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Read the online version if links don't work in this Digital Factory Update. | | | August 2009 | Sponsor: RedEye - Stratasys | Speed your product to market faster 
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Plant Services, July 2009
By David Berger
Process mapping is a technique that allows users to represent key processes graphically to more easily discuss and evaluate their effectiveness. By comparing “current state” process maps with “future state” maps, users can visualize the changes required to achieve expected savings and benefits. At a more detailed level, process maps also show how systems such as your CMMS support the process flow. Service Oriented Architecture and its Impact on Automation
Control Engineering, July 2009
By Dennis Brandl
Service oriented architecture (SOA)—everyone seems to be talking about, teaching, selling, or implementing it, but there is also a lot of confusion about what it really is. This article is a guide to understanding what it is, how it works, and how it applies to manufacturing-related applications. Management of Change Puts The Pieces Together
Automation World, July 2009
By Gary Mintchell
Technologies and culture are converging to manage change in order to improve safety, quality and efficiency—and to help companies improve profitability. Virtual Simulation Tools Allow Engineers to Work Together in an Electronic Environment
Control Design, June 2009
By Dan Hebert
Every phase of a project now can be conducted either face-to-face or remotely using e-design tools. Best practices come from selecting the right type of meeting for each phase of the project and using the correct e-design tools as needed. Digital manufacturing: The green path to growth
Reliable Plant, June 2009
By Patrick Michel, Dassault Systèmes
Digital manufacturing is becoming a major element of product life-cycle management (PLM). It’s the process by which companies can define and optimize manufacturing processes, manage manufacturing data, and encourage collaboration between different types of engineers by incorporating both digital and plant product definitions.
| | Browse more articles on the Digital Factory portal. | | | Product Announcements |  | Longwatch enhances Video System
Enhancements make it easier for users to integrate cameras in local and remote areas, combine video data with a wide variety of plant information, and enable operators to access video data from HMI terminals, cellphones or on a PC via the Internet.
| | | Tridium releases Enterprise Security access control system
Enterprise Security creates a unified, intelligent building by integrating with diverse facility systems including environmental controls, lighting, energy management, fire and video. | | | Honeywell releases Terminal Manager automation system
Terminal Manager helps process manufacturers to safely and efficiently load and unload trucks, rail cars and ships in bulk-liquid terminals.
| | | Other Product Announcements | Browse more Product Announcements on the Digital Factory portal. Search all Products by keyword, category, manufacturer or release date. | | White Papers | CEOs and CFOs need Data
By Harry Kohal, Eagle Technology
There are tools available to improve quality, manage lifecycle and provide qualitative and quantitative data to measure performance of people, assets and comfort in any facility or plant. Capital Ideas for the Times
By Wayne Filichowski, AVS Systems
Manufacturers must free working capital and re-commission fixed assets. This white paper discusses five capital ideas for optimizing manufacturing performance including: Pull working capital out of operations; raise fixed asset turnover rates; go green; optimize total cost of quality; and fully utilize human capital. Meeting the Challenge of Three Global Manufacturing Imperatives
By Doug Lawson, Incuity
Manufacturers must make intelligent business decisions at or near real-time speeds. This whitepaper highlights the challenges that all manufacturers face in today's global marketplace and shows through real world examples how Business Intelligence for Manufacturing (BI4M) can help meet those challenges. Using Appliance Transaction Modules to Enable Tracking and Tracing
By Alex Cuningham, Online Development
Appliance transaction modules provide a simple, yet effective method to connect dissimilar devices, PLCs, PACs, controllers and computer systems for a wide variety of tracking and tracing applications. They enable the development of specific event-based, bidirectional transactions between different brands and types of products without programming. Intuitive screens in the setup utility, as well as drag and drop configuration, make startup fast and easy. CNCs and Lean Manufacturing
By GE Fanuc
CNC has many features that can improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness. Some features can reduce setup, downtime and minor stoppages, and increase speed, setup and production part yields. Which features will be most beneficial to a particular operation?
| Browse more white papers on the Digital Factory portal.
| | Resources & Literature | How Lean are your manufacturing processes?
Motorola Survey
Find out how lean your manufacturing processes are by completing a survey customized to your area of responsibility. We’ll immediately calculate your Lean and Mobility scores and benchmark them against an industry standard. You’ll also receive a FREE customized report, prepared with the assistance of R. Michael Donovan & Co., an internationally recognized lean consultant. This comprehensive report analyzes your scores and identifies ways to boost the impact of lean practices in your organization. Rexroth adds podcasts to Lean Production Resource Kit
Each podcast episode presents guest experts and information to help manufacturers and OEMs understand and apply lean principles and practices in their businesses. Lattice Technology publishes free Lean Manufacturing book
The serialized book "Improving Lean Manufacturing Through 3D Data" by Dr. Hiroshi Toriyais is available free, two chapters at a time. ABB announces Process Performance Service
Platform-independent, non-invasive service evaluates and corrects process and mechanical disturbances affecting process performance. It can be applied to any automated process.
| Browse more resources and literature on the Digital Factory portal.
| | Application Stories | TPM and Tecate: The new translation
Maintenance World, June 2009
Total Productive Maintenance does not have a great reputation in American industry these days. At Cervecería Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma, one of the largest brewers of beer in Latin America, the concept of TPM is alive and well at CCM's brewery in Tecate. ABB's Expert Optimizer increases Nordkalk’s production by 9%
CPM solution helps limestone plant in Finland optimize process, improve output, and reduce fuel consumption Lean is "in" More Than Ever
Automation World, July 2009
By James R. Koelsch
Graphicast, a foundry and machine shop in Jaffrey, N.H., adopted the Lean Manufacturing philosophy and cut lead times and work in progress in half. MES: When Preparation Meets Opportunity
Control, May 2009
By Brian Chviruk, Bristol-Myers Squibb
When Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) built a biologics manufacturing facility in Devens, MA, it provided a unique opportunity for BMS engineers to put into practice some intriguing ideas they had been discussing about streamlining the entire validation process by incorporating factory acceptance techniques. Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence: A Room with a View
Automation World, April 2009
By Wes Iversen
Every morning, senior managers at Valero Energy Corp. gather in the company’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) for a daily operations call to each of the company’s 15 refineries in the United States, Canada and Aruba. Valero executives are able to call up dashboards detailing real-time operating statistics on each of the 15 sites. In rapid succession, spending less than 60 seconds per plant, managers can get a visual snapshot of the operational status of each refinery.
| Browse more application stories on the Digital Factory portal.
| | Featured Training | PLM Certificate Program
September 28 through October 2, 2009 Andover, MA
CIMdata’s PLM Certification Program prepares industrial professionals to successfully address the challenges inherent in PLM implementations. Lean manufacturing podcast
“Lean and Sustainability” podcast discusses the relationship between lean manufacturing and sustainable manufacturing.
| Browse more training and seminar opportunities on the Digital Factory portal.
| | Company & Organizational News | ARC says CPM sales to exceed $4 billion by 2013
Despite the recession, the Collaborative Production Management market continues to grow, albeit at a very modest pace. Benchmarking Best-in-Class: The Best Companies Use OEE
Automation World, July 2009
By Rob Spiegel
Aberdeen research finds that the key performance criteria that distinguish best-in-class companies from the industry average include on-time and complete shipments, the use of OEE, and response time to non-conforming shipments. Telvent integrates with Longwatch video surveillance system
Telvent integrated the Longwatch Surveillance System with its OASyS DNA SCADA system. This lets oil, gas, electric, and water network operators monitor video via an OASyS SCADA system. Research shows benefits of adopting energy management practices
The Aberdeen Group says that industry-leading manufacturers are much more likely than other companies to view energy management as strategic to their business success. Bringing Manufacturing Back To The U.S.A.
Manufacturing.net, April 2009
By Michael Collins, MPC Management
A recent study by Archstone Consulting indicates that many manufacturers are contemplating bringing their manufacturing back to the U.S. Nearly 90 percent of manufacturers are considering changing or have already changed their manufacturing and supply strategy. The study cited many reasons, varying from rising fuel costs and increasing Chinese wages to delivery problems and satisfying American customers.
| Browse more company and organizational news on the Digital Factory portal. | | Project News | Wonderware Software to help make Chinese cigarettes
Hongyun Honghe Tobacco, the fourth largest cigarette producer in the world, plans to use Wonderware software to manage its utility operations. Honeywell to control pharmaceutical manufacturing plant
Honeywell’s Experion Process Knowledge System will be used at the LIFE Nutrition site to control production processes, optimize production output and maintain quality control standards. DEACOM to supply ERP to California Custom Fruits & Flavors
ERP will cover formulation, sales, purchasing, production, QC/QA, Material Requirements Planning (MRP), inventory control, lot tracking, reporting, and accounting. GE Fanuc to supply Proficy Software to Linde AG worldwide
The order, which also encompasses GlobalCare support services, is worth more than $1 million and will be deployed in 350 sites worldwide. Wonderware to supply EMI & MES to Chr. Hansen
Chr. Hansen in Denmark selected Wonderware software to manage operations at its facilities worldwide.
| Browse more project news on the Digital Factory portal. | | Featured Events | European M2M Summit
September 24, 2009 Cologne, Germany
Sessions will provide a compact overview of developments, applications and solutions in the Machine-to-Machine communication market. Emerson User Exchange
September 28-October 2, 2009 Orlando, Florida
Emerson Global Users Exchange is more than an industry-leading technical conference…it is a community of manufacturing leaders committed to extracting the most from their automation investment…and sharing their learning with each other. ISA EXPO 2009
October 6-10, 2009 Houston, Texas
ISA EXPO is focused on the technology and techniques of automation and control. Organized around the six core themes central to automation and control, ISA EXPO 2009 provides attendees unlimited opportunity to explore key technologies, discover professional growth, and interact with like minded professionals. Industrial Automation Show
November 3-7, 2009 Shanghai
Since its inception in 2003, Factory Automation ASIA has been successfully held three times. It has established itself amongst the most important platforms in the production automation industry in Asia. Hannover Messe Middle East
February 9-11, 2010 Dubai
Deutsche Messe Hannover will be staging CeMAT Middle East, Industrial Automation (IA) Middle East, and Motion, Drive & Automation (MDA) Middle East together.
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