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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
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Reverse Engineering the Organization
Mobility
Remote Technologies From Honeywell Enable Continued Operations
Control
Festo Explores How Digitization Affects Energy, Education
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.
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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.
Plant Maintenance
Emerson Adds Augmented Reality for Asset Management
This summer’s update to Plantweb Optics will include augmented reality capabilities to help users locate troublesome assets and correct issues with the aid of experts via real-time collaboration.
Workforce
Georgia-Pacific’s Approach to IT/OT Convergence
Like many industrial organizations, Georgia-Pacific was struggling with the loss of operating expertise created by a retiring workforce. Coordinating the company’s IT and OT departments is helping to solve the issue and improve the way the company operate
Design
Closing the Loop Between CAD, PLM, Digital Twins, and the Cloud
Siemens Digital Industries Software adds to its Xcelerator portfolio to enhance design, engineering, and manufacturing software, and partners with IBM on service lifecycle management.
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.
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Noosa Yoghurt Cuts Downtime, Product Loss With Valve Upgrade
The TrueClean CIP’able air blow check valve from Central States Industrial enabled the yogurt maker to save hours of downtime and many pounds of product every week, with an expected savings of $350,000 a year.
Design
Software as a Service Enters Engineering and Manufacturing Circles
PTC introduces Atlas, a SaaS-based product development platform, and teams up with Rockwell Automation and Microsoft to deliver Factory Insights as a Service.
Plant Maintenance
Technology Matters: Remote Access, Virtual Workforce Training, and Functional Machine Safety
A review of automation technology developments recently covered by Automation World to help you stay on top of what’s happening in the world of industrial automation.
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Bluetooth Sensor and Mobile App Simplifies Machine Monitoring
Allows prediction of machinery issues before operations are impacted
Communication
FDT Group Releases Data Exchange Standard for Next-Gen Automation
The new FDT 3.0 standard and developer toolkits are secure, scalable and platform-independent, enabling remote access to device and network data across the enterprise without PLC/DCS host intervention.
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Fast-Track Fulfillment of a Frozen Food Favorite
Now better positioned to keep up with yearly double-digit growth of its popular Uncrustables line, The J. M. Smucker Company creates a highly automated facility that boasts the largest single baking line in the world.
Cybersecurity
Securing Your Intellectual Property
Protecting an intellectual property is very important for many organizations, it is also the main target for hackers. Steps need to be taken in practically every part of the organization to make sure the intellectual property is secure.
Regulatory
Using Automation to Fast Track COVID-19 Vaccine Production
Honeywell combines batch software, virtualization, cloud, and more to prepare manufacturing capabilities in parallel with clinical trials.
COVID-19
Technology Steps Forward for Social Distancing
As more manufacturers are allowed to resume production amid the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping their workers distanced will be key to keeping them healthy. Here are some innovations to help achieve that.
Communication
Technology Built for the Open Road Hits the Plant Floor
General Mills turns to Sena Technologies—known for its Bluetooth motorcycle helmets—to train machine operators while social distancing.
Analytics
Cutting the Cost of Compliance with Connected Systems
A look at how Blendtech bridges information technology and operation technology systems to improve safety and accounting as well as compliance with regulations.
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New Technologies Feed the Hunger for Information
Trying to keep up with productivity, quality, safety, sustainability, and other industry demands, food and beverage plants are turning increasingly to the innovations found in today’s sensor instrumentation.
Analytics
MadTree Brewing Gets a One-Stop Supervisory Management System
Though outdated, many organizations continue to use spreadsheets and whiteboards to keep track of and consolidate data. MadTree Brewing Company was among those companies until they implemented the Ignition platform from Inductive Automation.
Sensors
Cloud-Connected Radar Level Sensor
Endress+Hauser has released the Micropilot FWR30, its first cloud-connected radar level sensor which it claims is the world’s first 80 GHz wireless sensor.
Cybersecurity
Technology Matters: Cybersecurity, Safety, IoT Sensors, Artificial Intelligence
A review of some of the more interesting topics we’ve recently covered to help you stay on top of what’s happening in the world of industrial automation.
