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Machine Data Collection in Manufacturing

ATS

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. This can drive improvement efforts to find and reduce waste.

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What is High-Tech Manufacturing?

ATS

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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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.

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How a collaborative approach is driving Ireland from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand how Ireland fosters collaboration and innovation among manufacturers. See how workforce development and training initiatives can support innovation in manufacturing. Learn about innovative manufacturing projects underway in Ireland. Industry 5.0 insights Whereas Industry 4.0 Industry 5.0

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Hydrogen and Biofuel Production Improvements

Gary Mintchell

Technology pundits have extolled hydrogen as an energy source that makes sense from environmental and sustainable points-of-view for many years. The post Hydrogen and Biofuel Production Improvements appeared first on The Manufacturing Connection. We are finally on the cusp of a breakthrough.

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Leveraging real-time data across the enterprise

Control Engineering

Companies looking to improve asset management should develop a plan that considers all aspects of the operation, which can help improve scalability as well as lessening the burden on the operators by making it a more automated process. Companies also are looking to achieve better control and efficiency in their day-to-day operations.

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Plant Documentation 4.0 – An Essential Enabler for Industry 4.0

i4.0 today

Manufacturing processes are continually adapted and optimized; products are increasingly being individually manufactured. Thus these sectors of industry have had to rely on digital documentation for a long time now to keep track of the as-built status of their plants and manage the relevant interrelated processes.