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PELV 2021
Festo Integrates Electric Automation and Pneumatics
At PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2021, Festo showcased its new Simplified Motion Series combining pneumatics and electric automation along with its new gripper technologies.
PELV 2021
ABB's Automated Omnichannel Fulfillment
At PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2021, ABB showed its technologies for developing automated omnichannel fulfillment operations for customized production.
PELV 2021
Moving the Data Center to the Factory Floor
Schneider Electric standardizes its EcoStruxure Micro Data Centers on Stratus Technologies' ftServer edge computing to bring data center operations into industrial operating environments.
Sponsored
Deploy ICS endpoint cybersecurity without installation
Trend Micro Portable Security™ 3 scans for malware in your ICS without installation, allowing you to implement endpoint security in factory system where software installation is not allowed.
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.
Take Five
Drones as an Automation Tool
Drones are being used to aid worker safety, perform facility inspections, detect anomalies, and collect data for Internet of Things applications in the discrete and process manufacturing industries. Find out more on today's Take Five video.
Sponsored
Deploy ICS endpoint cybersecurity without installation
Trend Micro Portable Security™ 3 scans for malware in your ICS without installation, allowing you to implement endpoint security in factory system where software installation is not allowed.
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.
Safety
Safeguarding Your Critical Systems
Access to a support desk with background knowledge of your systems can be a valuable addition as your business continues to grow on their digital transformation journey.
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
A Step-by-Step Guide to 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.
