Industry 4.0
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How Data Logging Can Optimize Your Heat Processing
Modern heat processing operations can gain a competitive edge by leveraging advanced data logging technologies. The blog post explores how integrated systems like Watlow's ASPYRE® DT, F4T®, and D4T™ enable real-time monitoring of critical parameters such as run times, process temperatures, and system performance variations. These insights allow for improved process control, reduced scrap and downtime, and compliance with stringent industry standards like Nadcap. This article also traces the evolutions form traditional strip chart recorders to today's sophisticated digital data loggers, emphasizing their compatibility with various sensors and their role in facilitating industry 4.0 initiatives through enhanced connectivity and data integretion.
White Paper Reducing Risk: Data Insights
Process is essential in hydrocarbon processing, with a trend towards electric heaters for precise control. WATCONNECT® control panels, especially the L and XL panels, are designed for industrial applications like petrochemicals and other applications. The integrated Data Insights package monitors power, controller health, and system changes, addressing issues like coking, fouling, heater failure, and downtime, and supports electrification and decarbonization.
Getting Started With Industry 4.0 Means Taking Baby Steps
The Fourth Industrial Revolution might not last 80 years like the first one did. Still, the transition to smart factories will unfold over time, not all at once. Leaders in the Manufacturing 4.0 movement aim for progress, not perfection. Here are some early examples of the Industrial Internet of Things at work.
White Paper: Leading Transformation Change for Ourselves and our Customers with Industry 4.0 Applications
Industry 4.0 represents the latest industrial transformation, a shift where technology is, for the first time, allowing data to be captured and processed in real time proximate both to where it is generated and where it is needed. Watlow® is currently piloting and implementing several programs to leverage these technologies in order to automate anticipating issues earlier and to speed up implementation of solutions.
White Paper: Right Data Right Place Right Now
Industry 4.0 technology enables the capture and processing of data in real time, both where its generated and where it is needed, to implement effective improvements to manufacturing processes. The advantage Watlow® brings to an Industry 4.0 project is in its thermal experts, who understand both the important role thermal systems play in key application and industry 4.0 implementations.