A leading manufacturer of furnaces for biscuit and bread production designed new cabling systems and connections for its newest production lines. These systems are capable of producing around 4,000 kilograms of biscuits per hour: 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

To meet the demands of Industry 4.0, condition-based monitoring (CbM) of robotics and rotating machines, such as turbines, fans, pumps, and motors, offers a method for record real-time data related to the health and performance of machines to enable targeted predictive maintenance, as well as optimized control.

Network, cybersecurity, and automation control professionals in discrete manufacturing and similar operations can work to optimize profitability with the most sophisticated automation solutions driven by the advent of the IIoT, while maintaining optimum, best-in-class cybersecurity levels on the plant floor.

DTE’s wooden packaging plant includes over one hundred inverter drives, all of which need to be controlled simultaneously and in real-time. A new communications network able enabled it to connect its inverters to PLCs, and ensure that the machines could instantly adjust operating parameters for optimal performance.

Digital, mobile, networked and standardized solutions are providing new connectivity for process control users to communicate via HART, FOUNDATION Fieldbus and Profibus PA. The result is that machine and field device data is more available to improve and rationalize processes for configuration and troubleshooting.

The oil and gas industry has entered the world of automation and digital process control. Norway-based Robotic Drilling Systems AS and Siemens have teamed up to develop a game changing drill floor solution comprising robotic technology for fully unmanned oil and gas drill floor operations.

Two older water utility systems had become increasingly difficult to maintain, and upgrade with connections to new PLCs. There wasn’t enough data or automation for the department to operate efficiently, so the utility looked to a new SCADA software platform to provide solutions for a wide variety of projects.

Faster development of SCADA projects means building a system that can solve one issue right now, but can then be expanded to include other processes, new data sources, different viewing methods and changing metrics. Advanced SCADA solutions add further value by providing a single point for project engineering.

Highly dynamic servo drive technology optimizes forming machine used for precise fastener production. Using this solution, all cam-setting restrictions have been solved. Adjustment of gripping force for fingers, which used to be mechanical, is now done in software, along with receiving feedback from the servo drives.

FlexEnergy used IP router technology that simplified both the machine installation and commissioning, along with the Ethernet network configuration within the control system for its gas turbine systems. The solution enabled technicians to have dependable external access to the devices without IP address conflicts.