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Can Connecting ERP to Machine Tool Monitoring Address the Workforce Challenge?

Modern Machine Shop

And it has radio frequency sensing, offering the ability to detect and identify RFID tags. An RFID tag, seen here affixed to the upper right corner of a job traveler. Tags like this are cheap and can be liberally affixed to any person or object (such as a part or tool) that is valuable for the system to be able to sense.

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Innovative Medical Application Winner: Double Hand and Face Transplant

Additive Manufacturing

The medical additive manufacturing and 3D printing community is always working to use technology to improve patient care and change lives. Two Materialise clinical engineers members delivered the guides from their medical manufacturing facility in Michigan to the hospital in New York within 24 hours of receiving the final CT data.

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Four critical things to know about PLC programming in 3 minutes

Control Engineering

The 3-minute video covers use of appropriate PLC programming languages, PLC brand considerations, other tools common to all PLCs to help with tags and object-oriented architecture. Three related PLC programming and PLC articles from Control Engineering follow.

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Automation This Morning for February 22, 2023

The Automation Blog

From new products to new articles, the first article in this morning's roundup is from Schneider Electric here and covers the basics of what is Industrial Automation. Next is an article from Antaira here about how to develop a POE Power Budget. As far as upcoming events, today we're highlighting three new online sessions.

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Lockout/Tagout for Industrial Maintenance: 7 Steps to Ensure Safety

ATS

In manufacturing and industrial maintenance , it is a safety measure designed to prevent equipment from being powered on while an employee is in a potentially hazardous position or location, such as cleaning the machine or performing repairs on it. Keep the information in this article in mind when developing a LOTO process of your own.

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Building on analytics foundations to improve operations

Control Engineering

Analytics are going to be a key driver for manufacturers looking to get the most productivity and insight from their operations as they deal with supply chain and labor shortages. It has to supplement data acquisition to provide real value for manufacturers. Ethernet, tag names, improved communications . Analytics insights.

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Industrial tours extend controls, automation intelligence

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand ways the Lift manufacturing innovation institute in Detroit is helping to advance automated metal forming, controls, training and optimization. and manufacturing training at Jane Addams Resource Corp. and manufacturing training at Jane Addams Resource Corp. JARC) in Chicago. training facility.