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A Preference for Grayscale HMIs
Why a wastewater reclamation department designed its human machine interfaces without color-intensive, action-packed graphics.
Plant Maintenance
Simultaneous Power Variable Assessment
Aaron Woody of Fluke Corp. details the company's newest 3-phase power analyzer—the Fluke 1770 Series—which can capture all power variables simultaneously.
IIoT
Three Ways Artificial Intelligence is Changing Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Artificial intelligence can aid in remedying some of the pain points in manufacturing, such as maintaining consistent product quality, need for predictive maintenance, and demand for actionable insights from sensor data.
Sponsored
PULS CP10 Series - The Industry's Smallest 240W Power Supply
The PULS CP10 Series breaks all barriers for performance and size. Using the latest power supply technology, this 240W DIN-Rail single-phase power supply series boasts an unmatched efficiency rating of 95.2%
Communication
Time Sensitive Networking Product Testing Expands
The ability to bring determinism to standard Ethernet for use in industrial control system networking gets a boost from Avnu Alliance’s expanded test and certification capabilities.
Plant Maintenance
Industrial Imaging for Air Leak Detection
Fluke Corp.'s Aaron Woody details the company's ii900 Sonic Industrial Imager at Rockwell Automation Fair 2021. It uses acoustic imaging technology to detect compressed air leaks.
Business Intelligence
Choose a System Integrator to Help Navigate Your Digitization
System integrators go beyond merely answering the question of why digitization on the shop floor is essential by providing how to complete your digital transformation seamlessly and efficiently.
Sponsored
PULS CP10 Series - The Industry's Smallest 240W Power Supply
The PULS CP10 Series breaks all barriers for performance and size. Using the latest power supply technology, this 240W DIN-Rail single-phase power supply series boasts an unmatched efficiency rating of 95.2%
Business Intelligence
New Technology Companies to Watch
The complexities of industrial automation are leading innovators to develop new technologies aimed at improving production and supply chain issues. This article highlights eight companies helping manufacturers chart a path toward industry’s future.
Communication
Class-based Unit Coordination Utilizing Link Groups
Take advantage of product functionality to coordinate activities between units.
Take Five
Industrial Sensors in the Vineyard & Other Automation Trends
How Bouchaine Vineyards is using Cisco Industrial Asset Vision sensors to improve growing operations and why the use of remote access and Ethernet I/O are increasing.
Control
The Path from PID to Autonomy
The concept of autonomous operations in manufacturing is not built on wholly new technologies. In fact, it can be seen as part of the continuing development of closed loop feedback systems.
Cybersecurity
Securing MQTT Messages
The use of a message broker in MQTT communications addresses some industrial networking security concerns, but not all of them. The co-inventor of the technology offers tips on how to secure your MQTT communications.
IIoT
How Ultra Long-Life Lithium Batteries Expand the Use of WirelessHART
Lithium battery-powered remote wireless sensors enable WirelessHART communications to reach increasingly remote locations, even in extreme environments.
IIoT
The Value of Power Control Rooms
Powell, the creator of the Power Control Room, teams up with Wago to further improve its manufacturing quality and productivity.
Robotics
A Uniform Interface for Robots
Once again, a group of companies has banded together to create a vendor-independent standard and found a home in Profibus International to promote, harmonize, and certify their technology.
IIoT
Building Secure Wastewater Management in the Cloud
System integrator Perceptive Controls helps one community make the leap into a MQTT Sparkplug-based SCADA infrastructure.
Control
Spitz Digitalizes Its Production with Manufacturing Execution System
To future-proof its operations, which produce more than 1 million products a day, Spitz turned to Siemens Simatic IT Production Suite to increase process stability and product quality while connecting its business and process control systems.
Cybersecurity
Securing Distributed Control Systems
Industrial control system cybersecurity is often discussed in broad terms, but the distributed control systems used in the continuous processing industries introduce some unique cybersecurity requirements.
IIoT
Integrators Dish on Industrial Technology Trends
The value of remote access for viewing control system data and training purposes, along with lessons from automation project failures, were among the key takeaways from 2021 for industrial system integrators.
Sensors
Industrial Sensors Boost Vineyard Data
Bouchaine Vineyards deploys Cisco Industrial Asset Vision sensors to collect temperature, light, humidity, wind, and water data throughout the growing season.
Business Intelligence
Best Practices for Integrating Plant Floor Automation
Looking to achieve your manufacturing plant's goals with automation? Learn what common challenges to expect and best practices to make your system integration a success.
Cybersecurity
3 Common Attack Vectors for Industrial Control Systems
A critical key to effective control system security requires understanding how cyber-attacks occur.
