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Segment Your Factory Floor Network to Improve Operations

Automation World

Though it’s possible to use front-office IT switches on the factory floor, an industrial router or switch with network address translation capability is often the preferred solution.

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Generative AI advances intelligent factories

Design World

And in the context of IIoT, how does a factory become intelligent? According to Willie Lin, director of iFactory Solutions and WISE-IoT at Advantech (whose company uses this tagline), an intelligent factory features two things.

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What is a Smart Factory?

Automation World

Schneider Electric’s Heather Cykoski explains what constitutes a smart factory, how the concept is advancing at manufacturing facilities across the globe, its connection to digital transformation initiatives and the biggest challenges manufacturers face when seeking to become a smart factory.

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Basics of smart factories and discrete-automation connectivity

Design World

Smart factories are facilities that digitize all aspects of manufacturing or production that allow digitization. Such programs might help the facility time production of a given end product; proactively prevent mechanical issues;… The post Basics of smart factories and discrete-automation connectivity appeared first on Design World.

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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.

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How Siemens’ Amberg Factory Uses Red Hat OpenShift

Automation World

To improve predictive maintenance, quality assurance, and cybersecurity at its Amberg, Germany, factory, Siemens has created a cloud-native, modular architecture using Red Hat OpenShift.

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Bosch Rexroth opens new factory automation customer innovation center

Design World

The facility will provide a unique technology development experience for Bosch Rexroth factory automation customers from multiple industry segments, including electric vehicle manufacturing, battery production, consumer packaged goods, and semiconductor manufacturing.

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How Legacy Tools Are Failing Inventive Manufacturing Engineers

In this eBook you’ll learn: How to operationalize a culture of testing, failing, and testing again to accelerate innovation The guiding belief system shared by next-gen manufacturers moving from prototype to finished product at breakneck speeds How you can implement flexibility, free-flowing data, and automation into your existing factory operations (..)