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Inductive Automation Explains What’s Next for Ignition
Automation technology trends around mobility and data access are driving quality and process improvements to the Ignition industrial automation platform.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Partnership Enables Consolidated IT/OT View
Tripwire and Nozomi Networks partner to provide security controls across IT and operations technology in IoT environments.
IIoT
IoT Applied to Marketing
IoT is propelling increasingly intelligent products which open up new opportunities not only within industrial production, but in any situation and for any type of field.
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Non-Magnetic Coaxial Cable
Superior signal transmission and increased reliability
Cybersecurity
Remote Access Grows Even as Cybersecurity Fears Surge
Economic uncertainty and the quest for efficiency are driving the adoption of remote access technology across industry, even as growing concerns surrounding cybersecurity have many industry leaders spooked about greater levels of network connectedness.
Plant Maintenance
The Maintenance-Finance-Safety Connection
Did you know computerized maintenance management systems can be used to mitigate financial and safety risks faced by manufacturers?
IIoT
The State of Cloud-Based Automation Today
A look at how digitalization and the need for scalability are driving more interest and investment in cloud-based industrial applications and how automation technology suppliers are responding.
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Non-Magnetic Coaxial Cable
Superior signal transmission and increased reliability
Take Five
How Tools from Video Game Development Benefit the Industrial Digital Twin
As digital twin use-cases expand, tools from the field of video game development are providing a boost to their usability and aesthetic presentation. Discover the full story on this Take Five with Automation World video.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Myth: We Are Disconnected
Many consider their manufacturing systems or industrial control systems “disconnected” and safe. However, there are a number of factors working against that assumption to threaten systems.
IIoT
IIoT Connected Assets Guide
Industry IoT Consortium releases a guide designed to help manufacturers network connected assets and products.
IIoT
It’s Time to Get Real with Industrial Transformation
Find out about LNS Research's findings on companies' Industry 4.0 transformation efforts, success, and progress.
IIoT
Industry Support Organizations Adapt to Digital Transformation
The Profibus/Profinet User Organization and the Industrial Internet Consortium announce operational changes reflective of IoT and Industry 4.0-driven changes to the industries they serve.
Analytics
Demystifying Analytics – An Integrator’s Perspective Roadmap
Examine the maturity levels of factory floor convergence, information gleaned, and possible steps to achieve robust data analytics for a manufacturing operation.
Take Five
The State of Industry 4.0 Adoption — Take Five with Automation World Video
A report from Molex finds that the barriers holding back real-world implementation of Industry 4.0 projects have remained largely unchanged, even as attitudes have grown more positive.
Plant Maintenance
The Value of Predictive Maintenance
Implementing and understanding predictive maintenance is essential if unplanned downtime has a high impact on your production schedule. Discover the step-by-step process of how to get the most value out of predictive maintenance for your plant.
Take Five
How to Engage with Standards Development
On today's Take Five: A recent whitepaper from the Industrial Internet Consortium walks readers through the pros and cons of engaging with standards development groups.
IIoT
Moving From Digital Experimentation to Value at Scale
As industrial companies look for larger returns from their digital investments, they need to get beyond the experimentation stage and start generating value at scale. Here are some thoughts on how to do so.
Take Five
The Industrial Edge-to-Cloud Strategy
It’s not whether you’ll use cloud or edge computing, but how you’ll combine the two. Here’s a look at how Google and Litmus are working together to make this easier for manufacturers.
IIoT
Siemens and Dow Unveil Process Industry Testbed at MxD
The demonstration focused on how digital twins and augmented reality can speed time-to-market, enable virtual factory commissioning, and help overcome the skills gap.
Home
Big Data Analytics Optimizes HPP Equipment, Processes
Springing in large part from its acquisition of HPP equipment provider Avure a few years ago, JBT’s iOPS cloud-based performance optimization platform helps to improve utilization, visibility, and control in HPP facilities.
Take Five
The First Open Process Automation Platform Arrives
In 2015, ExxonMobil asked the industry for an open, integrated, and secure industrial control architecture. This year, the Coalition of Open Process Automation has introduced the first commercial offering. Watch this Take Five video for the full story.
Control
Is the Future of Automation Modular?
As standards orgs and suppliers drive the modular automation concept forward, the future of automation looks toward the re-imagining of complex processes and automation infrastructures into subsets of easily configurable building blocks.
