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Tech transformation for manufacturers

Manufacturer's Monthly

Enhancing Manufacturing Operations Bill of Materials and Routing: Integrated Material Management: Seamlessly connect materials, work instructions, and overhead costs to operations, enabling time-phased release of materials.

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Digital Continuity, A Driving Force in Manufacturing Productivity

iBASEt

Digital Continuity is Established Across As-Designed, As-Built, As-Maintained For a manufacturer to become a model-based enterprise (MBE), it must make digital continuity a priority. In discrete manufacturing, the underlying data model that defines a product is often centered around the bills of material (BOMs) that define the product.

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Digital Continuity, A Driving Force in Manufacturing Productivity

iBASEt

Digital Continuity is Established Across As-Designed, As-Built, As-Maintained For a manufacturer to become a model-based enterprise (MBE), it must make digital continuity a priority. In discrete manufacturing, the underlying data model that defines a product is often centered around the bills of material (BOMs) that define the product.

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The electric steel dilemma and its impact on motor vendors

Control Engineering

Within electric motor manufacturing, electric steel can make up as much as 20% of the bill of material. However, increased demand from the automotive sector via electric vehicles is, and will continue to be, a contributing factor to the staying power of higher prices. We expect this will happen, albeit slowly.

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Five advances in motion control, communications, design to ease automation use

Control Engineering

A new Festo family of multi-protocol servo drives provides original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with productivity and cost advantages with less inventory, by preventing supply chain issues and working smarter with this family of servo drives. The change reduces Festo part numbers from 24 to 8.