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Using Sensors & IoT for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

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Share Pharmaceutical manufacturing operations are challenging environments for asset maintenance. Availability of production machinery and ancillary services such as HVAC and utilities are critical to controlling costs, but stringent regulatory requirements constrain how work is done. is an enabler of customized manufacturing.

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Using Sensors for Tire & Rubber Manufacturing

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Share In tire manufacturing, quality and consistency are achieved by monitoring and controlling key manufacturing process parameters. What’s more, having instrumented the processes, these tire manufacturing sensors can also support preventive maintenance.

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Machine Data Collection in Manufacturing

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The types of signals and records a machine data collection system can gather include: Sensor data Some of the i ndustrial machine sensors used for process control can also capture machine health data. In other cases, manufacturers retrofit machines with IoT devices.

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What is High-Tech Manufacturing?

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Share Complex products require complex manufacturing processes, and that’s the essence of high-tech manufacturing. Machinery and controls are highly sophisticated and often tightly integrated. This blog answers the question, “What is high-tech manufacturing?” A high-tech factory challenges the maintenance function.

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Making Productivity Sustainable with Pharma 4.0

i4.0 today

Smart pharmaceutical manufacturing can do more than drive up productivity. As a result, pharmaceutical companies can help to protect both people and the environment. The future of pharmaceutical manufacturing, also known as Pharma 4.0, is based on data-driven technologies. Pharma 4.0

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Gas Analysis Solutions Center to Help Plants Meet Sustainability Goals

Gary Mintchell

New Scotland-based center will develop and provide training for next-generation gas sensing technologies used for emissions monitoring, process control and safety. The post Gas Analysis Solutions Center to Help Plants Meet Sustainability Goals appeared first on The Manufacturing Connection.

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Taking a different approach to DCS upgrades

Control Engineering

Embracing concepts and technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and smart manufacturing can help. In the past, upgrading a distributed control system (DCS) typically involved ripping out the old system and replacing it with a new one from a different vendor, or undergoing a hardware or software upgrade.