential vulnerabilities, establishing contingency plans, and diversifying supply chain sources to mitigate future disruptions.

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Supply Chain Smart manufacturing Automation Sourcing 98

Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 4, 2025

Source: Open Mind Technologies A Tale of Two Facilities With a skilled workforce of over 850 employees spanning 14 manufacturing facilities across the Northeast U.S. Over time, Evans Industries has invested in several five-axis DMG MORI machine tools to maintain the tolerances needed for parts like this aluminum structure.

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Dinesh Mishra

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The company is an active member of prominent industry associations like the Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association (IMTMA) and the EEPC, GCCA, and GCCI. Its engagements with esteemed academic institutes, including Engineering colleges, further underscore its commitment to advancing industry knowledge and fostering innovation.

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Logistics Manufacturing Sourcing Form 98

Control Engineering

MAY 11, 2023

HMI and SCADA insights The three tools for HMI/SCADA systems are templates, UDTs and parameterized pop-ups. Use these tools to create projects with more precision and help future-proof their applications. There are helpful tools that speed up development so you can deliver projects faster and meet urgent deadlines with time to spare.

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Function Automation Sourcing Process manufacturing 52

DO Supply

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The PowerFlex 700S AC drive family supports Phase II control, leveraging DriveLogix software to combine the powerful Logix engine with high-performance PowerFlex AC drives, delivering a cost-effective control solution. In this article, we will be discussing the steps for a user to utilize the PowerFlex 700S AC drives.

Function 52

Function Compliance Control Algorithm Sourcing 52

Control Engineering

JANUARY 4, 2023

Companies and engineers embedded in the programmable logic controller (PLC) and distributed control system (DCS) world might not the changes coming on the factory floor and might not be ready for what is coming in the future. This allows the end user to choose best-in-class products on the factory floor to match the application.

Automation 98

Automation Control Algorithm Process control Industry 4.0 98

Control Engineering

MARCH 9, 2023

Advanced analytics software provides process manufacturing organizations with the power of a single platform to enable company-wide learning, best practice dissemination, and collaboration. This is best-accomplished with near-real-time plant data in a common enterprise-wide platform.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Process manufacturing Automation Compliance 97

Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2024

Source: AI generated, via HowToRobot In a construction site in Denmark, two electricians grapple with a stubborn cable, their arms stretched overhead as they maneuver it into place. But today, they’re not alone – two robot engineers watch intently, their minds already racing with possibilities.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 16, 2022

Review insights on cybersecurity protection from a system integrator and how manufacturers and engineers can better protect themselves and industrial networks. The system can respond by notifying key people within the plant or even experts outside OT if the plant doesn’t have a dedicated OT security engineer. How can risk be lowered?

Industry 4.0 98

Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Manufacturing Automation 98

Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Maturity level is often applied in technology adoption applications, and four energy readiness maturity levels were offered to manufacturers and facility engineers Nov. Significantly, a year after setting sustainability targets, more companies are behind than ahead on emissions targets and transitions to renewable energy sources.

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Automation Compliance Artificial Intelligence Process control 52

Robotics Business Review

MARCH 19, 2024

Unwanted tremor and vibration filtration is the best we’ve ever brought to market.” Our insights engine will incorporate real-time surgical force measurement along with the surgical data Intuitive currently collects to build analytical insights for surgeons and care teams.”

Robotics 127

Robotics Robotics Sourcing Fit 127

Control Engineering

JANUARY 11, 2023

On the supply side, Festo has large teams looking for alternative components as well as engineers working on redesigns. Similarly, McNicholas sees growing dependence on engineering teams at motion distributors and automation solution providers. Festo’s online sizing tool is an example.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JUNE 14, 2023

In the early days, no sales engineer was allowed to live further than three hours away from any customer they served, and this mentality to sit customer side remains a pillar of ifm’s operations. Ifm has 15,000 articles in its product portfolio. They can run analytics in real time.

Industry 4.0 98

Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Compliance Automation 98

Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Source: Adobe Stock Humanoid robots, some of which are designed to operate in close interaction with humans, rely heavily on smooth and controlled joint and limb motion. Achieving freedom of movement requires integrating numerous axes of motion, which is best accomplished by working closely with an expert in this field.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 27, 2023

Learning Objectives Learn the latest strategies for backing up control devices and grasp the basics of Git source control and how it differs from using a simple “archive folder” to manage control programs. Attendees qualify for a certificate of completion and those who attend live will get to ask experts questions about Git source control.

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Control Engineering

MAY 22, 2023

Even if they are, they lack the tools and the abilities to unlock the data and make it valuable as a commodity for operations. The data funnel also is hoarded by leadership and IT and OT can be shut out of the process, which has been a source of traditional resentments.

Automation 81

Automation Sourcing Manufacturing 81

Control Engineering

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Data management is therefore a fundamental requirement and the next step on the digital transformation journey of many companies is to put in place technologies that enable data to be collected from multiple sources, visualized and analyzed, to create actionable insights.”.

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Additive Manufacturing

MARCH 13, 2023

There are several key considerations when starting your own service bureau and this article will include insights from several veterans and newcomers. Do you possess engineering knowledge and design capabilities? In today’s environment, these are the most valuable branding and lead generation tools available, do not underestimate them.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 3, 2023

But what is the best approach for coordinating and optimizing gains from all functional areas? But addressing company needs across the entire enterprise requires more than common HMI/SCADA visualization and analytics or business intelligence tools. Process data is needed to inform analytics efforts.

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ATS

JULY 28, 2022

In this article, we will explore what exactly blockchain is and how it can apply to manufacturing and industrial applications. Sharing engineering specifications: Sharing engineering specifications through the distributed chain ensures a single source of truth for anyone who needs access to that information.

Manufacturing 52

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Control Engineering

JULY 3, 2023

PLCopen libraries are designed and created to support and monitor a project’s logic, motion control, safety, OPC UA-HMI, and XML (project source code export), based on configuration needs, alongside application focused PLCopen libraries in homing, coordinated motion, torque control, camming and gearing.

Function 52

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Modern Machine Shop

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Photo Credit: RapAdapt Technology serves us well, perhaps best, when it facilitates creativity and invention. In the world of metalworking and CNC machining, we see this kind of facilitation made possible through digital tools such as CAD and CAM software that enable ideas to manifest into real-world solutions.

3D printing 52

3D printing Digital manufacturing Form Sourcing 52

E&T

MAY 17, 2023

If we don’t find vulnerabilities in the vehicles of tomorrow, threat actors will,” Colombo wrote in an article for Medium. Meanwhile, Honda recently acknowledged that hackers had found a way to remotely start the engine of some of its models, and unlock doors by taking control of the car’s remote keyless entry system.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software was initially designed to aggregate information from distributed sources and provide operators with the information needed to best control processes. SCADA connections to MES and other areas 3. Optimize SCADA data use with information models 6.

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) 52

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Function Industry 4.0 52

Control Engineering

JULY 9, 2023

Finding the best operating limits to maximize all these requirements necessitates more cross-domain information than ever. Manufacturers are discovering the traditional architecture of keeping operational technology isolated from the internet is no longer a viable path to best-in-class operational excellence.

Industry 4.0 52

Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Automation Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 52

Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The software tool’s source code is available to the PACTware Consortium membership consisting of 22 automation vendors who offer the FDT-enabled hosting product to the user community at no cost. The post Consortium releases device integration model appeared first on Control Engineering. PACTware 6.1 The updated PACTware 6.1

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Digital manufacturing Automation Sourcing Manufacturing 52

Mold Making Technology

APRIL 2, 2014

Eleven years ago, the following article was published in MoldMaking Technology. Below is the article as it originally appeared and, at the end, I will highlight the specific changes that have occurred since then. I began my career in the plastics industry more than 20 years ago as a simulation engineer performing flow analysis.

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Automotive Sourcing 52

Control Engineering

JANUARY 23, 2023

At design time, developers may find it difficult to source various components and intelligent devices. Once in production, component changes may be needed quickly as material sources vary and manufacturing demands are altered, otherwise production output can come to an ungraceful halt.

Supply Chain 59

Supply Chain Discrete manufacturing Automation Function 59

The Automation Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The discovery of the steam engine orchestrated the fast development of mechanized systems in several industries today. This article discusses CNC automation, its advantages, what enables CNC machining automation, and how RapidDirect powers CNC automation. These CNC machine tools are easy to use and very efficient.

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