i4.0 today

MAY 25, 2023

The Critical Manufacturing MES is designed from the ground-up to embrace Industry 4.0 technologies and provide a comprehensive pathway to smart manufacturing of sophisticated and complex products. success, will enable us to drive better business outcomes for our manufacturing and industrial clients.”

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Machine safety insights Industry 4.0 and digital twins offer manufacturers an opportunity to improve safety by enhancing situational awareness. Asset administration shells (AAS) exchange asset-related data between assets and production orchestration systems or engineering tools and acts as a link for Industry 4.0

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 15, 2023

What are common industrial MES features and functions? ERP would never be designed to perform those functions. Question: Should a manufacturer go with one middleware to integrate everything or have multiple middleware packages depending on what is being integrated? So, getting clear business requirements is a must.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Customer expectations of all markets are high — the IIoT and smart manufacturing customers are no different. IO-Link sensors provide process, event and service/device data and support IIoT function. For example, Nike has 1.52 quintillion shoe variations and some car companies have 40,000 driver seat variations.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 28, 2022

FDT Group has released its new approach to smart manufacturing, FDT 3.0, To help companies reap the rewards of smart manufacturing, FDT Group has introduced the FDT Unified Environment (UE), also known as FDT 3.0, Standard designed for modern industrial markets. IIoT Insights. Courtesy: FDT Group.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 2, 2022

With its standard industrial PC operator’s control, it automatically positions both the material length and required miter rotation with high precision. The PC controls also allow for a wide range of programming, functionality, customer information, and virtually unlimited program storage. Kinetic Cutting Systems Inc.’s

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