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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

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. Review differences in Industry 4.0,

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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. 2023 ARC Industry Forum keynote insights Automotive, industrial and energy manufacturer ZF Group provides motion controls for automotive, industrial and wind power. The 2023 ARC Industry Forum, in Orlando, Feb.

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How Industry 4.0 Influence Today’s Asset Management

Factory Worx

In this blog, we will check out the influence of manufacturing 4.0 Why does manufacturing asset management software matter to process manufacturing plants? As the sector gets more competitive and customer demand and market conditions change more frequently, manufacturing businesses need every advantage they can get.

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Control Engineering hot topics, March 2023

Control Engineering

Improving sustainability with advanced analytics applications Three case studies demonstrate the ways process manufacturers are leveraging their advanced analytics applications to promote sustainable operations and business practices. Five tips for integrating edge computing are highlighted. See video.

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Automation Fair, Nov. 6-9: What’s possible with automation, productivity, resilience, sustainability?

Control Engineering

Target audience for Automation Fair 2023 Rockwell Automation include automation professionals on the plant floor, plant-floor management and manufacturing management. Rockwell Automation chairman and CEO Blake Moret discussed the need for agile, resilient and sustainable manufacturing at the 2022 Automation Fair at McCormick Place in Chicago.

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Embrace Disruption: The Supply Chain

Fabricating & Metal Work

COVER STORY Metalworkers can build supply chains that can bend without breaking thanks to innovative strategies, processes and products. In response, metalworkers continue to invest in automation, robotics and machinery to speed up their processes, manufacturing highly precise and accurate components and parts. Excelta Corp.,

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More sensors, despite strained supply chain

Control Engineering

Other issues in 2022 include threats of energy shortages in Europe, high inflation and rising interest rates in many countries, supply and logistics chains that are strained and persistent COVID lockdowns in China. Russia’s attack on Ukraine clouded the outlook at the beginning of last year. The company shipped more than 2.9