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Digital manufacturing, smart manufacturing, enable sustainability efforts

Control Engineering

The process includes enriching existing technologies, shifting and replacing as needed, harmonizing applications from plant-specific to common solutions, enabled by co-development along the way. Smart factory elements will incorporate logistics, quality and inspections, factory management, production maintenance and shopfloor management.

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Why is Digital Transformation in Manufacturing Necessary for Future Growth?

Factory Worx

Here are a few reasons why one should use digital manufacturing technologies to change your industrial shop: Improved Data Usage Manufacturing digitisation improves data usage in processes, and manufacturers can feed data to their B2B eCommerce, CRM, ERP, warehousing, and other systems more effectively.