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Aventics makes a move to expand its business beyond pneumatics in order to offer the market both pneumatic and electronic systems and components in response to customer demands.

Industrial pervasive sensing devices lower energy requirements and reduce maintenance costs.

The PartnerNetwork program is designed to help industrial companies better solve their production and automation challenges by working with an expansive network of suppliers, distributors, system integrators, and machine and equipment builders.

The company’s expansion in Japan is designed to strengthen its existing relationships with key clients in financial services and other sectors, as well as expanding partnerships with global consulting firms and Japanese system integrators to explore new business opportunities.

RPA Express lets customers automate the manual work of integrating Citrix, Oracle, SAP and other vital core systems by eliminating the “swivel chair” tasks of entering credentials, navigating application interface, and performing core systems functions.

Prior to joining Konrad USA, Mr. da Silva was Director of Engineering at Apple, Inc – Cupertino, California and before that he was Vice President of Operations at Siemens COM, Inc – San Diego, California.

By Ola Lennartsson, Axis Communications For a long time, physical security was strictly analog, and it’s only connection to the IT network was at its end point. But now, now that IP-based security systems are becoming the norm, with all the associated benefits, both IT & OT professionals need to be aware that the game has changed.

Teledyne DALSA will feature its BOA Spot ID advanced barcode reader and latest innovations in thermal imaging in booth #459 at Automate 2017

By Matt Smith, Cortet Engineering This article will help readers navigate through the deluge of IoT information and identify which technology choices will have the biggest positive impact on upcoming product plans.

The podium discussion on 25 April, “High-Level Research as Innovation Motor in Germany”, addresses the importance of science and STEM education for the further economic, industrial and innovative development of Germany.

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com Connectivity is the name of the game in today’s IIoT atmosphere and ODVA is the latest to join the push for open communication standards. ODVA’s Common Industrial Cloud Interface (CICI) Special Interest Group is working on enhancements to ODVA specifications to connect CIP (Common Industrial Protocol) protocols, EtherNet/IP & DeviceNet with cloud applications.

Successful leak detection depends on a productive confluence of several situationally dependent technologies.

The postal recognition technology of Prime Vision will complement Delft Robotics to apply robots based on 3D machine vision using deep learning.

Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been awarded a contract by Great Lakes Energy (GLE) for a SCADA and Distribution Management System (DMS) based on OSI's monarch (Multi-platform Open Network ARCHitecture) platform.

Dr. Wade—who has more than 50 years of experience designing, applying and installing process control systems—says the updated edition builds upon the real-world experiences and process knowledge of engineers and technicians to demonstrate the application of successful regulatory control strategies and techniques.

By Travis Schneider, Parker Hannifin To increase the chances for success in these collaborations, clear ongoing communication between the motion supplier and OEM customer is critical. The following guidelines are crucial in any engineering collaboration of this type.

Elite can access the platform’s fire and gas control system remotely from its headquarters in Livingston, Scotland. As a result, the automated control systems used to operate Chirag operate and allow production to continue without interruption

With the 2016 North American robotics market breaking all-time records in orders and shipments, according to the Robotic Industries Association (RIA) survey, OptoForce looks forward to playing a role in the automation of North American manufacturing initiatives.

Model predictive control excels at dead-time dominance and simultaneous optimization while accounting for future prediction of proximity to constraints.

The collaboration is designed to offer customers enhanced features, coordinated system-wide control, and data integration from legacy SCADA environments to new enterprise-wide solutions.