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Industry 4.0 promises to be revolutionary for manufacturers—but integrating it and capitalizing on its value can be a daunting challenge. Sponsored by Rockwell Automation and hosted by GlobalSpec, this series of webinars features expert panelists from Industry 4.0's leading SDOs, including the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT), the Canadian Standards Association (CSA Group) and the International Society of Automation (ISA).

K2 Kinetics has announced the acquisition of Robotic Packaging Machinery, LLC (or “RPM” for short).

Thomas Burke, Global Strategic Advisor at CLPA, looks at how food and beverage manufacturers can set up advanced traceability and transparency across their enterprises.

Litmus Edge handles data collection, analytics and integration, while Pluto7 specializes in data science and machine learning on Google Cloud.

A digital twin is a potentially powerful tool that has the capability to address various requirements of manufacturing plants.

ISAGCA asked NIST to consider several additions to President Biden's Executive Order.

A deep-dive into OPC UA technology, initiatives, end user experiences and more.

Flexographic Technical Association, the global professional society of the printing community, announced Rheonics InkSight as the winner of the 2021 FTA Technical Innovation Award. Rheonics InkSight is a breakthrough multi-station ink viscosity & color control system to boost flexo print quality with automation and digitalization.

Industrial controller redundancy improves system availability, but only if it is implemented with the right capabilities.

Testing and documenting the performance of an SIS is an essential part of ensuring it can fulfill its designed functional safety requirements. This article comes from the May 2021 issue of Intech Focus: Process Control and Safety.

How IoT buzzwords are hampering technology’s potential.

Cantier MES 4.0 and Litmus Edge are tightly integrated for shop floor digital transformation projects with rapid time-to-value.

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology relies on the ability of devices to determine their location based on distance, moving direction and relative position to other devices. To meet the UWB ecosystem’s testing needs, Rohde & Schwarz and Colby Instruments have collaborated to offer a concerted test solution that accurately simulates the moving direction of UWB devices.

The global instability and increase in remote work caused by the pandemic have played a role in raising the salience of ICS cybersecurity issues. In particular, phishing attacks and spam campaigns are becoming more common. Here's how to stop them.

Supertec Machinery Inc., one of Taiwan’s leading machine tool manufacturers, has chosen to base new versions of its renowned Plunge type of CNC Cylindrical grinding machines on NUM’s Flexium+ CNC platform.

With the IoT, AI and big data analytics implementations in place, equipment suppliers are now able to provide value-added services in addition to simply selling products to expand into a service-oriented business model. Equipment suppliers need to have a plan and commit R&D resources before they are clear about customers' intentions.

5G, which is capable of providing speeds up to 100 times faster than 4G, may revolutionize how companies use IIoT devices.

Whirlpool Corp. furthers its commitment to sustainability with carbon-neutral cloud infrastructure, while ensuring reliable, low-latency access to critical business systems.

Autonomous manufacturing powerhouse CloudNC is continuing to expand and enhance the capacity of their CNC facility with new machines from their manufacturing equipment partner DMG Mori.