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WePower Demos Energy Harvesting Generator Prototypes at CES 2024

Gary Mintchell

I guess it was published at Automation World rather than my blog. They are back at CES this year with three additional products. This waste-free transient power generation is critical to the growth of the IoT, especially in the United States where consumers throw away more than three billion batteries a year.

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Process Optimization in Manufacturing

ATS

This blog dives into the subject of manufacturing optimization. It covers how process optimization is part of production optimization and discusses why it should be done. This is done partly because higher efficiency means lower unit costs, but also because it can help the entire production operation work more efficiently.

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How Does Digital Transformation Enable Sustainability?

Cisco Manufacturing

Manufacturers can contribute to corporate and global sustainability goals by building an intelligent plant to better manage energy, waste, and materials. Creating hybrid work models where employees can reduce or eliminate travel, while feeling safe and remaining healthy, and manufacturers can sustain productivity and retain talent.

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How to Implement and Optimize a Process Control Plan

ATS

Share A lot of components must come together to produce a quality product at a target cost. This blog explains what a process control plan is and why every manufacturer should use one. The importance of process control plans After implementing a control plan for production, a manufacturer will suffer less waste.

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Machine Data Collection in Manufacturing

ATS

Share Predictive maintenance minimizes machine downtime while extending life and reducing costs but requires data about their health and activity. This blog is about the machine data collection process. Any values reported by or measured at a production machine are machine data. What is machine data?

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Food & Beverage Condition Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance

ATS

This blog explores the value of adopting this strategy, what’s involved in implementation and the benefits to be expected. Expectations for quality and consistency: Customers expect the same experience every time they consume the product regardless of when and even where it was made. Fewer breakdowns mean less of this type of waste.

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First Pass Yield in Manufacturing

ATS

An important productivity metric, FPY highlights wasteful production and can be an important stimulus for improvement efforts. The purpose of this blog is to let the maintenance department know how they can influence FPY and why they should seek out opportunities to do that. What is first pass yield? Rework is expensive.