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Bill Lydon
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FeatureJohn Deere Digitalization & Automation Increases Farming Productivity
In addition to automation in factories, John Deere has applied a wide range of technologies to the difficult task of automating farming. Leading edge technologies and Industry 4.0 concepts are incorporated in John Deere’s new products, increasing productivity enabling farmers to produce more to feed a growing global population. -
FeatureModerna Builds Native Digital Process Automation on Amazon Web Services
Moderna’s award-winning cGMP clinical development manufacturing facility—based in Norwood, Mass.—has a native digital process automation design built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It serves as a great example of the integration of an entire manufacturing business using the latest technological building blocks, architecture and IoT ecosystem. -
News26 Automation Trailblazers Who Changed the World
The International Society of Automation (ISA) explores the lives and careers of some of those who have made the biggest impact on the world of automation. -
FeatureAmazon Industrial Digitalization Platform
Discrete and process manufacturers constantly struggle to create integrated manufacturing systems using disparate automation systems within a facility. Amazon Web Services now provides a flexible and open solution for achieving effective holistic operations, from sensor to enterprise. -
FeatureOPC UA FLC (Field Level Communication) Enables Integrated Manufacturing Business
The OPC UA FLC (Field Level Communication) initiative revolutionizes industrial communications to achieve integrated manufacturing business operations from sensor to enterprise and cloud. -
FeatureAutomation Fair at Home 2020: Rockwell Automation Evolution
The annual Rockwell Automation conference, Automation Fair at Home 2020, included a range of presentations highlighting the company’s Lifecycle Services, support of IT/OT integration and digitalization offerings with partners including Accenture and PTC. -
FeatureODVA Discusses New Principal Member, Cybersecurity, 2021 Directions
ODVA’s briefing included naming HARTING a new principal member, details on CIP Security enhancements for EtherNet/IP that enable user-level authentication, and the standard organization’s strategic priorities for 2021. -
FeatureSPE Pioneer Summit 2020: Revolutionizing Industrial Automation at the Edge
Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) and Advanced Physical Layer (APL) are building blocks for a dramatically new manufacturing and process automation digitalization architecture. -
FeatureSchneider Electric Climate Change & Sustainability Commitment: Innovation Summit World Tour 2020
Attending the Schneider Electric Executive Briefing as part of the Innovation Summit World Tour 2020 provided insight into the company’s leadership values, thinking and direction from Chairman and CEO Jean Pascal Tricoire; Philippe Delorme, executive vice-president, energy management; Peter Herweck, executive vice-president, industry automation; and Chris Leong, chief marketing officer. -
FeatureIndustrial Cybersecurity: PAS Optics 2020 Event
The PAS OptICS 2020 virtual event explored the key operational and cybersecurity challenges facing industrial organizations as well as best practices and strategies to address them. -
FeatureEnvisioning the Future: Ignition Community Conference 2020
The Inductive Automation Ignition Community Conference 2020 (ICC2020) has become an important event for automation professionals, and this year’s virtual event due to the pandemic was no exception. -
FeatureIndustrial Automation in the Maker Era: Raspberry Pi Industrial Edge Platform
Sfera Labs has a vision to provide innovative technology bridging the best of the Maker World with the industrial automation market with the introduction of the Iono Pi Max. -
FeatureEdge Computing: Chip Delivers High Performance Artificial Intelligence
The Hailo-8TM inference chip expands the number of industrial Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications possible for a wide range of industrial applications including optimization of production, processes, track & trace, logistics, quality, machine functions, and predictive maintenance by eliminating inherent limitations of server and cloud solutions with processing at the edge. -
FeaturePandemic Accelerates Manufacturing Digitalization
Attending the AVEVA World Digital Virtual Press Roundtable provided thoughts and insights about the impacts of the pandemic and recovery. -
FeatureAVEVA Roundtable Insights: Digitalization Reenergizing Industry
AVEVA hosted a virtual roundtable panel discussion Aug. 26, 2020 with key people from the world’s largest oil & gas organizations to understand how technology is reenergizing industry. -
FeatureRockwell Automation Advances Digital Edge Architecture with ASEM Acquisition
“Seamlessly connecting all levels of a business and turning raw data into powerful insights happens when devices are integrated and data is standardized. No one vendor can do this alone," said Rockwell Automation Chairman and CEO Blake Moret. -
FeatureROKLive DX Strategists Conference: Manufacturing Digitalization Keys to Success
Retired Procter & Gamble VP Tony Saldana highlights the opportunities successful digitalization offers and outlines the skills, actions and mindsets manufacturing companies need to thrive during the pandemic and the Fourth Industrial Revolution Era. -
FeatureOPC Foundation Empowers Sensor-to-Cloud Digitalization
OPC Days 2020, a virtual event held June 22- 25, provided the latest information about OPC UA (Open Platform Communications United Architecture), the protocol-agnostic framework for the Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 initiatives. -
FeatureEra of Empowerment for Automation Professionals
Automation professionals are critical to successfully selecting and applying these technologies and guiding management to maximize their productivity. This role will continue and expand, as more companies look to make informed productive technological investments and implementation decisions to yield profitable results. -
FeatureOpen Standards Mean More Options for Industrial Automation
By Bill Lydon Open system options continue to emerge from nontraditional suppliers and standards groups, and this is a trend that I expect will accelerate and enable multivendor interoperability at all levels of the system architecture. -
FeatureWired and Wireless Networks Advance in Power
Both wired and wireless networks have been undergoing a significant evolution during the past decade, enabling greater opportunities to those who leverage the advancements in the next one. -
FeatureEnhanced Integration Drives Need for Enhanced Cybersecurity
There is an increasing recognition that an integrated cybersecurity approach is required for an entire manufacturing and production company. Many manufacturing companies are realizing with the integration of IT, OT, automation and other functions that designating one leader responsible for all cybersecurity for the company is most effective. -
FeaturePushing Plant Computing to the Edge and to the Cloud Factories
By Bill Lydon Time synchronization and accelerate the continued integration of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) groups. This trend has been facilitating changes in organizational structures, and the creation, in many cases, of integrated IT/OT groups. -
FeatureThe Growing Impact of the Cobot Revolution
By Bill Lydon Accelerating the application of collaborative types of robots is the integration of vision systems with artificial intelligence, and this integration is enabling a range of new applications. -
FeatureDigital Transformation Leads to Integrated Factories
By Bill Lydon, Implementing Digital Twin concepts is quickly becoming fundamental for organizations achieve real-time integrated manufacturing. -
FeatureContinued Evolution for Process Automation
By Bill Lydon The Process Automation industry has been heavily impacted by the influx of new technologies and, as we enter the next decade, several organizations are providing roadmaps in order to help process automation companies enable the best practices to leverage these technologies and drive competitiveness and productivity forward. -
FeatureWorldwide Blossoming of Country-Centric Open Manufacturing Initiatives
By Bill Lydon The impact of open manufacturing initiatives continues to be a worldwide affair. These initiatives continue to grow as industry recognizes the need to modernize and the Industry 4.0 movement (called “Industrie 4.0” in Germany, its country of origin) continues to accelerate. -
FeatureDigitalization Driving Manufacturing to New Heights
By Bill Lydon Manufacturing and production companies are realizing digitalization requires structure, organizational changes, and integration of information technology (IT), operations technology (OT) and automation technology. -
FeaturePTC LiveWorx on Moving Digitalization from Vision to Reality
The multi-session live event, recorded and available on demand for those who missed it, described how digitalization is a competitive imperative for manufacturing and production companies that want to thrive and survive. -
FeatureLeveraging the Digitalization Toolbox to Distance Workers in the COVID-19 Era
By Bill Lydon Running a manufacturing plant in the COVID-19 pandemic era means distancing coworkers and minimizing their interactions. Fortunately, there are a range of industrial automation solutions available that can help organizations achieve these new goals while also being consistent with digitalization investments to improve productivity.