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Utilizing controllers successfully in smart manufacturing, digital transformation

Control Engineering

In the rapidly evolving landscape of smart manufacturing, control units such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs) remain essential components in automated operations, helping to streamline processes, enhance productivity and optimize plant performance. “As

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Flexxbotics gets support to add robots to production from co-founder of SOLIDWORKS, Onshape

Robotics Business Review

Source: Flexxbotics Flexxbotics, which provides process-control software to automate workcells, today announced that Scott Harris, co-founder of SOLIDWORKS and Onshape, has mentored and invested in the company. ” Harris has extensive experience in computer-aided design and manufacturing software. . digitalization.”

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5G’s role in the adoption of enterprise augmented reality

Control Engineering

Augmented reality (AR) insights 5G was seen as a key enabler of digital transformation in enterprises and of the overall Industry 4.0 paradigm, but 5G-enabled Industry 4.0 The literature on enterprise AR within Industry 4.0 To smart manufacturing enterprises, the ratio is 1 to every 4.

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How to Evolve your Manufacturing Environment to an Ultimate State

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

The path to achieving these goals has changed over time from the industrial revolution where new machinery helped drive productivity ultimately leading to mass production of products and the integration of automation and computers to drive efficiency, visibility and optimize process and resources as a means of competitive advantage for companies.

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Delta Electronics demonstrates digital twin, power systems at GTC

Robotics Business Review

Source: Delta Electronics SAN JOSE, Calif. demonstrated how its digital twin platform, developed on NVIDIA Omniverse, can help enhance smart manufacturing capabilities. ” The Taipei, Taiwan-based company explained how its technologies can benefit industrial automation and warehouse operations. .’s

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Taking a dynamic approach to safety

Control Engineering

Machine safety insights Industry 4.0 and digital twins offer manufacturers an opportunity to improve safety by enhancing situational awareness. Asset administration shells (AAS) exchange asset-related data between assets and production orchestration systems or engineering tools and acts as a link for Industry 4.0

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

Control Engineering

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. Information models: One of the biggest industrial changes in progress is the drive toward Industry 4.0,