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Plant Documentation 4.0 – An Essential Enabler for Industry 4.0

i4.0 today

Reliable documentation of as-built status As-built documentation – meaning documentation that reflects the actual state of a new plant – has always been required for commissioning, but in fact the time and resources involved in preparing the relevant documents is always immense.

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Open-Source Odyssey: How Startups Thrive through Open-Source Contributions

MEM

One strategy that has gained significant traction over the years is active participation in the world of open-source software. Open-source contributions offer startups a unique pathway to thrive, collaborate, and make a lasting impact. Here’s how startups can thrive through open-source contributions: 1.

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Hexagon Partners with Microsoft Using Cloud Technology for Team Collaboration

Gary Mintchell

Under the new partnership, the Microsoft 365 ecosystem will plug into this data layer, enabling customers to connect their day-to-day office documents and processes with manufacturing tools. Hexagon has already demonstrated this capability in its 3D Whiteboard Nexus tool, which is also now available as an native app in Teams.

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Generative AI Industrial Copilots to Deliver Contextual Intelligence

Gary Mintchell

The copilots leverage Microsoft Azure OpenAI alongside an industrial knowledge graph that includes events, sensor data, asset details, product documentation and manuals, and reliability and maintenance reports. All three copilots contextualize, process, and analyze data from various manufacturing sources.

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Flawed CIA covert websites may have risked sources’ lives, research says

E&T

Four years prior, an article published in Yahoo News reported that a CIA covert communications system had been compromised by Iran and China around 2011, leading to the death of “more than two dozen sources” in China and Iran.

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How To: Define a Standard

Fastener News Desk

ASTM International’s Regulations Governing ASTM Technical Committees ( “Green Book”) defines a standard as “A document that has been developed and established within the consensus principles of the Society and that meets the approval requirements of ASTM procedures and regulations.”

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Fastenal Company Reports 2023 Third Quarter Earnings

Fastener News Desk

Throughout this document, percentage and dollar calculations, which are based on non-rounded dollar values, may not be able to be recalculated using the dollar values included in this document due to the rounding of those dollar values.