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From Baseball to Manufacturing, Data Analytics Win » Patti Engineering
Artificial intelligence-based tools provide remarkable insights leading to improvements in any domain that can be characterized with data. By investing in data integration strategies, industrial manufacturing stands poised to improve all facets of overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) from AI-based tools.
A Practical Guide to Planning a First Automation Project » Patti Engineering
This article discusses the selection, financial justification, and implementation best practices for manufacturers contemplating a first automation project to ensure long-term system success. By Patti Engineering CEO Sam Hoff Automation effectively addresses many production challenges, including rising labor costs and shortages, throughput limitations, product quality and process reliability issues, and operator safety concerns.
When, how to consider low-code development for industrial applications
Learning Objectives Learn how low-code development allows employees that are not developers to participate in creating or customizing software. Accelerate development timelines for developers through low-code architectures. Understand how faster development and deployment saves costs and time.
How to use generative AI for plant maintenance in six steps
Learning Objectives Understand the role of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in predictive maintenance. Learn a six-phase framework for AI-powered maintenance. Recognize the benefits, challenges and mitigation of risks of AI-powered maintenance. AI insights This article outlines a six-phase framework that integrates AI-driven analytics with human expertise to enable a proactive, cost-effective maintenance strategy.
How to use data analytics to develop a winning manufacturing strategy
Learning Objectives Understand how data analytics can improve diagnostics, shifting manufacturers from reactive to predictive maintenance, minimizing downtime and repair costs. Learn effective strategies for integrating legacy systems without modifying them to retrieve valuable diagnostics data. Understand how system integrators are uniquely suited to resolve complex data integration challenges.
System integrators rise to the challenge
System integrators insights System integrators’ knowledge and experience help them deliver productivity improvements. Meeting customers’ challenges and taking the initiative for engineers and manufacturers is what the system integrator lives for. System integrators (SIs) play many roles in the automation and manufacturing space. They are often on the front lines devising and delivering solutions to their customers and giving them the results they desire and then some.
How manufacturers benefit by choosing a certified control system integrator
Learning Objectives Understand the importance of CSIA certification for system integrators. Learn about the key business areas assessed during the CSIA certification process. Understand how these assessed best practices result in consistent high-quality project outcomes. System integration insights Selecting a CSIA-certified integrator provides manufacturers assurance that projects will be managed with proven best practices, covering both technical proficiency and effective business operations.
“Friendly” PC Models: Key Contractual and Compliance Considerations
Sam Hoff is a Boston-based attorney at the law firm Foley Hoag, an award-winning, mid-sized, international law firm that focuses on innovative industries and high-stakes litigation. His practice is focused on compliance issues and the business of healthcare, with a particular emphasis on management service and other business arrangements between clinical and non-clinical entities.
Non-Traditional Uses for Robotics in Packaging
Automation Experts Apply Automotive Industry Knowledge in a Novel Way By Sam Hoff, Patti Engineering CEO and Scott Steele, President of SWS Consulting Robots have entered the mainstream of package production covering many routine material handling tasks including palletizing/depalletizing and warehouse automation. However, their potential goes far beyond these conventional roles.
How digital twins, IIoT technologies benefit operations
Learning Objectives Define digital twins and determine level of details they should involve. Learn about automating digital twin updates. Review two digital twin examples. Digital twins, which have been made possible in large part by the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), are enabling easier optimization of industrial operations, devices, and systems. Digital twins and IIoT technologies work together. Implementing digital twins can benefit industrial operations and systems.
UCPD arrests former UCLA student for YRL laptop theft
The original version of this article and the headline accompanying it contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for more information. Police arrested a former UCLA student Tuesday in connection with the weekend theft of more than 50 MacBook laptops from the Charles E. Young Research Library.
Manufacturing’s information revolution
As we transition from an Industry 3.0 world and its islands of automation to an Industry 4.0 world with connected automation, too many people are still failing to take advantage of its benefits. There is a revolution coming to manufacturing, and you need to ask yourself whether you are going to be part of it or are you going to be left behind. Think of Industry 4.0 as the type of disruption that the iPhone bought to our everyday life a little more than 10 years ago.
Professor helps develop Predictive Policing by using trends to predict, prevent crimes
A UCLA anthropology professor studies an unorthodox type of hunter-gatherer – one who forages for unlocked cars and hunts for easily stolen property. Professor Jeffrey Brantingham, who specializes in criminology, uses knowledge of past crimes to determine criminal hot spots and then predict where crimes are likely to occur. “Criminals are effectively foragers,” Brantingham said. “Choosing what car to steal is like choosing which animal to hunt.
Daily Bruin wins awards for nation’s best online, daily college newspaper
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — The Daily Bruin won two National Pacemaker Awards on Saturday for the nation’s best college newspaper and best college online news outlet for the 2015-2016 year. The National Pacemaker Awards, considered the most prestigious honors in college journalism, are awarded by the Associated Collegiate Press to the nation’s top college media outlets. Pacemaker awards are given in four categories: newspaper, online, magazine and yearbook.
Road to recovery for Westwood still rough despite measures undertaken
Businesses in Westwood don’t often stay for long. Since February 2010, at least 111 fast-food shops, restaurants, retail stores and service businesses in the Village have shut their doors, while 100 new ones opened. Fourteen business both opened and closed within that four-year period, according to data collected by the Westwood Community Council. There are about 200 total businesses in Westwood, and most of the ones that come and go are smaller merchants or fast-food chains.
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