Safe Supply Chains Help Produce Sustainable Businesses
While international supply chains have created tremendous business opportunities for companies, they have spurred great risks, too. It is no longer enough for organizations to manage their own exposures. They should be equally concerned with their suppliers' exposures - especially their suppliers' supply chains. Rockwell Automation collaborated with Zurich Insurance to develop a white paper on how to recognize risk and monitor supply chain safety. Read More >>
Right-Sizing Your Motion Control System Can Improve Energy-Efficiency
Manufacturers are always looking to improve energy efficiency, which ultimately improves their bottom line. The manufacturers who are successful in this endeavor seldom go it alone. They enlist help from their machine and equipment builder (OEM) partners. By leveraging mechatronic design tools and scalable, right-sized automation, OEMs can develop the sustainable, energy-efficient systems their customers need. Read More >>
EtherNet/IP - The Key to Information-Enabled Machines
In an increasingly energy-dependent world, plant managers gravitate toward technology that is easy to understand and achieves greater plant floor efficiency and sustainability. However, many plants still employ disparate networks that largely isolate data within machines on factory floors leading to hindered decision-making, lack of full asset optimization and overall decreased efficiency. The Internet provides real-time information to people across the planet and Ethernet seamlessly shares information within enterprises at the business level – giving decision-makers the information and ability to make choices that will increase production line efficiency. Read More >>
Atlantic City Energy Provider Reduces Costs by 15 Percent
Energy efficiency is increasingly a top priority for utility regulators, who are using incentives to bolster their calls for renewability and sustainability. Because of opportunities for new incentives, management at Marina Energy’s Marina Thermal Facility decided to upgrade the plant’s integrated power and energy management systems with a Cogeneration system to improve plant efficiency and lessen reliance on third-party energy sources. Learn how Energenic implemented the solution and reduced energy costs by more than 15 percent. Read More >>
Utilities Kingston Implements Plant-Wide Control System to Streamline Wastewater Treatment Plant
Utilities Kingston is an international leader in the wastewater treatment field. In a $103 million CDN expansion of the Ravensview Wastewater Treatment Plant, Utilities Kingston implemented a plant-wide integrated control and power system from Rockwell Automation. The system helped streamline and standardize plant-wide control, and contributed to the company completing the project under budget and six months ahead of schedule. Read More >>
Safety 2013
