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Standing Out With Sustainable Manufacturing

Cisco Manufacturing

This post was authored by Uwe Peter, Vice President & General Manager for Cisco Germany. For The Climate And Your Costs. As I talk with all of my customers in the manufacturing space, one thread stays consistent: Manufacturing was one of the hardest hit industries due to COVID-19. The mass shuttering of factories, global supply chain challenges, and reduced headcount aligned to the Great Resignation has forced manufacturers to think about their evolution to stay competitive.

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The Secret to Improving Your Leadership … Really

NIST

Why do so few leadership improvement efforts produce the results that leaders and business sponsors want? What is in the way? Through decades of experience helping manufacturers improve their companies and leadership, Keith Gammill and his colleagues at Arkansas Manufacturing Solutions, the Arkansas MEP Center and part of the MEP National Network™, identified five common obstacles to leadership improvement.

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How Switches Improve Safety Standards

Marshall Wolf Automation

Machinery has always had one purpose, to simplify the lives of users. While advancing technology allows for improved production, it also leaves room for potential safety risks. These risks can range anywhere from a broken finger to complete loss of life. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates manufacturing as the second most dangerous workplace, second only to healthcare.

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Mutual Synergies: How Leasing and Electric Vehicles Can Drive Growth in Tandem

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

The automotive industry was severely hit by the pandemic, with a 13.6% dip in global car sales in 2020, a more significant slide than during the financial crisis of 2008. However, one segment that bucked the trend was electric vehicles (EVs). In 2020, new electric car sales grew by 40% from 2019 levels, and by 2021, global EV sales reached around 6.5 million.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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Manufacturing In Flux

Cisco Manufacturing

Looking Ahead. No matter where you reside or what industry your company serves, the past few years have driven intense scrutiny of two major questions: how have we “always operated” and “what needs to change going forward”? As I talk with my customers in the manufacturing space, it is clear that manufacturing is just beginning to recover from the grasp of COVID-19.

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3 Quick Ways to Error Proof Pack-Out Stations

eFlex Systems

When production operators work the pack-out stations, I consider that to be one of the most crucial check points for your parts. If you think about it, those operators are the last ones to touch your product before it reaches the customer. Those operators are acting as the “final goalie” and need to catch any issues (especially apparent issues) before your part(s) leave the building.

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Warmly congratulation!

Min-Hui

Warmly congratulate Min-Hui established a branch company – Dongguan Silico Machinery Co. Ltd, which specializes in liquid silicone equipments (liquid silicone injection molding machine, solid-to-liquid liquid silicone injection molding machine, liquid silicone feeder, solid-to-liquid liquid silicone feeder). The post Warmly congratulation! appeared first on Vertical Injection Molding Machine | Plastic Injector Machine.

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iBASEt Appoints Daniel Flick as Vice President, Global Partner Ecosystems

iBASEt

Commitment to growth through global partner ecosystems brings industry expert Flick to transform iBASEt’s partnering through cloud, SaaS, integration and interoperability. FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif. – May 20, 2022 – iBASEt , the company that simplifies how complex products are built and maintained, today announced it has strengthened its leadership by appointing Daniel Flick as Vice President, Global Partner Ecosystems.

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Plataine Extends Its Digital Thread Technology to Help Composites Manufacturers Overcome Supply Chain Challenges

Plataine

Waltham, MA, May 19th, 2022 – Plataine, a leading provider of AI-based manufacturing optimization solutions, has extended its cloud-based automated Digital Thread technology, to help manufacturers working with composite materials, mitigate current global supply chain challenges and improve on time delivery. The post Plataine Extends Its Digital Thread Technology to Help Composites Manufacturers Overcome Supply Chain Challenges appeared first on Plataine.

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The Impact of Industrial Data Platforms on Manufacturing

Machine Metrics

The rise of industrial data platforms has been spurred by the growing use of IoT in the manufacturing industry. These huge volumes of disparate data types and sources have encouraged manufacturers to implement platforms to collect and standardize data across their many machines and systems.

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Modernizing MES: A Guide for Complex Manufacturers Adapting to Industry 4.0

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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NIST Industrial Wireless Technical Interest Group (IWSTIG)

NIST Manufacturing

In May 2017, NIST formed a technical working group to develop best practices guidelines in selecting and deploying industrial wireless solutions within industrial environments such as process plants and discrete manufacturing factories.

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How to Navigate Significant Shifts When Upgrading Warehouse Software

Bastian Solution

Supply chains and warehouse operations are under a spotlight with many moving towards adding small- and large-scale automation solutions with software upgrades to match. Identifying and navigating those changes is not easy but the right warehouse software platform and integrator can help make the shift seamless.

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The Bullwhip Effect: Solutions to Tame the Chaos

Seeburger

The bullwhip effect describes a phenomenon in supply chain management. It illustrates how fluctuations in orders increase in impact as you progress along a supply chain. As unpredictable as the triggers of the bullwhip effect may seem, many can actually be identified in advance, which lets you resolve them. In this blog article, we will […].

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BigCommerce Inventory Management Basics

MRPEasy

E-commerce is reaching new heights, much thanks to platforms such as BigCommerce that make opening a webstore easier than ever before. Managing a growing e-commerce company, however, becomes increasingly difficult and soon merchants discover that they need more advanced tools than what is available on BigCommerce. Competition is growing in e-commerce Although retail businesses have […].

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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Losant Earns Frost & Sullivan’s 2022 Global Technology Innovation Leadership Award for Its Innovative and Customizable IoT Platform

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

San Antonio, TX — May 17, 2022 — Based on its recent analysis of the global embedded computing market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Losant with the 2022 Technology Innovation Leadership Award for its embedded edge agent (EEA) that highly enhances agility and time to market. Losant’s innovative and easy-to-use platform removes the complexity of developing highly customized IoT applications with its edge and cloud platform, helping global businesses tailor their IoT solutions with a customizabl

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How anti-jam technology reduces wastewater pumping problems.

999 Automation

Growing health and hygiene interests, along with the pandemic have increased the volume of non-flushable items in the wastewater system. Our pursuit for convenience and healthy personal habits also means non-flushable items like wet wipes will continue to grow. Changing public perceptions and pumps using anti-jam technology offer a solution. Despite the marketing, these products […].

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Sinking vs Sourcing in PLCs

DO Supply

In general, the concept of Sourcing and Sinking details a current flow relation between input and output devices of a control system and their power supply. This concept is based on the basic electrical theory, which states that; to complete an electrical circuit, the conventional current should flow from the DC+ terminal through a load… The post Sinking vs Sourcing in PLCs first appeared on Do Supply Tech Support.

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Cobots 101: What you need to know

Universal Robots

Collaborative robots, or cobots, have the power to transform a business’s capabilities, productivity and overheads. More affordable, versatile and compact than traditional industrial robots, they allow even small operations to leverage the power of automation and take their productivity and profitability to the next level. Here is a brief history of the cobot, and how they are transforming manual work for companies across the globe.

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Mastering Digital Transformation: Your Guide to a Successful MES Implementation

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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Frost & Sullivan Awards Microsoft with the Platform of the Year for its IoT Solutions

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

San Antonio, TX – May 17, 2022 – Recently, Frost and Sullivan performs research and analysis of the global IoT industry and for 2021 recognizes Microsoft as Global IoT Platform of the Year Award. The company provides integrated IoT solutions using its Microsoft Azure IoT platform to enable enterprises to expand features, add applications, and/or scale their systems during integration.

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Kontron joins the Arm® Project Cassini initiative and offers new SystemReady IR certified solutions

Expo21xx

Kontron, a leading global provider of IoT/Embedded Computing Technology (ECT), joined the open, collaborative, standards-based initiative Arm® Project Cassini to deliver a seamless cloud-native software experience for devices based on Arm Cortex®-A. […]. The post Kontron joins the Arm® Project Cassini initiative and offers new SystemReady IR certified solutions appeared first on EXPO21XX.com NEWS.

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Strategic Planning Basics for SMMs: Definition, Purpose, and Steps

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

Strategic planning, budgeting, and forecasting are integral to the success of small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs). However, these activities can get overlooked, as leaders of small and medium-sized manufacturing organizations are often very involved in the company's day-to-day operations, leaving little time and bandwidth for high-level strategy.

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Revisiting the JBS Ransomware Attack One Year Later

Manufacturing.net

A look at the lessons learned and what it means for industrial cybersecurity moving forward.

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Future Focus: Constructing Unshakeable Stability in Your Manufacturing Supply Chain

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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Beyond Electric Vehicles, Automakers Now Look to India as an Exciting Market for Component Manufacturing

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

Government policies, such as FAME II, with their attractive purchase incentives and subsidies, are attempting to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption in India. On the supply side, the government is also supporting localized battery production driven by the objective of lowering EV costs and making them more affordable. This conducive environment is triggering a flurry of announcements by automakers.

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Non-Contact Door Switch Controller

Omron

Dedicated controller for Non-Contact Door Switch with programless and safety circuit configuration(G9SX-NS)

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eFlex Partners with XPERTIO to Expand Digital Manufacturing in Mexico and Latin America

eFlex Systems

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How does OEE Help in the Food Manufacturing Industry?

Factory Worx

Read Our Blog. How does OEE Help in the Food Manufacturing Industry? Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is the go-to metric for food manufacturing facilities to recognise losses and benchmarking advancement toward improving throughput performance. It's used to figure out what percentage of manufacturing time is productive. Measuring overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) has various advantages in a food manufacturing facility.

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5 Ways New Manufacturing Companies Are Accelerating Innovation

Next-gen manufacturers are redesigning factories to enable agility at every stage of production. From more timely communication between engineers and technicians to technologies that empower real-time collaboration, they’re getting ahead by making iterations and improvements during a build, across the production line at scale. This level of flexibility means they can develop more quickly than their legacy counterparts.

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What Does the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Mean for Global Power Markets?

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

Russia is cutting off Poland because of non-payment. We also see Ukraine now cutting back and ceasing the transmission of Russian gas through its territory, which is going to have more implications for the European market. We definitely experience more demand for LNG globally and more price pressure in the global market. This is anticipated to translate into higher LNG investments in the coming years, following Frost & Sullivan’s earlier forecast of another round of LNG investment in the nex

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Smart Curing System

Omron

Anywhere in the world(ZUV Series)

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Top 7 Smart Hospitals

Nexus Integra

More and more hospitals are applying smart solutions to optimise workflows and increase productivity in these types of buildings. In our top 7 Smart Hospitals we will explore why these centres are among the best hospitals in the world and what tools they have used to turn them into smart buildings. Clínica Universidad de Navarra. The Clínica Universidad de Navarra is part of prestigious rankings such as Newsweek’s ‘World’s Best Specialized Hospitals 2022’ , which every ye

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Encoders from SIKO support Industrial Ethernet

Motion Control Tips

SIKO GmbH is expanding its broad portfolio of encoders with new Industrial Ethernet versions. The new encoders offer answers to the requirements of complex machinery and Industry 4.0. The optical based WV5850 and WH5850, in either single or multi-turn versions, offer high resolution and quick response in applications requiring extreme precision and fast response times. […].

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.