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Cybersecurity
4 Questions to Ask About Industrial Cybersecurity Software
From regulatory compliance and configuration security to potential downtime impacts, Gabe Authier of Tripwire highlights the major issues to address when evaluating cybersecurity software.
Communication
TSN Plugfest Focuses on Interoperability
Participants in Avnu Alliance’s Time-Sensitive Networking plugfest test their deployments in a collaborative environment.
Robotics
Moving Robots Into the Matrix
Otto Motors uses simulation to mitigate risk when deploying a fleet of autonomous mobile robots.
Podcasts
unPACKed with PMMI: Next Stop PACK EXPO International 2022
Hear about automation and software options from PACK EXPO which directly address continuing workforce issues and materials to meet consumer demand for sustainable packages.
Analytics
How OPC UA Creates Interoperability and Gives Data Context
This second installment in a four-part series on key industrial network technologies explains why OPC UA continues to be recognized as the global interoperability method of choice for industrial automation technologies.
Products
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Rockwell Automation Introduces New On-Machine Drives
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Saelig Introduces Novel Saker-MV ISOVP Isolated Voltage Probe
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Axiomtek Unveils Tiger-Lake-Based 3.5” Embedded SBC Features Triple-Display Capability–CAPA55R
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Ixthus Announce New Ultrasonic Sensors From Migatron Corp.
Factory
Cybersecurity
4 Questions to Ask About Industrial Cybersecurity Software
Communication
TSN Plugfest Focuses on Interoperability
Robotics
Moving Robots Into the Matrix
Analytics
How OPC UA Creates Interoperability and Gives Data Context
Process
Cybersecurity
4 Questions to Ask About Industrial Cybersecurity Software
Robotics
Moving Robots Into the Matrix
Take Five
Security Alert for Industrial Control Systems
Take Five
What is Defense-in-Depth?
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Take Five
Security Alert for Industrial Control Systems
Take Five
What is Defense-in-Depth?
Motion
Beckhoff Showcases Compact Motion Control for Mobile Applications
Workforce
Digital Workflow Tools for Knowledge Transfer Across Operations
Robotics
Intelligent Robotic De-Palletizing System
Analytics
The First Cloud-Native Data Historian
GE Digital stakes a claim to the world’s first cloud-native operational data historian with the release of its Proficy Historian for the Cloud on the AWS Marketplace.
Control
Retrofit or Upgrade: What’s Best for Your Facility?
When undertaking a controls project, beginning with an installed base evaluation can help determine if a retrofit or complete upgrade will be more advantageous in the long run.
Sponsored
Error Detection Automation Simplified: Introducing the In-Sight 2800
See how easily the Cognex In-Sight 2800 can automate error detection. Powered by deep learning, it can solve a wide range of inspection applications quickly and easily — no programming experience required.
IIoT
Managing Network Security on Your Plant Floor
A safe and secure network is paramount to ensuring a company’s ability to thrive in today’s digital age. Simply making the change from an unmanaged switch to a lean managed industrial switch could be the key to saving you from a cyber-attack.
IIoT
Advantages of a Smart MQTT Broker
Understanding how a smart MQTT broker provides ways to aggregate data streams, keep them consistent, and distribute them securely across a complex network to ensure the success of Internet of Things projects of any size or complexity.
IIoT
Answering the Top 7 Questions About Profinet
We get a lot of questions here at PI North America from end users, distributors, system integrators, and device vendors. Here are our answers to the questions we get asked most.
IIoT
Effective Instrument Commissioning for Seamless Project Startups
Finishing a major automation project on time and on budget depends on putting the best digital tools in the hands of highly skilled people.
IIoT
IT-OT Convergence Has Always Been The Path Forward
Long before Industry 4.0 and cloud-connected architectures became possible, innovators championed PC-based technologies for industrial automation.
Supply Chain Management
Is Continuous Optimization of an Asset Possible?
Learn why detection of sub-optimality is required not only to avoid unexpected failures, but also to achieve superior performance, and how continuous asset optimization can be achieved.
Cybersecurity
Eliminating Data Siloes for Better Cybersecurity
ServiceNow is augmenting its Now platform with asset inventory and vulnerability data from Tenable’s Tenable.ot to enable mitigation of operations level cybersecurity threats as part of user workflows.
Robotics
Why High-Mix, Low-Volume Manufacturers are Adopting Flexible Automation
Growing demands for customization, increasing numbers of SKUs, and ongoing labor issues are leading HMLV manufacturers to adopt more easily configurable automation hardware and software.
Analytics
Synthetic Data and Artificial Intelligence Combine to Improve Machine Vision
By creating synthetic data from 3D CAD data, Siemens’ SynthAI helps machine vision systems be more rapidly deployed for applications ranging from quality control to robotic picking and assembly operations.
Home
Hackers Shift Focus to Packaging and Processing
Pervasive new technology increases entry points for cyber attacks. Discover cybersecurity solutions at PACK EXPO International (Oct. 23-26; McCormick Place, Chicago).
Plant Maintenance
Minimizing Machine Downtime with Bluetooth Gateways and Smart Sensors
Using a combination of Bluetooth gateways from Cassia Networks and smart sensors from Dodge Industrial, Penn Waste provides its maintenance engineers with needed visibility into equipment operations.
Take Five
What is Defense-in-Depth?
As more IIoT-connected equipment makes its way onto the plant floor, defense-in-depth cybersecurity strategies are supplanting perimeter-based approaches.
Analytics
Honeywell Expands Its Forge Software Capabilities
Through a targeted focus on software-as-a-service, Honeywell Connected Enterprise is expanding its Honeywell Forge technology with the release of Connected Warehouse and updates to its Asset Performance Management software.
Cybersecurity
Zero-Infrastructure Cybersecurity
Claroty Edge gives end users visibility into their industrial networks to gain a complete inventory of all managed and unmanaged assets
Motion
Beckhoff Showcases Compact Motion Control for Mobile Applications
At Modex 2022, Beckhoff highlighted several motion control products for applications such as automated storage and retrieval systems, autonomous mobile robots, and automated guided vehicles.
Control
5 Steps to First-Time Right Machining
Heidenhain Corp.’s Gisbert Ledvon explains the connection between first-time right machining and high-mix, low-volume manufacturing of metal parts.
Workforce
Digital Workflow Tools for Knowledge Transfer Across Operations
J.M. Smucker, Covestro, Pretium use digital workflows for factory, field workers.
Robotics
Geek+ Partners with Bosch Rexroth on Intelligent Mobile Robot Systems
Geek+’s MP1000R autonomous mobile robot has been updated with Bosch Rexroth’s Rokit Locator software.
Robotics
Intelligent Robotic De-Palletizing System
Designed to address labor shortages in manufacturing and warehouse operations, mixed-case de-palletizing systems, such as those available from Universal Robots and Mujin Corp., can handle complex tasks without the need for advanced programming.
