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The time is now for system integrators, manufacturers

Control Engineering

When it comes to Industry 4.0, CFE Media’s 2024 Global Systems Integrator Report, available to readers of both the Control Engineering and Plant Engineering brands, is addressed to a dynamic manufacturing marketplace, with production being reshored to U.S. She is also chair of the Control Systems Integrators Association (CSIA).

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7 ways SCADA software can advance IIoT implementations, if you do it right

Control Engineering

Information models: One of the biggest industrial changes in progress is the drive toward Industry 4.0, SCADA systems also are improving to leverage 3D models from computer-aided design (CAD) software offerings to animate these with real-world information.

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How digital twins speed up the manufacturing process

Control Engineering

Computer-aided design (CAD) has completely transformed the manufacturing process. In fact, CAD and computer numerical control ( CNC) are two technologies responsible for a revolution in most of the manufactured goods we have seen in recent years.

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Scape Technologies, Danish Technological Institute, and AMT join in a new EUROSTARS Project: Just in Time 3D Printing Production

i4.0 today

The Process of Additive Manufacturing for Creating 3D Objects Additive manufacturing is the process of creating a 3D object by building it one layer at a time and it is using computer-aided-design (CAD) software or 3D object scanners to direct hardware to deposit material, layer upon layer, in precise geometric shapes.