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Rockwell Automation and Cisco release several Converged Plantwide Ethernet network design guides
The guides are intended give companies best practices for wired and wireless network architectures when deploying cloud and mobile industrial IoT solutions. The free resources are the latest addition to the Converged Plantwide Ethernet (CPwE) program. -
Festo announces 350,000 sq ft expansion to Mason, Ohio manufacturing center
Construction will be conducted in two phases and is expected to be completed by 2024. The company also plans to add 350 jobs in the fields of engineering, mechatronics, purchasing and material management, as well as production and logistics operations, over the next five years. -
Voith announces strategic partnership with Franka Emika to create Voith Robotics
Voith Robotics will offer self-teaching robots made by Franka Emika, along with software solutions, apps, services and process consulting, to customers in various industries and markets throughout the world. -
Aventics sponsors youth technology education events in Netherlands and Germany
By participating in “Girls Day” and “Future Day,” the pneumatics specialist hopes to draw the interest of children and youth in compressed air as a technology. -
AutoQuiz: Standard Wiring Color for Type K Thermocouple
Type K (chromel–alumel) is the most common general purpose thermocouple with a sensitivity of approximately 41 µV/°C. -
Grace Engineered Products announces acquisition of Civionics
Civionics were the creators of Percēv IIoT predictive sensing technology. Artificial Intelligence (AI) built into each Percēv wireless sensing node works to maximize battery life and enable predictive maintenance capabilities to be deployed on both new and legacy assets. -
Phoenix Contact sees growth heading into HANNOVER MESSE
With double-digit sales growth in 2017, Phoenix Contact has exceeded the two billion euro mark, achieving a turnover of 2.205 billion euro. At the same time, the number of employees increased to 16,500 personnel worldwide. -
Siemens announces adoption of Palo Alto Networks firewalls (NGFWs)
The Palo Alto Networks NGFW aims to put in place protection to secure the complex interfaces between office and automation networks. The NGFWs allow Siemens customers to select from a variety of security levels and adjust them in-line with their own specific needs. -
Does Manufacturing Need Lean Methods to Stay Competitive?
By Chad Smith and Carol Ptak, Demand Driven Institute Manufacturing needs Lean methods to stay competitive in the more complex environment of the twenty-first century. Lean needs an effective customer-centric planning approach to bring that vision to reality. -
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) releases version 1.1 of its Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
The framework was developed with a focus on industries vital to national and economic security, including energy, banking, communications and the defense industrial base.

