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Embrace Disruption: The Supply Chain

Fabricating & Metal Work

In response, metalworkers continue to invest in automation, robotics and machinery to speed up their processes, manufacturing highly precise and accurate components and parts. For example, a custom manufacturer sends a metal fabrication supplier a design-to-order project. Today, manufacturers must fulfill all three services.

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3 ways visualization software can align operations across enterprise layers

Control Engineering

Obtain a 360-degree overview for manufacturing, processing companies 360 views: Relevant data takes many forms and originates from an exceptionally wide range of sources and systems across all levels of a business, sometimes even external to the business. Process data is needed to inform analytics efforts.

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Systems integrators support end user self-service

Control Engineering

IIoT projects focused on connecting with these data silos to provide monitoring and visibility, and enable analytics, are key to integrating all available source data. In addition, any bill of material or schematics required for the work order can be generated by the system automatically.