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Alienation from Our Work

Gary Mintchell

As factories multiplied and grew, most of humanity was no longer involved in this combination of skill and creativity in the production of something useful or beautiful for someone else. Karl Marx observed workers at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the early 1800s. He theorized something he called alienation.

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Setting Up the Building Blocks for a Digital Factory

Modern Machine Shop

Reeves says that MiConnect has simplified the act of connecting machines to Woodward’s overall digital factory. When recently asked to connect one Colorado facility’s Okuma machines to the digital factory, two of Reeves team members had the machines connected and running within four hours. Images courtesy of Woodward, Inc.

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Harnessing the power of IoT in manufacturing—4 critical components

Cisco Industrial Automation

That is how many companies are capturing value at scale from their Industry 4.0 How will work processes change? How will you measure success? 3 – Collaboration between IT, OT, and factory workers. IT teams know how to connect those systems for high performance and security. Who will benefit?

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Flexxbotics updates FlexxCORE to help robotic companies scale production

Robotics Business Review

These new system ‘s capabilities enable manufacturers to scale robotic production across the smart factory in a standardized way for greater plant capacity, quality, and EBITDA margins, the company claimed. FlexxCORE has been updated for longer unattended production, increased capacity, and improved product quality.

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An insider’s guide to Cisco Live 2022: don’t miss these top 7 IoT highlights

Cisco Industrial Automation

Deploy our industrial switches, routers, gateways, and access points in harsh environments like utility substations, factory assembly lines, ports, mines, and roadways. 3 – Discover how simple it is to manage industrial networks and their connected assets. Much has changed since the last in-person Cisco Live, in 2019. Is it a 1RU fish?

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How Spot helped BMW address its data blind spots

Robotics Business Review

Creating the digital twin involved integrating more than 15 IT systems into a three-dimensional model of the factory that team members could access using a smartphone or tablet. The twin now displays live production data using green or red symbols to show the health of a given system inside the factory.

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Digital Thread Sews Siemens Digital Apps Together

Gary Mintchell

I was there for the Media/Analyst program as well as to explore how the software integration is progressing and coming together. All in all I am impressed with what Siemens has done since I first talked with an executive from Germany in 2007 about a vision of digital factory and again in 2008 following the company’s acquisition of UGS.