Manufacturers are experiencing interesting times as the pandemic has affected workforce availability and consumer demand. Moreover, with a shortage of skilled staff and increased material and energy costs, they need to adapt to survive….
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Sustainability| What are net-zero and carbon neutral?
At the recent COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow, world leaders and representatives from some of the largest organisations in the world came together to mobilise climate…
The importance of edge processing to manufacturing
The digitalisation of business and manufacturing resulting from IIoT and Industry 4.0 have a profound impact on factory automation. They envision networks of connected equipment collecting and analysing huge volumes…
Five ways that implementing IEC 61499 improves automation
From Schneider Electric comes a foundation for industrial automation applications that makes life simpler and more logical. It is based on implementing the IEC 61499 design language for information and control systems and starts…
Universal automation supports standardisation
For manufacturers, standardisation provides a cornerstone for their business. It benefits both producers and consumers without removing the ability to compete and innovate. According to
How Danone cracked end-to-end traceability
With complex global supply chains, increasing regulation and consumer pressure, the food industry needs to provide more complete, traceable and transparent product information along their entire value chain. Investment in food and beverage traceability…
Paths to competitive advantage for OEMs
OEMs who build machines for industrial end-users are finding it harder to remain competitive. Do they keep with a ‘smaller, faster and cheaper’ model, or step back to consider how the industry is…
