CPM and Operations Management “Manufacturers Plant Software – Need Now More Than Ever”
ARC's Greg Gorbach CPM & Operations Mgmt Presentation @ ARC Industry Forum 2010 in Orlando, FL.
Operations Management/MES Trends
1. Deals Driven Top-Down
• Governance
• Process Improvements
• Manufacturing Excellence
• Visibility, End-to-End Performance
2. Business Decision to Invest in Plant IT
• Ops Platform
• Legacy replacement
• Needed for responsiveness, flexibility, quality, etc.
3. Integration with PLM Needed
• Customer-driven, not industry hype
• No standards means implementation cost
4. Sustainable Manufacturing Dawning
• Energy Management
• Carbon tracking, accountability, compliance
• Integrated, Flexible Packaging Management
5. Cloud Computing/Services/SaaS on horizon
Oil & Gas Technology Solutions on HANA. Akili and Cisco Offer Best in Class Solutions for Upstream Oil & Gas.
Gain Optimal Performance and Accelerated Results with Industry Solutions on HANA.
Oil & Gas Technology Solutions on HANA. Akili and Cisco Offer Best in Class Solutions for Upstream Oil & Gas.
Gain Optimal Performance and Accelerated Results with Industry Solutions on HANA.
Manufacturing Execution System for Industry-I am pleased to share details about our successfully working model, as how we can provide you with innovative & industry proven Plant Intelligence Solutions for Automotive Manufacturing Plant like yours to give you following benefits in Real Time Environment:
• Informed decisions based on Data Analytics
• Streamlined and Optimized Operations
• Improved Productivity
• Reduce Total Defects
• Reduced Inventory
• Lean, “Smart” MES approach and application coverage for low TCO
• Improved return on assets and investments (ROA/ ROI)
• Improved Equipment Up-Time
• Improved responsiveness, improved plant throughput time
• Enhanced Real Time visibility into production data
We have successfully served as per expectations of many End-Users in Manufacturing, Food & Beverage, Pharma, Oil & Gas, Petrochemical , Cement, Power, & metals Industry. We have more than 5000+ software installations throughout India with proven track record in almost every industry vertical and have delivered projects to 40+ countries in every continent including Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
Real-time Data, Site wide Digital Twin, and Proprietary Analytics Cuts into P...Yokogawa1
Energy is one of the largest costs for process facilities. While operators can save significant money with minimal impact to production, they often lack structured and automated digital technologies to identify and sustain performance improvements. The situation is further exacerbated by the lack of inconsistent data and inaccurate tools. This presentation will showcase how a process facility combines real-time data, site-wide digital twin, and proprietary analytics in a digital energy management solution to deliver up to 15% sustainable reduction in facility energy costs and carbon footprint. Performance gaps are automatically identified and broken down using a best technology benchmark to highlight improvement areas in real-time. Daily facility energy improvement opportunity lists are provided for operators to maximize value and track the efficacy of planned capital projects with accurate projections so operators can make faster informed decisions for capital allocation throughout the implementation cycle.
Design, transform and run intelligent industrial asset optimization operations Genpact Ltd
Manufacturing companies can utilize analytics led asset optimization solutions to enable greater control over performance and utilization, increasing revenues while reducing service costs.
Accu-Fab Sales Presentation - Manufacturing and Engineering IntroductionHilary Ohlwein
Accu-Fab is an au courant contract manufacturer in Raleigh, NC, specializing in metal fabrication, machining, finishing, electromechanical assemblies, SMI, logistics/distribution and NPI engineering services.
Over 150 professionals trained in latest automation/plant floor technologies: Controls, Robotics, Machine Vision
Software, Project management based approach
Our dedication to quality and excellence in engineering will have an immediate impact on your project.
At IoT World 2017 Tom Fletcher, Vice President – Controls Engineering & Innovation, outlined key topics around the connected building transformation.
Including: Key Trends, History of Commercial HVAC, Technology-Enabled Transformation, Resulting Customer Business Outcomes, Challenges to Consider
A New Digital Maintenance Platform in a Large Petrochemical Facility to Ident...Yokogawa1
Every day, asset management teams must reliably deliver the highest predictable availability at the lowest cost. The focus should be on providing information and understanding directly to decision makers–human or machine–in a way that drives the business as a whole to make improvements. Braskem operates a very large petrochemical complex in Camacari, Bahia, Brazil that produces ethylene, polyethylene and PVC, and other chemicals. The site has recently embarked on a project to implement a digital maintenance platform to deliver enhanced situational awareness and decision support. The presentation will showcase the goals of the project and how the platform will gather data from a variety of sources in a secure manner. It will describe the automation tools, databases, manual inputs, event sorting, data modeling, and data science to deliver the intended outcomes.
ARC Advisory Group's 2014 European Industry Forum in the Netherlands included this interesting presentation from Willem Hazenberg of Stork on control system migration.
A major international airport faces many challenges in uncertain times. To meet evolving business needs, they partnered with BPD Zenith and UnitiFM to implement MaxiCloud for Airports, a managed facilities management solution powered by IBM Maximo. This agile, cloud-based solution enhances visibility and control of each area's maintenance data. With call center integration for incoming reactive work, the solution can gather real-time data to enhance overall efficiency of maintenance teams. Integrated reporting provides management with financial, operational and service insights. Results include real reductions in asset downtime and increased passenger satisfaction. The presentation covers drivers, requirements, benefits and more.
After fully exploiting digital computing technology to enable safe and efficient operation since the 1970s, the tank farm and terminal industry is in the midst of a major step change as organizations apply advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning to the massive operational data they have collected. Applications of digital transformation technologies are ultimately leading to the autonomous terminal. An autonomous terminal possesses comprehensive knowledge of its capabilities and limitations; it works with operators to provide maximum operational safety and efficiency. To realize the autonomous terminal, digital transformation is inevitable and includes fully digitalized execution, digitalized information exchange with all internal and external stakeholders, digitalized asset optimization and fully automated operations. Participants in this session will learn how to realize broad-based benefits and how operations should continuously improve in a sustainable manner.
ARC's Sid Snitkin Asset Lifecycle Management @ ARC Industry Forum 2010ARC Advisory Group
ARC's Sid Snitkin Asset Lifecycle Management @ ARC Industry Forum 2010 in Orlando, FL.
Rethinking Asset Lifecycle Management
ARC and Asset Lifecycle Management
ARC has a long history of research around ALM
• Over 20 Years in Automation Systems and Field Devices
• Over 10 Years in IT Systems related to ALM
• ALM has been a key topic of ARC Forums for over 5 years
We have developed various models to help clients
understand issues, develop strategies and select solutions
• TEAM, ITEAM, CALM, DOM
ALM is a good match with our analysts’ capabilities
• Ten analysts participate on our ALM Team
• Most are Engineers with O&M and D&B experience
• RCM, Reliability, Analytics
Manufacturing Execution System for Industry-I am pleased to share details about our successfully working model, as how we can provide you with innovative & industry proven Plant Intelligence Solutions for Automotive Manufacturing Plant like yours to give you following benefits in Real Time Environment:
• Informed decisions based on Data Analytics
• Streamlined and Optimized Operations
• Improved Productivity
• Reduce Total Defects
• Reduced Inventory
• Lean, “Smart” MES approach and application coverage for low TCO
• Improved return on assets and investments (ROA/ ROI)
• Improved Equipment Up-Time
• Improved responsiveness, improved plant throughput time
• Enhanced Real Time visibility into production data
We have successfully served as per expectations of many End-Users in Manufacturing, Food & Beverage, Pharma, Oil & Gas, Petrochemical , Cement, Power, & metals Industry. We have more than 5000+ software installations throughout India with proven track record in almost every industry vertical and have delivered projects to 40+ countries in every continent including Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
Real-time Data, Site wide Digital Twin, and Proprietary Analytics Cuts into P...Yokogawa1
Energy is one of the largest costs for process facilities. While operators can save significant money with minimal impact to production, they often lack structured and automated digital technologies to identify and sustain performance improvements. The situation is further exacerbated by the lack of inconsistent data and inaccurate tools. This presentation will showcase how a process facility combines real-time data, site-wide digital twin, and proprietary analytics in a digital energy management solution to deliver up to 15% sustainable reduction in facility energy costs and carbon footprint. Performance gaps are automatically identified and broken down using a best technology benchmark to highlight improvement areas in real-time. Daily facility energy improvement opportunity lists are provided for operators to maximize value and track the efficacy of planned capital projects with accurate projections so operators can make faster informed decisions for capital allocation throughout the implementation cycle.
Design, transform and run intelligent industrial asset optimization operations Genpact Ltd
Manufacturing companies can utilize analytics led asset optimization solutions to enable greater control over performance and utilization, increasing revenues while reducing service costs.
Accu-Fab Sales Presentation - Manufacturing and Engineering IntroductionHilary Ohlwein
Accu-Fab is an au courant contract manufacturer in Raleigh, NC, specializing in metal fabrication, machining, finishing, electromechanical assemblies, SMI, logistics/distribution and NPI engineering services.
Over 150 professionals trained in latest automation/plant floor technologies: Controls, Robotics, Machine Vision
Software, Project management based approach
Our dedication to quality and excellence in engineering will have an immediate impact on your project.
At IoT World 2017 Tom Fletcher, Vice President – Controls Engineering & Innovation, outlined key topics around the connected building transformation.
Including: Key Trends, History of Commercial HVAC, Technology-Enabled Transformation, Resulting Customer Business Outcomes, Challenges to Consider
A New Digital Maintenance Platform in a Large Petrochemical Facility to Ident...Yokogawa1
Every day, asset management teams must reliably deliver the highest predictable availability at the lowest cost. The focus should be on providing information and understanding directly to decision makers–human or machine–in a way that drives the business as a whole to make improvements. Braskem operates a very large petrochemical complex in Camacari, Bahia, Brazil that produces ethylene, polyethylene and PVC, and other chemicals. The site has recently embarked on a project to implement a digital maintenance platform to deliver enhanced situational awareness and decision support. The presentation will showcase the goals of the project and how the platform will gather data from a variety of sources in a secure manner. It will describe the automation tools, databases, manual inputs, event sorting, data modeling, and data science to deliver the intended outcomes.
ARC Advisory Group's 2014 European Industry Forum in the Netherlands included this interesting presentation from Willem Hazenberg of Stork on control system migration.
A major international airport faces many challenges in uncertain times. To meet evolving business needs, they partnered with BPD Zenith and UnitiFM to implement MaxiCloud for Airports, a managed facilities management solution powered by IBM Maximo. This agile, cloud-based solution enhances visibility and control of each area's maintenance data. With call center integration for incoming reactive work, the solution can gather real-time data to enhance overall efficiency of maintenance teams. Integrated reporting provides management with financial, operational and service insights. Results include real reductions in asset downtime and increased passenger satisfaction. The presentation covers drivers, requirements, benefits and more.
After fully exploiting digital computing technology to enable safe and efficient operation since the 1970s, the tank farm and terminal industry is in the midst of a major step change as organizations apply advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning to the massive operational data they have collected. Applications of digital transformation technologies are ultimately leading to the autonomous terminal. An autonomous terminal possesses comprehensive knowledge of its capabilities and limitations; it works with operators to provide maximum operational safety and efficiency. To realize the autonomous terminal, digital transformation is inevitable and includes fully digitalized execution, digitalized information exchange with all internal and external stakeholders, digitalized asset optimization and fully automated operations. Participants in this session will learn how to realize broad-based benefits and how operations should continuously improve in a sustainable manner.
ARC's Sid Snitkin Asset Lifecycle Management @ ARC Industry Forum 2010ARC Advisory Group
ARC's Sid Snitkin Asset Lifecycle Management @ ARC Industry Forum 2010 in Orlando, FL.
Rethinking Asset Lifecycle Management
ARC and Asset Lifecycle Management
ARC has a long history of research around ALM
• Over 20 Years in Automation Systems and Field Devices
• Over 10 Years in IT Systems related to ALM
• ALM has been a key topic of ARC Forums for over 5 years
We have developed various models to help clients
understand issues, develop strategies and select solutions
• TEAM, ITEAM, CALM, DOM
ALM is a good match with our analysts’ capabilities
• Ten analysts participate on our ALM Team
• Most are Engineers with O&M and D&B experience
• RCM, Reliability, Analytics
We wished to introduce our Company APAGEN Solutions – A Global Software & Solution Provider. We are a business-advantage driven firm. We have expertise in implementing & sustaining among the most difficult ERPNext installations in firms like Bajaj Holographic, Hanusoft, Enventa Power Systems, Omkam UPS, MV Logistics, Design India, Grail Group and so on., by the use of our Multi-faced ERPNext Services (CHANNEL, SERVICES, EDUCATION, and AMS).
DutchMLSchool 2022 - Process Optimization in Manufacturing PlantsBigML, Inc
Process Optimization in Manufacturing Plants, by Keyanoush Razavidinani, Digital Business Consultant at A1 Digital.
*Machine Learning School in The Netherlands 2022.
The presentation gives an overview of the reasons for implementing a Manufacturing Intelligence strategy and how to justify the investment. Topics covered include:
-Manufacturing Intelligence Overview
-Business Drivers for Implementing a MI project
-What Data are we looking for?
-Developing the Business Case
-Execution Strategies for Success
-Some Challenges
Amidst an industry cloud of confusion about what “AIOps” is and what it can do, these slides--based on the webinar from EMA research--delineates a clear path to victory for business and IT stakeholders seeking to use machine learning to optimize the performance of critical business services.
Ramco ERP for Engineering, Procurement and Construction IndustryRamco Systems
When a project-centric ERP is at the center of the entire grind, it can cut down construction delays bridging dangerous gaps in information, equipment or material function levels
The last 18+ months have proven to be like no other time in modern history, and it has had a profound effect on the supply chain in the manufacturing industry. This disruption has meant many restless nights worrying about supply chains, workforce agility, capacity planning, resource allocation, and much more for manufacturers. Manufacturers have realized that better planning and preparedness are crucial to adapting to the rapid changes in demand seen in today's current climate.
In this webinar, you will learn how to address these challenges head-on as we discuss how your organization can become more agile and scale to your specific business requirements and how Cloud ERP systems can support better planning and preparedness for what's next.
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About The Presenter
Steve Canter - Director of Global Service Delivery
Steve Canter has over 25 years of experience in the information technology industry. Steve has been responsible for delivering solutions to many medium-sized and large companies in a variety of industries as a consultant and project manager. Steve also brings a unique perspective to SmartERP, having spent over ten years as the CIO for a manufacturing and distribution company. During that period, he also helped shape product and customer service strategy at Microsoft and Oracle as a member of several customer advisory boards.
Continuously improving factory operations is of critical importance to manufacturers. Consider the facts: the total cost of poor quality amounts to a staggering 20% of sales (American Society of Quality), and unplanned downtime costs plants approximately $50 billion per year (Deloitte).
The most pressing questions are: which process variables effect quality and yield and which process variables predict equipment failure? Getting to those answers is providing forward thinking manufacturers a leg up over competitors.
The speakers address the data management challenges facing today's manufacturers, including proprietary systems and siloed data sources, as well as an inability to make sensor-based data usable.
Integrating enterprise data from ERP, MES, maintenance systems, and other sources with real-time operations data from sensors, PLCs, SCADA systems, and historians represents a major first step. But how to get started? What is the value of a data lake? How are AI/ML being applied to enable real time action?
Join us for this educational session, which includes a view into a roadmap for an open source industrial IoT data management platform.
Key Takeaways:
• Understand key use cases commonly undertaken by manufacturing enterprises
• Understand the value of using multivariate manufacturing data sources, as opposed to a single sensor on a piece of equipment
• Understand advances in big data management and streaming analytics that are paving the way to next-generation factory performance
Genpact Logistics Analytics - Unlock hidden value from your logistics operati...Genpact Ltd
Genpact helps enterprises to be more competitive by becoming more intelligent: adaptive, innovative, globally effective and connected by enabling tighter management of costs, risks, regulations, and growth enablement
ARC's Bob Mick Asset Performance Management Presentation @ ARC Industry Forum...ARC Advisory Group
ARC's Bob Mick Asset Performance Management Presentation @ ARC Industry Forum 2010 in Orlando, FL.
Aligning IT Strategies with Asset Performance Management
How do I Start Improving AIM?
You Can Start Small – Build Artifacts for the Long Term
What asset performance do I want to impact?
How do I determine that performance?
What roles influence that performance?
What processes are involved?
What information needed?
Share Information
may be used in is What info is shared?
• Where does it come from?
Local Processes
as well as Cross-
Functional Processes
• Who owns it (create, transform, change …)?
What is required to manage quality?
How can technology help?
Performance Specific Metrics, Roles and Processes
Are a Great Place to Start
Helping Industrial OEMs improve asset uptime and service profitability through end-to-end M2M design and deployment support, remote monitoring, data management, prognostics and in depth analytics
Artificial Intelligence Application in Oil and GasSparkCognition
Visit http://sparkcognition.com for more information.
To access and listen to the on-demand version of the webinar, go here:
http://sparkcognition.com/ai-oil-and-gas-webinar-video/
Learn how Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are being effectively applied in Oil & Gas right now, how they will become even more prevalent, and how they can impact your bottom line and transform your business.
We'll cover:
• Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Understanding of why Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are revolutionary in how they can help the Oil & Gas industry. This technology is already being used to prevent downhole tool failures or events like stuck pipes, pinpointing the ideal drilling locations during exploration and discovery, predicting pipeline pump failures, identify frack truck pump failures, etc.
• Real world examples of how other clients are using AI/ML today
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Asset Information Management (AIM) Presentation @ ARC's 2011 Industry ForumARC Advisory Group
Asset Information Management (AIM) Presentation @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum by Sid Snitkin.
AIM is Important => Every Organizations Should Assess the Potential Benefits of Better AIM (See ARC AIM Cost Models)
AIM is More Than Technology => Build an AIM Strategy Considering Goals, People, Processes and Technology (See ARC AIM Strategy Development Process)
AIM Solutions Vary Significantly => Understand Your Needs First and Identify the Portfolio of Solutions That Really Satisfy Them (See ARC AIM Technology Models)
Similar to ARC's Greg Gorbach CPM & Operations Mgmt Presentation @ ARC Industry Forum 2010 (20)
ARC’s 19th Annual Industry Forum in Orlando drew more than 700 participants from approximately 300 different companies and 25 countries. The theme for this year's Forum, "Industry in Transition: The Information-driven Enterprise for the Connected World," resonated well with attendees, many who are currently trying to get a handle on the latest Internet-enabled automation and information technologies and determine if and how they can enable competitive advantage.
Mobile Technologies and Supply Chain @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum ARC Advisory Group
Mobile Technologies and Supply Chain @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum by Adrian Gonzalez.
Mobile Internet usage is and will be bigger than most people think.
Use of mobile technologies by consumers is growing quickly, especially in Asia and emerging economies. This will impact supply chains.
Mobile + Social Media = Process Innovation
Supply chain software vendors are investing heavily in mobile solutions.
Early adopters, including CPG companies and 3PLs, are already achieving benefits.
Energy Management Strategies for Operational Excellence @ ARC's 2011 Industry...ARC Advisory Group
Energy Management Strategies for Operational Excellence @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum by Dick Hill.
10 Energy Optimization Recommendations
1.Secure Management‟s Full Support
2.Plant-level Energy Teams –Include Automation
3.Build an Energy Strategic Plan
4.Perform Energy Audits –Current Reality
5.Establish Energy Metrics
6.Benchmark: Other Plants & Other Companies
7.Energy KPIs –Not just for Management
8.On-Line Energy Measurements –Fill Gaps
9.Automate to Optimize
10.Empower the Worker
Energy Management and the Evolution of Intelligent Motor Control and Drives @...ARC Advisory Group
Energy Management and the Evolution of Intelligent Motor Control and Drives @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum by Craig Resnick.
Intelligent motor control & drives once provided a safe, flexible & centralized means to control & protect motors
•Today, these devices have evolved to ‘smart’ energy managers that bring advances ranging from complex drive systems to basic control of fan or pump motors
•In high demand where uptime & equipment reliability are critical, in applications where even a short period of downtime can prove extremely costly & damaging
•These devices perform critical protective & troubleshooting functions & detailed diagnostics to help improve productivity & minimize downtime
Driving Innovation, Sustainability and Performance @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum ARC Advisory Group
Driving Innovation, Sustainability and Performance @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum by Andy Chatha.
Today’s Business Drivers
Uncertainty
Security
Scarce Resources
Need to Go Green
Global Competition
Changing Workforce
Increasing Regulations
Emerging Smart Grid
Easy IT Solutions
Today’s business drivers demand agility
Anti-counterfeiting and Brand Protection (ABP) Workshop @ ARC's 2011 Industry...ARC Advisory Group
Anti-counterfeiting and Brand Protection (ABP) Workshop @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum by Janice Abel and John Blanchard.
Market for ABP technologies is increasing
Important to protect brands and image
Brand protection teams and organizations are important
Secure the supply chain
Range of ABP technologies to consider –depends on many factors
Only a few companies have e-pedigree in place
Current Automation Purchasing Strategies Fall Short
End users today have a paradoxical relationship with their suppliers. Primary
business drivers in today’s environment include maximizing asset
utilization, enhancing plant performance, and reducing capital, maintenance,
and operational expenditures, but many manufacturers employ
purchasing strategies and supplier relationship management strategies developed
during the heyday of the 1980s. Rather than
focusing on achievement of today’s objectives, the
current environment is characterized by an approach
that relies primarily on initial cost, driving discounts
off list price, and failure to employ a lifecycle costing
perspective.
Controls to CPM Connection: Are We There?
The requirements for manufacturing
intelligence and visualization are
becoming requisite components of
the collaborative manufacturing
enterprise.
Conoco on Path to Reliability Centered Loop Management: Enhancing ROA on the WayARC Advisory Group
Conoco on Path to Reliability Centered Loop Management: Enhancing ROA on the Way
Process manufacturers have invested heavily in manufacturing plants and
automation systems. A typical manufacturing plant may have hundreds or
even thousands of regulatory control loops to enable safe and efficient operations.
The most complex units often have advanced process control and
optimization schemes implemented on top of these regulatory control
loops. All of these systems have a need for
tighter process control to enable more effective
use of assets that result in higher ROA and ultimately
better business performance and
profitability.
Unfortunately, automation effectiveness deteriorates
over time. The lack of a structured
methodology for control loop maintenance is a
contributing factor that erodes performance. A
manufacturing plant typically has only two or three control engineers who
each have responsibility for a large of number of loops, yet they often have
no means of identifying where to focus their efforts so that their work has
the largest economic impact on plant performance.
Component Based Solutions Well Aligned with Needs of Service Logistics ProvidersARC Advisory Group
Component Based Solutions Well Aligned with Needs of Service Logistics Providers
Service Logistics supply chains are very dynamic. Achieving customer satisfaction
depends not only delivering the right parts, but also the right
people, the right tools and the right information to the right place at the
right time. Two Service Logistics providers, TNT and IMI Bevcore, concluded
that in order to effectively enable their processes,
they had to implement logistics software
based on component-assembly architectures.
Combined Fluid Power and Mechatronic Technology Optimizes SolutionsARC Advisory Group
Combined Fluid Power and Mechatronic Technology Optimizes Solutions
Current electro-hydraulic actuation products employ technologies that
provide greater functionalities and practically eliminate many drawbacks of
hydraulics. Additionally, some new electro-hydraulic actuators on the
market today come as a highly integrated unit
with advanced electronic control and plug and
play design for modern distributed architecture.
These advancements in electro-hydraulics technology
create opportunities for users to optimize
their investments in automation solutions by selectively
using both electric and electro-hydraulic
actuation.
Collaborative Asset Lifecycle Management Vision and StrategiesARC Advisory Group
Collaborative Asset Lifecycle Management Vision and Strategies
Capital asset management is once again becoming a key managerial concern.
Organizations that have been focusing on developing new products,
expanding services, and making supply chains super-efficient are now facing
challenging markets and expensive overcapacity. Survival demands
that they reduce their cost basis and capital assets, one of their largest expenses,
which are becoming the target for these efforts.
Discussions about postponing asset purchases and eliminating non-critical
assets are dominating many executive agendas. But lack of information
makes any decision a gamble. The importance of an effective capital asset
management strategy that minimizes the need for such discussions and
enables executives to confidently make necessary
decisions is becoming painfully clear.
Manufacturers are used to market swings and frequently
adjust their product inventories to match
reduced demand forecasts. The rapidity of this
“inventory alignment” for the current situation is
clear testament to the effectiveness of new supply
chain management technology. But the persistence
of this slowdown is forcing all organizations
to consider the more complex issue of “structural
Closing the Gap on Digital Manufacturing
The concurrent engineering required for new product designs between design
engineering and manufacturing engineering has always been a critical
focal point for manufacturers to shorten time-to-market, accelerate time-tovolume,
and minimize cost of production. Today, collaboration between
product design (CAD) and manufacturing processes
(CAM) is a robust process due to tight
integration between CAD and CAM and the emergence
of extended PDM and PLM systems.
However, there has not been a corresponding
level of tight integration between CAD/CAM and
production management. But the benefits of exchanging
information between the product
definition domain and production management are becoming clear as
manufacturers move to a collaborative environment. Two leading PLM
suppliers, EDS and IBM/Dassault, have recently launched new programs
to integrate these disparate domains.
Cautious Optimism Pervades Hanover Fair
With the war in Iraq, stumbling European economies and a mysterious flulike
epidemic from Asia, the Hanover Fair opened its gates last week with
three strikes against it. But despite the subdued
atmosphere, exhibitors expressed cautious optimism
about signs of a recovery in automation
markets. This year a number of automation
suppliers showed surprisingly innovative products
centered on real-time Ethernet, which
finally proved that it’s ready to conquer the factory
floor.
Capital Expenditure Survey 2003
Capital spending continues to decline in nearly all industries, continuing a
trend that began in the mid-1990s when manufacturing productivity began
to increase markedly. The continuing uncertainty in most economies has
put pressure on manufacturers to cut spending, resulting in a steady decline
for several years now despite increasing revenues. Helping to fuel the
cost-cutting fire are the mega-mergers between industrial giants that have
racked up billions in savings as companies increase their manufacturing
economies of scale and eliminate duplicate functions.
ARC’s CapEx index tracks capital expenditures, total revenue, total assets,
EBIT, and return on assets (ROA) for 56 companies in 10 target industries,
representing $2.4 trillion in annual revenue. Companies in the index
generate revenue from most global markets and many
spread their manufacturing around the globe. Of the 56
companies, 64 percent have their headquarters in North
America, 27 percent in Europe, and 9 percent in Asia.
Collaborative Discrete Automation Systems Define the Factory of the FutureARC Advisory Group
The primary function of the Collaborative Discrete Automation System
(CDAS) architecture is to define the vision for the factory of the future and
to provide an architectural roadmap based on the prevailing business drivers
and emerging technologies for discrete manufacturing.
Manufacturing is moving into an era that requires levels of coordination
and collaboration that existing legacy systems will not be able to deliver. It
will be imperative that all the disparate organizations, business and manufacturing
processes, systems and applications that represent the
manufacturing enterprise be brought together within the context of an all
encompassing architecture. Future factories will be based on an entirely
different set of business drivers and emerging technologies. It will be incumbent
on manufacturers to set business plans and strategies into place
based on an architecture that captures these strategies and processes.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...
ARC's Greg Gorbach CPM & Operations Mgmt Presentation @ ARC Industry Forum 2010
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Manufacturers Need Plant Software Now
More Than Ever”
February 9, 2010
Greg Gorbach
Vice President
ARC Advisory Group
ggorbach@arcweb.com