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Open IoT standards organization establishes new member forum dedicated to european market requirements, regulations, events and more.

In partnership with PDC Racing, the competition uses motorsport as a gateway for students to develop STEM skills and engineering knowledge.

Strategic buy builds on industry-leading food and beverage, pharmaceutical and logistics portfolio.

Integrated approach to access control, intrusion detection, CCTV and real-time worker location will ensure highest level of safety and security performance.

Award highlights Company’s focus on building a diverse and innovative workforce.

New ARC Advisory Group research on the global PLC and PLC-based PAC market reveals that programmable logic controllers (PLC) and programmable automation controllers (PAC) continue to be the preferred choice among machine builders and end users.

"As head of the security research team at Nozomi Networks Labs, today I’m proud to introduce our review of the OT/IoT threat landscape for the first half of 2020 (1H). During this time, our team saw an increase in threats to OT and IoT networks, especially IoT botnet, ransomware and COVID-19-themed attacks." -Alessandro Di Pinto, security research manager with Nozomi Networks.

Automation professionals from the ISA Mentor Program address a question they received: 'How can one quickly identify tuning mistakes?'

The Open Systems International acquisition complements Emerson’s portfolio and helps customers in discrete and hybrid end markets accelerate digital transformation. The Progea Group acquisition expands Emerson’s software portfolio, enabling the rapid shift toward the smart grid.

Your plant or equipment is assembled from objects–your control should be, too. New tools deliver the productivity of OOP without the complexity.

New ARC Advisory Group research on the global Temperature Sensor market reveals that several government regulations intended to increase the safety of factory workers and minimize workplace fatalities are creating lucrative growth opportunities for the market, especially in the food & beverage and chemical industries.

Many manufacturing firms have extended their safety programs to include COVID-19 mitigation, but large portions, if not all, of their initiatives, are handled manually, making it difficult to keep pace with rapidly changing conditions and disparate guidelines from multiple government agencies. Clearly, automation is required to keep pace.

With hundreds of billions at stake, Lux Research outlines what companies need to know about AI and IoT’s impact on the consumer journey.

CPLANE.ai and ExxonMobil have published the results and findings of their digital infrastructure orchestration pilot. As IT/OT Convergence and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) adoption accelerates, new system management challenges must be addressed.

Plastic injection moulding is a difficult application for machine vision. The highly reflective surface of plastics is hard to illuminate correctly, and the fact that the same production line can create items of different colours and shapes is problematic for traditional solutions, only capable of inspecting one product at a time. Zohar Kantor, VP Sales of Inspekto, explains how Autonomous Machine Vision (AMV) has overcome these challenges.

The future of subsea oil and gas operations looks stable, as the industry technology heads toward deepwater oil and gas development sustained by higher oil prices, key technological improvements, and the need to replace maturing shallower water basins.

Autonomous shuttles could be a key element that connects the public transportation systems to reduce private car ownership in the future.

A member of the International Society of Automation (ISA) describes the benefits of volunteering with this association of automation professionals.

The ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance (ISAGCA) shares 5 articles about automation cybersecurity from September 2020.

At HARTING, environmental protection and production have dovetailed for many years. "Ecological responsibility is a fundamental component of our actions," is the motto of our corporate philosophy.

Jim Chappell, Global Head of AI and Advanced Analytics, AVEVA looks at the implications and benefits of artificial intelligence within complex businesses.

Few ETO (Engineer-to-Order) ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) technology solutions are specifically designed for streamlining workflow. This is particularly true for manufacturers who are constantly making new and different components (as opposed to high repetitive quantity manufacturing). Automation in the ETO environment requires lean and efficient production flow.

Experienced New Business Development Manager Tim Hebert was recently hired, and Nick Hitchcock was promoted by Patti Engineering, Inc. to support the increased demand for the company’s control system integration and engineering services.

Siemens Smart Infrastructure and WUN H2 GmbH signed a contract to build one of the largest hydrogen production plants in Germany.

The following will review how executives can leverage machine data for business intelligence to reach that next step.

Harting continues the successful Harting Experts Camp with the autumn kick-off.

New ARC Advisory Group research on the global Farm Management Software market reveals that significant growth in R&D investment in agricultural biotechnology and the emergence of “smart” farming and data analytics will contribute to the growth in the farm management software market.

Smart technology can change the way buildings are designed and maintained to safeguard occupant health and well-being in a post-COVID world.

Recently, we had an opportunity to talk with Williams about the shifts in manufacturing she was seeing prior to the pandemic, the impact of COVID-19 on DELMIAworks’ customers, and how the company has adapted to support their needs.

In an industry where stakes are high, failure cannot be tolerated, and technical performance must be flawless, ProPlex is the default standard for portable network cabling.