Tulip Interfaces, a spinout from the MIT Media Lab, helps manufacturers augment employee production rather than automating it away. The company’s app platform connects people, machines, and sensors to optimize manufacturing. At WESTEC 2019, Tulip is teaming up with partner Futura Automation in booth #1560 to interactively demo Tulip’s holistic machine monitoring and digital work […]
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What is Agile Manufacturing and how is it implemented? No sooner did we learn the buzzword: LEAN Manufacturing, then along comes a new concept: AGILE. The two terms are not mutually exclusive. One can embrace LEAN and still learn to be AGILE. Our partner at Futura Automation, Tulip Interfaces, has done a great job summarizing […]
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We publish a white paper here on our G03 (Serial) and G04 (Ethernet) gateway devices: How_to_use_IoT_Gateways_with_Serial_or_Ethernet_Bridges
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By Dave Perkon, Technical Editor Reprinted from Control Design, Jun 27, 2019 https://www.controldesign.com/articles/2019/the-accumulating-case-for-deterministic-control/ What do machine builders, system integrators and manufacturers need to know about time-sensitive networking (TSN)? In simplest terms, it is better Ethernet. What used to be many networks and gateways to meet performance requirements will be deterministic control and information on a […]
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By Vincent Rutgers Brand Contributor Deloitte Reprinted from Forbes Magazine, June 24, 2019 When it comes to the fourth industrial revolution, it seems no capability has been touted more than the connected enterprise. For years now, the connected enterprise—where everything from factory floors to retail shelves are digitally linked—has been one of the main objectives […]
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