Manufacturing and Automation White Papers

ITW Vortec believes in providing expertly designed compressed air solutions that improve efficiency and increase productivity. We achieve this by Listening, Educating and Delivering Quality customer service and solutions to each individual. View our many Whitepapers here.

Discover which technologies can best help you unlock new opportunities and equip your business to meet future challenges. Distribution is an ever-changing industry, and the technology that enables digital transformation can help your business stay competitive. In this eBook, you’ll learn the six key technologies that are essential to digital transformation, what to consider when choosing each solution, and how to track and measure the performance of each.

In today’s fast-paced global economy, supply chains are more interconnected than ever, creating opportunities for growth but also introducing new challenges. Compliance has emerged as a critical factor to overcome to ensure that products and operations meet the requirements and standards used by regulators, suppliers, and customers. These three equally important elements (regulatory, supplier, and customer) form the ‘Compliance Triangle’, which serves as the foundation for supply chain efficiency, resilience, and growth. By integrating cloud labeling into your operations, you can streamline your compliance strategy, establishing a strong pivotal point for supply chain success.

Third-party logistics (3PL) providers are under constant pressure to deliver flexible, scalable, and highly efficient operations to meet evolving customer demands. To help navigate this complexity, Softeon’s latest whitepaper, How 3PLs Can Select the Right WMS for Long-Term Success, offers a practical, actionable guide to choosing the right warehouse management system (WMS) for long-term operational success. This whitepaper was developed in partnership with Inbound Logistics, a leading supply chain industry publication that helps logistics and supply chain professionals make better decisions about transportation, warehousing, and technology.

Read on as we discuss the latest protocols that are shaping the future of machine vision, including advancements in communication, data processing, and interoperability standards.

In a quest to reduce waste, a company specializing in leak prevention discovered that an acoustic camera is the most efficient solution in the market to help lower the carbon intensity of compressed air systems and save energy costs.

Featuring the most up-to-date research on the secure and effective implementation of AI throughout the manufacturing sector, the white paper focuses on recent federal AI initiatives, including advancements in the Department of Commerce’s Supply Chain Center, as well as AI standards from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Specifically, the white paper details how two NCMS initiatives have contributed to solutions for three issues impeding more widespread adoption of AI in the manufacturing sector: (1) preserving data privacy, (2) creating a standard and secure way to selectively share data in useful forms to different organizations, and (3) helping SMMs see the benefits of using their manufacturing operational and product data to fuel AI models, and sharing this data with public-private partnerships that can contribute demonstrations of scalable AI solutions for a wide range of manufacturing problems.

New survey reveals the role that elevated flooring and mezzanines are playing in today’s warehouses and DCs and highlights the value of composite engineered wood flooring as a surface of choice for these structures.

Actual costing, or keeping track of your actual costs, is vital for ensuring profitability, especially in industries where production costs fluctuate. Here is how and why to implement actual costing in your company.