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End-to-End Solution for Sheet Metal Fabrication

The Fabricator

Optimizing raw material sheet utilization, designing sheet metal parts faster, ensuring first time right manufacture every time, optimizing manufacturing cycle times, ensuring smooth execution of manufacturing activities, and optimizing the overall product and project cost.

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Industrial motor communications: Optimization

Control Engineering

Understand motor-drive communications and smart manufacturing benefits. Examine how motor-drive communications contribute to smart manufacturing. Cycle times may vary by network, motors, drives and applications. Motor-drive communications, Smart manufacturing. Learning Objectives.

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Controllers through the ages

Control Engineering

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. More specifically, PLCs are now designed to support data-driven applications by offering a number of key functions.

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Bosch implements generative AI in manufacturing to improve efficiencies

Automation Mag

At its plant in Hildesheim, for example, AI-based data analysis has helped reduce cycle times during the production ramp-up of new lines by 15 percent. Bosch shares in its statement that its pilot plants are already using AI in production scheduling, monitoring, and control.

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Automotive Digital Transformation

ATS

The technology driving digital transformation in automotive industry manufacturing represents a vast scope of enhancements to existing concepts such as automation, maintenance, data collection and more. Smart manufacturing in automotive industry applications also involves new — or newly applied — technology.

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Utilizing virtual twins to improve manufacturing operations

Control Engineering

Manufacturing, particularly automotive manufacturing, is going through many changes in the last several years and that is not going to change, said Mike Bradford, director of strategic business development at Dassault Systems in his presentation “Utilizing Digital Twins to Improve Time to Market” at the Automotive Smart Manufacturing 4.0

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How to optimize industrial motor communications, Part 2, strategies

Control Engineering

There’s no need for clock synchronous application operation, because it’s a very simple application.The cycle times, ver roughly, are tens of millisecond. This also is not synchronized via a clock because it’s single axis and maybe not required, but the cycle times are a little more stringent.