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  • Six Key Steps for an Effective Industrial Business Process Change

    Six Key Steps for an Effective Industrial Business Process Change

    Efficient business processes could not be more important in the current climate of competitive global markets, subdued demand, and competitive pricing.
    By: Contributing Authors
    21 September, 2016 | 3 minutes
  • Bots will work alongside humans in the future

    Machine learning and artificial intelligence have made the most seemingly impossible things possible in recent years. After the successful integration of IoT systems in various enterprises, the entire digital world is striving for adding bots to various industries to have a more-than-human experience.
    20 September, 2016 | 3 minutes
  • Integration of Automation in End-User Industries to Promote Deployment of Industrial Dispensing Systems and Equipment

    The increasing production output of automotive, chemical, food and beverages, agriculture, and aerospace industry worldwide is directly influencing the rise in demand for industrial dispensing system.
    20 September, 2016 | 1 minutes
  • Evolving Towards the Industrial IoT

    By Bob McIlvride, Skkynet Amidst all the conversation and occasional hype about the Industrial IoT, there has been cautious but steadily increasing implementation. Here are some questions to consider when evaluating an IIoT solution, to help cultivate an evolutionary approach
    19 September, 2016 | 4 minutes
    Sponsored By Skkynet Cloud Systems
  • Analytik Jena announces Ulrick Krauss to be next CEO

    Ulrich Krauss will become the company’s new Chief Executive Officer as of 1 October 2016. Klaus Berka, who founded Analytik Jena with two partners in April 1990 and has led the company ever since, will become a member of the Supervisory Board as of 1 April 2017.
    19 September, 2016 | 1 minute
  • Rockwell Automation opens registration for 25th Automation Fair

    Manufacturers and producers across the globe can see the latest products, services and solutions that help enable a Connected Enterprise at this year’s event, being held at the Georgia World Congress Center on Nov. 9 and 10 in Atlanta.
    19 September, 2016 | 1 minutes
  • Automation Controllers & Word Processors Embrace the Technological Shift or Die

    The foundations of the automation industry are being reshaped right now from the torrent of ideas driven by Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Given today’s trends, are industrial automation controllers headed down a path to extinction?
    By: Bill Lydon
    19 September, 2016 | 3 minutes
  • OPC UA PubSub: Bringing the Power of the Cloud to Industrial Automation

    By Randy Armstrong, Sparhawk Software The widespread deployment of cloud based solutions has many factory operators wondering how they can take advantage of it to streamline their operations. The needs of these users have been the driving force behind the OPC UA PubSub Specification.
    19 September, 2016 | 3 minutes
  • NUM launches NUMmill CNC control solution

    NUMmill is designed specifically for CNC milling machine manufacturers and control retrofitters. It offers an extensive suite of canned cycles, ranging from simple center drilling, boring and threading to pocket cycles and complex profile milling cycles
    19 September, 2016 | 2 minutes
  • OPC Foundation, PLCopen and OMAC start OPC UA communications collaboration

    Collaborative efforts by standards organizations, such as OMAC, OPC Foundation, and PLCopen, align with the Industrial Internet Consortium's goal to ultimately identify and define building blocks for interoperability that help make smart factories and IIoT possible.
    19 September, 2016 | 2 minutes
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