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Five lessons manufacturing operations can learn from enterprise IT teams

Cisco Industrial Automation

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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The future for growth opportunities in the world’s autonomous shared mobility market is huge – we look at the reason why

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

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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Even in the Midst of Supply Chain Disruption – What Can You Do NOW to Improve Performance?

Polytron

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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Motion Control Trends: Automation, robotics spur motor demand

Motion Control Tips

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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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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Where Cobots Can Be Deployed On The Factory Floor

Universal Robots

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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Maintenance Employment Cost Comparison: What You Need to Know

ATS

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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Motion Control Trends: Automation drives encoder development

Motion Control Tips

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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Five stories about cobots improving workplaces

Universal Robots

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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How to integrate Google Cloud Pub/Sub into the SEEBURGER BIS

Seeburger

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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Managing Time Sensitive Material: once you’ve tried Cloud AI, you can’t go back

Plataine

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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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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Can Palletising Be Automated Where The Product Size Changes Frequently?

Granta Automation

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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Realizing the Blazing Potential of Promising Workforce Programs

NIST

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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How to Retain Your Technical Workforce Manufacturing Talent

ATS

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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NIST Seeks Inputs on its Draft Guide to Operational Technology Security

NIST Manufacturing

NIST has released its public draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-82r3, Guide to Operational Technology (OT) Security.

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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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UK Government Super Deduction Scheme – How Will It Affect My Purchase?

Granta Automation

The UK governments Super-deduction scheme is one of the most attractive tax incentives for business investment that has ever been offered by the UK Government. The scheme has been created to encourage firms to invest in productivity-enhancing plant and machinery … Continue reading → The post UK Government Super Deduction Scheme – How Will It Affect My Purchase?

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EAM vs CMMS: whats the difference and its functions

Nexus Integra

The digitalisation of industrial businesses has become a priority. As a result, maintenance 4.0 is a fundamental task for the proper functioning of any company, but especially when working with industrial equipment and machinery. This function is essential to avoid all kinds of errors, reprocessing, incidents and repairs. In this case, when talking about maintenance, Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is often mentioned.

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Q&A Attracting and Retaining Technical Talent in Manufacturing

ATS

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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Industry 4.0- Top Frequently Asked Questions, Explained

Factory Worx

Read Our Blog. Industry 4.0- Top Frequently Asked Questions, Explained. Industry 4.0 ( fourth industrial revolution ) signifies a "smart," networked facility for enterprises. The influence of Industry 4.0 on manufacturing drives remarkable increases in quality, dependability, and agility, thanks to advanced automation, real-time communications and remote monitoring, and a tremendous amount of data that helps to drive decision-making.

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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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Frost & Sullivan Lauds Everbridge for its Innovative Leadership and Growth in the Command and Control Software Industry

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

SAN ANTONIO — April 28, 2022 — In the near future, Frost & Sullivan anticipates significant investments in security ecosystem digitalization for public and private organizations. As more devices are integrated, threats have become multi-faceted. Participants are expected to leverage advanced technologies that can improve their intelligence cycle and prepare them to respond to any digital or physical intrusion attempts.

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Two Must-Haves for IIoT Success at Your Factory

ATS

Share. Technological transformation in the manufacturing industry is essential in today’s climate, but integrating IIOT takes an innovative culture and wealth of technical talent to reap the rewards. Over the years many of us seasoned manufacturing veterans have read article after article about how transforming your factory to include the latest smart technology will increase productivity, reduce operating costs, provide greater access to data, and allow for better decision making.