August 2022

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August 2022

Digital Edition

Making Sense of Industrial Networks: Fieldbus and -20mA in the Age of IoT

James Koelsch

Aug. 2, 2022

This installment in our series on key industrial network technologies explains why fieldbus and 4-20mA communications remain relevant despite the proliferation of Ethernet-based...

A control cabinet created by Versatech for Agri-Fab featuring Mitsubishi Electric technology.

IIoT

Creating an Energy Management System

July 27, 2022

With the help of Mitsubishi Electric technologies, automation and engineering company Versatech has developed a system to collect and visualize real time plant-wide energy consumption...

IIoT

Digital Transformation Lessons from a Smart Monitoring System for Potable Water Treatment

July 27, 2022

How the German city of Oberzent connects decentralized measurement points using LoRaWAN and Endress+Hauser’s Netilion IIoT technologies.

IIoT

Why Edge Devices are Essential to IIoT Applications

Charlie Norz

July 27, 2022

From reducing the amount of data that needs to be sent to the cloud for analysis to improving condition-based monitoring applications, edge computing devices are the local devices...

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IIoT

Why So Complicated?

Michael Bowne

July 27, 2022

A renewed focus on usability is required for today’s technologies to become tomorrow’s solutions.

IIoT

Aligning Manufacturing Teams with Data, Collaboration, and Visibility

Rashesh Mody

July 26, 2022

How industrial organizations can leverage trustworthy information in real time to boost their ability to aggregate, contextualize, and share data to support key business drivers...

IIoT

How Network Communications Drive the IIoT Revolution

Lukas Pogoda

July 26, 2022

Internet of Things communication methods such as OPC UA, MQTT, and REST API make field level data available to the cloud, creating flexible production networks to support efficient...

Cybersecurity

Cyber Attacks Spread Along Influx of Technology

Sean Riley

July 26, 2022

The use of new and evolving technologies such as fully integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, cloud computing and connected machine sensor networks, remote access...

Motion

Festo Adds Motion Control to Universal Robots’ Cobots

David Greenfield

July 14, 2022

The Festo Motion Control Package can add up to four axes of motion beyond the six axes of motion provided by Universal Robot’s collaborative robot products.

Side-by-side image shows how Xcelerator visualizations will be made more life-like with Omniverse photo-realistic visuals.

IIoT

Siemens Expands Xcelerator, Begins Industrial Metaverse Development

David Greenfield

June 30, 2022

Two major announcements from Siemens involve expansion of the company’s Xcelerator technology into a wider portfolio of hardware, software, and digital services, and a partnership...

Control

Schneider Electric Continues its Open Automation Journey

Stephanie Neil

June 14, 2022

Plug-and-produce hardware-independent software and agreements with Claroty and Intel accelerate the new era of automation software.

Digital Twin image. Source: Siemens Digital Industries Software

Analytics

Digital Twin Application Considerations

David Greenfield

June 2, 2022

From the reach of the digital twin technology you choose to costs and data preparation issues, there are a number of factors to consider when looking to put a digital twin into...