ATS

DECEMBER 30, 2024

One consequence is to leave maintenance data in silos, making it harder than it should be to implement effective maintenance strategies and optimize spare part inventories. This blog describes how a holistic approach to maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) data management builds a solid foundation for improving operational efficiency.

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MRPEasy

MARCH 3, 2025

For cloud-based software providers like MRPeasy, data security is more than a market requirement its a critical responsibility toward our customers. Upholding our commitment to data privacy, we successfully completed certification to the updated ISO version 27001:2022.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Share Lean manufacturing focuses on eliminating waste and optimizing processes to achieve maximum efficiency and expediency. This is why conducting a bottleneck analysis in lean manufacturing operations is such a critical step for manufacturers to take. What is bottleneck analysis?

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ATS

MAY 1, 2025

Share Manufacturing execution systems (MES) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools both play critical roles in production line performance. While these solutions are useful in isolation, theyre far more effective when data from both is integrated into a unified environment. First is data formatting. Next is redundancy.

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Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

My last post detailed vulnerability problems resulting from connected assets (the basis of my renaming the blog Manufacturing Connection in 2013). This post contains news that show the impossibility of managing a modern manufacturing enterprise without connected assets. This sounds like the old M2M movement of the early 2000s.

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ATS

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This blog post covers key roles in industrial field maintenance, discusses field service management, looks at the role of technology in improving effectiveness and considers the challenges and benefits of running an efficient field service operation. What is industrial field maintenance? Reactive maintenance (i.e.,

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Cisco Industrial Automation

APRIL 27, 2022

Digital manufacturing stresses factory networks in ways their designers never dreamed of. By some accounts, manufacturing was the most attacked industry in 2021. By some accounts, manufacturing was the most attacked industry in 2021. But unmanaged switches and isolated networks can’t meet the demands of smart manufacturing.

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Gary Mintchell

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I’ve highlighted a blog post by Dante Augello of Inductive discussing some of the reasoning and features of a Cloud Edition coming in 2023. This new product will differ from the standard version of Ignition in three key ways: distribution, purchasing, and features. This blog post by Aaron Block gives points about the latest update.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This is why many manufacturers and production facilities have a dedicated maintenance supervisor on staff to oversee these mission-critical tasks. Adaptability and continuous learning: As needs continually evolve, maintenance supervisors must stay up to date with the latest technologies, trends and safety standards to excel in their roles.

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ATS

MAY 13, 2025

Share Chicago has long stood as a cornerstone of American manufacturing, fueling the Midwests industrial rise and helping shape the national economy. The citys manufacturing sector characterized by resilience and adaptability worthy of Chicagos City of Big Shoulders nickname remains vibrant. billion in 2023 to $12.5

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ATS

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This blog was written to help maintenance and other managers understand how to implement and maximize the value they get from this tool. The following list covers what most manufacturers find helpful, but this can be expanded to suit specific needs. Description: What the asset is and the manufacturer. What is an asset register?

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Gary Mintchell

MAY 5, 2023

Previously, while a read would populate a tag with no issue, writes to the full value of Document tags were not possible when subscribed directly to Siemens array data type instances. This update aligns with IA’s long-term effort to provide more flexibility with unique Siemens data types. You can check out more on the developer’s blog.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

MAY 15, 2025

Before reaching for a fix, take time to define the problem in concrete terms: What's the standard? Its another to solve it. In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the fundamentals of continuous improvement: shifting from reactive to proactive operations, reducing waste, and increasing efficiency through Lean and Six Sigma principles.

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21st Century Tech

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Please welcome back Ellie Gabel to the 21st Century Tech Blog. Demand for the metal continues to rise with the industry in the face of pollution concerns seeking to deploy circular economic principles in standard practice. However, manufacturers struggle to reach sustainability goals and recycling rates continue to lag.

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ATS

MAY 14, 2025

Share Uneven customer demand creates significant challenges for manufacturers: increased overtime, excess inventory, and wasted labor, among other obstacles. Instead, production leveling or Heijunka offers a proactive solution rooted in Lean manufacturing. Pitch , the standard interval at which work is released.

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21st Century Tech

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Please welcome Dijam Panigrahi to 21st Century Tech Blog. In his first contribution to the blog site, he writes about the change that 5G is bringing to manufacturing. The advent of 5G means latency restrictions over data networks will come to an end. When it comes to manufacturing, 5G is making a noticeable difference.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Following the 5S principles for organization : Implementing the 5S methodology (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain) keeps storerooms tidy and functional. Regular audits prevent unnecessary clutter, maintain standard storage procedures, and support long-term parts room organization.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

It’s easy for manufacturing managers to become fixated on the big picture, visualizing every aspect of their operations as cells in a spreadsheet. The idea behind it is simple, but it can have a tremendous impact on lean manufacturing efforts as well as ongoing process improvement. What is a Gemba walk in manufacturing?

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ATS

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

By involving production workers in caring for manufacturing equipment, it leverages the skills in the maintenance function, enabling preventive maintenance and higher levels of equipment care. This blog introduces TPM and describes the 8 principles or pillars on which it operates. What is total productive maintenance?

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iBASEt

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A major step toward a modern factory is tightly integrating MES with PLM to create closed-loop data feedback. These two applications are at the core of your business, yet most manufacturers still use manual data entry to exchange information between them. Supply chain problems can disrupt production plans.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This is why industrial cooling tower maintenance is so critical for manufacturers and other heavy-duty operations. Without proper cooling tower maintenance, power generation, HVAC and manufacturing equipment can lose their efficiency and break down on a more-frequent basis.

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Gary Mintchell

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Ignition Edge Product Line Simplification Inductive Automation announced that it is streamlining its Ignition Edge product offerings while expanding the products’ capabilities with unlimited data. Ignition Edge products provide the simplest, most cost-effective way to capture, process, and visualize critical data at the edge of the network.

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ATS

MARCH 25, 2025

Its also about ensuring products meet quality standards, that workers stay safe and that the business maximizes its ROI from the machine. Articulated robots, along with the growing use of collaborative robots (cobots), are essential to modern manufacturing operations. Many manufacturers handle this by contracting with a specialist.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

APRIL 28, 2025

Non-destructive testing (NDT) plays a pivotal role in ensuring the safety, reliability, and sustainability of critical infrastructure and manufactured products. AI , robotics , and digital twins are not only enhancing testing precision but also enabling faster, more efficient manufacturing and quality control processes.

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i4.0 today

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This blog post explores the key advantages of embedded controls over PLC solutions and why businesses should consider making the switch. Customization and Flexibility Embedded control systems offer greater customization compared to PLCs, which rely on standardized hardware and programming environments. Visit Polyelectronics.us

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DO Supply

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Mitsubishi drives meet international safety standards, including EN ISO 13849-1 and IEC 61508, improving operational security and minimizing system downtime thanks to these built-in safety mechanisms. Because of all these capabilities, Mitsubishi servo drives are crucial to optimizing contemporary industrial automation processes.

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Cisco Manufacturing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

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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iBASEt

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Information is as vast as it is fast-evolving, making the need for accurate, accessible, and adaptable data more pressing than ever. The complex discrete manufacturing industry, with its intricate processes and systems, is no stranger to these challenges. Digital tools provide better tracking and reduce the likelihood of human error.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

JULY 25, 2024

The medical device manufacturing industry is full of regulations. But there’s an important standard that helps companies do more than just demonstrate certification to medical industry requirements. In this blog, we’ll explain some key points that you need to know about this complex yet invaluable standard.

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CMTC Manufacturing Tech

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

These rules will impact many California industries, especially manufacturing. Businesses affected by the new Cal/OSHA heat illness prevention standards will be required to develop written heat illness prevention plans, adhere to certain workplace requirements, and train workers on the dangers of heat illness.

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Additive Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

have released the results of their collaborative multiphase research project on the “Future of Manufacturing.” The skills gap will only widen as manufacturing firms accelerate their digital transformation to Industry 4.0,” according to the “Future of Manufacturing” research report. business outcomes. UK, and Canada.

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Share One of the most important raw materials for manufacturers isn’t measured by the foot, by the pound or by the ton. It’s data, and rather than being used directly to manufacture products it’s a crucial component of how the industry builds its processes and procedures. In fact, it doesn’t even physically exist.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In the semiconductor industry, seamless communication between manufacturing equipment and factory host systems is critical for achieving optimal performance and automation. One widely adopted communication protocol for this purpose is SECS/GEM, the Semiconductor Equipment Communication Standard and Generic Equipment Model.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2023

TM25S provides a keen eye in the factory In a very different example of industrial digitalization, electronics manufacturer Quanta is inspecting the quality of its products using the TM25S , an AI-enabled robot from its subsidiary, Techman Robot.

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iBASEt

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That’s because there are often practical, specific steps that manufacturers can take now to improve operations, even apart from the advantages of larger transformation initiatives. One such step that should be high on every manufacturer’s list is the integration of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).

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iBASEt

AUGUST 24, 2022

However, once in manufacturing, the 3D model is essentially lost as each team in the downstream production process uses the model in different ways and in different forms. For manufacturing purposes, the product design is often delivered in sets of 2D engineering drawings. But how digitalized does it need to be?

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ATS

JULY 23, 2024

Share When product doesn’t meet the required standard it’s usually either scrapped or reworked. That’s why manufacturers serious about eliminating waste strive for Zero Defect Manufacturing. As a quality Mmanagement concept, Zero Defect Manufacturing underpins Lean and Six Sigma thinking. Both are expensive.

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