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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

The primary objective of smart manufacturing is to increase productivity, efficiency and flexibility while reducing waste, energy consumption and operational costs. Note 2: In addition to manufacturing, other enterprise domains can include engineering, logistics, marketing, procurement, sales or any other domains identified by the enterprise.

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3 ways visualization software can align operations across enterprise layers

Control Engineering

At the supervisory level, workstation and process control room (PCR) visibility become more relevant to support control and execution efforts. The enterprise may have several categories of users, each with unique visualization needs flexibly for diverse consumers of organizational data.

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More sensors, despite strained supply chain

Control Engineering

The Endress+Hauser Group calculated its carbon footprint along the value chain as the basis for the development of a climate strategy. If you switch on your printer, you don’t have to do anything else,” Altendorf said, suggesting industrial automation and process control communications also need to be interoperable and easy to use.