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Top five Plant Engineering articles: January 6-12, 2025

Top articles on Plant Engineering this week covered topics including automation culture, predictive maintenance and digital transformation.

By Anna Steingruber January 13, 2025
Courtesy: Motion Automation

Top articles on Plant Engineering this week covered topics including automation culture, predictive maintenance and digital transformation.

1. Ways manufacturers can facilitate a healthier automation culture

Automation efforts should start with identifying a need and then identifying the appropriate set of technologies to meet the need.

2. How automation will make a big impact on manufacturing plants

Automation is the wave of the future for many manufacturers. Our panel dives deeply to assess how plants can prepare for the many ways in which automation will impact production lines.

3. Your questions answered: Predictive maintenance: What is condition monitoring, and is it a good choice?

This webinar focused on how to avoid costly, unplanned downtime by leveraging condition monitoring in a reliability plan.’

4. The ways a digital transformation unexpectedly creates extra work

For plant manufacturers, digital transformation is a way to streamline processes, move away from paper-based systems and boost productivity. But for many, it unnecessarily creates more work.

5. Here are the top five states for engineering jobs

Finding an engineering job is all about location. These five states have the most opportunities for engineers.


Author Bio: Associate editor, WTWH Media and Technology