Tag: mes
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Changing of the Guard: MES or Not?
By Karan Talati, First Resonance Innovation and operational changes are essential to maintaining your competitive edge in any industry. This is no different for manufacturing. Times are changing, and today’s manufacturers are re-evaluating their production processes. Machine efficiency is necessary. It is important to the bottom line but doesn’t drive innovation. MES has been the…
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Comau designs ‘highly automated, high-volume’ battery manufacturing line
Comau, an industrial robotics and automation specialist, has designed and developed a “high-volume module manufacturing line” to produce new generation lithium-ion batteries for Leclanché, a provider of energy storage solutions for the heavy transportation, naval and railway industries. Comau says the “state-of-the-art, highly automated line” is the result of a simultaneous engineering process and combines…
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Hexagon and Plex Systems partner to offer smart manufacturing solutions
Hexagon and Plex Systems are partnering to offer smart manufacturing solutions. The companies say the new partnership will provide manufacturers a path to greater automation and Industry 4.0 adoption. Hexagon, a provider of sensor, software, and autonomous technologies, and Plex Systems, a cloud-delivered smart manufacturing solutions company, describe this as a new “strategic partnership”. The…
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One-third of manufacturers planning to move software to the cloud, says IoT Analytics
One-third of manufacturers are planning to move the software they currently use on-site to the cloud, according to research company IoT Analytics. IoT Analytics, a provider of market insights and competitive intelligence for the internet of things (IoT) and Industry 4.0, surveyed the industrial IoT market and found that almost one-third of manufactures are planning…
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Why Manufacturers Should Consider Using a Cloud-based MES Platform
Traditional manufacturing execution systems are deployed on a single machine that might be networked to a handful of terminals inside of a machine shop. While this made sense in an era before widespread Internet adoption, it’s hopelessly dated today. Few people have the technology needed to turn their smart devices into antique telnet clients, and…
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ABB expands project to automate semiconductor factory
What started out as a small project to automate a single production stage has morphed into an award-winning program to digitally transform one of ABB’s own factories – in what is dubbed Project Genesis. (See video below.) The power semiconductors produced by ABB pass through hundreds of production steps, from raw wafer dicing to the…
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Critical Manufacturing launches its new, ‘most advanced’ manufacturing execution system
Critical Manufacturing has relased what it describes as its “most advanced” Industry 4.0 Manufacturing Execution System (MES). Critical Manufacturing MES V8 reveals a revolutionary new IoT Data Platform that merges IoT with MES and, two significant new modules that advance smart manufacturing in areas of materials logistics and factory automation to enable manufacturers to move…
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Critical Manufacturing and Tata Consultancy Services partnership to develop ‘modern MES’
Critical Manufacturing has agreed a global consulting and services partnership with Tata Consultancy Services, a global leader in IT services, consulting and business solutions. Under the agreement, TCS will offer global consulting, project development and implementation support services around Critical Manufacturing’s Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) for customers in the complex discrete industry, including the semiconductor,…
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Plex Systems acquires factory data company Dattus
Plex Systems, a provider of cloud enterprise resource planning and manufacturing execution systems software, has acquired Dattus, a supplier of industrial internet of things connectivity technologies. Dattus solutions connect manufacturing equipment and sensors to the cloud, manage high-volume data streams, and analyze in-motion equipment data to optimize performance, reduce costs, and ensure uptime. The acquisition…
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Industrial internet: 42Q launches new protocol capability for factory automation
42Q, a provider of cloud manufacturing execution systems (MES), has introduced Semiconductor Equipment Communications Standard, Generic Equipment Model (SECS/GEM) protocol capability. SECS/GEM is an industry standard factory equipment interface protocol for equipment-to-host data communications. In securing SECS/GEM capability, 42Q says it greatly simplifies the implementation of factory automation, machine to machine (M2M) communication, real time…