NI Week 2011: Power Quality Monitoring Demo

A power quality monitoring demo at NI Week 2011, see video below. (Approximate Time: 2:35).

Aug 3rd, 2011

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A control cabinet created by Versatech for Agri-Fab featuring Mitsubishi Electric technology.

Creating an Energy Management System

With the help of Mitsubishi Electric technologies, automation and engineering company Versatech has developed a system to collect and visualize real time plant-wide energy consumption that can be accessed remotely.

A reservoir in Oberzent, Germany.

Digital Transformation Lessons from a Smart Monitoring System for Potable Water Treatment

How the German city of Oberzent connects decentralized measurement points using LoRaWAN and Endress+Hauser’s Netilion IIoT technologies.

Why Edge Devices are Essential to IIoT Applications

From reducing the amount of data that needs to be sent to the cloud for analysis to improving condition-based monitoring applications, edge computing devices are the local devices enabling an on-site industrial Internet of Things.

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Why So Complicated?

A renewed focus on usability is required for today’s technologies to become tomorrow’s solutions.

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案例研究:Launching a Nationwide Equipment Network

看看Alta制冷实现更快,easier product development and servicing with groov EPIC and MQTT.

Easy to install and resistant to hydrolysis and microbes

Easy to install and resistant to hydrolysis and microbes

Festo’s PUN-H tubing is suitable for standard applications and wet areas or when in contact with water at up to 50°C. PUN-H tubing uses modified material so it will not crack through hydrolysis.

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How Network Communications Drive the IIoT Revolution

Internet of Things communication methods such as OPC UA, MQTT, and REST API make field level data available to the cloud, creating flexible production networks to support efficient manufacturing.

Machines-as-a-Service: This Trend Is Just Getting Started

A new report from Bain & Company illustrates why machines-as-a-service is a growing trend that will change the familiar equipment manufacturer business model.

Avoid These 3 Value-Destroying Behaviors

From a lack of unified key performance indicators and overly conservative scheduling to determining the best time to perform maintenance, addressing specific communication issues can improve the value in your manufacturing operations.

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Cloud-Based Software Modernizes Cleaning System Reporting

Sani-Matic worked with Rockwell Automation and PTC to develop a SaaS offering that replaces largely manual, paper-based data collection processes.

Automation Suppliers and the Legacy Data Issue

How edge, cloud, and automation hardware technology suppliers are working together to ease the process of collecting legacy equipment data for analysis.

The Field Wiring Terminal Block

The Field Wiring Terminal Block

TOPJOB® S lever actuated terminal blocks offer tool-less, easy and intuitive wiring for the end user in the field.

Modules and components of Beckhoff’s ATRO system.

Beckhoff Introduces the ATRO Modular Robot

This forthcoming modular, customizable, do-it-yourself robot technology adds new dimensions to how end users, system integrators, and OEMs will think about robotic automation.

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3 Keys to Securing and Managing an Industrial Network

Why Industry 4.0 success requires visibility into all connected points on an industrial network, as well as threat detection and displays of the network’s health and integrity.

Lenze at Automate 2022

Lenze offered an overview of its cloud offerings as well as its hardware portfolio at Automate 2022 in Detroit.

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Robots and Cobots: A Peer-to-Peer FAQ

End users and integrators offer their insights into industry’s growing use of industrial robots, collaborative robots, and autonomous mobile robots.

With the Festo Motion Control Package, a seventh axis can be added to a Universal Robot cobot for a range of applications, including palletizing. Source: Festo.

Festo Adds Motion Control to Universal Robots’ Cobots

The Festo Motion Control Package can add up to four axes of motion beyond the six axes of motion provided by Universal Robot’s collaborative robot products.

Oxford Landing Estate Winery in Australia’s Borossa Valley. Source: Rockwell Automation

Integrated Automation Framework Helps Produce Consistent Quality Wines

Using a connected automation architecture anchored by Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk software enables Oxford Landing winemakers to specify process streams, crushing speeds, and fermentation schedules.

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How to Select a 3D Printer for your Plant

Advances in additive manufacturing are moving the technology in the direction of making production-ready parts. But before investing in 3D printing, take some time to understand the different types of equipment and materials.

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The Case for Cloud-Based Engineering and Simulation Software

By providing low-risk training, always up-to-date cybersecurity, and no need to manage on-site technology, Emerson’s DeltaV Simulation Cloud illustrates why more industrial companies are moving to cloud-based operations technology software.

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How Does Software-as-a-Service Benefit Manufacturers

See how software providers are continuing to move towards SaaS models for developing, delivering, and monetizing their work, and how that trend is breaking into the manufacturing space.

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IT/OT Convergence: More Than Just Connecting Networks

The convergence of IT and operations technology requires specific skills associated with roles in both departments, which sometimes requires integrators to act more as change facilitators than engineers.

Industrial Ethernet and Time-Sensitive Networking Converge

How Time-Sensitive Networking enables Ethernet to merge multiple traffic types on the same network.

GE Digital's partnership with Visionaize adds 3D digital twin technology to its asset performance portfolio.

GE Digital Amps Up Asset Performance Management

A partnership with Visionaize adds 3D digital twins to operational use cases, and a new Accelerator product line speeds time to value for its asset performance software in energy industries.

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Delphon Puts Robots-as-a-Service to Work

Delphon hires the Rapid Machine Operator from Rapid Robotics to improve production in its TouchMark and Gel-Pak operations.

Heineken's brewery in Amsterdam.

Heineken’s Event-Driven Connectivity Strategy

Central to its global systems connectivity approach, Heineken uses a publish/subscribe approach to connect disparate technologies such as ERP, CRM, and MES, as well as shipping, payment, and cloud-based data lakes.

Dynamic Perspective Objects with Sepasoft's Batch Module

By using the various tools in the Ignition toolbox, it is possible to create dynamic views that represent the ISA-88 objects of a process cell.

The Next Stage of the Open Process Control Journey

OPAF, Schneider Electric working on universal automation for industrial control.

Quality Management Gets an Industrial Transformation Update

Learn how quality management can be improved by integrating quality across the complete value chain.

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Revenue Management for Manufacturers

Read about the 4 levers of revenue management: pricing basis, inventory allocation, product configuration, and duration control.

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Siemens Expands Xcelerator, Begins Industrial Metaverse Development

Two major announcements from Siemens involve expansion of the company’s Xcelerator technology into a wider portfolio of hardware, software, and digital services, and a partnership with Nvidia to create an industrial metaverse.

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3D Printing System from ABB

The MDPE10 particle extruder from Massive Dimension is capable of outputting 10 lbs of material per hour.