by Gavin Halse | Jan 6, 2019 | IT in Manufacturing
New toolkits for innovation Back in the 1980s, as a junior process engineer, I spent a great part of my first job working with DCS and SCADA systems. At the time, I was working on a synfuels plant that made use of a Honeywell TDC3000 DCS. Most of the field instruments...
by Gavin Halse | Oct 6, 2018 | IT in Manufacturing
How adding services to products could start your journey towards an Industry 4.0 solution Digital transformation, according to Microsoft, is about reimagining how you bring together people, data and processes to create value for your customers and maintain a...
by Gavin Halse | Jul 7, 2018 | IT in Manufacturing
How real is augmented reality? The early morning air was still cold when I arrived together with a colleague at the mine for our underground visit. Our hosts were keen to show us the practical challenges of the drilling and blasting operation, and the many ways in...
by Gavin Halse | Jun 2, 2018 | IT in Manufacturing
Digital twins, science-fiction or reality? Industrie 4.0 introduces the somewhat abstract concept of a ‘digital twin’. But is this really new, does it actually exist anywhere in practice, and if so, what steps should be followed to build one? A process control...
by Gavin Halse | Jun 1, 2018 | IT in Manufacturing
Using predictive analytics to improve planned maintenance During my days as a process engineer, I worked on an amino acid fermentation plant where it was very important to keep the process sterile at all times otherwise entire batches could be lost to contamination....
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