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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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Building a traceability 4.0 foundation for automation

Control Engineering

Traceability is one of the most critical strategies for bringing true transparency to the manufacturing environment. Internal drivers include manufacturing flexibility, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and product compatibility, whereas external ones include regulatory compliance, industry standards and customer requirements.

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

Control Engineering

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. How can MES help industrial digital transformation and automation integration? Harrison : The MES should be secure to protect sensitive data.