IoT Custom Enterprise Dashboard Gives Multi-Awareness Our Gallery of Andon Display: Coming from the Japanese word for “Paper Lantern”, Andon display boards visually broadcast the status of a line or machine for everyone in the plant to see. It works so well that lean manufacturing experts will make this one of their top priorities for…
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) takes advantage of the latest software and hardware capabilities to increase productivity. It stands to reason that greenfield manufacturing plants might be planned with native IIoT technologies. After all, today’s factory automation systems can incorporate web servers and clients, standards-based communications, and substantial processing power and memory. But the…
Since 2003. Monitoring flexible materials production.
At a recent meeting in Microsoft’s Copenhagen offices, more than 120 controls and automation professionals gathered to seek out ways of better aligning PackML and OPC UA. from Packaging World By Pat Reynolds, VP Editor Machinery buyers, machinery builders, technology suppliers, integrators, consultants, and a number of other stakeholders in the smart packaging and line integration…
Director of Business Development – Plastics
At FachPack 2016 in Nuremberg, Germany many visitors were fascinated by Industry 4.0 being harnessed by packaging machinery companies. For this important exhibition, Lenze invited ei3 to show what’s possible when secure communications are established to Lenze controllers. Lenze provided a premium location where ei3 demonstrated its robust and proven suite of Internet applications that leverages…
