Well-known industrial automation and control editor David Greenfield has joined Summit Media Group’s Automation World magazine as Media and Event Director.
The Stuxnet outbreak was spawned predominantly by so-called candy drops, in which an infected thumb drive or Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drive was placed in a spot where a plant employee could fi
“Machine tool builders remain the foundation of our manufacturing industry,” says Sal Spada, research director in discrete automation at ARC Advisory Group Inc. (www.arcweb.com), Dedham, Mass.
Southern California has started a three-year, $4.3 million U.S. Department of Labor training grant to upgrade and certify workforce skills in the nation’s largest logistics hub.
For Department of Energy (DOE) operators, a day at work is a day spent playing an intensely intricate 3D video game—and it’s all to help the environment.
Last January, Automation World decided to whet readers’ appetites with features and columns devoted to automation innovations, which included survey results, interviews and good old analysis.
An Automation World survey on user satisfaction levels for both hardware and software support produced results that surprised some automation suppliers.