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Emerson and the Integration of Process and Discrete Automation
Emerson executives Peter Zornio and Stuart Harris provide insights into Emerson’s future following its acquisitions last year of Aventics and GE Intelligent Platforms.
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Are Servo Motor and Drive Combinations from One Vendor Better?
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Motion Failure Alarm Facilitates Commissioning and Configuration
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Virtual Sensor Reads Safe Speed
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Remote HMI Without Attached Display
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Pigler Automation Tests Siemens' Next-Gen DCS
While the Simatic PCS neo was in development, the company enlisted the help of its integration partner to be a pilot user of the new control software.
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HMIs Play Role in Portable Disinfection
Evergreen UV expands the functionality and accuracy of its air and surface disinfection devices with the incorporation of HMIs from Lascar Electronics.
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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.
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Wireless IO-Link Master For Remote Motion Control
SMC’s next-gen wireless base module gets reduced in size and adds flexible connectivity capabilities.
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Today’s Digital Transformation Reality
Dana Inc. and Streamline Innovations show how digital transformations can start today in the discrete and process industries using Ignition to overcome legacy infrastructure’s digital shortcomings.
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Making the Plant a Safe Place
Manufacturers and OEMs must understand that there are many sides to machine safety, including standards, regulations, functional requirements, technology, and even unforeseen circumstances.
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Machines that sense the world around them
ADI gives cobots the ability to sense, adapt and interpret its surroundings. Our motion detection and machine learning expertise is transforming factory floors. From invention to breakthrough with ADI.
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Are you Protecting your Most Valuable Assets?
Safety in manufacturing is nothing new. And though an investment in safety can do so much for a manufacturing plant, it’s something that can easily be ignored or pushed to the side.
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Understanding Safety in Nonroutine Work
When a safety program is well-executed and well-maintained, it becomes part of a company’s core values and culture. Employee well-being is paramount, and no production schedule is worth a safety mishap.
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Mini Wireless I/O Module for Remote Monitoring and On/Off Automation
The Mini Wireless I/O Module from SignalFire Wireless Telemetry integrates an antenna capable of a 3-mile range, which allows a pair of modules to communicate in a point-to-point mode or directly to a Gateway.
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IIoT-Ready Controller for Logic and Motion Applications
The Modicon M262 controller from Schneider offers intuitive, scalable, and reliable machine integration into Industry 4.0 environment, machine to device, machine to human, machine to machine, machine to plant, or machine directly to cloud.
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Safety I/O Modules
Allen-Bradley FLEX 5000 I/O modules from Rockwell Automation can meet the needs of producers in process and heavy industries that require fixed field-wiring terminations or both vertical and horizontal I/O mounting in their distributed safety applications.
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Safety Switch Works Without Contacts
The PSRswitch from Phoenix Contact’s is for smart door safety and position monitoring in machines and assembly lines.
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10.4-inch Rugged and Versatile Vehicle-Mounted Touch Panel Computer
The GOT610-837 vehicle-mounted touch panel computer from Axiomtek is aimed at logistics and manufacturing applications.
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OpenVPX Carrier Cards Provide Flexibility
Acromag’s VPX4520 and VPX4521 6U carrier boards feature five mezzanine slots to interface a combination of I/O, communication, FPGA, GPU, or CPU modules to the bus over a high-speed PCIe Gen 3 link.
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Airgas Upgrades a Legacy DCS
The rip-and-replace project took two years of preparation, but the system cutover required just a 10-day shutdown. Now, using Siemens PCS 7, the company has a more reliable and maintainable DCS that’s ready for the future.
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Pursuing Digital Technologies to Improve Oil Safety
New technologies present both challenges and opportunities for keeping oil and gas workers safe. In two panel discussions at the latest Offshore Technology Conference, safety experts throughout the industry debated how to move forward.
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Achieving Energy Efficiency Through Industry 4.0
Examining the installation of IoT technology in a pharmaceutical production environment can help illustrate how IoT can aid energy conservation efforts, provide predictive analytics for machine and manufacturing processes, and help pharma companies reach ISO 50001 targets.
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Why OPC UA Over TSN Will Prove Critical to Manufacturing IIoT
Industrial system interoperability is on the way through a combination of the determinism supplied by Time-Sensitive Networking and OPC UA’s machine-to-machine communications to better synchronize machinery on the plant floor and the device-level communication inside those machines, regardless of supplier.
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Global Pharmaceutical Optimizes Electronic Batch Records
With the pharmaceutical industry pushing for ever greater plant optimization, a major pharma manufacturer updated its batch processing platform and improved its electronic batch record process.
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Safety I/O Modules Simplify Large Control Applications
Machine designers can use Rockwell’s Allen-Bradley ControlLogix CIP Safety I/O modules to reduce panel space and setup time in larger applications that require a high-density I/O solution.
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Wireless Gas Sensors Increase Toxic Gas Safety
Emerson’s Rosemount 628 Universal Gas Sensors add carbon monoxide and oxygen depletion to the list of measurable hazards.
