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Article: How to Deliver Measured Business Operation Outcomes 

Whether your goals include increased capacity, decreased off-spec quality, improved yield or reduced energy usage, learn how you can unlock the full potential of your existing assets, process and people.

Article: How Manufacturing Process Management is Transforming Aerospace Manufacturing

Rising production demands are intensifying the pressure on manufacturing processes, making it crucial for aerospace leaders to adapt.

Article: Driving Adoption and Value in Smart Manufacturing Applications with Organizational Change Management

Organizations are now beginning to recognize the importance of adoption and retention in realizing value. The integration of OCM into manufacturing applications consulting initiatives represents a paradigm shift and an acknowledgement that technology alone cannot drive transformation.

Article: Digital Twin Strategy for Machine Builders

Success as an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), or machine builder, has always hinged on the ability to give customers what they want: reliable equipment that gets the job done. In an era where technology innovations emerge, dominate the news cycle, but don’t always deliver tangible benefits, the digital twin is establishing a track record of real ROI and differentiation for manufacturers across a variety of use cases.

Article: Advanced Process Control Chats: Cement Industry

Our advanced process control (APC) team members Q&A continues as we discuss the cement industry. Today we’re talking with sales manager Juliano de Goes Arantes about trends he’s seeing in the industry and what organizations should be thinking about but may not be.

Article: Industry 4.0 and the Role of Industrial Data Management

Without paying attention to this divide, companies trying to deploy Industry 4.0 initiatives will continue to suffer from siloed data that lacks the necessary, but unassigned, context to yield full value.

Article: Unlocking Data Intelligence in the Manufacturing Industry

Think of data intelligence like business intelligence. While the goal of business intelligence is to better understand the business, the goal of data intelligence is to better understand the business’s data. Business intelligence done well and at scale is challenging without data intelligence.

Article: Advanced Process Control Chats: Software Continuous Emissions Monitoring

We recently discussed how organizations continue to face stringent environmental regulations, and many have also encountered problems with aging and obsolete systems and pressures to reduce cost and increase profitability. In the article, we discussed Continuous Emissions Monitoring (CEM) and what organizations need to consider when choosing to go the hardware OR the software path.

Article: Advanced Process Control Chats: Biofuels Industry

Today, we’re talking to Dr. Srinivas Budaraju, principal engineer at Rockwell Automation. Srinivas joined Rockwell as the industry lead for biofuels 25 years ago and has been a principal engineer since 2012.

Article: The Next Generation of Condition Monitoring Capabilities

Organizations no longer need an internal data science team. They also now have access to all kinds of information about their assets. However, many still don’t know how to make the most use of this data, including only utilizing reactive maintenance operations instead of predictive.