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Approximately 50% of industrial transformation leaders have an autonomous plant initiative formalized, and an estimated 41% of these leaders are accelerating their autonomous plant e orts because of the pandemic. Moreover, more than half of the study’s respondents indicate they will have remote operations centers in place within the next one to two years.
Dian Sacra of LNS Research on autonomous and remote operations trends. awgo.to/1206.
This not only reduces upfront capital expenditures for manufacturers but incentivizes OEMs to continuously improve the performance of their equipment, making them more competitive and delivering better results for end-users.
David Miller on the e ect of performance-based costing as a business model for OEMs enabled by remote monitoring and maintenance. awgo.to/1207.
We can build a program that has cryptic names for all the components in the software and know how it works, but if we handed that to someone else in the plant who has never seen the software, they would have a hard time fi guring it out. Integrators must segregate those functions within the code to provide ease of access for those who did not write it.
Je Allen of system integrator E Technologies Group on practical systems maintenance. awgo.to/1208.
PMMI’s mechatronics certifi cation program became the base of Amazon’s apprenticeship program, which allows individuals to not only fi nish the program but obtain certifi cations as well.
Melissa Gri en on building a quality industrial workforce. awgo.to/1209.
Troubleshooting industrial Ethernet problems often involves the use of complex tools such as protocol analyzers that require years of training or trial-and-error approaches such as running a bypass cable in the hope of solving the problem.
