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“The benefits of cloud computing are most evident in consumer applications such as SugarSynch and Apple iCloud,” Steidinger said, “which enable users to access, sync and share data from multiple points. But while there is also significant potential for such functionality in industrial applications, the industrial automation market has been slow to adopt...
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The new challenge for automation engineers is to control the business of the industry, not just the efficiency of the plant.
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The Internet of Things

Sensors and actuators have been connected to the Internet for decades, usually with proprietary protocols that are connected to Internet protocol (IP) networks through gateways.
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It was no mean engineering feat: inspect, label and package blood-testing vials, or cassettes, and do it quickly and cost-effectively in a small space.
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The Team edition of the XLReporter product family is designed to marry the most popular reporting product, Microsoft Excel, with the leading historians in the automation industry to provide easy-to-
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OmniServer Version 2.7 is the latest upgrade to the vendor’s universal data acquisition software featuring support for the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA). 
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An Automation World survey on user satisfaction levels for both hardware and software support produced results that surprised some automation suppliers.
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Get It All Together For Plant Asset Optimization

Once limited in practice just to maintenance scheduling, asset management today requires a holistic view of the plant and all of its information in order to improve return on assets.
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October 1, 2010

Defending Against the Next Stuxnet

Experts agree that defense in depth is the best approach to guard against future cyber attacks targeting industrial control system networks.
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September 30, 2010

Teaching retorts how to communicate

Operations management in all types of manufacturing is under constant pressure to continually achieve efficiency improvements.
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September 2, 2010

Software Improves Automation Reliability

Integrity Recon software is designed to improve the reliability of automation systems composed of Microsoft-based computing platforms. 
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September 2, 2010

Graphics Lighten the Programming Load

A picture is worth a thousand words.
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Protect Your Control Networks

Control networks are way too open to cyber attack.
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July 5, 2010

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Level sensing is everywhere in industry—a workaday tool that literally keeps things flowing. The ins and outs, no pun intended, reveal a richly varied field, and equally varied engineering.
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