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IIoT
Integrating Edge Computers with Legacy Systems
In this episode, we connect with Josh Eastburn and Benson Hougland of Opto 22 to learn more about connecting edge computing technology with legacy automation technologies in industrial environments.
Factory
CPGs Need to Adapt to Meet Growing Food Demand
Water / Wastewater
The Cost and Safety Benefits of Automated Water Management
Home
How Kellogg Manages Cybersecurity Risks in Manufacturing
IIoT
The End of the Road for Spreadsheets?
Home
Digital Twin Double-Take
Most OEMs aren’t embracing the idea of creating a digital twin for the machine, but the benefits—including design flexibility, faster time-to-market, and virtual training—deserve a second look.
3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing Comes to Oil and Gas
As industrial applications of additive manufacturing become more prevalent, the oil and gas industry looks to the technology to speed up prototyping and the manufacturing of spare parts.
Plant Maintenance
Top Articles of 2019: Wearable Technology
Coverage of Shell’s use of head-mounted displays to provide remote assistance to field workers is one of Automation World’s top 5 articles of the year.
Plant Maintenance
Keeping Control Cabinets Cool
In this episode of the 'Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered' podcast, we connect with Steve Sullivan of Rittal to learn about the best methods for keeping control cabinets cool in high temperature environments.
IIoT
The Edge-to-Enterprise Strategy
As advances in automation technology make plant-floor-to-corporate-office connectivity a tangible reality, Aveva claims to be the first supplier to deliver a complete edge-to-enterprise system.
Plant Maintenance
GE Digital Releases Asset Model that Adds Context to Data
Proficy Historian 8.0 leverages web-based tools to broaden access to manufacturing information.
Sponsored
Machines that sense the world around them
ADI gives cobots the ability to sense, adapt and interpret its surroundings. Our motion detection and machine learning expertise is transforming factory floors. From invention to breakthrough with ADI.
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Where Are They Now? An Open Process Automation Forum Update
As the group readies version 2.0 of its open process automation standard, there’s an overarching feeling of unity but an underlying concern about what this architecture really means for manufacturers and industrial control suppliers in the future.
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Digital Maturity: A United View
Automation World survey results highlight the importance of corporate and plant floor alignment for digital transformation initiatives.
Factory
How IO-Link Benefits OEMs and End Users
Already popular in Europe, the IO-Link industrial communication technology is reportedly growing by double digits in the U.S. Learn why this point-to-point data communication method is increasingly preferred across industry for delivering device data.
IIoT
Rockwell Builds Digital Ecosystem for Customers With Accenture Partnership
Announced this week at Automation Fair, the partnership with Accenture’s Industry X.0 will focus on bringing expertise together to help industrial clients transform their connected operations.
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Software Helps Meat Processor Save $2 Million in Maintenance Costs
West Liberty Foods shifted maintenance and other operations from reactive to proactive with help from Leading2Lean’s CloudDispatch computerized maintenance management software.
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Manufacturing Digitalization That Works
Though digitalization is a process that is often seen as great, the benefits are not the same for everyone. Asking how digitalization is going to benefit your organization may be important to your digital future.
IIoT
Are DataOps the Missing Link to Industry 4.0?
In digital industries where data is the lifeblood of decision-making, the ability to contextualize data for use by multiple systems is critical. That’s where DataOps software comes in.
Home
Schneider Electric Releases New Line of Intelligent Enclosures
To speed up project execution and decrease the costs that come with plant start-ups, Schneider Electric offers a new generation of intelligent enclosures for Triconex and Foxboro.
Process
Certification Emphasizes Cybersecurity of Schneider Electric’s Processes
TÜV Rheinland has certified the automation supplier’s Secure Development Lifecycle process to ISA/IEC 62443-4-1 cybersecurity standards. This was a highlight to this week’s Triconex and Foxboro user group meetings in Austin.
Software
The SaaS-ification of PTC
PTC’s pending acquisition of Onshape will add a cloud-based Software as a Service product development platform to the company’s CAD and PLM portfolio.
OEE
Emerson Releases Asset Monitoring Edge Device
The new AMS Asset Monitor edge analytics device is designed to increase asset visibility and provide predictive analytics.
Networks
The Machine Economy is Upon Us
The IOTA Foundation has been working on an IoT communication protocol that will enable machines to autonomously conduct transactions in a fee-free, secure, and trustworthy exchange.
Software
Bringing Industry 4.0 to the Australian Defense Force
This article lays out the four key benefits when adopting Industry 4.0 technologies in your organization.
Software
Production Cockpit Analytics Software
TrendMiner 2019.R3 introduces a “production cockpit” that provides the processing engineer multiple ways to visualize and track plant production.
Data
Load Sensing by Light
SKF Fiber Optic Sensing uses optical fibers to measure forces in real time in difficult environments and without electronics.
