Control Engineering

MAY 14, 2023

Compare and benchmark your career progress with peers. Subsequent articles in this section provide advice on engineering employee hiring and retention and related engineering career topics. Learning Objectives Learn about key threats to manufacturing from the 2023 Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey.

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E&T

APRIL 18, 2023

We have shown its versatility by creating square, trapezoidal and multi-cell parts that all meet quality benchmarks for strength and ductility.” The team's findings were published in an article in the journal Manufacturing Letters.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 31, 2023

Control system performance: Analyze historical data and benchmark the current control system’s performance to identify areas where MPC could provide significant benefits. Some essential aspects to consider include the following: Control system architecture: Determine if the current architecture can support adding an MPC layer.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 2, 2022

When motors and drives are included in industrial network communications, smart manufacturing benefits include self-organizing production of machines, more autonomous operations, easier product customization, smaller batch sizes, optimization and benchmarking along with greater safety and sustainability (energy savings).

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

That metric should instead be used to compare against benchmarks and previous performance to determine whether production and maintenance are operating efficiently, effectively and as intended. In other words, a MTBF of 100 hours does not mean that that interval is exactly when a particular part is expected to fail or require intervention.

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Automation Mag

APRIL 24, 2023

And, when our client approaches the vendor with updated license counts, it’ll use pricing benchmarks to try to negotiate more favourable rates. This article originally appeared in the March/April 2023 issue of Manufacturing AUTOMATION. Discipline: Making the right digital investments takes thought.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 10, 2023

As part of this, define own user roadmap for digitalization and autonomous operations using, for example, the independent smart industry readiness index (SIRI) benchmark. Adopt a full data integration strategy that includes cybersecurity for data reliability/protection.

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i4.0 today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Upcoming Free-to-Attend Webinar Wide Bandgap Power Electronics: The New EV Battery Luke Gear, Principal Technology Analyst at IDTechEx and author of this article, will be presenting a webinar on the topic on Thursday 30 March 2023 – Wide Bandgap Power Electronics: The New EV Battery.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Benchmarking two robots delivered 1.7 Hoske, Control Engineering, CFE Media and Technology Because the robot, 3D vision system and picking and guidance software are pre-integrated as a system, it lowers cost and reduces time to use. times the throughput by sharing one 3D sensor, Varley explained. It’s available now.

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ATS

MAY 12, 2023

In this article, we will explore the evolution of AI in car manufacturing and the benefits that this technology continues to provide. AI can help to make sense of this data, supporting the benchmarking and decision-making that drive highly efficient maintenance practices such as predictive maintenance.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 7, 2023

EKB Groep has been a key contributor to the cybersecurity section of the new revision of CSIA’s Best Practices & Benchmarks Manual. The Integrator Member of the Year Award recognizes an integrator member who has participated significantly in the advancement of the association and profession.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 3, 2024

ESAB also offers a cloud-connected software app for free, fast in-app support from a team of experts that respond to inquiries in two-minutes or less, and there is access to knowledge articles and an extensive list of tutorials. The app automatically stores weld sequences, enabling them to be recalled even if they are deleted from a device.

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Control Engineering

JULY 13, 2022

The researchers tested their new approach against industry-standard data sets used to assess federated learning performance, and found the new technique was able to match or surpass the accuracy of federated averaging – which is the benchmark for federated learning.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Based on empowerment and focusing on the construction goals of ensuring process safety, optimizing plant efficiency, improving production management, reducing operating costs and creating a benchmark for intelligent plants in the propane dehydrogenation industry, Honeywell implemented seven sub-systems in the Sierpong plant using integrated operating (..)

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Control Engineering

JULY 12, 2023

These allow companies to benchmark performances against industry standards and best practices, often times including a holistic evaluation of the company. These gains are all publicized and can be used as a benchmark for realistic KPI improvements. such as Acatech’s Industry 4.0 initiatives to measure progress.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 5, 2023

Our benchmark is a first step towards enabling robots to master these skills, benefiting households and workplaces alike,” said visiting researcher at MIT CSAIL and research scientist at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Chuang Gan, the senior author on a new paper about the research. These tasks involve numerous fluid manipulation challenges.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Poll questions during the webcast will benchmark participants’ progress on the topic. Consider the post-programming future? Will the architecture allow updates? Learn from examples showing a more supportable hardware-software controller future. Webcast is moderated by Mark T. Hoske, content manager, Control Engineering.

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The Automation Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

First up in our new articles category, Universal Robots just released an article about the “next era of collaborative robots” which you can read here. ISA also has a few new articles today, including the first one we'll highlight which convers “Integrating Robots into Automation Networks.”

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Control Engineering

APRIL 4, 2023

Courtesy: Endress+Hauser Sustainability, environment, leadership planning With 76 out of 100 points, Endress+Hauser again occupied a leading position in the 2022 EcoVadis sustainability benchmark and placed in the top percentile of the comparison group.

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Current as of 2/6/23 This article contains information on exhibitors on the Software and Simulation Services/Simulation Services, Training and Marketing products and services in the Moldmaking Pavilion and across the show floor. Use promo code MMT23 and register today for your FREE exhibit hall pass, and we’ll see YOU in Chicago!

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The two remaining phases were tied to plant capacity benchmarks. The RedLeaf team provided a vision regarding the future of the plant size and broke it down into three phases. The first phase was a low capacity, initial launch followed by proof of concept of the process.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 26, 2023

The suite includes the first benchmark indexes tracking the robotics and AI revolution for investors. ROBO Global indexes focus on helping investors capture the unique opportunities of fast-growing robotics, artificial intelligence, and healthcare technology companies around the world. Learn more.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Then the other huge benefit of smart manufacturing, is the ability to benchmark different aspects of production against one another, across a wide fleet of components and equipment, to identify and understand weakest and strongest link, to reapply best practices to bring the weak link up to average and find and improve the next weak link.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

MARCH 8, 2024

For example: S trategic venue sourcing shows planners what similar events cost across hundreds of vendors, enabling negotiations to be backed by real, current data and informed by aggregated benchmarks. Along with tracking costs, this can help show where negotiations drove reductions from the initial quote.

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E&T

MARCH 13, 2023

At a recent event run by the Global Sustainability Benchmark in Sports, Christian Hartmann, the company’s CEO, asked experts from a law firm what they saw for the future of sustainability in sport. “I Neither the IOC nor FIFA replied to several requests for comment on this article. It’s actually impressive to see!”

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AU Manufacturing

MARCH 24, 2023

As the world’s largest lithium producer, Australia has an opportunity to set the benchmark for what should be manufactured, and how it should be manufactured, in the future. Key to this is ensuring ESG compliance throughout the production process and ensuring reporting meets the government’s ESG requirements.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 9, 2023

Benchmarking is invaluable when identifying performance targets, which are often derived from plant models, simulators and optimizers. This waste can be quantified as either a financial loss or CO 2 emissions equivalent, providing common benchmarks for comparing alternative operating strategies.

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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. Blockchain technology has far-reaching implications, beyond the cryptocurrency applications with which it is most associated. What is blockchain technology?

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Factory Worx

MAY 19, 2022

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is the go-to metric for food manufacturing facilities to recognise losses and benchmarking advancement toward improving throughput performance. This article explains the importance of MES solutions for manufacturers and why OEE is critical in the food industry.

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Foley

AUGUST 10, 2023

The inaugural article in our International Trade, Enforcement & Compliance regulatory series, “ What Every Multinational Organization Should Know About. Customs ,” provided a list of Customs red flags and errors that we commonly see at major importers.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 1, 2023

The organization not only gains the financial benefit of transitioning I/O gradually over the next 5 to 10 years as part of the operations budget, but they also gain the advantages of the new control technologies for better performance, and higher throughput, making it easier to meet higher benchmarks and generate fast return on investment.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 1, 2023

The CIP analytics solution empowers operators and engineers to visualize and monitor performance, execute benchmarking and report on utility consumption. By using a proven and interoperable platform, users benefit from rapid deployment and extensive functionality (Figure 3).

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