Cisco Industrial Automation

APRIL 27, 2022

Digital manufacturing stresses factory networks in ways their designers never dreamed of. You’ve got more devices that need more bandwidth and wider access. You might be pulling ahead of competitors using cloud applications like predictive maintenance or “digital twins” that simulate the effects of changes. Meanwhile, cyber-attacks are increasing. By some accounts, manufacturing was the most attacked industry in 2021.

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Chris Hohmann

APRIL 4, 2022

Gemba walks are a popular topic on Linkedin, Youtube or blogs. So are lists of questions to ask during such a tour. In one of such lists I spotted a question related to tools. The gemba walker is supposed to ask if the toolset is complete, in proper condition and the best available. In my … Continue reading Mind awkward questions for your Gemba Walk.

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Cisco Manufacturing

APRIL 21, 2022

In today’s world of manufacturing, there is a new convergence happening. A greater number of available technologies are meeting the dynamics of changing workforces, fragile supply chains, and the ever-present market demand for better and cheaper products and services. However, manufacturers still face a unique challenge: how to maximize investments in various technologies to achieve the most impactful ROI or as we like to refer to them, “enablers of change”.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

APRIL 28, 2022

In the world’s major cities, policies are being put into place to make it difficult and expensive to own a car – so autonomous shared vehicles will be the future. What is autonomous mobility? Autonomous mobility is a term that refers to the use of technology to enable vehicles to operate without the need for a human driver. The world’s market for autonomous mobility in 2021 was around $27 million, and will reach $92 billion in 2035, says Frost & Sullivan.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Canadian Metalworking Magazine

APRIL 4, 2022

Market Intelligence. Speed up your market intelligence by 70% with Leo Web Alerts. The core of Feedly for Market Intelligence is an AI engine, called Leo, that automatically gathers, analyzes, and prioritizes intelligence from millions of sources in real-time. In this article, we’ll show you how to use Leo to: Track your competitors and their strategic moves Stay ahead of consumer trends and insights Scout technical innovation Identify business development opportunities.

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Polytron

APRIL 29, 2022

Are you feeling pressure to improve performance and production, but struggle knowing where to start? How can you ensure increased productivity with so many risks and disruptions in the way? Well, good news! There are many tools and resources that can provide manufacturers with an increased ROI and mitigate the risk of any supply chain disruptions that are expected to continue throughout the future.

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Chris Hohmann

APRIL 2, 2022

The Goal Tree, once built and scrutinized, is a benchmark as well as a roadmap. It describes all prerequisites that must be fulfilled in order to achieve the Goal, a Goal not yet achieved and (still) lying in (a distant) future. The proposed good practice is to carefully craft and state the Goal, so that … Continue reading Goal Tree: should the Goal be time-bound?

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Motion Control Tips

APRIL 29, 2022

Electric motors are at the heart of motion. Across the board, motor manufacturers are seeing increased demand for their products. Hastened by the pandemic, demand in areas such as robotics, autonomous vehicles and automated production and manufacturing lines across a wide swath of industries has risen, spurring new business as well as innovation. Some top […].

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Universal Robots

APRIL 27, 2022

It’s been 10 years since collaborative robots appeared on the manufacturing scene. First viewed as a lab experiment by global manufacturers that would buy one or two, send them off to their innovation centers for testing never to be seen on the production floor, cobots now are hard at work in many sectors all around the world.

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Canadian Metalworking Magazine

APRIL 4, 2022

Market Intelligence Speed up your market intelligence by 70% with (Feedly) AI Feeds The core of Feedly for Market Intelligence is an AI engine, that automatically gathers, analyzes, and prioritizes intelligence from millions of sources in real-time. In this article, we’ll show you how to use Feedly AI to: Track your competitors and their strategic moves Stay ahead of consumer trends and insights Scout technical innovation Identify business development opportunities Start free trial Before we loo

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As engineers push the boundaries of innovation with groundbreaking hardware products, their success depends largely on the speed and efficiency of production. The challenge? Manual processes and disparate systems lead to multiple versions of documents, incomplete records, and duplicated work, creating a chaotic system of records that is difficult to manage.

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ATS

APRIL 27, 2022

Share. If you are having difficulties finding, training, and retaining maintenance talent, you are not alone. Manufacturers are faced with regular shortages of skilled technical personnel. It is a situation that has many companies turning to partners for technical talent. However, some are still hesitant due to economic misperceptions. It can be assumed that partner-provided maintenance costs are higher than in-house maintenance costs.

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Bastian Solution

APRIL 26, 2022

Are you looking for a way to eliminate waste within your picking process? Are you struggling to achieve accuracy metrics? Does your operation suffer from constant turnover or accommodate seasonality? If any of these scenarios hit a little too close to home, a pick to light solution may be a good choice to optimize your operation! In this article, I will go over the functionality, advantages and operations best suited for this technology.

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Chris Hohmann

APRIL 6, 2022

We all face goal setting. For our teams, our subordinates, ourselves… Goals are required so that they can be planned, followed-up, sometimes revised, and hopefully aligned when several have to work in conjunction to achieve a bigger Goal. Goal setting has also its requirements. Most of them must be SMART, as SMART seems to be … Continue reading How to state SMART Goals?

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Motion Control Tips

APRIL 28, 2022

Encoder manufacturers are making sure that their offerings keep pace with broader technological changes and the demands of the market. For example, more powerful motion controllers and drives have spurred a rise in more sophisticated automation systems across a range of industries and applications. Robotics in particular is one area that continues to see growth, […].

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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

Universal Robots

APRIL 27, 2022

On 28 April, we celebrate World Day for Safety and Health at Work, an awareness-raising campaign that promotes the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases globally. On this special day of awareness, here are 5 stories about cobots taking on dangerous, hard, repetitive or dull tasks where they have allowed people to focus on work that is more enjoyable and less likely to cause injuries.

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Seeburger

APRIL 26, 2022

Google Pub/Sub is an asynchronous messaging system where applications and services interact. Suppose a customer has ordered an item to be produced, packaged and shipped. Information and updates on the order are sent in the form of digital messages. Google Cloud Pub/Sub ensures every message goes directly to the intended recipient, who retrieves it when […].

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Plataine

APRIL 26, 2022

At Plataine, we’ve got a simple view on AI-based optimization solutions: they bring radical benefits to manufacturers. Of course, we’re a provider of such AI solutions, so you could be forgiven for thinking, “Well, they would say that, wouldn’t they.” That’s why we’ve introduced a free trial package for our Time Sensitive Material (TSM) Manager solution, allowing you to see for yourself how easily you can setup and start using our TSM solution.

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Granta Automation

APRIL 25, 2022

This is a question that is often asked when automated palletising is being considered. In the past, the answer to this question would have been ‘no’, but with the many advances in technology, multi box, multi line palletising has become … Continue reading → The post Can Palletising Be Automated Where The Product Size Changes Frequently? first appeared on Granta Automation.

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70% of digital transformation projects fail (BCG, 2020). In an industry where most large software implementations falter, we recognize the importance of planning, optimization, and execution. With over 25 years of industry experience and countless successful implementations, MASS Group is opening the vault of tips and tricks to provide a complimentary step-by-step guide in implementing a Work-In-Progress (WIP) tracking software.

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NIST

APRIL 25, 2022

I remember well when the phrase “a thousand points of light” entered regular usage. Popularized by President George H. W. Bush, the phrase referred to individuals and organizations that provide valuable and even life-saving work in communities around the country. In 1990, President Bush founded the Points of Light Foundation. As a kid interested in social justice, this fascinated me.

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ATS

APRIL 24, 2022

Share. How to Retain Your Technical Workforce. Having a shortage of skilled talent quickly adds up and as the skills gap widens, retaining your current technical workforce is imperative. But how can you ensure your skilled talent will stick around? Consider one or more of these three opportunities to your current workforce. Offer a higher salary and compensation package.

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Factory Worx

APRIL 21, 2022

Read Our Blog. Top 16 Frequently Asked Questions About Manufacturing Execution system (MES). The manufacturing industry, like any other industry, is rapidly expanding. As a result, producers must keep up with new technologies and tools to remain relevant and competitive in today's market. Successful manufacturing businesses are adaptable and consistently improve their overall operating efficiency.

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Marshall Wolf Automation

APRIL 21, 2022

Considered the most simple motor start option, Direct on Line (DOL) starting directly connects an induction motor to a 3-Ph power supply with the addition of a contactor and an overload relay , providing overload protection. . This direct connection can cause the motor to draw 5-8 times the normal operating current, making DOL motor control generally applicable with motors under 5 hp/4Kw.

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

We’ve all heard the buzzwords to describe new supply chain trends: resiliency, sustainability, AI, machine learning. But what do these really mean today? Over the past few years, manufacturing has had to adapt to and overcome a wide variety of supply chain trends and disruptions to stay as stable as possible. Stability has become key in this post-COVID world, and will remain key moving forward.

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Bastian Solution

APRIL 19, 2022

Hot, cold, corrosive – these environments, and more, inherently require a little extra care when it comes to planning labor and tasks. The same goes for introducing any automated technologies. After all, you need them to operate correctly and avoid any unnecessary damage. Often pulled in to support tasks that need to be reliably repeatable, industrial robotics are an excellent option to support safer work in unique environments.

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Seeburger

APRIL 19, 2022

IT systems are increasingly becoming more intelligent, networked and autonomous. This digital transformation not only makes a company’s internal processes more efficient and transparent, it has a positive effect across the entire horizontal and vertical value chains. A key aspect of digitalisation is the ability to collect and process data in real time.

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NIST

APRIL 21, 2022

Industrial control systems (ICS) help manufacturers boost productivity, optimize efficiency and advance production lines. Historically, ICS networks were isolated from the information technology (IT) networks and internet, or “air gapped.” Today, air gapping is no longer an effective security strategy, and for various business reasons, many ICS manufacturing networks are now integrated with IT networks and connected to the internet.

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ATS

APRIL 24, 2022

Share. Attracting and retaining top manufacturing talent is more challenging than ever as the supply of highly-skilled workers fails to keep up with demand. The combination of an aging workforce and significant industry talent shortage is projected to leave an estimated 2.1 million unfilled jobs by 2030. At the current rate, these positions are unlikely to be filled by the next generation of workers.

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Gil Automation

APRIL 14, 2022

Instrumentation and control refer to the analysis, measurement, and control of industrial process variables using process control instruments and software tools such as temperature, pressure, flow, and level sensors, analyzers, electrical and mechanical actuators, Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI), Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) systems, automated control systems and more.

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Marshall Wolf Automation

APRIL 15, 2022

Easter is almost here and for many of us, that means decorating eggs. While some of us are a little more traditional and stick to onion skins and cabbage leaves, yes that’s a thing, others go incredibly elaborate or downright rainbow colored with *shudder* GLITTER. After chatting with other coworkers, we all realized very quickly that none of us made our eggs the same way. .

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Factory Worx

APRIL 13, 2022

Read Our Blog. How Industry 4.0 & Digital Transformation is Shaping the Food Industry. Food production is currently centralised; however, shortly, machines and raw materials will independently arrange the manufacturing process and connect across corporate divisions identical to social media networks. Industry 4.0's four cornerstones – vertical networking of intelligent manufacturing systems, horizontal integration through production and transportation coordination, virtualisation and integ

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Seeburger

APRIL 14, 2022

Against the current background of the ongoing Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine, EU member states are under increasing pressure to quickly close their significant tax gap. In 2019, this was valued at €134 billion[1]. One beacon of hope is e-invoicing as long as this is standardised throughout the EU and makes provision for […].

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Speaker: Kristin Hess - Senior Product Marketing Manager, Drift; Will Lyon - Head of Vertical Marketing, 6sense

The past three years have forced nearly every industry to rethink their prospect and customer engagement strategy. But while we’ve all been thrust into digital transformation, we haven’t all made the transition efficiently. Now that we know digital selling is the new norm, how can we ensure our website is doing as much of the leg work as possible for us - even in the midst of economic challenges?