Digital Transformation

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Why Manufacturers Are Reluctant to Digitalize (and Why They Shouldn’t Be)

A certain level of digital maturity isn’t required to begin your digital transformation. Even a factory with older equipment can benefit with as little as a few IoT sensors for less than $1,000.

How Audits, Skills, Standards and Cybersecurity Build Solutions

Essential skills required for wireless, mobility, and edge computing technology implementation include knowledge of wireless technologies, cybersecurity protocols, compliance ...

An AI Model to Ignore and One to Watch

Large Language Models may be getting all the attention, but convolutional neural networks with Raman spectroscopy could be the artificial intelligence technology industry should...
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How IT System Uptime Yields Huge Cost Savings

When IT systems are deeply integrated with the manufacturing process, as is increasingly typical across industry, tunneling between systems mitigates client/server dropouts and...

Open Automation Provides True Value

Schneider Electric provides a comprehensive overview of the benefits and challenges associated with adopting software-centric open automation.
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Open Automation: Where Things Stand in 2024

With plenty of activity at Open Process Automation Forum and UniversalAutomation.org, the pieces are slowly falling into place to develop an ecosystem of products that support...
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Maple Leaf Foods Connects MES to Advanced Analytics

Through a focus on yield, Maple Leaf Foods learned that by leveraging its existing MES technology it could successfully implement an IoT project that delivered ROI 4x faster than...
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Schneider Electric and Aveva’s Combined Technology Approach

Spotlighting users such as CPG manufacturer Henkel and water/wastewater processor AquaPolo, Aveva explains its cross-industry approach using an industry-specific partner ecosystem...