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Two Key Areas of Cybersecurity Vulnerability in Manufacturing
By better understanding operational weaknesses, manufacturers can guard against future threats. Read about two key areas that require assessment.
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Facilities Optimize Cost-Saving Sustainability With MnTAP | Digital Innovation Production Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Wearable Technology Bolsters Worker Safety
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Automation Trends in Food Processing and Packaging: Remote Access
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IoT Service Platform Puts Eyes on Critical Assets
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Predictive Maintenance 101
What does it mean, and why is it important? Learn more from a new PMMI Business Intelligence report.
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Automation Trends in Food Processing and Packaging: Remote Access
Watch part two of this three-part series on top automation trends impacting food processing and packaging today.
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COVID-19 Provides a Push for Digital Innovation
As food and beverage manufacturers scramble to keep workers safe and shelves stocked, many have moved forward with automation and digital transformation initiatives that might have only been on the radar before the pandemic.
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Making Sense of the Industrial Analytics Market
As organizations continue to see the value in industrial analytics, making sense of the sheer amount of data produced can be a difficult task. Finding the right product and developing a proper workflow is important to get long-term use out of the system.
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IIoT Blind Spots: Where are They and Do You Have Them?
A crucial component of automation advancement, yet one that is lacking at most manufacturers, is the deployment of IIoT connectivity across an entire enterprise, including key areas such as receiving, warehousing, and shipping.
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Cisco Aids Dairy Farmers of America’s Digital Transformation
To optimize operations and workforce continuity in support of the nation's food supply during the pandemic and beyond, Cisco and system integration firms are installing communication technologies to accelerate the advance of milk product production.
COVID-19
Nestlé Accelerates Use of Augmented Reality Amidst COVID-19
AR provides the remote assistance Nestlé needs to install new production lines, upgrade existing lines, and carry out maintenance safely and efficiently during the pandemic.
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OMAC To Develop Remote Interface Guidelines
OMAC, The Organization for Machine Automation and Control, has formed a Workgroup to be comprised of end users and service providers to create a comprehensive best-practices handbook for remote monitoring services.
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Bosch Updates Industry 4.0 Software to Digitalize Manufacturing
Along with its launch of the second release of the Nexeed Industrial Application System, Bosch has rolled out a ‘Manufacture #LikeABosch’ campaign to raise awareness for industrial digitalization.
IIoT
Bluetooth Sensor and Mobile App Simplifies Machine Monitoring
Allows prediction of machinery issues before operations are impacted
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FDT Group Releases Data Exchange Standard for Next-Gen Automation
The new FDT 3.0 standard and developer toolkits are secure, scalable and platform-independent, enabling remote access to device and network data across the enterprise without PLC/DCS host intervention.
Automation
Fast-Track Fulfillment of a Frozen Food Favorite
Now better positioned to keep up with yearly double-digit growth of its popular Uncrustables line, The J. M. Smucker Company creates a highly automated facility that boasts the largest single baking line in the world.
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Power Over Ethernet Bridge Withstands Washdowns and Wet Manufacturing Processes
Eliminates the need for additional hardwiring
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A Data-Driven Industrial Marketplace Pushes Plant Optimization
Zira has taken a different approach to data analytics, showing food and beverage producers how to better recognize opportunities and prioritize actions.
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IoT Adoption: Before and After COVID-19
New survey data from the Eclipse Foundation on Internet of Things technology adoption provides an interesting pre-pandemic outlook on the digital transformation of industry—an outlook that could change significantly over the next year.
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Advice on IoT Sensor Selection
As one of the cornerstones of the Industrial Internet of Things, intelligent sensors are a critically important technology to understand—from their embedded intelligence capabilities and cost factors to their wired vs wireless and security considerations.
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Photoelectric Laser Sensors Include Integrated IO-Link Communications
Offer superior background suppression based on Time of Flight (ToF) sensing principle
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Building Industrial Apps—No Programming Skills Required
GE Digital unveils Proficy Operations Hub 1.5, a centralized dashboard for everyone in the organization. The tool also enables plant floor operators to create data aggregation and visualization applications via code-free development tools.
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Tools to Help the Digital Transformation
Inductive Automation rolled out enhancements to its Ignition Edge industrial application platform and new partner and development communities that will help turn data into actionable information.
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Siemens Targets Co-Creation and Edge Computing
Working with customers to advance digitalization based on user-directed value generation is driving Siemens edge technology developments and related acquisitions.
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Expert Advice on Making the Digital Transformation
Georgia Tech’s Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies provides new insights and advice on IoT project implementation with suggested frameworks for improving your approach to this transformative process.
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New Software Readies Industrial Data for Analysis
HighByte releases its DataOps software to standardize device and machine data for use by enterprise analytics.