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Industrial OT systems supported by enterprise IT organizations are seeing a switch from on-premises datacenters to public cloud computing architectures. Automation can help with the migration.

Vision-guided robotics deploying 3D machine vision has become the cornerstone of the global race for greater automation. In contrast to 2D vision systems, which can only provide 2-dimensional output images without depth information, 3D vision technologies are able to cope with the intricacies of the 3-dimensional space, delivering a 3D point cloud with X, Y, and Z plane data.

A growing list of leading manufacturers are finding that AR can be applied to a variety of industrial issues.

To gain a competitive edge, industries today need to take advantage of digital solutions to aid in their many production needs.

The ISAGCA recently released a public position paper that describes the policies and associated reference standards supported by the alliance.

Automation pros need to figure out how to operate servers and other power-hungry equipment while optimizing power consumption. Intelligent power distribution units (PDUs) control and distribute power as well as provide metering and switching capabilities.

Booth demonstrations and special presentations highlight new systems and solutions for applications ranging from subsea to cloud-based technologies at OTC 2021 in Houston, Texas.

Orders for manufacturing technology totaled $490.3 million in June 2021, according to the latest U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders report published by AMT–The Association For Manufacturing Technology.

OPC UA and MQTT are open-source technologies representative of the industrial automation architectural shift toward greater flexibility and interoperability. The OPC UA IIoT Starter Kit combines them so users can create solutions for bandwidth-constrained applications.

Here, Hamish White, CEO of telecommunications software provider Mobilise, explores how the telecoms industry is adopting digitalization on every level.