Factory Logic (TM), Austin, Texas announced that the Automotive Group of Johnson Controls, Inc. will install the Factory Logic Lean Operations Management System software across thirty U.S.-based ...

Six times during the previous year the local utility supplying power to a large soap manufacturing plant in the Midwest suffered power outages, shutting down the plant’s production lines. Each time ...

Manufacturers are dependent on automated assets such as programmable logic controllers (PLC), PC control systems and computer numerical controllers (CNC). As vital as these devices are to the ...

Open standards and modular architectures form the foundation of vendor-agnostic systems, using technologies like JSON/XML data formats, OPC UA and MQTT communication protocols, and standardized ...