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Siemens Expands Xcelerator, Begins Industrial Metaverse Development
Two major announcements from Siemens involve expansion of the company’s Xcelerator technology into a wider portfolio of hardware, software, and digital services, and a partnership with Nvidia to create an industrial metaverse.
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Cloud Computing, Industrial Autonomy, and Corporate Sustainability
By enabling industrial autonomy, use of the industrial cloud can have a significant impact on corporate sustainability initiatives.
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Manufacturing in the Metaverse
The emerging metaverse continuum will transform how people interact with each other and with business data. Find out how this might impact industrial and manufacturing operations.
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4 Hardware Trends Driving the Evolution in Warehouse Automation
As the market for warehouse automation grows, hardware will play an important role in the next generation of technological advancements. Take a closer look at four hardware trends worth watching.
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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.
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Private 5G for Industrial Environments
Following major deployments by TCL Manufacturing, Volkswagen, and British Sugar, 5G is continuing to gain steam.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Siemens Transitions to Become a Tech Company
A shift in focus toward delivering all its software as a service—and how that software drives specific hardware capabilities—underlies Siemens new vision of itself as a tech company.
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Field Device Integration Eases Equipment Installation
Now part of Emerson’s AMS Device Manager, the Field Device Integration (FDI) standard provides a unified framework for installing and configuring field devices.
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Digital Twin Applications by Small Companies
Applications of Siemens digital twin technologies by two startups—Saildrone and Nemo’s Garden—demonstrate how the delivery of advanced automation technologies as a service are expanding opportunities for new and established manufacturing operations.
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Digital Twins Can Help Turn Manufacturing Data Into Insight
See how digital twins are creating real-time virtual representations of physical systems that not only bring data together from multiple sources, but also unify and contextualize that data.
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How Do You Stack Up in Automation?
While you may not be able to make the leap from PLC to ERP integration all at once, beginning the journey toward OT/IT Integration is now more important than ever before.
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Water Treatment Plant Monitoring via the Cloud
Nishihara Environment Co. in collaboration with Nissin Systems Co. have developed an integrated product and service solution called N-Share to improve access to process data in water purification and sewage treatment plants.
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Artificial Intelligence Framework Addresses End User Concerns
The Industrial Internet Consortium releases a framework providing guidance on the development, training, documentation, communication, integration, deployment, and operation of artificial intelligence-enabled Industrial Internet of Things systems.
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Insights on Industry’s Digital Transformation Leaders
ARC Advisory Group highlights the focus and strategies of 25 industrial companies successfully making the digital transformation.
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The Benefits of Edge Computing
Use the networked, intelligent, self-controlling, self-optimizing, and resource-efficient production of the Industrial Internet to protect your operations from increased international competition.
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Process Control Communication: More Than Just APL
Ethernet-APL receives a lot of attention for its ability to bring Ethernet-based communications and power to devices in hazardous zones. But a physical layer and some data do not make a complete solution.
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The Forecast for Battery-Powered Energy Harvesting is Sunny
A real-world example of power generation demonstrates how the combined use of energy harvesting and industrial grade rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries can increase return on investment.
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How to Implement Analytics and Stay in Control of Your Big Data
Applying analytics tools in the same engineering platform as the controller, motion control, and HMI can lead to more successful Internet of Things implementations and boost competitive advantages.
