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Plant Maintenance
Asset Performance Management Developments for Oil & Gas
Siemens and Aveva announce strategic partnerships around advanced asset performance management capabilities for the oil and gas industries.
Control
Laying the Groundwork for a Self-Optimizing Plant
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COVID-19 Test Medium Production Ramped Up By 20,000% in Six Months
Sensors
Focusing on High-Speed and Accuracy in Machine Vision
Communication
What is Industrial Single Pair Ethernet
OEE
Death by a Thousand Spreadsheets: The Simple Yet Insidious Nature of Time Series Data
Despite their many limitations, spreadsheets are the tool of choice for engineers performing ad hoc analytics on time series data. Fortunately, there are better alternatives in the form of advanced analytics software.
Home
Artificial Intelligence Advances Food Safety
Landing AI is helping food producers overcome not only the limitations of their human workforce but of traditional machine vision as well, using machine learning to better evaluate issues around food safety.
Sponsored
Check out The Cobot Spot from Universal Robots
Looking for automation solutions for packaging and palletizing? This is your destination for all things cobot. Whether it’s webinars, video case studies or product information, you’ll find it all in this one spot.
Communication
Can IO-Link and SPE Work Together?
Integrating an existing industrial communication standard with an up-and-coming method often creates headaches. But several industry experts see an easy path to integrating IO-Link and Single Pair Ethernet.
Analytics
Data Analysis Helps Glassmaker See Through Its Processes
Using OSIsoft’s PI to monitor thousands of data points across a high-intensity float glass production system that runs 24/7, AGC has been able to reduce downtime and improve operations.
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RōBEX Names New President
Craig Francisco was named President of RōBEX. He will lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the company and its three business units: Automation & Robotics, Industrial Services and Annealing Lehr installation & maintenance for glassmakers.
Sponsored
Discover the Secrets of a Successful Automation Project
Learn about planning and project management, building your machine or automated system, and technologies to improve manufacturing outcomes. Automation World’s free resource features 150 pages on managing automation projects from start to finish.
IIoT
Organizations Join Forces to Address Digital Transformation Challenges for Oil and Gas
To address the digital transformation challenges oil and gas companies have historically faced, Doris Group, Schneider Electric, and Aveva have partnered to create digital twin technology to help face these challenges.
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A Cannabis Equipment Supplier Turns to Automation to Extract CBD at Commercial Scale
Precision Extraction Solutions’ new CBD extraction equipment uses modular systems and PC-based controls from Beckhoff Automation to enable reliable, high-performance large-scale processing.
Control
Aveva to Acquire OSIsoft
The combination of the two companies’ software technologies will reportedly enable Aveva to further advance its ability to deliver big data, cloud, and artificial intelligence-driven insights.
Communication
Cisco Aids Dairy Farmers of America’s Digital Transformation
To optimize operations and workforce continuity in support of the nation's food supply during the pandemic and beyond, Cisco and system integration firms are installing communication technologies to accelerate the advance of milk product production.
Home
Compressed Air Measurement Helps Reduce Energy Use
Installing Festo’s E2M energy efficiency modules helped medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers tackle their environmental footprint, not only saving money but using the data to provide predictive maintenance as well.
IIoT
Much Ado About Data Quality
Ensuring proper data quality for digital transformation initiatives lies in a two-pronged approach that emphasizes technology and human communication.
COVID-19
How COVID-19 is Impacting Automation Decisions
The pause in many ongoing projects as the pandemic hit gave companies more time to think about how to move forward with their automation projects. The result is an increased use of remote access and data analytics.
Communication
OPC Foundation Joins APL Project; Announces OPC UA Motion
Highlighting its role in the development of new industrial process and discrete communications, the OPC Foundation has joined the advanced physical layer for industrial Ethernet project group and is working with ODVA and Sercos on a new motion technology.
Food safety
The Importance of Material Tracing
Traceability on a processing or production line is incredibly important, especially when it comes food products, where having the ability to track every ingredient down to the source is crucial to the health and safety of the consumers.
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Reverse Engineering the Organization
A new book reveals how “future-back” thinking—defining what the company will look like decades from now and working backwards—can encourage innovative ideas that will create breakthrough growth.
Mobility
Remote Technologies From Honeywell Enable Continued Operations
Encouraged by the COVID-19 pandemic to push remote capabilities out to a wider swath of industries, Honeywell Process Solutions has released products and services geared toward remote operations, safety, commissioning, lifecycle services, and more.
Control
Festo Explores How Digitization Affects Energy, Education
From digital pneumatics to bionic birds, the automation supplier discusses the technologies that will shape the factory of the future.
Control
Changing the Controller Redundancy Paradigm
Honeywell highlights how its Experion PKS HIVE products are designed to change industry’s approach to controller redundancy by creating a mesh of controllers in which backup can be provided by any available controller’s compute power.
IIoT
Digitization and Adaptation to a Changing World
The Aveva World digital conference focused on the factors accelerating industry’s digital transformation and how Aveva is not only supplying the technologies to support this, but using them to transform the way they do business themselves.
IIoT
Emerson Plantweb Optics
The summer 2020 update to Emerson Automation Solutions Plantweb Optics software will include augmented reality capabilities for troubleshooting equipment and real-time collaboration.
