The global experienced workforce shortage in process manufacturing comes as no surprise to anyone. Industry has been predicting an expertise cliff for years if not decades, and it’s finally here. But what people didn’t anticipate quite as clearly was the parallel...
What happens in industrial automation when control is no longer enough? It’s highly likely we will soon find out. After all, the rigid, siloed control structures of the past—built to implement deterministic boundaries—no longer serve the needs of an increasingly...
Driving the reliability necessary to compete in the modern process manufacturing marketplace is more challenging than ever. Once upon a time, reliability teams could rely on expert personnel to regularly walk the plant and keep an eye and ear out for where machines...
As more and more generative AI (GenAI) engines seem to emerge every day, it is easy to forget that GenAI isn’t the only artificial intelligence people and companies are using to drive efficiency and reliability. It’s true that GenAI is opening up new vistas of...
Much of the focus on green energy is centered around solar and wind generation. However, there are many different potential sources of green energy, and one of the most exciting, if not the most well-known, is green hydrogen (GH2). From pilot programs testing GH2...
Nothing in the past decade has created the same levels of excitement, ideation, and trepidation that we have seen with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). In reality, there have been very few technologies in the history of the world that have risen in popularity...
When people think of hydrogen (H2) as an energy source, they typically think of fuel cells, the exciting technology that might someday soon power electric vehicles and other elements of our daily lives. But fuel cells aren’t the only way that H2 is useful for...
There exists an interesting tension in the life sciences industry; while people have access to more treatments for more maladies than at any other time in human history, there is also increasing pressure to deliver new, innovative treatments. For evidence, simply look...
Many things have changed in process manufacturing in recent years. Teams—including reliability and maintenance—have gotten smaller, budgets have shrunk, production expectations have increased, expertise has become rarer, and equipment has gotten more complex. One...
As the world of process manufacturing continues its quest to both drive increased production to meet customer needs and provide sustainable operations to meet global expectations, more and more companies are discovering that data is central to accomplishing their...
As the global marketplace expands, operating at peak efficiency has become increasingly important. If your competition is manufacturing their products while your personnel are navigating an unanticipated outage, you’re not only losing money, but possibly providing...
We talk so much about the value of data today that it becomes easy to forget that too much data—or data that is not useful— can be just as much of a problem as not having any at all. This idea is at the heart of Drew Mackley’s recent contribution to an article in Food...
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