这里没有一个行业在世界上现在通过供应链头痛某种方式影响，并跟上所需的常量物流可郁闷了。湍流在供应链中，熟练劳动力，经济的不确定性以及专为制造家庭用品（一切从卫生纸到木材，以计算机和使他们的芯片）的需求增加的短缺正在发挥显著部分在概述2022将是什么样子。它看起来并不像它很快就缓解了任何时候。
所以，这是什么意思为工业制造希望自动化他们的工厂和缓解一些失踪工人的紧张局势，同时仍保持了生产的？它将如何影响负责维持电网要与流保护和为他们的社区供水设施？
正如任何障碍有多种方法来解决它。你可以从字面上回滚时间，恢复到几十年的老技术，如继电器或基于气动控制，但说实话，你真的不想这样做。一个走这条道路的决定风险与任何业务竞争优势随新技术一起失去效率。
或者，你可以到供应链赶上推进项目搁置。但是，在没有结束的迹象，激烈的竞争仍然发动各行业，并有望注入投资于自动化和升级系统的立法议案的战斗，这可能不是最明智的决定。事实上，关于额外的现金流被注入公用事业和行业可能只是发现通过供应链物流的迷宫的方式正确的动机。但是，什么是关键使这一成功呢？
Navigating Supply Chain – Strong Communication
Let’s start with the basics. Communicate well and often. Good communication with your internal team and the customers you serve will go a long way to helping you understand where supply chain hiccups will affect you the most.
Internally examine both your personnel situation and your existing systems. Are you having a hard time finding skilled workers to take once fillable positions and is your HR team spinning their wheels trying to find skilled labor at rates that won’t put you out of business? Is this an opportunity to introduce some form of automation or a collaborative robot to take on the monotonous jobs and ease the burden of finding good skilled labor?
Communicate with your existing team the challenges you’re facing and talk creatively about how you could free up some of those positions and divert important human personnel to focus on more strategic, intuitive processes. Good communication could effectively help you strategize for the long term and alleviate concerns your team may have about being “replaced” by a robot. It should, if communicated well, show them a new future at their position where their time could be devoted to additional career development.
Do outdated systems require inefficiencies and time-consuming battles you can’t afford now while still achieving your production goals? Now is the time to have some strategic discussions about the future of your company and its longevity in a highly-competitive environment. Allowing supply chain issues to impact your long-term strategy may prove detrimental in the end. Seek out opportunities to gain access to federal monies devoted to upgrading and automating processes and secure your team's place with growing and thriving companies.
与您的采购部门和前线上的稳固沟通势在必行。谈谈哪些组件零件正在遇到最多的挫折并分享可以为特定项目工作的替代解决方案的任何知识。公司内共享的信息可以在您的墙外更好地沟通。
传递到您客户的一致和准确的信息可以在战斗中你最大的武器，我们都在关于供应链的问题。作为对任何可能出现的供应链挫折即将到来，你是能够预测让您的客户的灵活性，可以通过他们的选择回到自己的团队和谈话。
Once open communication has begun and some decisions have been made about the future of a project, then the real creativity comes in.
Partner with a Trusted System Integrator
对于工业自动化项目和各种公用事业，与可信系统集成商及其供应商合作伙伴的合作允许合适的人在房间里思考可行的解决方案。
控制系统集成商协会（CSIA）已经审查了商业伙伴和系统集成商，为他们的专业商业实践，确保了CSIA认证公司可以信任。同时，许多硬件和软件供应商都有自己的认证程序，突出显示系统集成商，并在其系统中具有经验。这些可以是伟大的启动点，以找到一个适用于您的系统集成商。
识别系统集成商谁是技术上的声音在多个软件和硬件的应用程序将允许你利用他们的专业知识和思量多种解决方案。与集成商集思广益，替代性和更容易获得产品的工作是创造性的工作。可靠的系统集成商将非常精通，可无论是在临时或更持久的基础上使用类似的解决方案。经验和知识，在自动化流程和多个系统允许他们灵活创意与信心，现成的解决方案的外部将工作。
愿意考虑可能更容易访问的临时部分，以满足持续的生产目标。将你的思想敞开心扉，这是一个可能工作的全新思维方式。
虽然有可能上百，两种常见情况浮现在脑海中。
生产设施意外地实现了组件部分已损坏并停止生产。在这种紧急情况下，如果您无法找到易于访问的替换部分，贵公司的成本可能会在这种计划外的情况下巨大。靠在合格的系统集成商的专业知识，如果不是几周，则节省几小时，更不用说实时美元成本，在让系统再次上运行并运行。
Now, let’s contemplate an entire plant built with one vendor’s hardware for ease of use. In an ideal state, that makes total sense. In a time of short supply though, considering an alternative item that is more easily accessible, even in the interim, could be a distinct advantage to keeping the entire plant running at peak efficiency and meeting production goals. When system-wide production processes are at risk due to scarce components parts, the leap of faith required to add an operational part from another vendor seems less risky than the possibility of shutting down production for an extended period of time.
This is where the trust developed between a customer and an integrator can shine. Communication from an integrator striving for what’s truly best for the customer without taking shortcuts is priceless. The last thing either party would want is to partner with someone who is a here today gone tomorrow vendor partner so that when things get tough they are nowhere to be found.
找到盒子解决方案的外部
As we alluded to, if you have a project that could help ease some of the current economic climate stresses (like an automation upgrade) and you’ve been putting it off for some time, you realistically have two possible viable paths forward. Push pause on the project and wait for supply chain issue to resolve on their own or get creative and start thinking outside of the box. A qualified system integrator will be ready to brainstorm alongside you. Taking advantage of their breadth of knowledge of software and hardware, there may be alternative ways to engage a process with slightly disparate systems and still execute on critical production processes.
Here’s an example. Think about traditional I/O modules that reside in the PLC rack, like analog input modules. In the world of manufacturing, replacements for these are very hard to come by these days, (at least in any expedited timeframe) although they are certainly common in many manufacturing applications. Now might be the perfect time to consider a new technology that could yield the same, if not better, results.
IO-Link可能是一个替代技术模块，超出您在此时准备植物的替代技术模块。事实上，这可能是保持植物漂浮的完美解决方案，并根据一些难以找到的部分来设置未来的成功而不是停滞不前。
Similarly, Profinet or Ethernet/IP devices may offer a solution that could replace the hard to find traditional hardwired I/O modules. In this case, what started as an obstacle can now become an opportunity to find a solution that will work equally well.
In most cases theses alternative solutions will also provide access to additional diagnostic information from smart devices. This access to data analytics can make you more efficient, allowing you to use predictive analytics to make better business decisions.
训练有素和经过认证的系统集成商将在其指尖中选择该解决方案，节省了研究各种选项的昂贵时间。使用主题专家收益，您可以访问选项以绕过供应链障碍物的方式站立。
At the end of the day, recognizing we’re all facing some of these same challenges and facing them with a little patience, understanding, and creative partnership will serve us all well. And to those of you who have done just that with open communication and a little bit of humor along the way, we say thank you. To those still lost in frustration we say, give us a call and let’s work through it together.
