Data-Driven Manufacturing

Data-Driven Manufacturing 15 May 2015

MTConnect Institute Announces Student Challenge

It's a competition designed to encourage college students to come up with ideas and applications for improving manufacturing with the MTConnect standard. The aim is to build awareness of advanced manufacturing technologies among college students, as well as lead to innovations that help manufacturers, especially those serving the defense industry.

Data-Driven Manufacturing 14 May 2015

MTConnect in Context

The MTConnect interoperability standard is an enabling technology for the Internet of Things in manufacturing.

Data-Driven Manufacturing 21 Apr 2015

Big Screens—Big Results

This machine tool builder is getting the most from its machine monitoring system. Making data about machine utilization very visible is helping operators make better decisions about shopfloor activities.

Data-Driven Manufacturing 21 Apr 2015

Rethinking STEP-NC

This standardized machine tool control language enables CNC machining to be part of a larger, collaborative process.

Data-Driven Manufacturing 25 Mar 2015

Empowered by the Facts

The key to making better decisions about shopfloor activities is having access to reliable, actionable information. This is the promise of data-driven manufacturing and the reason we are devoting a new monthly column to this topic.

Shop Management Software 25 Mar 2015

Making Sure MTConnect Is a Good Fit

An MTConnect-enabled machine monitoring system gives shopfloor managers information that is driving up utilization rates and improving workforce communication for this manufacturer of high-pressure aerospace fittings.

Data-Driven Manufacturing 17 Feb 2015

Large Machines and Capacity in Renovated Pfronten Facility

DMG MORI hosted its 20th open house earlier this month in Pfronten, Germany. The event featured 76 machine tool exhibits, including four world premieres, and nearly 8,800 attendees had the opportunity to tour the recently renovated and expanded facility to see its latest machine tool technologies. Here are some observations from the event:

Data-Driven Manufacturing 16 Jan 2015

Digital Thread Boosts Data-Driven Manufacturing

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is initiating a project to demonstrate how a standardized 3D model of a product can integrate and streamline production from initial design through final inspection in a continuous, coherent data-driven process.

Data-Driven Manufacturing 12 Jan 2015

Machine-to-Cloud Appliance Delivers Energy Management Data

Mitsubishi Electric Automation, in collaboration with ILS Technology, a Telit company, offers the e-Factory IoT Gateway, a machine-to-cloud (M2C) industrial appliance for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.