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

Control Engineering

Thought leaders, product experts, partners and customers will share experiences in industry forums, partner solutions, customer voices, insights and education and product intro labs.

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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

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

Control Engineering

Bai Wei, president of Shenghong Petrochemical Industry Group, said, “Honeywell is not only a supplier of process control systems and a provider of process technology.” The project included Honeywell’s in-depth integration of its UOP refining process technology and expert insights.

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Digital manufacturing, smart manufacturing, enable sustainability efforts

Control Engineering

Smart factory elements will incorporate logistics, quality and inspections, factory management, production maintenance and shopfloor management. We need to go fast.” Some plants lack certain skillsets and this will help, he suggested. maturity roadmap, with strategic prefunding to optimize smart factory development, said Gonzalez-Alanso.

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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

Note 2: In addition to manufacturing, other enterprise domains can include engineering, logistics, marketing, procurement, sales or any other domains identified by the enterprise. When looking at manufacturing, several interactions make an industrial digital transformation more challenging than other industries. Industry 4.0,