7th April 2017
Rather than a burden, a white paper from Schneider Electric looks at how the embedded technology used to meet changing machine building regulations and safety compliance has improved productivity. Safety was considered an additional cost to bear in an increasingly competitive market. Something OEMs and operators had to address, but so reactively. They would implement […]
Read more5th April 2017
UK manufacturing got off to a much stronger start to the year than expected, defying firms’ own expectations and providing a much-needed boost to confidence, recruitment and investment. So says the Ql 2017 Manufacturing Outlook from the EEF, and accountancy and business advisory firm BOO LLP. The survey reports positives across all the sector’s […]
Read more3rd April 2017
A grain drying and storage facility that supplies some of Scotland’s leading distilleries has installed a new Movicon SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system to consolidate series of plant upgrades and expansions. Highland Grains Ltd is an agricultural cooperative, owned by its 89 members, which dries, conditions and stores malting barley and other […]
Read more31st March 2017
In a recent project to improve productivity at Omron’s Kusatsu plant, engineers wanted to support anecdotal reports from plant-floor operators with real-time information. Their goal was to identify and assess continuous improvement projects with real-time data. To realise this, the factory traced products through the manufacturing processes to analyse where improvements can be made. […]
Read more29th March 2017
ATV900 variable speed drives replace Altivar ATV71 from Schneider Electric The ATV900 is Schneider Electric’s new series of high performance variable speed drives (VSDs). It replaces the Altivar ATV71 for complex machines and offers a range models to suit most applications and environments. The ATV900 is part of Schneider’s Process Drives range. […]
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