Cycle time Manufacturing Manufacturing Execution System (MES) 
Modern Machine Shop
APRIL 29, 2025
Our May, 2025 print edition offers five stories that unpack data-driven manufacturing and showcase its role in a variety of shop settings. Let’s start with AI’s role in discrete part manufacturing — a topic prone to wildly varying interpretations within our industry. And at the center of it all is data.
ATS
MAY 1, 2025
Share Manufacturing execution systems (MES) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools both play critical roles in production line performance. While MES/ERP integration offers both immediate and long-term benefits, several challenges are common during the process. First is data formatting. Next is redundancy.
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Control Engineering
AUGUST 27, 2022
One of the most obvious examples is the advances in processing power of PLCs as the requirement for faster cycle times has become a common denominator of competitive companies. Only 20 to 30 years ago, systems that required high-speed control typically used PC-based controllers.
Gary Mintchell
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
ABB —Highlights include versatile industrial and collaborative robots, software advancements that reduce programming complexity, and a selection of interactive robotic educational systems and training programs. • MFA Alliance — You may have noticed several items about private 5G networks for manufacturing and industrial applications.
Mold Making Technology
MARCH 18, 2024
Designed for OEMs, molders and mold builders, ProFile can be used as an asset management system to organize and track global tools and equipment, or for complete, real-time monitoring and production improvement capabilities. Progressive proports several benefits to using the ProFile system.
ATS
APRIL 5, 2024
It includes machine production data such as quantities processed, cycle times achieved, yields or measurement and other inspection results. It can also cover operational information such as run time and down time. In other cases, manufacturers retrofit machines with IoT devices.
Factory Worx
MAY 19, 2022
How does OEE Help in the Food Manufacturing Industry? Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is the go-to metric for food manufacturing facilities to recognise losses and benchmarking advancement toward improving throughput performance. It's used to figure out what percentage of manufacturing time is productive.
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