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July 2022 #14276 Page #56
Accelerating Industrial Automation Without Obstacles By Rob Bellian Sales and Marketing Manager
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lthough devices have become far more intelligent over the last decade, during which microprocessors have penetrated deeply into the world of manufacturing and provided a wealth of diagnostic and operations information, the real value of this information only materializes once a customer is able to access and use it.
Advances in integration capabilities, the intelligence in the devices and assets themselves, plus the unification of previously competing communication protocols, can contribute to the users’ ability to optimize their assets and gain valuable information. But the question is: are they doing so in today’s Frame & Truss industry?
Utilizing Available Information Sources Taking a look around a process plant, we can list several technological innovations that have impacted automation and plant operations. Having surveyed the underlying technologies and trends of how automation has reached where it is today, now is the time to ask the technologists to pull all of the parts together so we can more fully take advantage of the advances. For this, we can ask our suppliers 3 important questions: What are the technologies that are going to propel innovation in the next few years? Do we have the skills to work with them? Most importantly, will they work with each other? In the future, we will continue to see the transformation of today’s manufacturing plants to optimize plant and supply networks through the proliferation of advanced sensing and wireless communication, continued adoption of software-defined networking, greater utilization of advanced control techniques, and continued optimization of sustainable and safe production methods.
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