Despite increasing signs of overlap between SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) and MES (manufacturing execution systems), the two automation mainstays are more likely to co-exist as a ...

The benefit comes from combining cycle counts and process monitoring data from the historian database instead of relying on hours-based scheduling methods. Manufacturers should move beyond hours-based ...

To cope with a tightening economic environment, businesses should prepare now for cutting IT costs, and the data management discipline is one area that affords numerous opportunities for reducing and ...