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Digital manufacturing, smart manufacturing, enable sustainability efforts

Control Engineering

The ZF smart factory of future of the future will be a digital manufacturing platform (DMP) connecting partners via cloud capabilities, such as advanced analytics and optimization, data lake, product lifecycle management (PLM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP).

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Smart Manufacturing Conference to return to Sydney in September

AU Manufacturing

The Modern Manufacturing Expo has announced the return of its Smart Manufacturing Conference, which will be held on 20 September at Sydney Showground, Sydney Olympic Park. Featuring Microsoft “We understand that many local manufacturers are struggling with the rising cost of materials and labour.

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Digital Manufacturing Technologies Help to Overcome Global Hurdles

i4.0 today

In these testing times, how can manufacturers transform their operations to meet customer demands and thrive in today’s as well as tomorrow’s marketplace? answers in his exclusive videocast interview “Digital Manufacturing in times of challenges”. For more information please visit www.MitsubishiElectric.com.

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Smart manufacturing’s impact: Is it moving fast enough?

Control Engineering

Smart manufacturing insights Smart manufacturing can provide many benefits for companies, but many haven’t embraced it because they don’t know how to take the first step, or they aren’t sure about its potential benefits. Many companies aren’t really sold on smart manufacturing and the technologies that go with it.

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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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Get Insights on Digitizing Manufacturing at Hannover

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

and smart manufacturing concepts have been around for a few years, thought leaders are now agreeing that Industrie 4.0 In a recent issue of CloudComputing News, this passage was particularly striking: “Manufacturers are gaining the greatest value from Industry 4.0 Even though Industrie 4.0 is at an inflection point.

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Are you Ready to Succeed in 2023?

Fabricating & Metal Work

Bolstered by the quality of solutions-based information and products on display at recent trade shows to support their expansions and overcome their labor woes, the metalworking industry is investing to ensure future success. Areas of collaboration include automation, robotics and digitalization of processes. Implemented.”