Data-Driven Manufacturing
Metrology Data That Drive Manufacturing
HxGN Live is the annual international conference sponsored by Hexagon, the global company best known in the manufacturing industry for its broad range of metrology equipment. With its recent acquisition of Vero software, Hexagon now has CAM software products to make metrology data a key driver of shopfloor productivity, as this year’s event made clear.
Read MoreMTConnect 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.
Read MoreMTConnect in Context
The MTConnect interoperability standard is an enabling technology for the Internet of Things in manufacturing.
Read MoreBig 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.
Read MoreRethinking STEP-NC
This standardized machine tool control language enables CNC machining to be part of a larger, collaborative process.
Read MoreEmpowered 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.
Read MoreMaking 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.
Read MoreLarge 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:
Read MoreDigital 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.
Read MoreMachine-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.
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