Is your company’s digital intelligence stranded and unproductive? A robust information/data “scaffold” efficiently unlocks the flow of data and knowledge throughout the…

The term PoC has become popular in contexts such as system development. PoC is a development method that responds to the increased risk of development in recent years, but there are tricks to do it well. Here, we will explain the outline of PoC, its advantages and disadvantages, and points to note in the verification work.

One of the production management methods that consider material procurement is material requirements planning = MRP. What is the purpose of this MRP and what steps is it done? We will introduce the meaning and standard idea of MRP, the flow of MRP implementation, and the purpose and effect.

Preventive maintenance is said to be especially important in maintenance work. In fact, it is directly linked to the profit of the business. What is preventive maintenance and what does it mean? We will introduce the difference between preventive maintenance and post-maintenance, and predictive maintenance can be said to have further evolved from preventive maintenance.

How are industrial PCs different from commonly used PCs? We will introduce the difference from commonly used PC = consumer PC and characteristics of industrial PC. In addition, we consider the history of the evolution of industrial PCs and the reason why demand has increased in recent years and the market size is expanding.

We would like to create innovation and promote digital transformation in Japan, regardless of the current status quo bias.

Automatic control is a technology with a long history, but in recent years it has changed greatly with the introduction of artificial intelligence. This article explains the classic control methods of feedback control and feedforward control. It also describes the problems required for control in recent years and the relationship between artificial intelligence and edge computing.

Automation World’s Director of Content/Editor in Chief, David Greenfield, recently sat down with Aric Prost, Senior Director of Business Development, at Stratus…