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Volatility in manufacturing: A game plan for success

Manufacturer's Monthly

The following is a summary of a blog from Epicors Andrew Robling, Principal Product Marketing Manager relating to tariffs, but provides lessons for Australian manufacturers: Tariffs are more than political rhetoric they significantly impact manufacturing by raising costs, disrupting supply chains, and creating uncertainty.

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Five lessons manufacturing operations can learn from enterprise IT teams

Cisco Industrial Automation

Automate deployment and monitoring. To save time and effort and avoid risk, IT teams automate network infrastructure configuration with software-defined network management tools like Cisco DNA Center. IT teams use automated discovery tools to see all connected devices and their communications patterns. Most OT teams can’t.

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How Agility Robotics crosses the Sim2Real gap with NVIDIA Isaac Lab

Robotics Business Review

Source: NVIDIA We’ve been able to demonstrate this in areas like step-recovery , where physics are particularly hard to model. Source: Agility Robotics Early last year, we started using NVIDIA Isaac Lab to train these types of models. Editor’s note: This article was syndicated, with permission, from Agility Robotics’ blog.

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Industrial Processes and Wireless Communications – Part III: Process Automation Monitoring

Cisco Manufacturing

Examples are, mobile robots, AGV(automated guided vehicles), and manufacturing infrastructure. This blog is the third in this three-part series, bringing a lens on process automation monitoring, dissecting the application flow and a little detail on why the serving wireless medium must behave in a particular way to support it.

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Securing Automation Networks: Why the Stratix 5900 is More Than Just a Router

DO Supply

When running any operation, whether it’s a small business or a large automation company with many satellite sites, cybersecurity is a gear in the main machine that isn’t to be left out. Industrial-Grade Security Shop for Stratix 5900 Routers Here Cybersecurity in automation is no joke. Let’s break down what makes it stand out.

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Don’t Buy Cheap Chocolate

Gary Mintchell

Seth Godin writes on a recent blog , “The chocolate we buy at the supermarket furthers the goals of the system, and directly harms the lives of the impoverished farmers who grow the cacao.” The quality of the source matters. My first experience of good chocolates came from automation industry legend Dick Morley.

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Thoughts on Electricity Generation Tech

Gary Mintchell

Some is generated by coal—decidedly not a clean energy source. And it’s a great potential employer of process automation professionals. No other source of clean energy is as reliable, and no other source of reliable energy is as clean. Some is generated by oil or gas. Hydro-generation is much better.

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