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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.

PC-DMIS Community can access 8+ hours devoted to user education, new features, sneak peeks and face time with top software experts from June 14-16, 2021.

Presentation topics will encompass HART-IP, WirelessHART and PA-DIM technology solutions for digital transformation in process automation.

Orange Business Services, a global network-native digital services company, collaborated closely with Ericsson during the development of the new service. It will offer the service to its enterprise customers.

Fluence Analytics, a startup that provides combined hardware and software analytics solutions to polymer manufacturers, today announced that Craig Allshouse has joined the team as an executive advisor.

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions, a world leader in engineered polymer solutions that seal, damp and protect critical applications in demanding environments, is pleased to announce that Linda Muroski has been named one of Industry Era’s 10 Most Inspiring Women Leaders of 2021.

Festo announces that Kim Harper-Gage, who joined Festo in February 2020 as vice president of operations, has been appointed chief operating officer, and John Holmes, who has more than 25 years of experience at Festo, has been appointed vice president of sales–North America.

Comprimo, Worley’s Sulphur Technology business, is now an authorized licensor for Controls Southeast Inc. (CSI), an AMETEK Company, for a new and patented sulphur degassing technology called ICOn. To date, there is one ICOn unit in operation and two scheduled to start in 2021.

Exploring the application, limits and myths of data analytics.

Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing. What do these terms mean? Can they be used interchangeably or not?

Mission Secure one of five OT/IoT Security companies JMP Securities believe have the capability to dominate the respective market.

Slow recovery out of pandemic predicted up to end of 2023 or into 2024.

KPM Analytics, a global leader in scientific instrumentation for analyzing critical parameters in the food, agriculture, industrial, and environmental sectors, continues to invest and expand its global footprint and infrastructure to better serve its growing customer base.

Zivid, the 3D machine vision camera company, has been named a Gold Honoree in the 2021 Vision Systems Design Innovators Awards for its industrial Zivid Two on-arm 3D color camera.

Effortless integration of Telnet and browser-based warehouse management software with wearable barcode scanners accelerates data capturing and provides guidance with all senses.

Lanner’s edge computing appliances, combined with the Hailo-8 AI Acceleration module, offers the highest performance, lowest power, and most cost-effective edge AI hardware solutions for smart cities, smart retail and Industry 4.0.

Select Intel Atom x6000E series processors certified for applications that must adhere to strict functional safety standards.

This month Interact Analysis released the first detailed assessment of the after-sales services market for warehouse automation installations.

Understand these factors to protect mixed ICS and IoT environments. This article comes from the Ebook Automation 2021: OT/ICS Cybersecurity.

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) today announced the publication of the Global Industry Standards for Industrial IoT whitepaper to offer industry guidance in the development, adoption and use of IIoT standards.

NXM's autonomous IoT security software is recognized by UL as first component to achieve both PSA Certified and UL's Secure IoT Component Qualification.