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Visibility & Resiliency: Letting Your Factory Work For You

Cisco Industrial Automation

Manufacturers are meeting these challenges by adopting a digital first model and many plan on accelerating their technology transformation to power real time visibility and execution. In a complex manufacturing supply chain, one weak link can bring an entire plant down. Operability in various plant conditions (ex.

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How open process automation will shape the future of pump control

Control Engineering

Learn how running your pump control applications on a Linux platform can enhance interoperability. Figure 1: PLCnext Technology from Phoenix Contact is an ecosystem for industrial automation consisting of open hardware, modular engineering software, a global community, and a digital software marketplace.

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7 ways model predictive control benefits your food and beverage operation?

Control Engineering

Understand seven steps to effectively implement MPC into a plant or other facility. Common goals for implementing MPC in the food and beverage (F&B) industry include maximizing throughput, minimizing energy consumption, reducing waste and product variability and ensuring product quality and safety.

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Software improves AI, automation flexibility

Control Engineering

Many companies are having a hard time finding workers and usable automation. Software-based artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance existing robots to deal with variances in real-time and give them needed flexibility on the plant floor. Software-based AI can narrow the automation flexibility gap.

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Building an Effective CPG Supply Chain Using a Cloud-based MES

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

For example, the demand for chicken is further worsening existing supply issues in the meat space and Tyson Foods is investing in automation and worker retention programs to improve chicken production and efficiency. A cloud-based manufacturing execution system (MES) can improve CPG supply chains.

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Combilift Transforms the Storage and Handling of Loads in the Metalworking Sector

Fabricating & Metal Work

In 2023, a highlight in celebrating 25 years in business focused on Combilift’s launch of five new products: the Combi-LC Blade, Combi Connect, the Combi-AGT, the Combi-CUBE and the Combi-CB 155E (the last three are electric models). Core product lines include a number of multidirectional products for handling long loads. “It

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A new future for process control systems

Control Engineering

Using pre-made and pre-tested automation software modules will allow companies to use DCSs more effectively. The combination of these events and trends is leading process industry companies to look again at how they operate and the control systems they use to manage their production. Project execution. New business models for DCSs.