![]() The July edition of Control Engineering included an article on embedded control. Linux for PLCs - July Control Engineering Let me know about this or anything else on your mind at. Have any of you begun to see pressure from management for pumping real-time production data to enterprise systems to support supply chain management? Actually, have your companies even begun to look at supply chain management? Are controls experts part of the implementation team? Have enough engineers and technicians been laid off during this last downturn that you seriously would consider one of these solution services? Secure, high-speed direct network connection to instruments and process systems provides real-time access to production information to allow diagnostic, analysis, and problem resolution support. It includes 24×7 monitoring and analysis of process line activity, Web-enabled tools, and troubleshooting support from trained process engineers. In.Site Continuous Support is a suite of engineering and process monitoring services provided by directly connecting Rockwell’s command center to customer process systems. Rockwell Automation Global Manufacturing Solutions has just announced such a service as a product. GE has, in fact begun implementing such a system. For instance, GE Fanuc has a ‘command center’ where GE service engineers can remotely monitor a manufacturing process and provide services like predictive maintenance, real-time troubleshooting, and datalogging with analysis for manufacturers. What customers really need now is to look at bigger business issues and use automation to improve business measures like return on investment (ROI), return on net assets (RONA), inventory turns, reduce work in process inventory, and facilitate ties with partners in the supply chain.Īnother new business driver is the implementation of support and services to customers. Their response was that managers expect control engineers to be able to automate processes and machines. So I asked what are the things that customers need these days and how they are responding. While writing this newsletter, I had an opportunity to visit with Kevin Roach, vp, Glenn Graney, commercial marketing manager, and Rich Carpenter, MES business leader and senior technical advisor at GE Fanuc Automation. MachineMate wins in Rockwell CNC agreement.Linux for PLCs - July Control Engineering. ![]()
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