Product of the Year Winners 2023
Download this eBook to learn about the Gold, Silver and Bronze award winners in each of the 12 categories — including the Most Valuable Product — 37 winners in total.
Maintenance
Maintenance, in all its forms, allow manufacturing plants to prevent problems before they happen and keep their workers safe. It is a constant process, though, and requires all workers in many departments to be vigilant and aware of their surroundings. Featured articles include predicting the journey to improved reliability, assisting manufacturers in making the right […]
Vision Systems
Featured articles in this eBook include algorithm created to make computer vision autonomous, Integrated machine vision optimizes automated component assembly, four machine vision innovations for industrial automation and more.
Protecting Critical Infrastructure
Critical infrastructure is more vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks than ever. Information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) are merging together and manufacturing systems are vulnerable. Featured content in this eBook include the Biden administration unveils National Cybersecurity Strategy to protect U.S. against growing cyber threats, what critical infrastructure can learn from Conti ransomware leaks and […]
System Integration
System integration is a crucial aspect of manufacturing for control engineers and they are involved in many different aspects and industries. They help companies become more efficient, streamlined and smarter in their day-to-day operations. Featured articles include digital transformation at Gibson, control system integration for chemical, food and beverage, custom algorithm used to solve challenges […]
Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is a hot buzzword in manufacturing today, but what does it mean? What does it mean for manufacturers and what effect will it have for the present and future? This helpful eBook offers several examples of the many digital transformation is taking hold in manufacturing. Featured articles include MQTT’s benefits for digital transformation, […]
AppliedAutomation
AppliedAutomation is the premier title serving manufacturing and utilities. This eBook demonstrates how automation, instrumentation and control techniques are applied to increase capacity, enhance design and production, improve efficiency, increase profitability and meet regulatory requirements. Featured articles include logistics, robotics advances at the heart of improving automation and understanding the basics of automation validation.
Enterprise Asset Management
Asset management helps plant-floor engineers make more informed and better decisions. Featured articles include how to leveraging MQTT and industrial edge devices in automation projects, hitting the asset management sweet spot and five ways traditional enterprise asset management comes up short.
Industrial Automation Cable Solutions
Industrial automation is the use of technologies such as computer software and robotics to control machinery and processes which replace human beings in performing specific functions. The functions are primarily centered on manufacturing, quality control and material handling processes. Featured articles in this eBook include design considerations for dynamic applications, UL approved data cables, industrial […]
Energy Management
Energy management is a crucial aspect of plant engineering as companies look to trim costs and reduce expenses. Keeping energy costs down by reducing energy where it isn’t needed and investing in better technology are a few methods companies use. Featured articles in this eBook include 10 ways to save energy, ways to optimize a […]
Arc Flash & Electrical Safety
Arc flash and electrical safety are critical aspects in a manufacturing facility. Knowing and understanding the fundamentals often mean the difference between life and death. Companies and workers need to stay on top of the electrical codes so they can better protect themselves from a potential accident. Featured articles in this eBook include stories on […]
PLCs
Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) have been at the heart of manufacturing facilities for decades. The rise in new technologies is making them even more important. Featured articles in this helpful eBook include tips on how to choose industrial controller hardware, software and PLC migration improves uptime for spice supplier.
Robotics
Robotics are one of the fastest-growing industries and their impact can be felt on many manufacturing floors. There’s more to the robot, however, than what you see on the plant floor. This helpful eBook includes articles about robotic welding system enables more welding applications for collaborative robots, six industrial robotics trends for 2023 and more.
Wellsite Automation
Wellsite Automation provides engineers in the oil & gas industry the information they need to make quick, accurate decisions that can have a major effect on operations as well as safety. The faster and more accurate the data is, the better the operator’s decision. This eBook includes articles modular automation standard benefits FPSO operations, energy […]
Material Handling & Automation
Featured articles applying motion feedback in material handling, PLC module coordinates real-time data in coal shipping application and more in this 47-page eBook!
Plant Floor Safety
Plant safety and keeping workers healthy and productive is more important than ever for manufacturers. Learn more in this helpful eBook on topics including code-compliant stair design for safety and ergonomics, addressing electrical safety hazards and more in this 70-page eBook!
Motors & Drives
Maintaining motors and drives and keeping them cost-effective is crucial. It often requires knowledge of many different types of motors, drives and the standards behind them. Successful maintenance, repair and knowledge of these standards help keep manufacturing plants running safely and efficiently. Featured articles include testing motor insulation systems, drive modernization and more.
AI & Machine Learning
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are becoming crucial to manufacturing’s success. How a machine and an industrial network learn and adapt to their surroundings is as important for them as it is for humans. Featured articles in this eBook include how AI and machine learning can drive sustainable 5G, mastering artificial intelligence and machine […]
Pain Points & Solutions in Discrete Manufacturing
Discrete manufacturing covers many different industries, but they do have common challenges and issues they need to overcome. Featured articles in this eBook include safety-certified and diverse-redundant encoders for motion control, black-channel approach to functional safety, and functional safety networks for Ethernet communication protocols.
Enclosures & Cut-to-length Wire
Enclosures and cut-to-length wires are a constant in an engineer’s day-to-day activity. They provide electrical protection for engineers and help prevent serious injuries and other hazards. Featured articles in this helpful eBook include how to choose between managed and unmanaged switches, how to optimize control cabinet construction and so much more in this 42-page eBook!
Product of the Year Nominees 2023
Download this eBook to see which products are nominees in the 12 categories. Cast your votes before March 14, 2023 to make sure that your favorites have a chance to take home the gold.
Supply Chain eBook
Featured articles include why automating AI-as-a-service is now mission critical, automation and manufacturing trends for the future, strengthening the supply chain with IIoT technology and more in this 32-page eBook!
How to Hire an Industrial Robot
When “hiring” an industrial robot, you need to find the one with the right qualifications for the job. Your robot should also be safe and easy to program, and industrial robots from Mitsubishi Electric come with a comprehensive three-year warranty. Download our free eBook, How to Hire an Industrial Robot, to learn about the capabilities […]
Air Compressors
Air compressors help keep plants running efficiently behind the scenes and are crucial to overall success. Featured articles in this eBook include three tips for designing a trouble-free pneumatics system, how to select a dust collection system and food packaging company cuts compressed air costs by $250,000.
Supply Chain Attacks
The supply chain is more vulnerable than ever as integrating information technology (IT) with operational technology (OT) makes it more susceptible to cyber attacks. Featured articles in this eBook include protecting the digital manufacturing supply chain while promoting innovation and more.
Best Practices to Avoid the Top Profit Killers in Manufacturing Maintenance
Today’s manufacturers have many challenges to juggle, from the economy to the effects of the pandemic to the US-China trade tensions. That’s why it’s a critical time for maintenance operations – and as a maintenance or operations professional, you’re the critical piece to promoting efficiency and profitability in your organization.
Guide to Lean and Six Sigma in Maintenance Strategies
With the increasingly demanding environment today, manufacturers are more productive than they’ve ever been — and there’s more pressure to ensure that assets are working as soon as they’re needed with no delay to schedules. To meet these demands, many maintenance teams are adopting Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to maximize machine uptime. Explore this guide […]
Measurement Matters eBook
Intelligent, integrated solutions and accurate measurements help operators in the oil & gas industry minimize cost, schedule, and risk. This 38-page eBook from ABB and Oil & Gas Engineering provides information to help make oil and gas operations more precise and safer for everyone.
Edge Computing Trend Report
The introduction of edge computing is the most significant plant floor advancement in industrial computing since the introduction of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) 30 years ago. This next wave of digital transformation offers tremendous potential to those who respond early and capitalize on the improvements that can be brought to their operators. Edge […]
Best Practices in Asset Management Optimization
Asset management allows manufacturers to take stock of the information coming in and out of their plant and how to harness it. With the rise of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Big Data, the tools are there to make to optimize this data and make the best possible decisions. Featured articles include wireless […]
Midstream Asset Management
The midstream is going through major developments in artificial intelligence, engine monitoring, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), to name a few, and all of them are making the oil & gas industry more efficient and safer. This helpful eBook from Control Engineering and Oil & Gas Engineering will help readers learn about topics including fixing corrosion with predictive […]
Electrical System Management
When correctly selected and applied, circuit breakers, fuses, and other electrical safety components can keep workers safe from injury; learn more about how they can help in this eBook. Featured articles include motor maintenance trends, NFPA 70E standard changes, and reasons why electric motors fail.
Plant and Personnel Safety
Safety systems have identifiable stages and involve different specialized functions; know how each can help reduce risk in this eBook. Featured articles include process safety and compliance advice, determining safety integrity level for a process application, and four overlooked aspects of risk management and safety.
Material Handling
Material Handling The modern supply chain must run at warp speed, and the tools available—from conveyors and robots to automatic picking systems and digital orders—have evolved to keep pace with the speed of change.
Data Center Design
Data centers, data closets, edge and cloud computing, co-location facilities, and similar topics are among the fastest-changing in the industry. Data centers have high-level power demands, customized climate and cooling needs, unique enclosure systems-and all of this must operate without interruption.
IIoT: Machines, Equipment & Asset Management
Articles in this digital report highlight technologies that enable Industrial Internet of Things, IIoT-related products and strategies. These include easier real-time sensor data access via tablets, PC-based control, data analytics, smarter machines, cybersecurity, how to get data more easily from maintenance software, human machine interfaces and controllers, along with easier industrial connectivity.
Maintenance and Safety
The maintenance journey has been a long, slow trek for most manufacturers. It migrated to preventive maintenance, where work was done on a calendar schedule, and then to predictive maintenance, where the condition of the machine and its basic parts were monitored to understand their health, and parts replaced when performance began to deteriorate.
Electrical Safety Update
According to the Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI), while fatalities related to electrical injuries are down considerably since 2006, they experienced a 15% increase from 2015 to 2016. Younger workers are more than twice as likely to die in an electrical safety incident as a more experienced worker.
IIoT: Operations & IT
This digital report will explore several aspects of how IIoT will transform manufacturing in the coming years. Among the topics covered are how to use IIoT to improve operations, how to do a better job of data analysis by using new technologies and new software, and how manufacturers are already using IIoT to affect changes in their operation.
Digital Report: Industrial Analytics
Digital Report: A Q&A on Industrial Analytics Plant engineers and subject matter experts (SME) use Seeq to analyze and improve production outcomes. Seeq’s support for time series data and its challenges—connecting, displaying, interpolating, cleansing, and contextualization as examples—relieves engineers of hours and days of futility spent finding insights in process manufacturing data. Seeq enables engineers […]
Digital Report: IIoT Operations and IT
IIoT: Operations & IT Digital Report This digital report will explore several aspects of how IIoT will transform manufacturing in the coming years. Among the topics covered are how to use IIoT to improve operations, how to do a better job of data analysis by using new technologies and new software, and how manufacturers are […]
Digital Report: IIoT Machines Equipment
IIoT: Machines, Equipment, and Asset Management Digital Report Articles in this digital report highlight technologies that enable Industrial Internet of Things, IIoT-related products and strategies. These include easier real-time sensor data access via tablets, PC-based control, data analytics, smarter machines, cybersecurity, how to get data more easily from maintenance software, human machine interfaces and controllers, […]
Digital Report: Compressed Air Strategies
Compressed Air Strategies Digital Report It’s often called the “fifth utility.” Compressed air plays a vital role in most manufacturing plants, and availability of compressed air is crucial to a wide variety of operations. When we talk about energy management in manufacturing, compressed air often gets overlooked. Click here to download the Digital Report Sponsored […]
eGuide: Energy Efficiency: Your Hidden Advantage
Energy Efficiency: Your Hidden Advantage eGuide Energy is the largest cost area for many manufacturers, yet fewer than half of manufacturing facilities conduct even an annual energy audit. In this eGuide learn how energy efficient solutions will garner greater cost savings and add to the bottom line. This informative eGuide includes article […]
Digital Report: Motion Control
Motion Control Digital Report Motion control advances and solutions can help with machine control, automated control on assembly lines, integration of robotics and automation, and machine safety. Intelligent motion control helps manufacturing end users, machine builders, and system integrators who work on these projects, in addition to the final customers who benefit from higher quality […]
Digital Report: IIoT
IIoT Digital Report It’s clear by now that the Industrial Internet of Things is a transformative manufacturing strategy that will improve operations, reduce cost and increase quality and safety. This digital report is one of the many ways CFE Media will educate audiences on the importance of IIoT. Click here to download the digital report. […]
Digital Report: Plant Safety Strategies
Plant Safety Strategies Strategies Digital Report There is no more fundamental right in the American workplace than the right to work safely. Creating that safe work environment is both a mechanical and a human process. We’ve come a long way in areas such as arc flash, machine guarding and light curtains, and we’ve added robotics […]
Digital Report: Maintenance Strategies
Maintenance Strategies Digital Report Strategic maintenance means understanding all the parts of your plant, understand what needs attention and when, how to make sure you take the machine down for maintenance on YOUR time, rather than when the machine wants to take itself down. When a machine breaks, it almost always is expensive and wasteful, […]
ITT Goulds Pumps eGuide Thank You Page
Thank You for Registering Thank you for registering for the “Financial Benefits through Pump Optimization” eGuide sponsored by ITT Goulds Pumps. Please click on the following link to download the web-ready eGuide PDF. (https://www.plantengineering.com/fileadmin/content_files/pe/ITT-eGuide%20Final.pdf) If you have any questions please contact: Patrick Lynch Project Manager plynch@cfemedia.com 630-571-4070 x2210
How Equipment Reliability Delivers Profits eGuide sponsored by INFOR
How Equipment Reliability Delivers Profits eGuide Reliability programs are now standard business practice in companies that rely heavily on machines, equipment, and other physical assets. But, in today’s lean economy, companies have fewer resources than ever to manage and maintain these assets. Learn how to win the race against equipment failure while realizing financial benefits […]
Digital Reports
Maintenance & Safety Digital Report The maintenance journey has been a long, slow trek for most manufacturers. It migrated to preventive maintenance, where work was done on a calendar schedule, and then to predictive maintenance, where the condition of the machine and its basic parts were monitored to understand their health, and parts replaced when […]
