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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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Digital manufacturing, smart manufacturing, enable sustainability efforts

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives ZF Group, an automotive manufacturer, provides motion controls for automotive, industrial, wind power. Digital transformation on the way to smart factory implementation. Smart factory prerequisites are required prior to implementation. The 2023 ARC Industry Forum, in Orlando, Feb.

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How to organize, protect and apply big data in automation

Control Engineering

Big data insights Big data and analytics tools can help manufacturers analyze vast amounts of data and make better decisions about their operations. Manufacturers can improve the customer experience and satisfaction while also achieving better product production through shorter innovation cycles. What is big data?

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

Control Engineering

Today, with SCADA being so easy to implement and taking on more analytic functions, it has become the staple for every serious manufacturer. Below find 7 key SCADA developments critical for manufacturers to know today. More industrial integration for SCADA 1. smart manufacturing and digital transformation.

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More answers on bridging the gap from edge to cloud MES to make automation more effective

Control Engineering

Question: Can you provide insights into the future trends of MES in manufacturing? 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. Question : How should an MES interact with other systems in a manufacturing environment?

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A look at digital transformation using the cloud

Control Engineering

A good cloud platform helps users manage data along the lifecycle, which supports curation and utilization to enable effective data analytics and machine learning (ML) to generate insights that can make manufacturing operations better. How the cloud benefits manufacturing. Courtesy: Yokogawa.