Improving productivity has been a manufacturing goal since the beginning of the first industrial revolution. Getting more product out the door faster and cheaper has led to more innovations in ...

Successful modern manufacturing means making the most of cutting-edge technologies. One advance that has reshaped manufacturing practices is the incorporation of data analytics. Data analytics unlocks ...

John Clemons is a Solution Consultant for Rockwell Automation. He’s been working in the field of Manufacturing Technology for over 30 years. Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more prevalent in ...

This collection of Data Descriptors will focus on the outputs and efficiency of manufacturing and construction processes, from project- or region‑level datasets through to national and global scales.

Data Collection Fundamentals provides an overview of the basic life cycle, structures, and qualities of common data used in smart manufacturing. Data collection describes the process of collecting and ...

Why viewing MES not just as a monitoring tool but a data contextualizer is critical to digital transformation, as it provides meaning to disparate machine and sensor data. How integrating control and ...

There is now broad consensus that data-driven decision-making is essential to success in today’s highly competitive manufacturing environment. Customers’ price-consciousness, combined with demands for ...

Manufacturers everywhere feel they’re behind on mastering their use of operations data. The answer to that problem isn't collecting more data, it's tracking those data points that actually solve ...

Data collection is the process of gathering and measuring information used for research. Collecting data is one of the most important steps in the research process, and is part of all disciplines ...