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Five lessons manufacturing operations can learn from enterprise IT teams

Cisco Industrial Automation

Digital manufacturing stresses factory networks in ways their designers never dreamed of. You might be pulling ahead of competitors using cloud applications like predictive maintenance or “digital twins” that simulate the effects of changes. By some accounts, manufacturing was the most attacked industry in 2021.

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Unleash the power of smart manufacturing while ensuring automation and robotic safety

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives: Understand what technologies should be integrated into manufacturing automation and robotic processes Review current, available Industry 4.0 In any given industrial environment, performing risk assessments should be an integral part of forming definitive answers to these questions.

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Get Insights on Digitizing Manufacturing at Hannover

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

In a recent issue of CloudComputing News, this passage was particularly striking: “Manufacturers are gaining the greatest value from Industry 4.0 We are definitely seeing this as we talk to manufacturers who are looking at different ways to accelerate their digitization projects in factories around the world.

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Broadening Our Application Attitude, Operational Intelligence

Gary Mintchell

I was digitizing manufacturing operations in 1978 in a crude way. Each of these steps has taken us deeper into increasing digitization, vast amounts of data, and increasing connectivity. They wanted to talk about the second definition of preventive maintenance. Now it is much more sophisticated, yet in many ways, easier.

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Unleash the power of smart manufacturing

Control Engineering

On day 2, October 18, of the Fall 2022 session of CFE Media’s Virtual Training Week, Ted Rozier, director of engineering at the Mason, OH-based Festo Didactic Solution Center, North America, will present on the topic of “ How to unleash the power of Smart Manufacturing while ensuring automation and robotic safety. ”.

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Materials, Sustainability and Development: AM News Roundup for September 18-30

Additive Manufacturing

announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a new hydrogen and fuel agnostic capable generator (“KARNO”) from GE Additive. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a new hydrogen and fuel agnostic capable generator (“KARNO”) from GE Additive. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Why Connected Workers Are Vital to Mid-Sized Manufacturers

iBASEt

They are the very definition of connected individuals. They have been shunning manufacturing jobs in particular because they are seen as being low-tech. A recent study by Deloitte has some encouraging news but manufacturing is still not seen as a truly innovative industry.