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Why Walled Gardens Are Rarely a Good Fit for Industry

Though “walled garden” technologies offer seamless interoperability within their ecosystem, the realities of industrial automation require open standards, modular solutions and vendor diversification to mitigate operational risks and higher costs.
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Anheuser-Busch Makes Beer, Seltzers, and Machines

A visit to the Budweiser brewery uncovers ways the company controls cost and quality on packaging lines.
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The First Commercial Open Industrial Control System Rolls Out

The Coalition of Open Process Automation unveils COPA QuickStart for open process automation.
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Closing the Loop Between CAD, PLM, Digital Twins, and the Cloud

Siemens Digital Industries Software adds to its Xcelerator portfolio to enhance design, engineering, and manufacturing software, and partners with IBM on service lifecycle management...
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Software as a Service Enters Engineering and Manufacturing Circles

PTC introduces Atlas, a SaaS-based product development platform, and teams up with Rockwell Automation and Microsoft to deliver Factory Insights as a Service.
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Sustainability and the Economy

In the circular economy there is a growing need for durability in product packaging. Not only could a model of packaging reuse help the environment, but, when done right, it could...