Data-Driven Manufacturing

Now Is the Time to Digitally Connect Your Factory

People and processes will interact more effectively when digitalization makes it easy to share data on an internet-enabled network.

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Software Simplifies Maintenance Scheduling and Reporting

The eNetMD maintenance dashboard is designed to simplify shop maintenance scheduling and reporting.

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Turning Tools

Iscar Leader Describes Tool Technology for Machine Shops Acting on Data

As more sophisticated insight into machining performance reveals opportunities for efficiency gain, the value of tooling choices that save time will become increasingly clear.

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Monitoring System Provides Automated Alerts

Smart Manufacturing Experience 2018: Atollogy has built a “smart operation” monitoring system with continuous, unobtrusive monitoring of not just equipment and products, but of the interaction of people with their equipment.

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Ethernet Layer Switch Provides Gigabit Data Rates

Smart Manufacturing Experience 2018: Allied Telesis has released the AT-1E300-12GP industrial Ethernet layer switch to enable interconnectivity within manufacturing facilities.

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Smart Machining Starts with Smart Sawing

A CNC band saw manufacturer worked with a university corporate research center to develop a cloud-based predictive maintenance app to not only monitor blade life, but also to predict blade failure. It also monitors overall band saw machine health in real time.

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A.I. Will Become Our Inventor

We know how to engineer automation, but can we automate engineering? This possibility is nearer than we might expect, and it will have implications for manufacturing. 

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Sensor Suite Collects Machine Data, Provides Reports

Captemp Industries has developed the Nidus sensor suite to gather and centralize information with fully automated, real-time control.

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Remote Monitoring Anticipates Potential Issues, Prevents Stoppages

Chevalier Machinery USA has launched the iMachine communications system, which enables users to avoid downtime and a loss of productivity.

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Top Shops

Machine Monitoring Both Challenges and Benefits Shop Culture

How does a shop deal with the “Big Brother” feeling that comes from implementing machine tool data collection? Part of the answer is the benefit to employee experience that this data collection will make possible. Watch video from the Top Shops Conference.

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