Robotics smoothes tote loading

Pack Flow Concepts showed a robotic system that takes individual packs from a tote or case and places them efficiently in a delivery tote.

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Feb 4th, 2013

Inside the Investing Surge in Automation

Explore the growing interest around investing in industrial automation with our guest Jim Carlisle, managing director at Thomas H. Lee, a Boston-based private equity firm. Carlisle manages the firm's $900 million automation fund.

Getting supply chain management and planning right is one of the most effective shock absorbers any food and beverage processor can have, shielding them from fluctuations in availability and demand.

How to Tame an Unpredictable Supply Chain

Supplies are being disrupted both coming and going for food and beverage manufacturers. Shifting philosophies, combined with a range of digital technologies, could help make operations more predictable and resilient.

MESA Foundry Twin: An abstracted framework for a digital twin in a foundry. For more info, visit: awgo.to/1410

Is Continuous Optimization of an Asset Possible?

Learn why detection of sub-optimality is required not only to avoid unexpected failures, but also to achieve superior performance, and how continuous asset optimization can be achieved.

Insights on Industry’s Digital Transformation Leaders

ARC Advisory Group highlights the focus and strategies of 25 industrial companies successfully making the digital transformation.

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The Evolving Smart Manufacturing Supply Chain

See how manufacturers who adopt Smart Manufacturing methods also gain a strategic competitive advantage in the marketplace.

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Cognex In-Sight 2800 | Machine Vision Made Simple

Cognex In-Sight 2800 vision system enables users of all skill levels to use the power of deep learning to automate error detection. See for yourself by entering for your chance to win one of five In-Sight 2800.

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Supply Chain Headaches Reveal Golden Opportunities in the Industrial and Utility Worlds

While current supply chain disruptions may be frustrating in the short term, they could offer an opportunity to accelerate innovation.

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The Automation, Supply Chain, Reshoring Connection

Supply chain disruptions over the past two years put a spotlight on the need to reshore critical manufacturing operations and the role automation will play in making this happen.

ERP’s Growing Importance to Production Operations

How manufacturers are leveraging the connection between ERP and plant floor systems to improve production operations.

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Improving Human-Robot Collaboration for Material Handling Tasks

A new partnership between Fetch Robotics and Lucas Systems aims to help combine human and robot labor more efficiently.

CPG manufacturers need to work with retailers, distributors, and supply chain partners to share sales information through the supply chain, from the farmer to the checkout line.

CPGs to Spend $23.8 Billion on Digital Transformation by 2030

As the sharing of information along the supply chain becomes more critical, CPGs are increasingly creating digital threads to inform their production plans with relevant data.

Cognex In-Sight 2800 | Machine Vision Made Simple

Cognex In-Sight 2800 | Machine Vision Made Simple

Cognex In-Sight 2800 vision system enables users of all skill levels to use the power of deep learning to automate error detection. See for yourself by entering for your chance to win one of five In-Sight 2800.

Mars Partners with Microsoft for its Global Digital Transformation

The plan includes a “cloud-first” strategy, leveraging AI, IoT, and digital twins across its businesses, focusing on intelligent supply chains, and delivering hyper-relevant consumer experiences.

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Analytics Software Predicts Product Quality

Through its integration with SAP’s S/4HANA and Digital Manufacturing Cloud, Software AG’s TrendMiner software now enables manufacturers to offer supply chain partners greater visibility into quality metrics.

Molecular tagging and blockchain keep cannabis safe across the supply chain.

Securing Cannabis Across the Supply Chain

Applied DNA Sciences and and TruTrace Technologies team up to tag, test, and track cannabis products from seed to sale.

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Simulating Supply Chains to Conquer Complexity

The Industrial Internet Consortium’s Supply Network Dynamic Simulation Test Drive has been developed to help companies grapple with the challenges of their global supply networks.

Honeywell's PX940 industrial printer.

Blockchain for Label Printers?

霍尼韦尔和iTrace技术blockc集成hain technology into industrial printers to track inventory across the supply chain.

Brian R. May, managing director, Industrial North America, Accenture

Making the Shift to Industrial Product-as-a-Service Work

As the demand grows, learn why companies are now shifting from selling a product as a one-time item to offering customers a Product-as-a-Service route.

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Automation and the Supply Chain

Connecting supply chain and production operations often stops at the ERP system. But given the disruptions caused by politics and pandemics, successful supply chain operations will likely require a closer connection to plant floor automation systems.

What Affect Does Automation Have on Supply Chain Management?

Learn about the connections between supply chain operations and automation technologies, ranging from analytics and MES to HMI and SCADA software.

More in Supply Chain Management

The Robex Staxx palletizer is offered on the Flexx Machine-as-a-Service program.

Paying for Performance

The new automation model focuses on services that reduce a manufacturer’s financial risks by shifting the responsibility of asset acquisition on to the OEM or technology supplier via performance-based service level agreements or cloud-based subscription.

Software Helps Consumer Goods Manufacturer Thrive Amid Pandemic Uncertainty

Skin Actives proves that digitizing production operations doesn’t necessarily require big ticket software technologies. Modern Material Requirements Planning software can address every step in the production process, from order processing to fulfillment.

Brian R. May, managing director, Industrial North America, Accenture

Strengthening OEM Supply Chains for Challenging Times

Global supply chains are being impacted by COVID-19. In order to more effectively recover from the issues caused by the global pandemic and sustain success in the future, strengthening the resilience and agility of the supply chains is a must.

Luigi De Bernardini, CEO at Autoware, and president Autoware Digital,

Operations & Supply Chains After COVID-19

How supply chain operations and processes will need to change to have the best chance of success after the coronavirus, and where system integrators can play a role in the transition.

Why Conveyance Technologies Remain an Industry Lynchpin

Conveyor technology is no longer just about moving goods and components back and forth. Automation advances are transforming it into a core aspect of production strategy.

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六个业务规则Driving a Connected Manufacturing Strategy

As industrial facilities become increasingly becoming connected, these businesses are also creating new connections to innovate how they leverage data for productivity gains, savings, and revenue growth.

Sven Hamann, SVP Bosch Connected Industry; Ralf Waltram, vice president IT Systems Production and Logistics, BMW Group; Dr.-Ing. Michael Bolle, member of the board of management, Bosch Group; Scott Guthrie, EVP Cloud & AI, Microsoft; Werner Balandat, head of production management, ZF Friedrichshafen AG

Open Manufacturing Platform Expands

Three steering committee members and new working groups have been added to the The Open Manufacturing Platform to help guide manufacturers through digital transformation.

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7 KPIs to Fix COVID-19 Supply Chain Problems

The pandemic put a spotlight on numerous manufacturing supply chain issues. The good news is that many of these supply chain insight problems can be addressed with existing automation technologies when aligned with the proper key performance indicators.

Ralph Rio, vice president, ARC Advisory Group

Meeting the Capacity Requirements for Industrial Blockchain

现在虽然区块链,配置,不是capable of meeting the transactions-per-second needed for full-production industrial supply chain applications, private and permissioned configurations may be the key to changing that.

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The Potential of ERP Amid a Pandemic

Automation on the plant floor can keep production flowing to refill store shelves. But the biggest problem manufacturers face right now is a disruption to the supply chain.

Swiss machine builder Credimex deploys Beckhoff transport technology to maximize small parts production.

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.

Larry White, Resource Consumption Accounting Institute

When to Drop a Product

After spending time and effort building a product, it's hard to see when the time has come to drop it. But it you pay attention to the signs shown here, you'll know when the product's time has come.