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Moving Beyond Prototypes: Is 3D printing the answer for the manufacture of safety-critical vehicle parts?
By Kostas Poulios, Pailton Engineering This article explains how 3D printing is used in large vehicle manufacturing and whether this method could play a role in the production of safety critical parts. -
OSIsoft announces Michael Siemer as President
Siemer, an energy industry veteran with extensive experience in leveraging software technologies to transform complex industrial operations, comes to OSIsoft from Devon Energy Corporation -
MonarchFx and NexusFx announce strategic alliance with Etail Solutions
This alliance will enhance and complete product and service offerings for all clients. -
How Connected Buildings and Power Grids Make Cities 'Smart'
Smart cities are not just about installing digital interfaces in traditional infrastructure. They use technology and data to help us make better decisions & deliver a better quality of life. -
Siemens helps Mazda enhance electronic design software
The Capital automated generative design flow helps Mazda automotive design teams manage design complexity and changes across the entire vehicle platform. -
EtherCAT Technology Group holds first Safety over EtherCAT Plug Fest
A total of 36 participants from 18 different companies came to Verl, Germany to test their FSoE devices for interoperability, and in total they brought nine masters, 15 slaves as well as one stack and one tool -
Senseye announces opening of German office
Senseye’s expansion into Essen, Germany coincides with a period of expansion at the company, which is experiencing demand across Europe for its Predictive Maintenance industrial software. -
Siemens announces launch of MindSphere World Korea association
World Korea is designed to create synergies among members by exchanging technical demands, developing market models and establish IoT platforms and ecosystems based on MindSphere -
2018 Pharmaceutical Automation Roundtable (PAR) Insights – Survey
By Bill Lydon, Automation.com The PAR meetings to represent one of the most knowledgeable groups of automation professionals gathered in one place, at any one time, to discuss automation issues, and the 2018 event was no exception. -
Digital Fairs USA announces Fortinet's Phil Quade as keynote speaker
A highlight of the trade show is its on-floor educational sessions lead by industry visionaries who will provide detailed, action-oriented discussions on connected technologies for the plant from proof of concept right through fully connected factory operations. -
Does IIoT Live Up to the Hype?
Is IIoT really a game changer for the industrial automation and process control industries? Or is it just a trendy buzzword? -
ExxonMobil Collaborates on Open Process Automation Systems
ExxonMobil signed collaboration agreements with six other companies to accelerate the development of Open Process Automation (OPA) systems -
Analysis and Measurement Services Corporation (AMS) earns ISA Power Industry Division (POWID) Co-Facilities Award
The award recognizes outstanding application of innovative control systems and/or instrumentation technology in the production of electric power. -
Sunnen Products announces partnership with Applied Nano Surfaces to advance friction and wear reduction technology
Triboconditioning is a combined mechano-chemical surface treatment process which uses a machining procedure to level off surface peaks and apply a friction- and wear-reducing compound to the component surface. Unlike spray coatings, the compound becomes an integrated part of the component structure at a nano level. -
Sunnen Products announces partnership with Applied Nano Surfaces to advance friction and wear reduction technology
Triboconditioning is a combined mechano-chemical surface treatment process which uses a machining procedure to level off surface peaks and apply a friction- and wear-reducing compound to the component surface. Unlike spray coatings, the compound becomes an integrated part of the component structure at a nano level. -
ABB to introduce collaborative robots to medical laboratories at Texas healthcare hub
A 20-strong team from ABB Robotics will work in the new 5,300 sq ft (500m2) research facility, which includes an automation laboratory and robot training facilities, as well as meeting spaces for co-developing solutions with innovation partners. -
Sectigo announces partnership with NetObjex to secure edge computing technology
The collaboration provides enterprises and manufacturers with a secured computing infrastructure that extends from IoT edge devices to the cloud and blockchain. -
MADE IN AMERICA 2019 to highlight the impact of American manufacturing
More than 450,000 square feet of the Indiana Convention Center has been reserved for manufacturers and companies from across the country to display all types of American-made machines and products, from aerospace and automobiles to apparel and textiles. -
Looking at Automated Dynamic Warehouse Solutions
By Frank Charles Cozza, Gondola Skate The ability to move pallet racking units of any type in as little as fifteen minutes with as few as four employees, is the new definition of an “automated warehouse.” -
Analysis and Measurement Services Corporation (AMS) earns ISA Power Industry Division (POWID) Co-Facilities Award
The award recognizes outstanding application of innovative control systems and/or instrumentation technology in the production of electric power. -
AutoQuiz: What Are Common Terms Used to Quantify Dangerous Industrial Failures?
Spurious trips and nuisance trips are indicative of “safe” failure modes, not “dangerous” failures. -
Food Date Confusion and Traceability: Reducing waste in food manufacturing
By Darcy Simonis, ABB This article discusses how food manufacturers can help reduce consumer food waste due to label confusion. -
Stratus announces joining of The Open Group Open Process Automation Forum (OPAF)
The group brings together global leaders from the process industries such as Chevron, ExxonMobil, and DuPont, as well as system integrators, suppliers, integrated distributed control system (DCS) vendors, academia and other standards organizations -
ABB introduces ABB eFinder portal
The ABB eFinder portal works to simplify the process of locating inventory from ABB’s selection of products used for connection and transmission of electrical power. -
Rockwell Automation to help Lonza digitize pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities
The Switzerland-based company, founded in 1897 with approximately 15,500 employees, chose Rockwell Automation’s PharmaSuite Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software to digitize the operations in their manufacturing environments -
BelAZ and ZYFRA partner to jointly develop robotization technologies for the mining industry
The strategic partnership agreement was signed on July 10 at the Innoprom-2019 international exhibition in Yekaterinburg by Petr Parkhomchik, CEO of BELAZ-HOLDING, and Igor Bogachev, CEO of ZYFRA. -
Sesame Software partners with Snowflake to enhance integration/data warehouse solution
Sesame Software looks to showcase all that Relational Junction can do to help companies more cost-effectively replicate, integrate and analyze huge volumes of data in near real-time. -
Optimizing Logistics to Reduce Downtime
By Mark Howard, EU Automation When a business is global, it’s essential to optimize logistics to ensure that products are delivered efficiently and on time. This article is intended to help understand how to improve logistics in the maintenance sector to keep downtime to a minimum and guarantee customers’ satisfaction. -
How Often Do Measurements Need to Be Calibrated?
The ISA recommended practice is not on the process of calibration but on a calibration management system -
Eighty-Two Percent of Organizations are Embracing IT/OT Collaboration, But Still Falling Short on OT Visibility
By Andrea Carcano, Nozomi Networks Critical infrastructure and industrial environments were once thought to be immune to cyber threats and attacks because of their “air gapped” nature. But the truth is that they are extremely vulnerable and are typically under persistent attack