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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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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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What machine vision is and its application in Industry 4.0

Nexus Integra

Artificial vision was born as one of the most recent Artificial Intelligence technologies to provide industrial equipment with the ability to see, analyse and manage manufacturing, quality control and asset safety tasks. It was created with the aim of processing information. Machine vision is inherent to Industry 4.0

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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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In tune with times, software application provider focuses on frontline workers

Control Engineering

Augmentir CEO Russ Fadel’s rich and varied career within the industrial software space began as a co-founder at WonderwareNorth, a regional VAR for manufacturing operations software and hardware. That helped us penetrate the manufacturing intelligence space and simplify synchronizing with SAP, which eventually acquired Lighthammer. .

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Is your blood boiling?

Manufacturer's Monthly

Keeping blood at a safe temperature is vital as this article explores. If the lab gets a sample that is questionable for whatever reasons, they essentially kick the order back and the patient has to start over, getting poked yet again to restart the diagnostic process. Blood can be a health dashboard for your body.