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Take Five
How SaaS and MaaS Impact Industry
From lowering barriers to entry to changing capex and opex strategies, software and machines as-a-service are changing the business of technology and manufacturing.
Analytics
Emerson’s Zedi Cloud Moves to Microsoft Azure
According to Emerson, The move of Zedi Cloud to Microsoft Azure allows for easier scalability, improved safeguarding of critical business assets, and the achievement of environmental, social, and governance goals.
Workforce
Iveco Reduces Worker Injuries with Wearable Exoskeletons
Vehicle manufacturer Iveco has been successfully outfitting assembly workers with Comau’s Mate exoskeleton since 2018.
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.
Analytics
Implementation of a Data Pump with Ignition
A “data pump” approach to historicizing data can be advantageous in batch operations that require highly detailed records be kept.
Take Five
Private 5G for Industrial Environments
Following major deployments by TCL Manufacturing, Volkswagen, and British Sugar, 5G is continuing to gain steam.
Safety
What Is A Machine Risk Assessment?
Learn the details of machine risk assessments, what types of equipment require them, who's responsible for them, when to begin the process, and how to comply with machine risk assessment regulations in this episode featuring Schmersal USA's Devin Murray.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Take Five
Security Alert for Industrial Control Systems
U.S. Government issues warning about new cyberthreats that impact control systems and SCADA devices across industries.
Communication
PACK EXPO International 2022 Preview
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.
