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Capitalising on an increasingly competitive marketplace to control costs

Capitalising on an increasingly competitive marketplace to control costs

Currently, the export market is enjoying a purple patch due to a combination of the buoyant European and global markets, and the weaker pound.

Continued market growth is testament to the development of PLCs

Continued market growth is testament to the development of PLCs

The PLC versus IPC or PC based control debate has been with us for over two decades now, with commentators making various predictions about the rise of industrial controllers with PC based internals versus purely PLC solutions. Yet according to the latest figures from Gambica the PLC market continues to grow. Mitsubishi Electric PLC Product Manager Hugh Tasker offers some thoughts on why.

Smart condition monitoring helps barley malt producer keep a head

Smart condition monitoring helps barley malt producer keep a head

Muntons Malt, one of the UK's largest producers of malted barley has chosen the Smart Condition Monitoring (SCM) system from Mitsubishi Electric to protect fans and motors vital to its large-scale and sensitive production process. Used to make beer, spirits and a range of popular foodstuffs, malted barley is produced in large batches where conditions are critical to a consistent product.

How EPLAN's Data Portal helps Omron stay ahead of the competition

How EPLAN's Data Portal helps Omron stay ahead of the competition

Omron was one of EPLAN’s first Data Portal partners and the company has, over the years, offered more functionality to its customers via the portal, supporting better and more efficient engineering design.

Considerations when specifying enclosures for Industry 4.0 applications

Considerations when specifying enclosures for Industry 4.0 applications

Industry 4.0, the deployment of distributed automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies, is based around the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing to create the "smart factory", where physical machines are monitored and controlled in pseudo real-time and autonomous decentralised decision-making manages the process.

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