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How to optimize industrial motor communications, Part 3, smart manufacturing

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand how motor-drive communications help enable smart manufacturing. Motor communication insights Motor-drive communications using industrial Ethernet protocols can help enable smart manufacturing. View archived webcast about optimizing motor drive communications prior to Aug.

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Critical Manufacturing and L&T Technology Services to Support Danfoss’ Smart Manufacturing Journey

i4.0 today

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.” Today Magazine.

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More answers on bridging the gap from edge to cloud MES to make automation more effective

Control Engineering

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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Taking a dynamic approach to safety

Control Engineering

As the AAS contains all of the information and functionalities of an asset, it acts as a link between I4.0 This requires a continuous and holistic risk assessment to ensure stable operations, increased productivity and reduce downtime in a smart manufacturing environment.

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Improved methods for using sensors in robots

Control Engineering

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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How to optimize industrial motor communications, Part 4, cybersecurity

Control Engineering

Without getting too deep into the state machines of a drive, the drives are set up in such a way that they cannot function improperly. Inside the drive, we talk about state machines; most of the time you’re in that S4 or operation mode. Hoske , content manager, Control Engineering , mhoske@cfemedia.com.

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Unified environment migration empowers data-centric business models

Control Engineering

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, IIoT Insights. For end-users, system, and device suppliers, FDT 3.0 Courtesy: FDT Group.