3 Ways Steel Companies Are Reducing Carbon Emissions
March 31, 2022
5 min read
Steel manufacturing is an important part of our modern world. Imagine a world without steel. How would our buildings look? Same with our cars, ships, etc. [...]
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Cloud Computing is Transforming the Oil and Gas Industry
March 22, 2022
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Cloud computing has the power to make the oil and gas industry more efficient and eco-friendly on every level. [...]
Three Computer Advances that Increase Steelmakers' Productivity and Profit
February 24, 2022
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Silicon, in the form of a chip shortage, has dominated the news for the past 3-4 years. It's unsurprising given the role of computers in our lives. [...]
Tips in Choosing the Right Fleet Management Computer
February 22, 2022
4 min read
Fleet management is the process of organizing, tracking, and maintaining a vehicle fleet. Fleets usually consist of commercial cars, trucks, buses, and cargo vans. [...]
5 Reasons Why Rugged Industrial Computers are Best for Oil Refineries
February 8, 2022
5 min read
An oil refinery is a manufacturing plant that takes crude oil and converts it into useful petroleum products: gasoline, lubricating and motor oils, petroleum gas, tar, etc. Because of the time-consuming and intense nature of the process, refineries present unique challenges to electronics like computers. [...]
4 More Surprising Uses For Industrial RFID Technology
February 3, 2022
7 min read
Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, is the scanning of special tags with radio waves. These tags can be affixed on items from boxes to wrist bands, and can contain information like the item's name, SKU number, to even a picture. That information is then scanned and stored by using RFID readers [...]
What is Right to Repair and How Does it Affect Medical Devices?
February 1, 2022
7 min read
Right to Repair (RtR, R2R) is a movement by consumers and repair shops to have Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) make available normally proprietary information of their products, as well as provide any necessary tools and spare parts. That way, product owners or such shops can make repairs or [...]
Best Practices for Manufacturers When Going Green
December 7, 2021
9 min read
You already know that going green involves redesigning a single product or process at your facility to make it more environmentally-friendly. And that being sustainable is looking at a product's entire life-cycle as a whole, like sourcing goods composed of recyclable materials, processed locally in [...]
3 Approaches to Protecting Your Networks on Computer Security Day
November 30, 2021
8 min read
November 30th, 1988, should be marked as a day of infamy for our modern, connected times. During that month, researchers at Cornell University discovered an unknown virus lurking in their computer systems. This so-called "Morris worm" would quickly spread to other connected university systems. If it [...]
How RFID and Barcode Scanners are Reducing Production Errors
November 24, 2021
8 min read
Wouldn't it be great if no one made errors? Unfortunately, that's not the world we live in. [...]