Your motors can help you find substantial energy savings, if you can hear what they’re trying to tell you. The right monitoring equipment will help you get the message. With limited natural resources and the ever-increasing global demand for energy, it only stands to reason that energy costs will continue to increase. As energy costs [...]

About a month ago, Carl posted on our blog regarding Sciemetric and the sigPOD and how it can shape manufacturing going forward.  Read original here. In the post, he reviewed how the technology looks at the unique signature that the process has and using different algorithms and processes can aid in determining whether the part currently [...]

Natural Gas Vehicle Emissions Compared with vehicles fueled with conventional diesel and gasoline, natural gas vehicles can produce significantly lower amounts of harmful emissions such as nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, and toxic and carcinogenic pollutants as well as the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Light-Duty Vehicle Emissions: CNG vs. Gasoline Testing has been performed to compare [...]

Eaton is pleased to introduce the new S611 soft starter. The Eaton S611 is an innovative, economical soft starter combining advanced functionality, unsurpassed configuration flexibility, and an extremely comprehensive user interface. It is available in both open and enclosed control configurations to meet the needs of the commercial construction and OEM segment. Key features include: [...]

Popular businessman, venture capitalist and television personality Kevin O’Leary made a lasting impression on many who attended his keynote address at the Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show (CMTS) 2011 in Toronto. His strongest message was that Canadian manufacturers need to adapt to the financial power shifts in the global market. Strong currency, growth opportunities O’Leary believes [...]

A picture is worth 1000 words.  This anecdote has been used time and again, by just about everyone you know.  Today, I am going to show you how you can get a picture of your manufacturing process, and how this picture will be worth far more to you than just 1000 words, it will be [...]

With GE Intelligent Platforms recently releasing their ProfiNet offering, I wanted to take a couple of minutes to go over some of the comments, feedback, and misconceptions surrounding this protocol. It appears that for many, this is a very new protocol and there are a lot of myths and mis-information floating around, surrounding this protocol. [...]

Recently, I had the opportunity to assist a customer in migrating their 90-30 to a PACSystems RX3i controller.  Machine Edition made quick work of converting the hardware config and code, however 1 particular module posed a problem; this customer was using a Horner HE693RTM705 Modbus Master.  The RX3i does not support this module and its functionality [...]

For any of you that have had a chance to work with the GE Quickpanel View, you will know what I am talking about.  You have a handful of QP View units (perhaps more), you have 10 or 20 users, and several security levels that need to be setup, and now you have to do [...]

The latest addition to our Manufacturing Excellence solution portfolio, Sciemetric – has pioneered zero defect realization through in process profiling using their advanced Process Signature Verification (PSV) technology. They have helped manufacturers address quality issues to improve productivity and profitability. Sciemetric helps manufacturers eliminate manufacturing quality problems. Their advanced signature analysis finds defects and problems [...]