Modern Machine Shop

AUGUST 3, 2023

Modern Machine Shop began writing about RAMTIC a quarter-century ago, and the RAMTIC system is still fundamental to Renishaw’s approach to shopfloor automation and process control. If Renishaw was to increase the efficiency of its shop floor, it needed real-time, data-driven process control.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 17, 2023

Multivariable process control insights. Multivariable processes have more than one input or output required for proper control. Examples include distillation columns, reactor control and power systems. One often overlooked option for getting more out a process are multivariable process control improvements.

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eFlex Systems

APRIL 10, 2024

Surprisingly enough, a successful digital transformation depends as much (or more) on the human element as it does on the tech infrastructure. Read on!

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Metrology

AUGUST 28, 2023

The main target market for NEXIV VMZ-NWL 200 is therefore measurement centered on semiconductor manufacturing processes in the back-end. The post Automatic Wafer Measurement Solution Supports Semiconductor Back-End Process Control appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 5, 2022

Advanced Process Control Insights. The industrial automation industry, which includes advanced process control (APC), is expected to have a positive outlook through 2022 and beyond. The post Advanced process control market showing strong growth appeared first on Control Engineering.

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i4.0 today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With this latest release, Honeywell builds on more than 20 years of proven technology and expands the support of Experion PKS Highly Integrated Virtual Environment (HIVE), making users’ existing system smarter at automatically assigning controls and connecting to more devices. Today Magazine.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Process control insights. Distributed control systems (DCSs) are at the heart of process manufacturing operations and have evolved to focus on digitalization. – This originally appeared on Control Engineering Europe’s website.

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Metrology

JANUARY 2, 2024

Flexxbotics, delivering workcell digitalization for robot-driven manufacturing, has announced that SpiTrex Orthopedics has selected the Flexxbotics solution for robot-driven manufacturing with autonomous process control.

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Gary Mintchell

MARCH 13, 2024

Targeted at Open, Modular Process Control Systems Modular compute, switch, and I/O architecture enables interoperable standard for industrial PCs, PLCs, and distributed control systems. Although this “open, modular process control system” sounds eerily familiar.

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Automation World

APRIL 18, 2024

In batch manufacturing operations, a campaign manager is a database module that acts as a translator between ERP and scheduling software and the batch engine to prevent errors and over-production.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Ruland Manufacturing has chosen Flexxbotics FlexxCORE technology for its robotic machine tending needs. Source: Flexxbotics Flexxbotics, which delivers workcell digitalization for robot-driven manufacturing, today announced that Ruland Manufacturing Co.

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eFlex Systems

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Learn how digital process control can help you avoid throughput overprocessing while optimizing efficiency and productivity on the plant floor.

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eFlex Systems

APRIL 16, 2023

Boost new efficiencies, enhance operational excellence, and improve quality.

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eFlex Systems

APRIL 23, 2024

The critical importance of working with technology partners who truly understand manufacturing for digital transformation success. Read on in the blog!

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eFlex Systems

JULY 28, 2023

Connected process control technologies provide a paradigm-shifting level of complete traceability that manufacturers can now access. Read on to learn more.

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ATS

MARCH 26, 2024

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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ATS

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

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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ATS

APRIL 5, 2024

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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ATS

MARCH 26, 2024

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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Gary Mintchell

MARCH 7, 2023

I’ve been asked to present at a Webinar on a new Website–Manufacturing Technology Today. Going Beyond Digital Transformation: The Real Innovations in Manufacturing. The post Some Manufacturing Industry News Links appeared first on The Manufacturing Connection. Registration will be open soon. Check it out.

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Automation Mag

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Global technology intelligence firm ABI Research reports that artificial intelligence (AI) will transform quality management systems (QMS) software by allowing manufacturers to close the loop on quality management more effectively, driving quality initiatives across the production lifecycle from design to control.

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ATS

JANUARY 24, 2024

Sometimes called “inferential” or “virtual” sensors, soft sensors are rapidly becoming a key component of the digital transformation underway in manufacturing. Their uses include improved process control, detection of sensor problems, and operation of digital twins.

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Metrology

JANUARY 5, 2023

Advantive, a mission-critical software provider for specialty manufacturing and distribution businesses, recently announced the acquisitions of DataNet and PQ Systems, leaders in Statistical Process Control (SPC), manufacturing quality, and gage.

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Gary Mintchell

APRIL 2, 2024

Fero Labs has developed software to help certain types of process manufacturing plants improve quality output economically when given a random mix of feedstock. I wrote about the company last August— A Better Way to Control Process Quality. But, would anyone trust yet another advanced process control system?

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eFlex Systems

JANUARY 11, 2024

There are three essential prerequisites for setting and measuring manufacturing KPIs – a consistent process, clear standards, and the tools to measure. Read on in the Epicor blog.

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Modern Machine Shop

DECEMBER 19, 2023

With Flexxbotics’ FlexxCore solution, robots go beyond simply communicating with the machinery; they control and command the machines. Flexxbotics workcell digitalization delivers robot-driven manufacturing at scale with autonomous process control for advanced machining operations.

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Gary Mintchell

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

And that is not the only place within process control software where you will find machine learning (ML, which is an AI technology) working for us. The post Beyond ChatGPT appeared first on The Manufacturing Connection. Forget hand-wringing about the future like our journalist friends like to publish.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Process control diagnostics often use programmable logic controllers (PLCs) as the main hub. Process control infrastructures will predominantly use programmable logic controllers (PLCs) as the main hub for instructions, process monitoring and diagnostics. Diagnostics and Asset Management Insights.

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eFlex Systems

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Connected process control solutions with integrated IoT devices is not just a game-changer on the plant floor, its transforming training as we know it.

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AU Manufacturing

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Business leaders have convened at the recent CommBank Western Sydney Manufacturing Roundtable to tackle factors that impact digital transformation in the manufacturing industry. . Technological advances had improved precision in the production process but they noted that this may not yet be a one-solution-fits-all matter. .

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Manufacturer's Monthly

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Epicor, a global leader of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth, has announced it has acquired eFlex Systems , a provider of cloud-based manufacturing execution system (MES) technologies. The post Epicor acquires manufacturing execution system provider eFlex Systems appeared first on Manufacturers' Monthly.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Flexxbotics workcell digitalization is the backbone of the Smart Factory delivering autonomous process control for next generation machining environments utilizing robotics.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

JANUARY 17, 2024

RS is proud to offer Festo’s extensive portfolio of flexible, cost-effective, and user-friendly electric automation products engineered to improve the way people work and companies compete.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The acquisition expands the Epicor portfolio of Advanced MES capabilities to help manufacturers increase productivity by modernizing their production environments through digital work instructions, advanced process control, and real-time visibility. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2024

FlexxConnect is a process-control program for CNC shops. Source: Flexxbotics Flexxbotics, which provides process-control software to automate workcells, today announced that Scott Harris, co-founder of SOLIDWORKS and Onshape, has mentored and invested in the company. digitalization.” million in Series A funding.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Process manufacturing, DCS, cloud insights. The cost and complexity of accessing the critical data connected to the distributed control system (DCS) is a challenge for process manufacturers. Visibility of control and optimization data in real-time. Engineering the future: DCS, OT edge.

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E&T

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

As Wales Tech Week draws closer, visitors can expect digital transformation in manufacturing to be one of the main focuses. I spoke to experts in the industry to see how manufacturing businesses stand to reap huge benefits from tech advances including digital transformation. But digital transformation cannot be considered in isolation.

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