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Taking a different approach to DCS upgrades

Control Engineering

Embracing concepts and technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and smart manufacturing can help. Today, pharmaceutical production plants must embrace more flexible production and faster process implementation to reduce time to market for new product developments.

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Why Use HMI/SCADA, Six Examples

Gary Mintchell

In what Chris McLaughlin from Vertech describes as “stupidity or altruism,” he offered to build RITI one cohesive software platform that would encompass all the existing functionality and add the missing features required to scale their service for the homeless. There are three categories of nodes: inputs, functions, and outputs.

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Best practices for effective automation applications, Part 2: Automation case study

Control Engineering

Real-world examples will help fill skills gaps with smart manufacturing. It was a pilot plant for a large pharmaceutical company, so you can imagine a lot of clean rooms and a lot of stainless steel, like depicted here. Automation can do quite a bit, but do not over-reach automation’s capabilities.

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Back In Action: An MCMT Special

Dinesh Mishra

The slightest deviations in the shape, size, position, or surface texture of these components can impact the functionality and safety of the powertrain. Medical plastics deliver a pharmaceutical compound to its target site. The e-motor is virtually silent compared to combustion engines.

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Top Legal Issues Facing the Manufacturing Sector in 2023

Foley

Back to the Table of Contents Cybersecurity Threats in the Manufacturing Industry AUTHORS Aaron K. Tantleff | atantleff@foley.com Alexander Misakian | amisakian@foley.com In the hyper-connected era of Smart Manufacturing, accelerated by “Industry 4.0,” ” manufacturing is undergoing a digital revolution.