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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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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.