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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

smart manufacturing and digital transformation. Control Engineering asked these questions and others about smart manufacturing and digital transformation to Jeff Winter, senior director industry strategy, manufacturing, Hitachi Solutions, and an industry expert on Industry 4.0 The definition of Industry 5.0

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Defending the factory floor

Automation Mag

The ability to connect to the Internet, as well as the convergence between OT and IT, have exposed the modern manufacturing environment to new cybersecurity threats. Use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for security: AI and ML can be used to detect and respond to OT security threats more effectively.

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Cobots lend a hand on the shop floor

Automation Mag

Current generation artificial intelligence (AI), for example, allows cobots to quickly learn new tasks, make decisions, and most important, identify conditions that could pose a safety risk for a worker only inches away. Cobots leverage the enormous technology investments that have occurred over the past decade.

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A legacy of innovative manufacturing

Manufacturer's Monthly

By purposefully investing $34 million of Commonwealth and other funding in 71 research and development (R&D) projects, IMCRC has helped to catalyse more than $230 million investment in smart manufacturing research and innovation. There’s a lot of manufacturing capability out in the regions that we shouldn’t overlook.

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How digital transformation powers the machine economy

Control Engineering

Germany), Industrie du futur (France), Made in China 2025 (China), or Smart Manufacturing (US), to name a few. This definition shows the potential disruption factors the machine economy brings to IoT. Digital transformation in industries goes by different names, such as Industrie 4.0

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Best practices for effective automation applications, Part 1: Automation effectiveness through data collection

Control Engineering

Real-world examples will help fill skills gaps with smart manufacturing. Depending on the quality of data, the missing pieces of data you don’t have, this could definitely take some significant time and energy. Automation can do quite a bit, but do not over-reach automation’s capabilities. This has been edited for clarity.

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Back In Action: An MCMT Special

Dinesh Mishra

Definitely, we feel the demand and growth will be more towards machines that are more versatile and more independent from operator involvement. shall all be there as the demand for manufacturing is growing in India and other parts of the world. – the world is fast moving to a combination of all such operations.