Control Engineering

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software was initially designed to aggregate information from distributed sources and provide operators with the information needed to best control processes. Below find 7 key SCADA developments critical for manufacturers to know today. More industrial integration for SCADA 1.

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) 52

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Function Industry 4.0 52

Control Engineering

MARCH 10, 2023

Embracing concepts and technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and smart manufacturing can help. The traditional DCS has reached a point of diminishing returns as a source of unlocking major incremental value (flexibility and agility) for transitioning to digital and autonomous operations.

Pharmaceutical 98

Pharmaceutical Smart manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking 98

Additive Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This low and unusually stable shrinkage allows the manufacture via binder jetting of large parts, up to 10s of cms in length. The benefits of its uniform, ultra-low porosity, high flow materials are not limited to print and sinter steps but also to secondary process steps, including de-powdering and sintered part finishing.

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3D printing Additive manufacturing Sourcing Process manufacturing 52

Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

She said about two billion people worldwide use a drinking water source that has some level of fecal matter in it and can cause health issues ranging from diarrhea to stunted growth – especially in young children. Emily Bedell (PhDEnvEngr’22) is the lead author on the paper from the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering. Patent Office.

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Sourcing Function Artificial Intelligence Process manufacturing 98

Control Engineering

MARCH 30, 2023

Global efforts to achieve zero carbon emissions from industry are gathering pace as a variety of environmental, economic and geopolitical factors are driving the development of sustainable energy sources such as green hydrogen. The growing viability of hydrogen as an energy source is changing this.

Sourcing 52

Sourcing Process control Automation Function 52

Control Engineering

AUGUST 2, 2022

Now, a team of scientists at MIT and elsewhere has developed a system based on silk that could provide an inexpensive and easily manufactured substitute. Each of these sources may require its own kind of solutions for reducing its spread, Marelli said. Ten percent of a big number is still a big number.

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Form Sourcing Fit Electronics 69

Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 18, 2023

COVER STORY Metalworkers can build supply chains that can bend without breaking thanks to innovative strategies, processes and products. In response, metalworkers continue to invest in automation, robotics and machinery to speed up their processes, manufacturing highly precise and accurate components and parts. Excelta Corp.,

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 25, 2022

Dyes are used across multiple industries, and are a known source of pollution and health risks for humans. Equated to oil and water, researchers performed visual tests to study the synthetic polymer, and discovered that it grabs onto the dyes and then is later able to be separated through a draining process.

Pharmaceutical 52

Pharmaceutical Sourcing Process manufacturing Manufacturing 52

MEM

JANUARY 19, 2023

is becoming increasingly important within the manufacturing industry, but what exactly is it and how does your business make the transition? and the available support for manufacturers who wish to switch. or digitalisation, is the trend towards automation and data exchange in processes within the manufacturing industry.

Industry 4.0 105

Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Supply Chain Manufacturing 105

Control Engineering

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It enables efficient management of the interactions between critical asset items, permitted work, and isolations of power, fluid, or motive sources in one centralized platform. Monitoring safety critical asset items and linking them to permitted activities will provide significant benefits to plants.

Function 52

Function Process control Sourcing Process manufacturing 52

Control Engineering

JUNE 5, 2023

It’s essential to diversify clean energy sources. Yet clean energy sources such as wind and solar power are still heavily dependent on atmospheric conditions. While fossil fuels have had the advantage of being able to deliver power daily, wave power could give renewable energy the same reliability.

Sourcing 52

Sourcing Prototype  Form Automation 52

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

MARCH 15, 2023

Continuous improvement and customer-first approaches such as Lean methodology can offer a critical advantage to small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) competing in the global market. What Is Waste from a Lean Manufacturing Perspective? Lean Manufacturing’s 8 Wastes Lean Manufacturing has classified waste into eight categories.

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Form Lean manufacturing Manufacturing Bottleneck 81

Infinite Uptime

MAY 10, 2022

Predictive Maintenance in process manufacturing plants such as the cement industry can identify deviations in machine health at the nascent stage before they escalate into full-blown problems that may result in unplanned downtime. Finding the root cause of machine failure, sourcing & transporting the spare parts takes a long time.

Function 52

Function Automation Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 52

Control Engineering

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The lab may also look into embedding more components into the prototype, such as on-board power sources, sensors, computational resources or wireless communication capabilities. – Edited by Chris Vavra, web content manager, Control Engineering , CFE Media and Technology, cvavra@cfemedia.com.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Digital twins encompass first principle-based process simulation, data-driven ML models, asset models and connections to real-world data synchronized from multiple sources including operational data, engineering data, maintenance data and financial information.

Fit 52

Fit Form Function Sourcing 52

Control Engineering

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Learning Objectives Understand how a 360-degree visualization overview is possible for manufacturing and processing companies to derive intelligence from software integrating multiple enterprise levels. Understand that integrated visualization software can deliver data-derived intelligence.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 52

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Sourcing Bill of Materials Value chain 52

Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Digital transformation can help process manufacturers improve sustainability. Process manufacturers can use key performance indicators (KPIs) to reduce inefficiencies caused by steam traps, pressure relief valves (PRVs) and more. Keywords: sustainability, process manufacturing . Learning Objectives.

Process manufacturing 52

Process manufacturing Automation Manufacturing Process control 52

Control Engineering

MARCH 9, 2023

Analytics insights Sustainability has been recognized as an area of significant importance in the process industries, but many organizations face challenges accessing and connecting data from siloed systems. Reducing carbon emissions A global chemical manufacturer recently pledged to reduce its carbon intensity in half by 2030.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Process manufacturing Automation Compliance 97

ATS

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Rather than monitoring one or a few items, it uses analytical tools that combine multiple data sources with comprehensive history to anticipate maintenance needs. For an organization seeking to adopt a higher level of manufacturing and maintenance maturity, this is how it’s done. Contact ATS to get started.

Industry 4.0 59

Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Function Process manufacturing 59

Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 27, 2023

3M ’s housing solutions solve problems for customers in a variety of manufacturing sectors, the oil and gas industry and food and beverage processing. Manufacturers’ Monthly finds out why the DuoFLO bag technology is fit for a broad range of environments. In filtration, there’s classifying filters and clarifying filters.

Fit 84

Fit Form Beverage Manufacturing 84

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This results in a highly convenient single platform where customers can access multiple data sources, gain valuable insights, and accelerate decision-making. “As Seeq solutions integrate with existing customer software, including cloud services, ML pipelines, business intelligence tools, and data science notebooks.

Pharmaceutical 52

Pharmaceutical Artificial Intelligence Sourcing Process manufacturing 52

Manufacturer's Monthly

OCTOBER 4, 2022

3M ’s housing solutions solve problems for customers in a variety of manufacturing sectors, the oil and gas industry and food and beverage processing. Manufacturers’ Monthly finds out why the DuoFLO bag technology is a fit for a broad range of environments. Excellent flow characteristics reduces overall capital investment.

Fit 52

Fit Form Beverage Manufacturing 52

E&T

AUGUST 5, 2022

“Despite manufacturers today facing quite unprecedented economic challenges, most businesses have moved decarbonisation to the top of their company’s agenda. These are just two of the top-line findings to come out of Make UK’s most recent research survey document, ‘Decarbonising Manufacturing: Challenges and Opportunities’.

Manufacturing 45

Manufacturing Supply Chain Compliance Logistics 45

Control Engineering

JANUARY 4, 2023

Understand the shift toward the smart factory and the challenges process manufacturers face. Will companies be dealing with vendors that work in a proprietary world, or vendors that manufacture hardware that work in an open world? Learning Objectives. Learn how IEC 61499 and IEC 61131-3 are impacting universal automation.

Automation 98

Automation Control Algorithm Process control Industry 4.0 98

Control Engineering

AUGUST 22, 2022

Researchers believe using a more automated process will reduce system complexity and system maintenance needs. A uniform interface gives manufacturers the ability to uniformly control and program robot systems through the integration and use of an integrated PLC. Source: Profinet. With innovation, also comes new challenges.

Robotics 98

Robotics Robotics Function Automation 98

Control Engineering

JUNE 13, 2023

The ever-changing technological landscape is seeing the emergence of edge computing – the analysis of data at source. As well as allowing water networks to use the carbon reduction to evidence sustainable operations, engineers are able work to a hybrid pattern for improved productivity and a better work/life balance.

Function 52

Function Sourcing Process manufacturing Industry 4.0 52

Control Engineering

JULY 13, 2022

For example, pressure-reducing regulators control pressure from a source before it arrives at the main process. Use a pressure-reducing regulator to control pressure from a source before it arrives at the main process and a back-pressure regulator if you need to control pressure from upstream. Courtesy: Swagelok.

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Sourcing Form Process manufacturing Manufacturing 52

Control Engineering

AUGUST 24, 2022

But these conventional chips and power sources will likely be too bulky for next-generation chip-free sensors, which are taking on smaller, thinner and more flexible forms. Most wireless sensors today communicate via embedded Bluetooth chips that are powered by small batteries.

Electronics 105

Electronics Form Sourcing Process manufacturing 105

Control Engineering

MAY 11, 2023

These templates are most often graphics with only one parameter and they expose a simple property that can link to any source of data. Variable templates Variable templates offer more functionality compared to static templates, as they allow you to create custom components.

Function 52

Function Automation Sourcing Process manufacturing 52

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

MAY 3, 2023

TrendMiner has specific expertise in the development and consultation of pattern recognition and analytics functionality for the chemical, oil and gas, energy, water, food and beverage, and other process manufacturing sectors. Moreover, the company covers 50% of the top 50 chemical industry companies as customers.

Beverage 52

Beverage Pharmaceutical Function Process manufacturing 52

Control Engineering

JULY 13, 2023

Source: MRFR Database and Analyst Review Wheel in the trojan mice Back in 2012, the digital thought leader, Euan Semple, talked about the concept of the Trojan Mouse in an organization’s digital journey. In the process industries, this approach is successful when applied to self-service advanced analytics solutions.

Sourcing 52

Sourcing Automation Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 52

Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

IIoT projects focused on connecting with these data silos to provide monitoring and visibility, and enable analytics, are key to integrating all available source data. The manufacture of biomass fuel pellets requires material grinding, moisture control, extrusion, cooling and packaging. Advanced automation for a biomass application.

Automation 98

Automation Artificial Intelligence Function Bill of Materials 98

Control Engineering

JULY 9, 2023

insights Manufacturers are discovering the traditional architecture of keeping operational technology (OT) isolated from the internet is no longer viable. Improving operations at the enterprise level by leveraging the software and technology available to optimize operations and interaction among multiple plants and process lines.

Industry 4.0 52

Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Automation Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 52

Automation Mag

JANUARY 15, 2024

Combined with the growing trend towards open, plug-and-play hardware, these new, ‘programming-free’ approaches also help to address the labour and skills shortages being experienced by both manufacturing companies and robotics integrators. The time savings are impossible to ignore.

Robotics 78

Robotics Robotics Automation Fit 78