Transforming the Power Grid with Distributed Intelligence

Virtual Presentation: Implementing the Smart Grid involves more than just replacing the existing grid structure. It completely changes the approach to power distribution with the incorporation of renewable energy sources and the ability to send power back to the grid.

David Greenfield

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Demonstrating the value of renewable energy to power the electricity grid is causing a shift in how distribution grid operators manage their networks. One case in which significant steps are being taken to bring renewable energy to the grid is a project at Toronto Hydro with Prolucid LocalGrid Technologies. In this project, intelligent nodes are situated in the substation monitoring feeder load, and next to distributed generation sites, where they can monitor and interact with the associated generation controller. In the video below, captured at The Automation Conference 2014, Bob Leigh, CEO of LocalGrid Technologies, and Sushma Narisetty-Gupta, an electrical engineer with the Grid Solutions Engineering team at Toronto Hydro, explained how this transformation is taking place.

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Logging and Reviewing Data in FlexLogger

Logging and Reviewing Data in FlexLogger

Building FlexLogger Screens to Visualize Live Data

Building FlexLogger Screens to Visualize Live Data

Configuring Events in FlexLogger

Configuring Events in FlexLogger

Rever's SaaS application is configurable and not customized for each plant, reducing costs and making updates easier.

App Reinvigorates Employee Input for Continuous Improvement at Mars Petcare

How do you get frontline employees engaged in efforts for plant improve? Learn how Mars Petcare used a mobile application to reinvigorate employee input leading to continuous improvement at multiple manufacturing facilities in Mexico.

Automation World TV Launches on YouTube

Automation World TV on YouTube debuts with more than 30 industrial automation videos and podcasts.

Mid-Atlantic market continues to sign on for PACK EXPO East 2020

Record-breaking Show Opens Next Week

Mid-Atlantic market continues to sign on for PACK EXPO East 2020

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Emerson Automation Solutions' Edge Virtualization

In this video, Rich Carpenter of Emerson Automation Solutions explains why the company virtualizes its edge devices to take advantage of the multiple cores to perform multiple independent functions on the same device.

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Toshiba Machine Adds Collaborative Robots

With the introduction of a humanoid duo-arm cobot and a SCARA duo-arm cobot, Toshiba Machine expands its robot line and prepares to do business as Shibaura Machine.

Peter Zornio of Emerson Automation Solutions sets the scene for the day's digital transformation discussions between CPG manufacturers and OEMs.

CPG Manufacturers and OEMs Collaborate on Digital Transformation

In a meeting co-hosted by PMMI’s OpX Leadership Network and Industry Relations Committee, manufacturers and machine builders shared their plans and concerns about IIoT in a discussion aimed at creating a digital transformation roadmap for PMMI members.

Are Autonomous Mobile Robots at the Tipping Point?

Why many industry experts and observers feel that advances in software, cloud computing, and machine learning are enabling autonomous mobile robots to become far more commonplace in industry.

Cat Connect from Caterpillar can monitor gensets at sites around the world and display them all in a single dashboard view. Source: Caterpillar

Remote Monitoring for Distributed Power Generation

Caterpillar develops remote monitoring technology for its genset equipment to take troubleshooting, data collection and generation, and analysis beyond the SCADA level.

Open-Source Software Meets Industrial Automation

As more automation technology suppliers incorporate open-source tools, the ability to use open-source software in automation projects no longer depends on access to arcane software knowledge commonly known only to developers and IT-savvy engineers.

Daniel C. Malyszko, director of operations and forward thinker, Malisko Engineering

Updates Along the IIoT Journey and the Role of the Integrator

As more organizations continue down the path of digital transformation, it’s easy to lose track of what your end goals. Asking the right question and properly using a system integrator can make all the difference.

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Hitachi’s Digital Transformation

Positioning itself as a major supplier of digital transformation technologies to companies such as Ericsson and Logan Aluminum through its Hitachi Vantara business, Hitachi also highlights use of its Lumada IIoT technologies at its Omika Works factory.

Manufacturing Floor

Building Industrial Apps—No Programming Skills Required

GE Digital unveils Proficy Operations Hub 1.5, a centralized dashboard for everyone in the organization. The tool also enables plant floor operators to create data aggregation and visualization applications via code-free development tools.

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Emerson's KNet Analytics

Learn how KNet Analytics combines principles-driven analytics with artificial intelligence and machine learning to address asset maintenance management—from identifying problems and providing root cause analysis to providing corrective steps.

What is Functional Machine Safety?

In this episode, we connect with Todd Mason-Darnell and Pamela Horbacovsky of Omron Automation to understand what the term 'functional machine safety' means and how it applies to end users and OEMs when assessing new and legacy equipment.

Vega’s Greg Tischler demonstrates the effects of heat in the atmosphere on both radar and ultrasonic technologies.

Radar Overcomes Price Constraints for Water/Wastewater Industry

Advocating radar technology as the better ultrasonic, Vega demonstrates how its radar sensors outperform under a variety of temperature, gas, pressure, and environmental conditions.

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Tools to Help the Digital Transformation

Inductive Automation rolled out enhancements to its Ignition Edge industrial application platform and new partner and development communities that will help turn data into actionable information.

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Siemens Targets Co-Creation and Edge Computing

Working with customers to advance digitalization based on user-directed value generation is driving Siemens edge technology developments and related acquisitions.

Dick Slansky, senior analyst, ARC Advisory Group

Simulation for Intelligent Cyber-physical Systems

As products continue to get smarter, so does the complexity and integration requirements. Learn how designers of these cyber-physical systems are using advanced simulation platforms as a guide in this increasingly complex manufacturing space.

New Process Information Model and Two-Wire Ethernet Protocol Coming Soon

FieldComm Group explains the role of a new information model from NAMUR and an emerging two-wire Ethernet protocol for process automation applications.

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Aveva Targets Digitization of Discrete Manufacturing

After proving the capabilities of its new Discrete Lean Management software in Schneider Electric factories, Aveva rolls out the software to help digitize operations at plants still using paper-based systems.

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Brian R. May, managing director, Industrial North America, Accenture

Remaking Industrial Equipment Manufacturing

The constant introduction of new technologies is blurring industry boundaries, leaving some industrial equipment manufacturers struggling to keep up in the transition. Learn the steps that a few companies are taking to ensure they don't get left behind.

Robert Stocker, senior engineer, Avanceon

The Challenges of Project Commissioning

What does it take to successfully commission a project? Robert Stocker shows how time, effort, and communication is required by all team members to get the project off the ground.

Demo of Bedrock Automation's OSA platform undergoing a firmware update. Oscilloscope in background demonstrates how the control system's operations are unaffected during the update process.

Bumpless Firmware Upgrades for Controllers

Bedrock Automation demonstrates how firmware updates to its automation platform can be conducted without disrupting its operation.

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Remote I/O Connects Legacy Devices for IoT

Opto 22 releases groov RIO, a software configurable, distributed I/O device capable of more than 52,000 field I/O combinations for transmitting data from installed devices to Ethernet networks, apps, or the cloud.

Industrial Robot Growth

PMMI Business Intelligence recently completed a study of the industrial robot market, with a focus on the food, consumer packaged goods, and life sciences markets. This infographic highlights key findings from the research.

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Honeywell Collaborates With AI Specialist Bigfinite to Speed Medical Therapies

The collaboration will focus on helping biotech and pharma industries understand and make use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to enable faster development.

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Bedrock Automation Integrates Flow Measurement Software

With the addition of Flow-Cal algorithms, Bedrock Automation’s platform adds oil and gas measurement and secure custody transfer capabilities.

Timothy S. Matheny, P.E., president of ECS Solutions,

Digitalizing Your Manufacturing Ecosystem

Though every ecosystem is unique, taking steps to understanding the ins-and-outs of your own system is amongst the first steps to take when looking to digitalize your manufacturing ecosystem.

The DIGIT framework abstracts what is an inherently unique and often complex and messy transformation process into a simpler form, allowing for the revelation of actions and activities we believe are mission-critical for digital business transformation and, therefore, IoT program success. Source: Georgia Tech Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT).

Expert Advice on Making the Digital Transformation

Georgia Tech’s Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies provides new insights and advice on IoT project implementation with suggested frameworks for improving your approach to this transformative process.

Smart Manufacturing

Seeking an End to Pilot Purgatory

Launched in 2016, the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute is ready to unveil an information infrastructure that promises to provide the frictionless movement of democratized data.

IIoT Enables Next-Level Remote Asset Monitoring

Connectivity advances and intelligent offerings are making it easier for manufacturers to monitor remote plant sites while opening up potential for new product-as-a-service offerings.

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