Gary Mintchell

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Sparkplug is an open software specification that enables mission-critical operational technology (OT) clients to use industry standards, including OASIS MQTT, to seamlessly integrate data from their applications, sensors, devices, and gateways with most Industrial Internet Of Things (IIoT) infrastructure.

Sourcing 147

Sourcing Automotive Automation Manufacturing 147

Cisco Industrial Automation

JULY 21, 2022

If this topic piqued your interest, you’re probably impacted by or at least curious about duplicate IP Addresses in your industrial network. To increase productivity, you need more data. And where is this data? Our neighbors all have in home devices with the same IPv4 addresses. You are not alone.

Manufacturing 263

Manufacturing Robotics Robotics Automation 263

21st Century Tech

JUNE 9, 2025

Tarina enjoys researching and writing on a wide range of topics. Not at all. The Internet-of-Things (IoT) connectivity makes it possible for plumbers to see the data and spot problems, whether on-site or remotely. Using machine learning (ML), sensors can spot leak-prone areas by reviewing past data.

Artificial Intelligence 60

Artificial Intelligence Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Robotics Robotics 60

ATS

MAY 29, 2025

Capacity planning Accurate reporting of wrench time data helps companies estimate the workforce capacity needed to complete preventive and predictive maintenance tasks. Techniques like work sampling can provide helpful observational data to support wrench time analysis and improvement.

Lean manufacturing 52

Lean manufacturing Bottleneck Cycle time Form 52

Gary Mintchell

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This is an interesting topic for discussion. Molex released a report examining the emerging world of the industrial metaverse and its impact on next-generation Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures. . A couple of weeks ago, I moderated a panel discussion on the Web regarding the Industrial Metaverse.

Artificial Intelligence 130

Artificial Intelligence Form Function Robotics 130

Gary Mintchell

JANUARY 10, 2023

Video as a sensor has been a topic for several posts here at The Manufacturing Connection. Almost all current vision and video applications involve narrowly focusing on a part or a piece of a machine. Management picked him to organize things and get production up to expectations. Proof in the data. And I learned a lesson.

Bottleneck 130

Bottleneck Assembly Line Cycle time Robotics 130

Gary Mintchell

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Honeywell Connected Enterprise is the software arm that cuts across all the other SBUs plus reaches out in its own right. After all, I named my new website 10 years ago as The Manufacturing Connection because I saw that connecting things (and processes and people and businesses) was where we as an industry needed to go.

Process control 130

Process control Automation Manufacturing 130

Control Engineering

AUGUST 7, 2022

Data warehousing is helping companies overcoming a trend where data collection is outsizing storage infrastructure, which creates a strain on the system and slows operations down. It’s been a best practice for years to collect all the data you can. Analytics Insights. Just in case.

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Warehousing Sourcing Manufacturing Industry 4.0 98

Manufacturing Tomorrow

JUNE 6, 2025

Leveraging BellaDatis strength in real-time IoT data collection and analytics, Aras is extending the value it delivers across both its core discrete manufacturing base and process sectors such as the chemical industry. This positions both companies to deliver unified, data-driven innovation to manufacturers worldwide.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Automation Bill of Materials 3D printing 52

Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

NVIDIA CEO Jenson Huang ended his GTC 2024 keynote presentation backed by images of all of the various humanoid robots currently on the market that are powered by the Jetson Orin computer. The one thing everyone says they’re working on – general-purpose intelligence – hasn’t been solved, but we now have a chance to enable progress.

Robotics 143

Robotics Robotics Artificial Intelligence Sourcing 143

Dinesh Mishra

MARCH 21, 2025

More than ever, the systems that are in demand are those with coordinated hardware and software that process data reliably fully embedded in a higher-level technical context. KG, a specialist in industrial data communication based in Bad Camberg. The compatible data communication products are developed and manufactured in Germany.

Sourcing 52

Sourcing Rapid prototyping Automation Smart manufacturing 52

ATS

MARCH 25, 2025

This approach relies on data, requiring leaders to access both historical performance records and real-time information from Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) enabled sensors. Here, performance data is critical to justify budget requests. How provides the path to improved operations. Ready to lead the way?

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 52

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Lean manufacturing Automation Robotics 52

ATS

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

How can your operations improve bottleneck identification and open them up once and for all? In this application of the idea, decision-makers rely on heavy amounts of data pertaining to cycle times, production rates and queue lengths to guide their efforts. What is bottleneck analysis?

Bottleneck 52

Bottleneck Lean manufacturing Manufacturing Cycle time 52

ATS

DECEMBER 18, 2024

AI systems learn by being trained on a set of data. This can be supervised, where the data is labeled, or unsupervised. This will flow from the ability to work with ambiguous records and data while simultaneously identifying trends and relationships that provide new insights into maintenance activities.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Robotics Robotics Artificial Intelligence 52

E&T

JULY 4, 2023

The app has been described by Meta as a platform " where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow". The publication shows a picture of Threads’ app privacy information, along with the caption “ All your Threads are belong to us ”.

Form 98

Form 98

Manufacturing Tomorrow

JUNE 6, 2025

The ability to precisely control moisture levels results in improved energy efficiency, reduced waste, and increased productivity, all of which contribute to a more cost-effective manufacturing process.

Food Production 52

Food Production 3D printing Automation Robotics 52

Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It is deep in that multiple layers—from control of actuators through connectivity via gateways to big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to the business application—are needed. Several years ago, analysts were predicting massive growth in the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market. It, too, predicted great things.

Supply Chain 122

Supply Chain Artificial Intelligence Manufacturing Industry 4.0 122

Mold Making Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Photos Credit, all images: Tebis America It is no secret that being a mold builder today isn’t like it used to be. But, as with many things, “automation” is a broad topic, and there are multiple forms of automation to consider. Things to ask yourself: Is your equipment old?

Automation 111

Automation Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Benchmarking 111

Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

They can take unstructured multimodal data, reason over it, and return the output in a structured format. They can also be integrated with live data sources and tools, to request more information if they don’t know the answer or take action when they do. How to reason over a spatial memory. The full ReMEmbR system.

Robotics 126

Robotics Robotics Sourcing Artificial Intelligence 126

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2021

SolarWinds catapulted into this massive newsline of all these articles saying stuff with no technical insights.” A lot of news organizations just point fingers at different companies, without actually providing any technical backing as to why they’re saying these things,” says Drew. Drew Gallis, Cybersecurity Analyst, WillowTree.

Sourcing 114

Sourcing 114

Control Engineering

JULY 20, 2022

Digital transformation (DX) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) can help simplify cloud architectures, which are comprised of six layers. Digital transformation and IIoT are part of a larger effort to use all the many data streams in manufacturing to gain a better understanding on how everything works.

Artificial Intelligence 105

Artificial Intelligence Function Value chain Automation 105

Manufacturing Tomorrow

JUNE 5, 2025

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3D printing 52

3D printing Automation Bottleneck Industry 4.0 52

Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2024

million operational robots in the world, an all-time high, according to the International Federation of Robotics. Lots of things can happen to make that teach position be a little bit misaligned or off position,” said Klippstein. Source: Bosch Rexroth In 2022, there were 3.9 “Then it knows the exact position to correct.”

Robotics 126

Robotics Robotics Artificial Intelligence Electronics 126

Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The role of systems integrators has evolved to encompass diverse talents, project management, and a broad range of functions in plant-floor data analysis. Market characteristics SIs come in all different shapes and sizes. For example, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) used to be almost solely a plant-floor concern.

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) 105

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Manufacturing Supply Chain 105

Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

We broached that topic through the lens of minimalism. I encourage all of you to go out and fly somewhere. He said, sure, look at how unit prices of many things have decreased, networks moving now even into 5G, data moving from centralized cloud to hybrid and edge. OK, disclaimer, my son is a commercial airline pilot.

Artificial Intelligence 100

Artificial Intelligence Prototype  Manufacturing 100

Modern Machine Shop

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

After all, if it weren’t for the conclusions we draw from our collected experiences, how would we form and test hypotheses or share unsolicited advice at the bar? ” The discussion focused on how shops can make informed decisions using data-driven feedback to improve shopfloor efficiency and profitability.

Artificial Intelligence 75

Artificial Intelligence Bottleneck Cycle time Automation 75

E&T

APRIL 13, 2023

“My book isn’t about data, not really,” says Elizabeth M Renieris, author of ‘Beyond Data’. It’s about how our historical obsession with data in the context of technology governance has been problematic, and why we need a materially different approach: one less focused on data and more focused on people.”

Artificial Intelligence 115

Artificial Intelligence 115

E&T

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

However, its establishment is feasible and is thus firmly on the radar of the Bank of England, having been discussed in several speeches and the topic of a discussion paper back in 2020. A Britcoin could be a positive thing. McArdle says this is no bad thing. Longchamp comments: “A security layer would be a positive thing.

Electronics 97

Electronics Form Function 97

Control Engineering

AUGUST 1, 2022

More operational technology (OT) networks are connected thanks to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which creates greater vulnerabilities from a cybersecurity standpoint. The philosophy operates as a catch-22: If you don’t trust the communications, how can you communicate at all? Principle of least privilege.

Artificial Intelligence 98

Artificial Intelligence Automation Form Function 98

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

Track all types of cyber attacks with a single smart topic priority. Leo understands cyber attacks because we taught him about malware, ransomware, data breaches, phishing, social engineering, and fraud. Simply navigate to the security category you want to add this insight to and enter “cyber attack” as a topic.

Supply Chain 78

Supply Chain 78

Manufacturer's Monthly

JULY 15, 2024

Ransomware is a type of malicious software (malware) designed to block access to a computer system or data until a ransom is paid. Category 4 incidents increased, indicating a more significant impact on victim organisations, often involving data theft, extortion, or service disruption. what systems do you have in play?

Supply Chain 96

Supply Chain Manufacturing Sourcing Form 96

Control Engineering

JULY 12, 2023

Winter: “Quickly enough” really depends on two things: 1) How does your company compare to its competitors? These gains are all publicized and can be used as a benchmark for realistic KPI improvements. Figure 1: Digital transformation framework requires changes to how people, processes and technologies use data. on LinkedIn.

Industry 4.0 98

Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Smart manufacturing Manufacturing 98

E&T

JUNE 28, 2023

There are just two points I’d like to take issue with the authors and editors of this topical and otherwise beautifully written book about. Age’ is a polysemantic word that can mean, among other things, an epoch or era as well as duration or length of life. ‘Age’ Let me explain. But what about other countries? Nice and clear!

Function 96

Function Sourcing 96

Manufacturing Tomorrow

JUNE 6, 2025

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Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Manufacturing 3D printing Automation 52

Canadian Metalworking Magazine

MARCH 5, 2019

Connecting people to the best sources for the topics that matter to them has been core to our mission since the very start of Feedly. There are millions of sources across thousands of topics and we all have a different appetite when it comes to feeding our minds. Two thousand topics. But discovery is a hard problem.

Sourcing 54

Sourcing 54

E&T

AUGUST 10, 2022

Gatekeepers are defined as, among other things, having an “entrenched and durable position in the market” and those that “link a large user base to a large number of businesses,” – so, Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta et al. Users can also promote their products and services and conclude contracts with their customers outside the platform. .

Compliance 85

Compliance Function Automation Manufacturing 85

Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 31, 2023

I spoke with Ellis recently about Harmoni’s system, which, among other things, seems poised to make the “Internet of Things” — a local version of it, at least — an everyday part of machine shop work. This latter set of benefits comes thanks to radio-frequency identification (RFID).

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 101

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Revision control Additive manufacturing Function 101