By James R. Koelsch

Contributing Editor

A Better Broadcast

(Sidebar to 'RFID & Bar Code After the Hype' from the September 2007 issue of Automation World)

RFID & Bar Code After the Hype

Both technologies pay in production.

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Lean and Leaner

Lean supply chain helps Boeing become even leaner.

Hoffman has been applying Lean Manufacturing principles to processes throughout its manufacturing facility in Anoka, Minn. since

You Got Your Six Sigma in My Lean

Melding both ideas into one can give your business sweet new life.

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Profit from Condition Monitoring

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提供以太网作为I / O领域bus

Users like different flavors of the technology.Retrofitting an old gantry requires a lot more than simply replacing the manual, pull-along crane with a robot—especially when the plan is for people and a high-speed robot to share the 100-foot long workspace in front of a bank of machines. Just ask Steve Dickerson, chief technology officer at CAMotion Inc., an Altanta-based systems integrator. “You have to do a very fast, repeated scan to make sure that none of the safety conditions have been violated,”

Be Smart: Wield Your Intelligent Field Devices Wisely.

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Harmonized Standards: A Fruit of Globalization

Industry cultivates international safety and programming standards.

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Protecting the Plant

Automation keeps intruders out

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Stop Motion Safely-- Without Breaking The Bank

New standards enable machine builders and manufacturers to maintain or improve machine safety levels while eliminating redundant circuitry and lowering costs.

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Motors & Drives: Efficiency Conserves Energy

The use of variable speed drives, premium motors and other technologies can help stanch the bleeding in today's energy budgets.