Considerations for Lighting in a Manufacturing Environment

June 9, 2018

Thomas Edison first installed his incandescent light bulb in a New York City factory in 1881. Today, Edison’s filament technology is still used for industrial applications in the form of incandescent halogen lamps, but there are now other options in the world of industrial lighting. High-intensity discharge (HID) and fluorescent lamps became commercially available in the first half of the 20th century and have improved steadily in the years since.

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Enabling secure remote access to Industrial Automation Devices with SDA connectivity service

whitePaper | April 25, 2023

Automation is crucial to increase productivity and efficiency in the manufacturing industry. Remote access to industrial automation devices is essential for manufacturers to control and update their devices from anywhere at any time. However, this is often a challenging task due to cybersecurity requirements, communication protocols, and complex network architectures. The white paper discusses a secure connectivity service that enables remote access to industrial automation devices from SDA’s cloud‑hosted services.

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Smart Manufacturing And How To Get Started

whitePaper | April 18, 2023

Deploying dedicated cellular-enabled industry 4.0 solutions can generate an operational cost savings ROI of 10x to 20x over 5 years. In aggregate, these solutions can generate 8.5% in Operational Cost Savings, which equates to US$200 to US$600 per sqm per year for a factory or industrial site.

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Are You Ready for Your Digital Transformation Journey?

whitePaper | May 18, 2023

Frost & Sullivan created this visual whitepaper to educate the industrial landscape on Industry 4.0. Frost & Sullivan leveraged its 60+ years of market intelligence experience and distinguished reputation in industrial technologies to illustrate and discuss why industrial organizations should seriously consider embarking on a digital transformation journey by providing insightful concepts, facts, and concrete quantitative and qualitative evidence. We will first set the context by providing a brief historical background, discussing the evolution and disruptions of the industrial and manufacturing realms, and clarifying terminology by elaborating on the digitization, digitalization, digital thread, digital transformation, and digital maturity concepts (which are often incorrectly used interchangeably).

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EDGE COMPUTING IN THE NEW OT ECOSYSTEM

whitePaper | August 3, 2020

Edge computing is one of today's leading disruptive digital technologies. Until recently, it was overshadowed by the Cloud with its power, scalability, and as-a-service platform capabilities. However, there is an increasing realization that both have their place in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) environment and that Edge offers a number of capabilities and advantages that make it a key player in the new Operational Technology (OT) Ecosystem, as well as in evolving Operational Architectures.

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A New World of Innovation

whitePaper | November 30, 2021

There has been a fundamental shift in product innovation. Not merely a revolution in materials or design, but a revolution of possibilities. Advanced software technologies such as artificial intelligence have given us a peek of what could be, enabled by methods to deliver the speed that turn worldchanging ideas into reality. We’ve now reached an event horizon — one where semiconductors and software actually have the ability to bring about the most uplifting advances in the history of humankind. Thanks to this leap forward, chip technology and a new era of product transformation are poised to take us places previously unimaginable

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Unlocking digital transformation for the European manufacturing industry

whitePaper | January 1, 2022

In the past five years, there’s been a significant shift in what’s expected from manufacturers: in particular, speed to market and increasing production demand. Many have been seriously affected by COVID-19, and are still looking to keep costs down while delivering a high-quality product. And although Europe’s industrial production had grown year-on-year prior to 2020, facilities are battling against increased customer demand, supply chain delays, and shortages of materials

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GMVykon is a 100% Mexican company with more than 45 years of experience in the industrial and services market, dedicated to providing specialized lifting, logistics and project execution solutions in different branches of the industry. From domestic services to industrial and construction, and with modern equipment, trained personnel and safety and quality management systems we ensure the satisfaction of our customers.

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