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Articles by Stephen Malyszko
Checklist for Short-Duration Cutover Success
The digital transformation process typically necessitates the replacement of legacy control systems. These systems run the critical manufacturing processes that typically cannot be shut down or taken off-line for very long without noticeably affecting a plant’s output. Consequently, many control system legacy replacement projects include extremely aggressive (very short time duration) cutover windows to replace the old gear with the new.
Benefits of an alarm management philosophy
Learning Objectives Alarm management is acknowledged as a need, but how it is managed is not often addressed. Too many alarms on the manufacturing floor can cause confusion for operators. The need for alarm management is tied into the level of automated and manual processes on the manufacturing floor. Alarm acknowledgement is a widely accepted industry practice, but the reason why we apply alarm acknowledgement is a question not often asked.
Replacing seven SCADA systems with one Original
When we’re travelling, we all want to move through airports as quickly as possible. We want that for our bags too. That’s why the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) launched its ambitious, $1.5 billion Baggage 2025 program. GTAA operates Toronto Pearson International Airport, and it had a strong vision for improving Toronto Pearson’s baggage handling system.
How RFID improves machine performance, safety
Learning Objectives Review methods for controlling and monitoring how machines operate and who controls them. See how radio frequency identification (RFID) is a passive tag system, but it can be used in many industries and applications. Learn how many RFID scanners are designed to work in harsh environmental conditions. Automated equipment and machinery can incorporate many ways for users to monitor and control operation, such as with buttons, switches, and touchscreens.
The future of productivity gain is Industry 4.NOW
ATTENDEES QUALIFY FOR A CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION. An Industry 4.0 (or as SAP refers to it, Industry 4.NOW) strategy goes beyond the plant floor to connect production with end-to-end process execution across the supply chain. The priorities involved include a focus on customers, reinvented production and company-wide connectivity. Here is an opportunity to learn how production priorities and customizations can be supported by intelligent assets and processes.
How modern simulation software addresses intralogistics challenges Original
Learning Objectives Simulation software helps improve the management and optimization of internal production and distribution processes. Digitalization provides new methods for intelligent and efficient operation in warehouse settings. Advanced simulation software brings the software and live equipment worlds together. The end of the year is notorious for causing sudden onsets of panic as the weight of the holidays hits, and the realization of purchasing gifts sinks in.
LED developed for direct integration into computer chips
Light-emitting diodes — LEDs — can do more than illuminate your living room. These light sources are useful microelectronics, too. Smartphones, for example, can use an LED proximity sensor to determine if you’re holding the phone next to your face (in which case the screen turns off). The LED sends a pulse of light toward your face, and a timer in the phone measures how long it takes that light to reflect back to the phone, a proxy for how close the phone is to your face.
Integrators improve service value by moving providing an XaaS model Original
By Stephen J. Malyszko December 16, 2020 XaaS is a general term referring to the delivery of anything “as a service” usually over the internet. The vast number of products, tools, services and technologies suppliers now deliver to users as a service over a network — typically the internet — can be included. Anything provided locally or onsite within a plant operation does not count. Internet delivery of critical services for the plant floor are not widely accepted.
Robots helping manufacture overflow health care, quarantine structures Original
A research effort led by a team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute aims to improve manufacturing of rapidly deployed structures in order to address future shortages of medical care and quarantine facilities, as well as housing needs following a disaster. This project will rely on the development of a group of self-aware, human-directed robots to assist in manufacturing, and is being funded by the Department of Defense (DoD) through the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute.
OEE Overview
Pharmaceutical manufacturers continually strive to improve the quality of their products along with improving their production operations. Over the years, many manufacturers empowered their workforce to follow the management techniques of Six Sigma — the statistical-based, data-driven method to reduce costs and increase profits, and Kaizen — the gradual and methodical process to boost productivity by improving the work environment.
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