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Unleash the power of smart manufacturing

Control Engineering

On day 2, October 18, of the Fall 2022 session of CFE Media’s Virtual Training Week, Ted Rozier, director of engineering at the Mason, OH-based Festo Didactic Solution Center, North America, will present on the topic of “ How to unleash the power of Smart Manufacturing while ensuring automation and robotic safety. ”.

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Making Productivity Sustainable with Pharma 4.0

i4.0 today

Smart pharmaceutical manufacturing can do more than drive up productivity. As a result, pharmaceutical companies can help to protect both people and the environment. The future of pharmaceutical manufacturing, also known as Pharma 4.0, is based on data-driven technologies. Pharma 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. Today, pharmaceutical production plants must embrace more flexible production and faster process implementation to reduce time to market for new product developments.

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Best practices for effective automation applications, Part 2: Automation case study

Control Engineering

Automation application insights A system integrator explained a control system modification and the challenges they faced during the project to make it work effectively within the confines of the facility and its environment. Whether just starting or a seasoned expert, heed this advice when applying automation.

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Why Use HMI/SCADA, Six Examples

Gary Mintchell

Ignition Firebrand Award Implementations I attended the annual Inductive Automation conference in Folsom, California with an inquiring mind regarding HMI/SCADA. Inductive Automation sponsors a competition among users culminating in the annual Firebrand Awards. Why after 20 years are customers still lining up to use the platform?

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Motion control, ease of use, sustainability: Pack Expo Las Vegas 2023

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand how advances in PC-based controls, motion controls and robotics for food and packaging are making automation for food and beverage packaging easier to automate. Beckhoff Automation MX-System is a pluggable platform for cabinet-free packaging machines.

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Back In Action: An MCMT Special

Dinesh Mishra

Ltd: The CHIRON Group is the proprietor of the CHIRON, STAMA, and FACTORY5 brands for new machines, as well as the automation brand GREIDENWEIS, CMS for refurbishment, and HSTEC for motor spindles and fixtures. HSTEC specializes in the development, manufacture, and repair of high-speed motor spindles and fixtures. technologies.