Line operators and other plant staff are the front-line for your automation system. Preparing them for any changes to advanced automation design or rollouts is critical to project success. Like that time your computer upgraded windows without warning, sudden changes to operating systems, HMI’s, and controls are frustrating to plant personnel and bound to cause […]
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5 Low Cost Ways to Start Using Industrial Automation 4.0 for Line Improvements
When you have the responsibility of ensuring a manufacturing plant is operating at its full potential at all times, talk of “Industry 4.0” and “industrial automation like never before” might be exciting but far-fetched. Industry 4.0 is just an empty phrase used by marketers who want to take your money, right? Maybe in some cases, […]
How to Develop a Plan for Automation Modernization
As a top integrator of Rockwell Automation components, we worked together with their team to develop this guide for platform modernization. Please visit their website and view this whitepaper for more information regarding platform modernization. Industrial Automation and Controls modernization can be a daunting task. Is it time to upgrade? What will this cost me? […]
3 Ways Predictive Maintenance Saves You Money in the Long Run
Seventy percent of manufacturing equipment ‘loss of usefulness’ is caused by either mechanical wear or corrosion, as observed by Dr. E Rabinowicz at M.I.T. In other words, most equipment fails because of small, invisible-to-the-naked-eye factors like abrasion, fatigue, corrosion, and erosion that wear out parts, degrade lubricants, and eventually cause performance issues. But in the […]