Heat-Shrink Tubing: The Versatile Tools for Maintenance and Repair

Heat-shrink tubing is versatile, easy to use, and finds wide applicability in maintenance and repair. It can be used for preventive maintenance to avoid problems and is a wonderful tool for making minor repairs to cables and connectors.

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Is Your Automation Technology Delivering on Expectations?

Automation is generally viewed as a value-adding technology, but it can also add costs due to complexity and an inability to deliver on investment justifications.

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Combining OEE and IoT Data to Improve Production

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Visual Dashboards for Robotic Workcells

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The Importance of Change Management to Digital Transformation

The addition of a new Archive Management of Change module to Rockwell Automation's FactoryTalk AssetCentre can help end users to increase uptime, ensure code quality, and mitigate cybersecurity risks.

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Is a Retrofit the Right Option?

While there is a strong business case for retrofitting many pieces of equipment to facilitate digital transformation, it may not always be the best solution.

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Alternative Energy Power Management

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Creating the Digital Thread to Connect OEMs and End Users

Siemens and SAP expand their partnership to connect plant floor operations, remote condition monitoring conducted by OEMs, and product development via digital twins to facilitate collaboration across an asset’s entire lifecycle.

The Alpha Turbo High-Level Bulk Depalletizer is among the machines in the Busse/SJI division that feature a range of new Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) machine health monitoring capabilities.

Machine Condition Monitoring via IIoT

This Arrowhead Systems division is taking full advantage of new IIoT tools that make machine diagnostics readily available and help customers maximize OEE.

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Downtime During Overnight Support: What to Do, What to Do?

Though downtime always seems like a good thing, there may be better ways to spend your time that can optimize operations and ensure that no other issues are arising.

Charlie Norz, automation product manager, Wago

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Despite the perceived advantages of the Industrial Internet of Things, questions remain for many companies, such as: Why is it even necessary? What level of production must attain Industry 4.0 status? What steps should be first on the path to the creating

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Smart Manufacturing and the Need for Speed

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AI-Embedded Operator Interface App

The Aveva Insights Operations Management Interface app uses artificial intelligence to help improve manufacturing decision making.

Technology Matters: OEE, BMW's AI Robots, Cloud Cost Factors

In this episode we look at OEE and its potential role in industry's digital transformation; why BMW developed its own artificial intelligence powered robots; and seven critical cloud cost factors.

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How Automation Advances Affect OEE

Overall Equipment Effectiveness is a long-used equation to determine the effectiveness of production machines. But as automation technologies—and their associated analytic capabilities—rapidly advance, what role does OEE serve as industry digitizes?

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The Road to Reducing Unplanned Events

Reducing unplanned events is high on the priority list of many industrial facilities. However, it is possible to leverage technology and talent to optimize an organization to reducing these events.

Does OEE Have a Role in the Digital Transformation?

In this episode, we connect with Sam Russem of Grantek to get a better understanding of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) metrics, how they're applied, and the impact on the digital transformation of industry.

Real-time Data Gives Samtec the Edge in Improving Manufacturing Processes

Sepasoft OEE Downtime Module helped Samtec transform its manufacturing data processes to provide real-time visibility of process variables, as well as monitoring for key quality and process indicators.

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Are Virtual Assistants Headed to the Plant Floor?

Intelligent agent technology promises to boost operations and engineering efficiencies by delivering ready access to critical data and encouraging more natural interactions with industrial equipment.

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Modular Machine Maximizes Production With Linear Transport Technology

With modular machines making their way onto the factory floor, the Swiss machine builder and system integrator, Credimex, took advantage of linear transport technology to enhance production and create flexible and expandable processing stations.

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Vorne unveils a new version of its XL Productivity Appliance, adding automated alerts and labor tracking to its visual display scoreboard and dashboards.

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The constant introduction of new technologies is blurring industry boundaries, leaving some industrial equipment manufacturers struggling to keep up in the transition. Learn the steps that a few companies are taking to ensure they don't get left behind.

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When it comes to operational improvements, tight time constraints can be a problem. A partner who can help get some long-forgotten initiatives off the ground may be the key to hitting your operational goals.

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As collaborative robots continue to be introduced in manufacturing, some key safety hazards need to be addressed before collaborative robots can be safely implemented on the line.

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There are a lot of parts to be aware of when developing a flexible batching system. However, if you want to ensure operational efficiency, developing well-balanced phases is the most integral piece.

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Noting a shift in its approach to incorporate data communication related software, Harting also announces the formation of a network of companies committed to advancing the development and application of single pair Ethernet technology.

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Already popular in Europe, the IO-Link industrial communication technology is reportedly growing by double digits in the U.S. Learn why this point-to-point data communication method is increasingly preferred across industry for delivering device data.