Hackers, ransomware and cyberattacks: What does it mean to a modern packaging production facility where connectivity is crucial? And what can be done? Your production operations have been optimized with advanced servo-driven machinery, wireless communications, remote access for troubleshooting and other advanced automation resources and tools that deliver higher efficiency, lower downtime and ongoing cost…
The Industrial Internet of Things, IIoT, is creating profoundly positive impacts for the machinery industry. Solutions are ready and available that reduce service costs, increase machine performance, save energy and improve quality. For leading machine companies the IIoT has become a significant enabler that can get them to market quickly, create additional savings, and provide profitable revenues.…
Industry 4.0 — aka the internet of things — is all the rage. Even though true Industry 4.0, where every single production machine, and every single factory, is interconnected, is probably decades away if we ever really get there. This month, Best Practices takes you into that world. We’ll take a closer look at a…
Industrial Internet of Things (IIot) At B&W MEGTEC Posted on GNorz.com June 14, 2017 by gnorz Connectivity is everywhere we look. The buzz word of Industrial Internet of Thing (IIoT) and 4.0 are in every new article we pick up. Even at home we now have an APP to alert us when our garage door opener is…
Lenze teams with ei3 to offer white label remote analysis and maintenancefrom Automation.com May 19, 2017 – Many machine and systems engineering companies are still uncertain about what Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT) mean for their business model. Only a few of them have found their own strategy for dealing with the…
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Columns takes a practical approach to line-by-line productivity. Each line has KPI metrics shown in a top-down format. The entire column changes color if the machine is running or not giving a powerful at-a-glance status of the entire factory floor. Large numbers of a wide screen TV make this an Andon board that’s easy to…
