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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Identify how to determine if your company is moving quickly enough with Industry 4.0 Review differences in Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing and digital transformation. Understand Industry 4.0 It has been a dozen years of Industry 4.0 Is there an Industry 5.0?

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Exploring the impact of Industry 4.0 on manufacturers

MEM

Industry 4.0 is becoming increasingly important within the manufacturing industry, but what exactly is it and how does your business make the transition? Here, Iain Butler, R&D Director at Buzzacott, explores the significance of Industry 4.0 and the available support for manufacturers who wish to switch.

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The Importance of Manufacturing Plant Documentation

ATS

Share Plant documentation has long been a requirement for manufacturers, not only from a regulatory and compliance standpoint but also to support consistency, continuity and quality in operations and processes. Plant documentation & Industry 4.0 With the advent of industrial technology solutions as part of Industry 4.0,

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How digital transformation can help your company become more flexible and consistent

Control Engineering

For process manufacturing, digital transformation—the base of “Industry Manufacturing 4.0”—is Many chemical companies, food and beverage manufacturers, and pharmaceutical companies (amongst others) are still struggling with production systems that are obsolete. Recipes are stored in a database.

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7 ways SCADA software can advance IIoT implementations, if you do it right

Control Engineering

Database integration: Modern SCADA software platforms are more than industrial solutions, with ability to integrate with all other plant systems, feeding and extracting data for display and analytics. Information models: One of the biggest industrial changes in progress is the drive toward Industry 4.0,

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Instrumentation devices are joining the digitalization revolution

Control Engineering

In years gone by a typical industrial facility may have had dozens or even hundreds of maintenance technicians managing instrumentation across a process.

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How to organize, protect and apply big data in automation

Control Engineering

When rolling out AI-enabled machine vision to automate inspection processes, manufacturers drive quality improvement initiatives with an eye toward improving production yield, increasing process efficiency, and reducing costs. What is big data? and what it means to the organization.