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News
 | May 14, 2013

Are You Ready? The New Industrial Revolution Is Here

Digitalization of part drawings, additive manufacturing and other advances are commoditizing parts manufacturing.
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Supercapacitors and Chiplets
Blog Post | April 17, 2013

Supercapacitors and Chiplets

Two recent technology breakthroughs hold the potential to dramatically alter the manufacturing industries—and just about everything else.
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Intelligent HMIs
News
 | April 16, 2013

Intelligence Drives HMI Interaction

Highlighting the push to drive more consumer device interaction into industrial technology, GE Intelligent Platforms’ new Proficy Mobile app leverages GEO-intelligence to provide information on user l
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Lego Mindstorms Paper Airplane Folding Machine
Blog Post | April 12, 2013

I Just Want to Watch It Run

You know how some people could stand at the edge of a construction site and watch construction equipment move earth for hours? I can do that with industrial machines.
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Automation Applied: ABB Systems Overview
 Video | April 4, 2013

Automation Applied: ABB Systems Overview

A look at several products on display at ABB's Automation and Power World 2013, including the Automation Arena, Essential Automation and 800xA Feature Pack 4, as well as new research developments around Eye Tracking, Augmented Reality and 3D visualization for process control.
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EV Battery Power
News
 | April 4, 2013

Generating Power from Old Automotive Batteries

ABB and GM work together to develop an energy storage unit, comprising used Chevy Volt batteries, which can be used by utilities and industrial facilities.
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Automotive Automation
Blog Post | April 3, 2013

Driving the Surge in Automotive Automation

U.S. automakers face the challenges of surging demand, limited human resources and supply base constraints with the help of automated technologies.
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Column
 | March 27, 2013

How Risk Management Can Boost Innovation

There is no doubt that innovation can help industrial manufacturers succeed, but the question remains: Which approaches or processes will best ignite and sustain innovation within an organization?
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Engineering Education Support
News
 | March 13, 2013

Industry Supplier Initiatives Support Automation Education

ABB and Honeywell efforts fund automation and power research grant programs and simulation design competition.
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Disruptive Automation & Manufacturing
Blog Post | February 26, 2013

Automation and Manufacturing Among the Most Disruptive

An “MIT Technology Review” list cites several manufacturing and automation companies as being among the top 50 most disruptive companies. And they mean that in a good way.
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Carbon Engineering CO2 Capture Equipment
Blog Post | January 11, 2013

Pilot Plant in the Works for Carbon Dioxide Cleansing

Potential business for cleaning the atmosphere and making some money.
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2012 First Team Honorees
Feature Article
 | January 9, 2013

Leadership in Automation 2012: First Team Honorees

Automation World reports on how readers implement automation projects in order to improve their companies’ bottom lines.
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Industrial Internet Revolution
Blog Post | December 11, 2012

Can the Industrial Internet Unleash the Next Industrial Revolution?

Setting its sights on the huge optimization potential of connecting nearly everything with sensors, GE begins to assertively position itself around the Industrial Internet concept. Could this be the rallying point that drives a long-term boost for global industry or is just a ruse to sell more products?
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Case Application
 | December 5, 2012

Web-based SCADA Gathers More Fans

Ever-evolving communications and networking technologies, such as cloud computing and Ethernet radios, are refining the best practices used in SCADA and helping this tried-and-true automation technolo
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Manufacturing Apps
Blog Post | December 4, 2012

Manufacturing Apps Poised to Proliferate

Force.com looks to enhance the appeal of its apps store to the production industries by offering Rootstock’s manufacturing apps.
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