News from the discrete manufacturing industries
June 27, 2019
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Replace the typical clipboard approach to visual inspections with AMS Inspection Rounds to ensure complete, consistent, and repeatable data collection.
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From startup and commissioning to turnarounds and outages to daily operation, AMS Device Manager users have benefited from decision support through proactive and predictive diagnostics, resulting in millions of dollars in savings.
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Emerson's new Plantweb Optics uses modern mobility and communication tools to help user's collaboration on developing issues in the plant from wherever they are - before those issues impact production.
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Many plants today use 30+ years old protection systems to prevent or minimize damage to critical production assets, putting production goals at risk every day. Plants looking to implement modern protection technology are turning to Emerson’s AMS 6500 ATG system – field-proven protection with embedded prediction tools.
Understanding network topologies is important to ensure your network is not only operating the way you want it to, but also is structured in a way that allows for flexibility in the face of change and future growth. To explain this for our “Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered” podcast audience, we spoke with Michael Bowne, executive director for PI North America, a part of the Profibus/Profinet International organization. In our discussion, Bowne explains the different topology types—such as line, ring, star, and tree—and how they apply to both industrial fieldbus and Ethernet and wireless networks.
Industrial wearables getting the most attention at the moment employ virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR) or augmented reality (AR) to aid industrial applications. VR is a completely immersive digital experience, providing a realistic simulation of a 3D environment experienced and controlled by body movement. It is used primarily in industrial design or training—because it doesn’t allow for situational awareness, it is ill-suited for field applications. AR, on the other hand, layers digital, interactive objects on top of the physical environment, making it more appropriate for field work. Somewhere in the middle, MR devices feature a world in which physical objects interact with digital objects. MR encompasses the spectrum from AR to VR, blending the physical and digital worlds to produce new environments where physical and digital objects coexist and interact in real time.
Until relatively recently, corporate information technology (IT) and operations technology (OT) departments operated independently of one another, typically with little to no contact. But now, as more businesses converge these two domains onto one shared Ethernet network, a determination must be made: Who is responsible for managing and maintaining the network? Discussions around this determination are ongoing, but one thing both sides are beginning to agree on is that keeping IT and OT network ownership separate is inefficient at best—and a real problem as the industry increasingly becomes digitized and all data is aggregated for analysis and optimization. Both sides also tend to agree that simply turning OT networks over to IT, or IT networks over to OT would likely lead to less-than-optimum performance for one side or the other.
One of the first adopters of GE Digital’s Predix Manufacturing Data Cloud (MDC) is Procter & Gamble (P&G), one of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. P&G has been a long-time customer of GE Digital’s Plant Applications manufacturing execution system (MES) and is leveraging the Predix MDC capabilities by moving manufacturing data to the cloud to run analytics. After an initial pilot phase at three P&G sites, the company is expanding use of the platform across multiple manufacturing sites. P&G has already gained a detailed, data-supported view into their manufacturing processes, providing insights that drive efficiencies across plants. Plus, the new offering is helping the CPG company meet data compliance regulations and significantly increase the speed of its on-premise MES.
The 63-page report, “Robotics 2019: Innovation 2 Implementation,” from PMMI Business Intelligence predicts growing adoption of cobots—collaborative robots that can work side by side with humans safely. While very few OEMs are now incorporating cobots into their equipment offerings, and few ends users have adopted them, the majority of participants predict collaborative robots will experience a boom, finding niche applications along the line for simple, slower motion tasks. Fulfilling e-commerce orders is a big focus. “Four out of five OEMs offer fully integrated robotics on their machinery, but only one OEM has incorporated cobots so far,” says Paula Feldman, Director of PMMI Business Intelligence.
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