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Cloud Computing

Manufacturing More Happily Meets ‘the Cloud’

Enterprise Information Technology (IT) professionals and suppliers always question why I’m interviewing them about using the cloud as part of their IT strategy. As far as they are concerned, it is a “done deal.” Manufacturing IT professionals, manufacturing managers and automation engineers remain skeptical, however, about the security and robustness of...

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News

| May 21, 2013

Making Sense of the Enterprise Energy Dashboard

Energy monitoring means different things to different companies.

Column

| March 12, 2013

Manufacturing More Happily Meets ‘the Cloud’

Even though I had picked up signs of skepticism about cloud computing from end users, the conversations at the ARC World Industry Forum implied that moving to the cloud is no longer controversial.

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Manufacturing Intelligence for More Efficient Manufacturing

Feature Article

| February 20, 2013

Turn Data into Information with Manufacturing Intelligence

Manufacturing intelligence systems offer manufacturers access to key performance indicators for increased troubleshooting, product tracking and downtime management.

News

| February 11, 2013

A Matter of Trust: Automation Data Within the Cloud

With globally distributed production facilities, machine and production data from all factories need to be consolidated and evaluated, and operating figures need to be illustrated.

Column

| January 1, 2013

Weaving a Tapestry of Automation Technology

The things I see coming in the fullness of time are those that are built upon the control platforms that help us manage plants and factories more effectively.

Feature Article

| October 5, 2012

The Art and Science of Production Knowledge

For the most part, database issues are left the to IT department.

Industrial Big Data

News

| October 4, 2012

GE Tackles Industrial Big Data

By combining Proficy Historian 5.0 with Proficy Historian Analysis, GE Intelligent Platforms looks to address the strategic side of the plant floor-to-enterprise divide.

Perspective

| October 2, 2012

Production Knowledge: SQL or NoSQL

Just as the debate between Mac or PC rages on, and polarized opinions persist over which industrial network protocol is the best, a new technology debate is breaking out of the clustered ranks of IT d

Feature Article

| October 2, 2012

Manufacturing Databases Explained

Even the briefest examination of databases can cause your head to spin if you’re not up to speed on the different kinds of databases and how they operate.

Product

| September 26, 2012

Warehouse Handheld Computers with HTML5 Technology

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More Headines

This is a view inside one of many modular computing units at Microsoft’s Chicago 700,000+ square feet data center, one of the largest private clouds in the world. Photo Source: Microsoft, Richard Duval

Feature Article

| September 7, 2012

Not Just Vapor, The Cloud Is Real And Can Be Secure

“Cloud” is an unfortunate choice of words for the type of computing growing popular today—one where data and applications are stored somewhere away from the local computer, but in a place that is very

Column

| September 4, 2012

Cloud Computing’s Benefits Begin to Emerge

Data centers are usually extremely underutilized and are often idle about 85 percent of the time.

Case Application

| August 17, 2012

GE Energy’s iCenter: A Historian on Steroids

This case history describes the data infrastructure supporting GE Energy’s iCenter operations management service center, a 24x7 operation that manages an enterprise-size data historian of more than 2

Primer

| August 17, 2012

Software Historian Essentials

In an exclusive interview with Automation World, an applications engineer with global engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company M+W Group answers questions about software historians in

Primer

| August 17, 2012

Uses of Historian Data: A Tutorial

A systems integrator explains what software historians are and why production plants need a repository of real-time industrial data.

Primer

| August 17, 2012

Performance Based Industrial Infrastructures

Performance Based Industrial Infrastructures This 5-page whitepaper by Peter Martin, vice president, Invensys Systems Inc. discusses the changing role of plant historians.

News

| August 7, 2012

Proficy Plant Applications v6.1 Embodies Best Practices

GE Intelligent Platforms announces the availability of its latest manufacturing software solution, Proficy Plant Applications 6.1.

Product

| August 1, 2012

Software Simplifies Analysis and Reporting of Engineering Data

DIAdem 2012 is a unified software environment that aids in locating, inspecting, visualizing, analyzing and reporting on data.

Product

| July 23, 2012

Operations Management Platform Lays Foundation for Migration to Windows Azure

Savigent Software Inc. (www.savigent.com), the Minnetonka-based company specializing in event-driven manufacturing operations management software, released Catalyst Platform version 4.0.

ProficySCADA on iPad

Product

| July 11, 2012

ProficySCADA Now Available for Apple iPad

In this era of a mobile workforce and "bring-your-own-device" (BYOD), the ability to get the same HMI/SCADA functionality on a tablet device--the Apple iPad--brings 25 years of legacy softwa

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