In today's economic climate, manufacturers face increased pressure to control spending without sacrificing their competitive advantages. They cannot afford inefficiencies in areas such as production ...

Space is a key asset in any manufacturing operation. It’s typically a scarce resource: not enough in the right places, too much in the wrong places, and often of poor quality i.e., the wrong shape, ...

Chapter 1 illustrated how to develop the product and process information essential to rationalizing a plant. Your next tasks are the preparation of scale layout drawings of the current plant and ...

The barrage of messaging to “connect the shop floor to the top floor and beyond for your own good” is not easing up. So many reliable, trusted and experienced sources continue to tout the many ...

AIM Enterprise Version 3.0 is Webbased software that features an Automated Line Supervision and Dash Board reporting tool, which makes real-time plant-floor data available through any PC, anytime, ...

Introduces the basic concepts of manufacturing operations and plant floor layout in the production environment. Applications of Computer Numerical Control for milling, lathe and turning operations are ...

Evolving from simply an IT network, Ethernet has become the dominant network technology linking controllers with SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) and plant-wide information systems.

1. The critical thing about network layout is not to take office topologies to the plant floor, but rather to implement plant and machine topologies with Ethernet. Office Ethernet infrastructures are ...