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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

smart manufacturing and digital transformation. Control Engineering asked these questions and others about smart manufacturing and digital transformation to Jeff Winter, senior director industry strategy, manufacturing, Hitachi Solutions, and an industry expert on Industry 4.0 initiatives. Understand Industry 4.0

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7 ways SCADA software can advance IIoT implementations, if you do it right

Control Engineering

smart manufacturing and digital transformation. But technology also is delivering the capabilities for 3D animations, based on real-time process data. For example, depictions of robot positions can match real world conditions. Optimize SCADA data use with information models 6.

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A look at digital transformation using the cloud

Control Engineering

The “comprehensive edge” builds on the first two, while also providing a mechanism to run applications (including AI apps), and to provide application orchestration, device management, support for robotics, and remote engineering from the cloud. and unstructured data (video, images, files, etc.).

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Pack Expo Recap: Developing automation systems for facilities

Control Engineering

Many of the advances displayed highlighted progress with the Internet of Things (IoT), smart manufacturing and artificial intelligence (AI). Manufacturers are trying to deliver products that go beyond their initial offerings because their customers need to resolve many problems at once. .