What is the Value of IIoT? Why Should Miners Embrace It?
The next industrial revolution is here. New technology and automation solutions are catalysts for evolving your mining operations – helping make you more connected, efficient and productive.
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Industry Insights with Owen and Linda Caron, Global Product Manager, Factory Automation at Parker Hannifin
In this issue of Industry Insights with Owen I had the privilege of asking Linda Caron of Parker Hannifin a few questions about the industry and how Parker Hannifin is addressing industry shifts and concerns.
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Reconciling the Two Truths of All Industrial Automation Systems
I recently met with a client from a large CPG company who said his challenges are rooted in the fact that every industrial automation system comprises two descriptions of the truth, a physical one and a logical one. And because of the development process, these two truths are rarely aligned.
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New ISA book introduces an inexpensive, easy-to-understand way to protect against industrial cyberattack
With their advanced, microprocessor-based technologies, today’s industrial automation and control systems (IACS) deliver much-improved performance and features compared to their analog counterparts.
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Modernize Your Power System, Boost Productivity
As an oil and gas producer, you may be feeling the effects of relying on an outdated power-distribution system. You’re facing reduced productivity, increased safety risks or additional stress due to the constant need for troubleshooting.
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SCHUNK Market and Technology Report: Deft Hands
Today still, the human hand is regarded as the benchmark when it comes to flexibility of gripping tools. Particularly when it comes to service and assistance robotics, humanoid manipulators that enable the widest variety of gripping variants will be more and more in demand in future.
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Industry Insights with Owen and Warren Osak, Founder and CEO of Electromate
In this issue of Industry Insights with Owen I had the opportunity to sit down with Warren Osak, founder and CEO of Electromate.
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Serving Up Value By Controlling Food and Beverage Processes
As food processing continues to grow in complexity, companies remain vigilant for how to make facilities work better without expanding their footprint.
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Case Study: Maintenance Inspection Windows on Transformers
Today, transformers are everywhere, feeding various voltages into our homes and businesses. When a transformer fails in a commercial or industrial environment, that failure can disrupt a significant portion of facility operations.
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Protecting Factory Electrical Enclosures from Summer Heat: Preventative Maintenance and Best Practices
The threats that make enclosure thermal management necessary to begin with reach the height of their destructive energies all at once, once a year, in the summertime. While some logistics of manufacturing become vastly less complicated in the summer sun, several interrelated changes in the weather threaten the critical electronics that allow production lines to operate.
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Festo: Hygienic automation technology in food production
Protecting the consumer and the manufacturer’s brand are the key aspects of hygienic and efficient automation in food production. The aims are high productivity and perfect tasting food.
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3 ways that integrated safety minimizes the impact of production line disruptions
Safety used to be treated somewhat as an afterthought, in that it was added as a separate system once all the other production equipment was in place. Nowadays, many manufacturers are seeing the benefits of integrated safety systems, in which safety features are designed into equipment from the very beginning.
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Considerations for Automation Upgrades, An Analytic Approach
In the past, companies leaned towards moving their operations to developing markets where they could cut costs by finding inexpensive labour.
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True North Solutions – Industry 4.0: Hype or technological revolution?
Over the last two and a half centuries, industry has embraced change and transformation. Analysts now say that we are in the beginning stages of a fourth industrial revolution – Industry 4.0. This latest advancement enhances existing technologies and computer frameworks to make them smarter, more efficient and better connected.
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How global car platforms have made traceability in automotive manufacturing more important than ever
The market for automobiles today is placing greater demand on the experience inside the vehicle, rather than simply the ability to get from Point A to Point B. Manufacturers are responding by incorporating expensive technologies to connect cars to the internet, and this is creating a need to cut costs in other ways.
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RBT Electrical & Automation: Keeping your Business Running Smoothly
RBT Electrical & Automation, located in Brantford, Ontario, provides a full service of electrical contracting along with providing automation and control services in the commercial and industrial sectors.
