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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. This helps to control power and ensure total isolation from any power source.

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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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Blockchain could help drive ethical EVs

E&T

Without knowing the provenance of goods or minerals, it is difficult for carmakers to ensure that materials used in the manufacturing process comply with social and environmental standards, which are increasingly important to a growing number of eco-conscious consumers. Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar.

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Is your blood boiling?

Manufacturer's Monthly

Keeping blood at a safe temperature is vital as this article explores. Each vile is identifiable when matched to a database because each is tracked with a barcode label, written record and RFID tag starting at the time of collection. appeared first on Manufacturers' Monthly. Blood can be a health dashboard for your body.

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More answers on how to digitalize an OT-data infrastructure

Control Engineering

Question: How can normalized data using OPC-UA and or MQTT be used to align operations with key performance indicators and make those visible to MES, ERP and other manufacturing management applications? A: The UDOL approach to looking at OT data throughout a business is to treat disparate OT data sources holistically.

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Made in the USA - Season 2 Episode 5: A Motorcycle Supply Chain in Amish Country

Modern Machine Shop

Brent Donaldson, Editor-in-Chief of Modern Machine Shop: Welcome to Made in the USA, the podcast for Modern Machine Shop magazine that explores some of the biggest ideas shaping American manufacturing. That they've reached their practical limit when it comes to sourcing parts in the US versus outsourcing to a lower cost country.