Leveraging the right network technology can help lithium-ion battery (LiB) manufacturers get the most from exciting market opportunities by meeting challenging market demands. CC-Link IE TSN networking helped a premier LiB company simplify its manufacturing systems while complying with exacting product specifications.

Footwear equipment specialist Orisol applied TSN technology to its solutions in order to help drive forward the digitalisation of its customers. The technology provides the backbone for smart, data-driven operations by supporting the convergence of multiple types of traffic onto a single network.

New additive manufacturing machines from Shashin Kagaku utilize gigabit bandwidth to achieve component production times that are ten times faster than existing systems. A minimum loop closure time of 125 microseconds also helps the machines to offer a step function change in productivity.

Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) along with use of CC-Link IE TSN has enabled new bottle printing machines to deliver next level productivity via deterministic motion control over a multitude of servos. This has resulted in significant improvements in terms of performance, accuracy and precision.

Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) combined with Industrial Ethernet in smart manufacturing applications offers deterministic performance for automation and control applications, along with powerful standards for implementing IT-OT convergence and Industry 4.0 digital transformation.

A new breed of safety logic solver from Moore Industries enhances efficiency and safety for distillation columns.

The goal of the OPC UA Cloud initiative is to recommend, harmonize, and steer the activities of individual technical working groups and create best practices, an overall reference architecture, as well as open-source reference implementations, combining the output of the individual working groups.

The OPC UA information modeling framework turns data into information. With complete object-oriented capabilities, even the most complex multi-level structures can be modeled and extended. Industry experts weigh in on OPC UA as the interoperability standard for secure, reliable exchange of data in industrial automation.

Digital Transformation (DX) is a goal for manufacturers with advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, along with augmented and virtual reality, adding new possibilities. But the overall focus for industrial networks is still on speed of deployment, enhanced visibility and flexible, resilient software-defined operation.

By leveraging machine and production data, companies can leverage smart manufacturing solutions to optimize business operations, forecast parts usage, assess supplier quality, and adopt preventive maintenance, thereby improving efficiency and maintaining market competitiveness.