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Article Excerpt
The plant floor is a busy place, humming with data generated by machines, ovens, robots, tooling equipment, lines, and, in the process world, vats and mixers. Increasingly, this factory-floor data is integrated with the manufacturing execution system (MES) and enterprise systems that manage the plant. While challenges remain, many competitive plants have mastered the real-time data collection issue, and in fact, the integration of real-time data with plant management systems.
Additionally, automation has made great strides in both design and production processes. A plant manager can simulate plant operations at a very specific level (the work cell), to answer questions such as, "Will the robotic arm reach far enough to do that...
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