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Next Level IIoT

Cost-Effective Solutions to Bring Your Factory Floor into the Future

August 30, 2022

Training and employee development can seem daunting to manufacturers still playing catch-up post-COVID and trying to move product out the door. Management wants to implement new IIoT and smart manufacturing strategies to increase manufacturing productivity, but a lack of time, money and available resources can complicate these goals.

Heidenhain Digital Solution Aids Production Environment

April 8, 2022

Heidenhain’s new PlantMonitor is a digital solution to aid the manufacturing shop floor. Now available for companies interested in simultaneously monitoring and analyzing production data at multiple sites utilizing machine tools where at least one is equipped with a Heidenhain TNC control/StateMonitor software combination per site, this new PlantMonitor can aggregate the data onto one screen for review. Machine tools using even non-Heidenhain controls can be included and monitored.

Liebherr Revamps Digital Solutions

March 18, 2022

With the LHWebPlatform, Liebherr offers a modular system of interfaces, data profiles and web apps for the configuration of tailor-made digitization solutions.

Optimizing the Digital Shop Floor

November 1, 2021

Matthew Jaster

Federal Gear Enables IIoT Platform with MachineMetrics

The Digital Maturity Index

August 1, 2021

A categorization of digital activities and a perspective from Klingelnberg

That Industry 4.0 Digital Factory Thing — Part 3

January 1, 2021

Joe Arvin

Welcome to the third installment of an article which is presented as a guide for navigating the topic of the Industry 4.0 Digital Factory.

That Industry 4.0 Digital Factory Thing, Part 2

September 1, 2020

Joe Arvin

Welcome to the second installment of an article which is presented as a guide for navigating the topic of the Industry 4.0 Digital Factory.

That Industry 4.0 Digital Factory Thing

August 1, 2020

Joe Arvin

In this edition of "Arvin's Angle," we take a look at Industry 4.0 and what it means for a gear company just getting started.

Overcoming Barriers

August 1, 2019

Depending on who you ask, the Industrial Internet of Things is growing more slowly than anyone predicted. Why is that, and what does that mean for the gear manufacturing industry?

Overlapping Pursuits

July 1, 2018

More than any other field, IIoT overlaps directly with metrology's mission to analyze and measure as much of the manufacturing process as possible, and it's no surprise that the latter is utilizing the former.