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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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Top 5 Control Engineering content: October 9-15 2023

Control Engineering

Control Engineering’s top 5 pieces of content over the past week covered Control Engineering’s 2023 Engineering Leaders under 40, PID methods and PLC standards. When that’s the case, six strategies can simplify the process. Read about the 2023 leaders here Engineering Leaders Under 40 include 34 rising stars of innovation.

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The gold standard for automation technology

Manufacturer's Monthly

We can provide the link to these particular experts in different fields, whether it’s processing, manufacturing, food and beverage. It streamlines the process of providing the end user with the expertise they require.”. The industrial automation, robotics, and engineering company catering to Industry 4.0

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How to integrate process, digital technologies to increase petrochemical factory output

Control Engineering

Digitalization, process control insights Shenghong Petrochemical and Honeywell collaborate on integrating digitalization and plant optimization control technologies, reducing manual operation more than 50% and increasing propylene yield more than 0.1%.

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Plan for the future with 5G, mobile edge computing

Control Engineering

For example, one of Corning ’s optical cable manufacturing plants has already tested how 5G and mobile edge computing can help with process control, monitoring and quality assurance. Figure 1: Beyond streamlining processes, manufacturing facilities can expect to see more accurate production and fewer disruptions.

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Universal automation lays the foundation for smart factories

Control Engineering

Understand the shift toward the smart factory and the challenges process manufacturers face. Distributed control system (DCS) users are working toward eliminating the proprietary nature of automation and working toward a universal standard for process control industries. Learning Objectives.

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Improving sustainability with advanced analytics applications

Control Engineering

Analytics insights Sustainability has been recognized as an area of significant importance in the process industries, but many organizations face challenges accessing and connecting data from siloed systems. This is best-accomplished with near-real-time plant data in a common enterprise-wide platform.