Video Demo: New app, SmartGlance

See below a product demo (no Sound) of SmartGlance, a real-time business monitoring service. Click here to read more about SmartGlance

Oct 11th, 2010

Martins’ monitoring system uses groov RIO to grab existing I/O signals, send them into cloud storage, and generate useful alerts and reports.

Growing New Business with Edge Computing

Industrial companies’ innovative approaches to market demands, enabled by industrial edge devices, illustrate how edge device technology is enabling manufacturers to be more adaptive and profitable.

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Open AI Energy Initiative Partnership Formed

Shell, Baker Hughes, Microsoft, and C3 AI fuse their expertise to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI) for energy sector applications.

How to Implement Edge Computing—From Concept to Launch

In this episode, we discuss how to successfully plan for and implement edge computing technologies at both OEM and manufacturing/processing facilities with Stratus Technologies' Aric Prost and John Vicente.

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Progress Continues on Industrial Open Source Software

With demand for interoperability in the industrial software and hardware space continuing to grow, the Eclipse Foundation releases a report on the status of the organization’s work in several areas affecting industrial technology.

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Work on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Standards Begins

Hoping to clear the path for the development of AI and machine learning standards, the Securing Artificial Intelligence Industry Specification Group has released a report highlighting the field’s predominant challenges.

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Integrating Process Safety, Visibility, and Cybersecurity

Following its acquisition by Hexagon, PAS explains how its software integrates with Hexagon’s technologies to address critical industrial process operations factors.

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Schneider Electric Calls for Greater Cooperation Around Interoperability

With a software development focus around IEC 61499, a new alliance with Wood, and continued work with the Open Process Automation Forum and ZVEI, Schneider Electric helps push the universal automation concept.

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Device-to-Cloud Communications Bypass the Purdue Model

Endress+Hauser showcased how its Netillion platform bypasses the Purdue Model for more direct device to cloud communication while maintaining critical security levels.

Dick Slansky, senior analyst, ARC Advisory Group

How the Digital Twin Drives Smart Manufacturing

Discover how the digital twin is significantly impacting how companies implement smart manufacturing, in order to simulate, predict, optimize, and maintain products, assets, and production systems.

Technology Matters: Industrial Network and Sustainability Trends

In this video, we look at how automation technology advances are elevating the importance of industrial networks and how industrial sustainability efforts have—and have not—changed since 2016.

Diane Sacra, Director of Marketing, LNS Research

Get Connected to Protect Frontline Workforce and Increase Operational Agility

With workforce shortages and COVID-19 continuing to challenge manufacturers, find out how a connected workforce can drive improvement and competitive advantage while keeping employees safe.

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Easy Design Tips to Maximize the Performance and Reliability of Your GaN Designs

Is the Cloud Beneficial for Small and Mid-Sized Manufacturers?

Learn how manufacturers are actually using cloud computing today and how it can be leveraged for optimal application by smaller manufacturing organizations in this discussion with Brian Fenn, COO of system integration company Avanceon.

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Emerson Takes on Magnolia Power Plant Project in Mississippi

Manufacturers aren’t the only adopters of Industry 4.0 technologies—the utility sector has long been active in the space as well, and the Tennessee Valley Authority has recently pledged $110 million to digitally transform its power generation fleet.

Siemens Industrial Edge v1.0 platform encompasses an edge management system, edge apps, and edge devices. Source: Siemens

Edge Computing Gets a Platform Focus

Recent announcements from Siemens and Stratus Technologies/Rockwell Automation show how edge computing is evolving into a platform for broader industrial digitalization applications.

Production of the Atlas SUV at Volkswagen's Chattanooga, Tenn., site.

Volkswagen Expands Cloud Project Beyond Europe

The Industrial Cloud Initiative at Volkswagen, designed to streamline data gathering and analysis as well as best practice adoption, is expanding to one U.S. plant and two in Mexico.

Alec Konynenburg

Digitization – A Case For Manufacturing

Learn how implementing Industry 4.0 can improve your company’s productivity, opportunity, and growth from the Managing Director of Nukon.

A New Kind of Connected Factory

As a pandemic forces social distancing, manufacturers are using technology to stay connected, creating a new vision for how data is aggregated, shared, and acted upon to unite factories and people.

Dick Slansky, senior analyst, ARC Advisory Group

Moving to a More “Open” Environment

Discover how edge computing and open source software are important contributions to the successful implementation of IoT at your company.

CloudRail.Box features enable direct sensor-to-cloud connections.

Connecting Sensors to the Cloud

The “last mile” connection of lower-level plant floor devices to the cloud is the focus of a new partnership between ifm and CloudRail.

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Duane Grob, Avanceon

Pre-Project Consulting Role for SI

Discover how incorporating a System Integrator at the beginning of your automation integration process can have a vital impact on the success of your overall project.

Sanjiv K Preferred

The Connected Plant in the Digital World

While most in the manufacturing industry understand the implications of a connected plant, less know why or how this shift should occur. Find out three actions your company should consider before making the transformation.

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Assessing Your Digital Transformation Status

From confronting specific industry sector issues to vision creation and analytics, there are a number of factors manufacturers should address carefully when preparing for or assessing the digitization of their operations.

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The Challenge of Manufacturing Data Management

What happens when automation and plant IT teams get past their differences and work together effectively? A chance for the company to outperform the competition and make progress on Industry 4.0 projects.

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Microsoft Extends Industrial Focus with Expanded Rockwell Automation Partnership

The aim of this new partnership is to connect development, operations, and maintenance teams through a “singular, trusted data environment” that extends from the edge to the cloud.

The Aventics AF2 Series flow sensor is an IIoT-enabled device that provides air consumption and leak detection analytics. Source: Emerson

Digital Transformation in Manufacturing: Small Steps or One Giant Leap?

How taking three practical steps can generate short-term wins and achieve long-term success with Industrial Internet of Things technologies.

Beginning the Digital Transformation Process

In this episode, we connect with Bill Pollock, CEO of Optimation, to explore how industrial companies are moving forward with their digital transformations. We discuss how to assess current operations, avoid common mistakes, and apply metrics.

Florian Güldner, research director, ARC Advisory Group

Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing

As more artificial intelligence-enabled products come into market, learn about the roadblocks these products are creating and how OEMs are working through them.

Using a Hypervisor, one piece of hardware can run multiple virtual machines (VMs). Each VM bundles an OS, the application and any of its dependencies. VMs are easily replicated across different hardware platforms. Source: Advantech B+B SmartWorx

Understanding Virtualization for Industrial Automation

Grasping the concept of virtualization is an important factor in developing and deploying Industrial Internet of Things applications because of how virtualization enables scale, security, and portability, as well as speed and agility factors.

11th Gen Intel Core processors for IoT are enhanced specifically for essential internet of things applications that require high-speed processing, computer vision, and low latency deterministic computing. Source: Intel Corporation

Intel Targets Digital Transformation with New Processors

Highlighting the promise of the Industrial Internet of Things and Time-Sensitive Networking, Intel releases multiple new processors delivering artificial intelligence, security, functional safety, and real-time communication capabilities.

Brian Fenn, vice president of operations, Avanceon

Accessing the Far Regions of Automation

As more organizations invest in remote access capabilities, providing information technology support can come with a few issues when it comes to troubleshooting and connectivity.

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Guidance on Industrial Blockchain Use

The Industrial Internet Consortium releases a white paper that provides direction on the use of blockchain applications for Industrial Internet of Things applications.