Top 5 Plant Engineering articles Aug 23-29, 2021

Articles about productivity increasing with cloud-connected IPC, PLCs improving predictive maintenance, jumpstarting a successful IIoT program, and more were Plant Engineering’s five most clicked articles from Aug 23-29, 2021. Miss something? You can catch up here.

By Keagan Gay August 30, 2021

The top 5 most read articles online, from Aug 23-29, 2021, for Plant Engineering covered productivity increasing with cloud-connected IPC, PLCs improving predictive maintenance, jumpstarting a successful IIoT program, and more. Links to each article below.

1. Productivity increases with cloud-connected IPC

Glidewell Dental used flexible, scalable automation, EtherCAT, and IIoT solutions to modernize prosthetic tooth factory.

2. PLCs improve predictive maintenance

Pulling vital information from field devices and transmitting it to the enterprise boosts maintenance practices.

3. Five steps for jumpstarting a successful IIoT program

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and condition-based maintenance (CBM) alter the way we identify, assign and complete work.

4. Hybrid additive manufacturing in the factory of the future

Balancing additive and subtractive manufacturing might be the key to new efficiencies.

5. Tapping predictive maintenance with mobile, IIoT

Organizations can improve asset reliability with predictive and condition-based maintenance based on asset health insights from operational data and analytics.

 

The list was developed using CFE Media’s web analytics for stories viewed on plantengineering.com,  Aug 23-29, 2021, for articles published within the last two months.

Keagan Gay, digital media & production coordinator, CFE Media, kgay@cfemedia.com.


Author Bio: Keagan Gay is a digital media & production coordinator for CFE Media.