Control Engineering

JULY 12, 2023

smart manufacturing and digital transformation. Control Engineering asked these questions and others about smart manufacturing and digital transformation to Jeff Winter, senior director industry strategy, manufacturing, Hitachi Solutions, and an industry expert on Industry 4.0 initiatives. Understand Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 98

Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Smart manufacturing Manufacturing 98

Control Engineering

MARCH 10, 2023

Embracing concepts and technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and smart manufacturing can help. This is a challenge because a DCS is a closed system and does not take to upgrades easily. This is because the DCS is effectively a closed system, so cannot integrate easily into other systems.

Pharmaceutical 98

Pharmaceutical Smart manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking 98

Control Engineering

JULY 20, 2022

A good way to begin the design process is using a three-tier edge strategy (Figure 3): The “edge gateway” focuses on providing secure transport of data from the plant floor to the cloud, but with restrictive OT protocol support. How the cloud benefits manufacturing. Courtesy: Yokogawa.

Artificial Intelligence 105

Artificial Intelligence Function Value chain Automation 105

Control Engineering

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software was initially designed to aggregate information from distributed sources and provide operators with the information needed to best control processes. Below find 7 key SCADA developments critical for manufacturers to know today. smart manufacturing and digital transformation.

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) 52

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Function Industry 4.0 52

Fabricating & Metal Work

AUGUST 30, 2023

Highlights include the introduction of CI’s innovative press brake series, the latest in bending, welding, and laser cutting along with demonstrations of the company’s fully integrated manufacturing process. People ask, what’s the difference between this or that press brake?   The XFORM changes all of this.

Automation 52

Automation Form Function Smart manufacturing 52

Control Engineering

OCTOBER 15, 2023

What are common industrial MES features and functions? This is how we build our products, this is the steps that each product takes, this is, if in a process manufacturing environment, we have our recipes. ERP would never be designed to perform those functions. So, getting clear business requirements is a must.

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) 52

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Automation Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 52