Rockwell Automation will support the automation of French renewables startup Sweetch Energy's unique zero-carbon electricity power generation technology through the deployment of a turnkey process control system and remote operations visualisation platform.
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In a pursuit to harness the power of digital transformation, BIC has successfully bridged IT and OT, as it embraced a new era of seamless, integrated manufacturing at its Bizerte factory in Tunisia. Its ambitious journey involved eliminating operational silos, to enhance data accuracy, and provide its workforce with unified data sources. Through the successful pilot of the Plex MES system, BIC replaced fragmented legacy systems, ensuring end-to-end visibility and global standardisation.
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Rockwell Automation's seamlessly-integrated hardware and software control solutions are proving pivotal to the success of a new form of carbon-free heat supply and storage.
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A well-planned MES implementation represents a cornerstone to a company's digital transformation journey, with several potential benefits on the table: greater flexibility, better efficiency, agility, less scrap, better OEE insights, and the ability to free up budget and people resources. An open-ended and agile approach is encouraged, as benefits may lead to evolution in a company's future production, technology implementations, and other plans.
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Using 'digitalisation' as a toolkit, companies may bring about so-called transformation as their ultimate goal. Approaching this holistically, a company needs to look at its entire manufacturing operation, its complex systems, knowledge, and strategies, and bring these all together to achieve better operational efficiencies, minimal waste, better time-to-market, and better management of cyber risks.
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Rockwell Automation has strengthened its collaboration with Michelin, the French multinational tyre manufacturing company, focusing on digital innovation across Michelin’s manufacturing processes.
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How are ongoing skills shortage challenges affecting manufacturers, and what steps may be taken to mitigate the retirement of so-called 'baby boomers'. Who will have the skills and expertise to replace them, and how quickly can new talent be trained and upskilled? Fortunately, tools exist to train new workers quickly, enable workers to do their jobs reliably and productively.
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Rockwell Automation has announced that its automation technology sits at the heart of new machines that assemble the Royal British Legion’s new plastic-free poppy.
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