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NEMA President and CEO Debra Phillips issued a statement in response to the White House's urging Congress to pass legislation—the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA)—to strengthen U.S. research, development, and manufacturing for critical supply chains, including semiconductors.

Inaccurate or overlooked alerts on manufacturing data can be reduced with proper data handling when developing and deploying predictive models. This article first appeared in the December 2021 issue of Intech magazine.

Kassow Robots is strengthening its sales team with the appointment of Ulrich Möller as sales manager for the DACH region. In taking this step, Kassow Robots reinforces its sales presence, which is an established goal for 2022.

Plans are to replace the distributed control systems (DCS) at pulp mills in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada with the Valmet DNA, a single automation system for process, machine, drives and quality controls.

Asset management software proves to be a comprehensive, customized, easy-to-use, quick to deploy, cost-effective, and flexible solution.

This vulnerability allows attackers to remotely control and execute code on vulnerable machines.

With a background in delivering award-winning cultural transformation, Jordan will lead the group’s talent and leadership capabilities and the development of an organisational culture that empowers its people.

Although it would be ideal to always select common controls and implementations for both IT and OT, organizations have had challenges in doing so. A new ISAGCA whitepaper explains how to apply ISO/IEC 27001/2 and the ISA/IEC 62443 series to secure operational technology environments. This article originally appeared in the December 2021 issue of Intech magazine.

While most of the Automation Salary Survey 2020-21 results focus on variations in salary, we also surveyed participants about other effects of the pandemic on the workplace, like changes in job functions, opportunities for remote work, and laid off or furloughed employees. COVID-19 is still affecting the workplace, but the survey results show signs of recovery.

Capvidia, a leading CAD software provider in model-based definition (MBD) workflows, saw another record year in 2021.

Johan Jonzon, CMO and co-founder of innovator in edge analytics Crosser, shares insight into how manufacturers can calculate key performance indicators (KPIs) using edge analytics to make the most of their data.

The best automation solution on paper means nothing if it cannot be delivered in 2022. Even remarkable AGVs means nothing if manufacturers and logistics leaders cannot take delivery of the product until 2023.

There is such a high level of data available in manufacturing that it can become overwhelming. Organizations are limited in the amount of data that they can reliably contextualize and convert to information and are further limited in how much information they can act upon.

Caja Robotics, a leader in robotic and flexible goods-to-person solutions for order fulfillment announces today they will be working closely with Bastian Solutions, a Toyota Advanced Logistics company, to integrate Caja robotic systems in the USA.

The ISA88 standards committee, Batch Control, will soon begin work in concert with IEC SC65A on an update of Batch Control Part 1: Models and Terminology. This piece originally appeared in the December 2021 issue of InTech magazine.

Ultimo and XMReality have launched a partnership to help customers improve efficiency and increase safety in field maintenance jobs.

IWS sets up a hub-and-spoke services and support capability to fuel expansion of digital completions technologies.

MLOps is a set of tools and practices which help ensure that the development and release of ML models is orderly, repeatable, and scalable.

ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance (ISAGCA) announces that the first Incident Command System for Industrial Control Systems (ICS4ICS) exercise at S4 will be held in Miami on April 18, 2022 at 2 p.m.