Manufacturers are turning to their ERP and SCM systems for innovations as they seek to modernize operations. Enterprise resource planning and supply chain management software have been essential tools ...

For much of manufacturing’s modern history, the quality of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) has set the boundaries for achieving innovation. An MES captures data from equipment and, to some ...

Maintaining legacy automation systems might seem like a routine part of an engineer’s job, but with industry’s growing focus on data analytics to continuously improve operations, long-existing ...

Open standards and modular architectures form the foundation of vendor-agnostic systems, using technologies like JSON/XML data formats, OPC UA and MQTT communication protocols, and standardized ...