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Navigate the future of industrial automation with this essential handbook on industry’s digital transformation. Discover how to cut through data overload and prioritize ...
Oct. 23, 2025
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Manufacturers have no shortage of data—but AI needs more than raw input to deliver real value. Learn how MES creates the foundation for smart, scalable AI by transforming disconnected...
Nov. 13, 2025
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Discover how proven welding automation strategies—paired with the right partner—can boost revenue, attract talent, improve quality, and reduce costly rework. Go beyond ROI. Learn...
Oct. 30, 2025
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Rip, replace, repeat? Get out of costly obsolescence and re-engineering traps with a solid foundation for future-proofed automation and controls technology.
Sept. 30, 2025

Podcasts

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XTS EcoLine: How Beckhoff Achieved 70μm Repeatability at Nearly Half the Cost
Jeff Johnson, mechatronics product manager at Beckhoff Automation, explains the company's new EcoLine motor modules — why they're less expensive than standard XTS motor ...
Nov. 6, 2025
sensors
Find out how manufacturers are using IIoT-enabled sensors to reduce downtime, optimize energy consumption, and achieve measurable ROI through improved diagnostics and real-time...
Nov. 5, 2025
Oxipital AI Vision Tech Explanation
Anthony Romeo with Oxipital AI explains their V-CortX vision technology for food inspection. Learn more about this at: https://www.automationworld.com/55321091 CHAPTERS 0:07 How...
Oct. 22, 2025
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Processors, chips, vision sensors, and flow meters are experiencing the biggest price increases … as manufacturers struggle with rising costs from imported components.
Oct. 8, 2025

Factory

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Industry leaders from Archetype AI, Emerson, Endress+Hauser, Hexagon, Siemens and Yokogawa share insights about the impact of controllers, machine vision and AI on production ...
Nov. 4, 2025
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In this episode, we connect with Steve Wetzel, a member of IEEE and principal applications engineer with Southwire Company, one of North America's largest wire and cable manufacturers...
Nov. 4, 2025
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Festo’s FPaKit focuses on the tech integration aspects facing machine builders in automated palletizing applications.
Nov. 3, 2025
Beckhoff EcoLine motor module
The strategic engineering behind EcoLine maintains 95% performance of the standard XTS motor module while cutting costs nearly in half through modified feedback systems and extended...
Oct. 30, 2025

Process

End-to-end automation control with the Digi Axess mobile app, VPN service and Digi Z45 controller (shown).
Industrial teams can monitor and secure critical systems through use of a mobile app and VPN service.
Nov. 4, 2025
Chris VanRemoortel
Using Inductive Automation’s Ignition software as an example, I explain how Git transforms automation development by tracking every change in Ignition 8.3 and PLC projects, enabling...
Nov. 3, 2025
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How can electrification help modernize industrial operations?
Oct. 31, 2025
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The partnership combines Körber's PAS-X MES platform with Pepperl+Fuchs' VisuNet interfaces for secure and regulatory compliant production management worldwide.
Oct. 31, 2025

Products

AutomationDirect Inductive Sensors
From AutomationDirect to Pepperl+Fuchs, explore sensing and machine safety products from top automation suppliers.
Oct. 28, 2025
Newark MP-R407T5-A-3P3 Soft Starter
The MP-R407T5-A-3P3 soft starter is suitable for motors up to 3.7kW, offering smoother start and stop speed to motors ensuring safety and enhancing the motor’s life period.
Oct. 27, 2025
Posital Deutsch DTM Connectors
Posital is extending its family of Tiltix inclinometers by adding Deutsch DTM connectors as a new interface option.
Oct. 24, 2025
SMC ZHV Vacuum Flow Unit
The ZHV from SMC can function either as a blow-off unit or a vacuum unit depending on the direction of the output port.
Oct. 23, 2025

Control

Colby Clegg (left) and Carl Gould deliver the opening keynote at Inductive Automation's Ignition Community Conference 2025.
How the technology frustrations of industrial system integrators led to Inductive Automation's Ignition platform and its unlimited licensing and open architecture that continues...
Oct. 8, 2025
Mitsubishi Electric GOT3000 HMI
Why industry is turning toward high-performance HMIs to increase safety and operational efficiency.
Sept. 30, 2025
The new Premix facility in North Carolina
A look at how the Finnish specialty chemicals company used decades of formulation data to revolutionize its polymer compounding operations in the United States.
Sept. 25, 2025
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Remote monitoring, visualization and historian project enables remote monitoring and unattended cell cultivation, advancing cultured meat production toward fully autonomous manufacturin...
Sept. 22, 2025

Robotics

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Advanced AI computing delivers a 7.5x performance boost, enabling autonomous pick-and-place operations in high-density environments.
Oct. 30, 2025
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Hidden packaging inefficiencies can sabotage warehouse investments in autonomous mobile robots. One often overlooked metric — order lines per robot — can boost ROI by up to 50...
Oct. 29, 2025
Inverted Fanuc LR Mate 200iD six-axis robot
An innovative approach to automation design used inverted six-axis robots and a gravity-fed tray system to boost throughput by 20% while reducing labor by 66.7%.
Oct. 14, 2025
ABB IRB robot
ABB sells its robotics division to SoftBank for $5.375 billion, pivoting from its previously planned spin-off to become part of SoftBank's physical AI ambitions.
Oct. 13, 2025