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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 initiatives. Understand Industry 4.0

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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. This is a challenge because a DCS is a closed system and does not take to upgrades easily. This is because the DCS is effectively a closed system, so cannot integrate easily into other systems.

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A look at digital transformation using the cloud

Control Engineering

Digital transformation and IIoT are part of a larger effort to use all the many data streams in manufacturing to gain a better understanding on how everything works. ML and artificial intelligence (AI) make the process easier and the cloud makes it possible to store large amounts of data. Courtesy: Yokogawa.

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Pack Expo Recap: Developing automation systems for facilities

Control Engineering

Many of the advances displayed highlighted progress with the Internet of Things (IoT), smart manufacturing and artificial intelligence (AI). Manufacturers are trying to deliver products that go beyond their initial offerings because their customers need to resolve many problems at once.