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Key to Achieving Positive Business Results: Manage Risk Throughout Industrial Automation Infrastructure
By modernizing production systems, industrial companies can maximize their efforts throughout the enterprise and be proactive about all facets of risk management that affect people, brand, and busines -
Endress+Hauser joins with other suppliers to found Open Industry 4.0 Alliance
With this cooperation, the companies want to overcome proprietary solutions and give a decisive boost to the digital transformation of the European industry. Founding members of the alliance are Beckhoff, Endress+Hauser, Hilscher, ifm, KUKA, Multivac and SAP. -
Energid and ModuleWorks announce partnership for combined CAD/CAM software solutions
This partnership is intended to help developers to get to market faster with differentiated robotic systems for additive manufacturing, welding, machining, CNC routing, and other applications that require control of six axes or more. -
SICK announces partnership with AutoCoding Systems (ACS)
This partnership will enable SICK to provide customers with a combined package of SICK’s sensor technology and ACS’s software platform. -
ABB and Rolls-Royce announce partnership for microgrid technology and automation
Together the two companies will offer an energy-efficient microgrid solution for utilities, commercial and industrial entities. -
TrendMiner announces integration with Siemens Mindsphere IoT Platform
The integration of TrendMiner with Siemens Mindsphere enables its users to analyze, monitor and predict their sensor-generated time-series data stored in Siemens’ IoT platform. -
Can Manufacturers Compete When Trapped in Existing Automation Architectures?
Manufacturing companies are becoming more aware of the need to modernize production methods and automation to compete globally, but many still find themselves stuck in a sunk investment trap. -
A Roadmap to Industrial Network Convergence
How to evaluate and design a network architecture focused on improving overall bandwidth utilization and efficiency across all manufacturing areas. -
ZYFRA Group becomes member of The Industrial Internet Consortium
Zyfra focuses on the introduction of IIoT technologies, that is, connecting to the internet machines, industrial robots and units to create a single information space at the enterprise -
Why Automation isn’t the Antagonist
By Mark Howard, EU Automation Automation is often viewed as manufacturing’s societal villain, threatening the jobs of US workers. This article argues that in order to create new job roles, US manufacturers cannot fear the automation uprising. -
AutoQuiz: Unique Feature of a Pneumatic Differential Pressure Sensor/Transmitter
In a pneumatic transmitter, the nozzle faces a baffle, so, as the measured pressure increases, the baffle moves toward the nozzle. -
GE Healthcare and Rockwell Automation announce partnership to build digital bioprocessing solutions
The two companies will help biopharmaceutical companies create flexible and scalable facilities of the future, focused on rapid response to market demands, streamlined production technologies and adaptable manufacturing environments. -
Lanner announces partnership with netElastic
Lanner and netElastic are collaborating to demonstrate their joint efforts in today’s disaggregated network architecture where hardware and software are decoupled. -
AIA Report: Machine vision market hits record numbers for sixth straight year
North American sales of machine vision components and systems that provide vision intelligence to robots and other machines reached $2.874 billion in 2018, an increase of 9.2 percent over 2017 -
Amazon Web Services announces agreement with Volkswagen to build Volkswagen Industrial Cloud
The Volkswagen Industrial Cloud will bring together real-time data from all of the Volkswagen Group’s 122 manufacturing plants to manage the overall effectiveness of assembly equipment, as well as track parts and vehicles. -
What AF, ASCI, ISCI, and WCI Are Doing for You
ISA and its partner organizations are all heavily involved in helping you, your employer, and industry be more successful. -
ARC Advisory Group and B&R Industrial Automation issues OPC UA and TSN brief
B&R Industrial Automation sponsored this ARC Brief in the public interest, and the opinions and observations stated in this report are those of ARC Advisory Group. -
Auvesy's version dog helps monitor Industrial control system programs for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research uses the system to manage the data of around 500 components, making versiondog one of CERN's standard technologies. -
ISA and Beamex release a second free calibration e-book
The e-book—featuring 23 pages covering essential topics related to effectively managing a calibration program—is a follow up to Calibration Essentials, the first collaborative publication on calibration between ISA and Beamex that was made available in February of 2018. -
Bluetooth: Tried and Tested in the Harshest Environments
By Pelle Svensson, u-blox The numbers don’t lie: Bluetooth works, it is popular and it serves a huge ecosystem. Less well known, however, is the technology’s potential to offer wireless connectivity to industrial applications, even in the toughest environments. -
Lincoln Mining announces appointment of Shing Lee as Director
Lincoln Mining Corp. is a Canadian precious metals exploration and development company with two projects in various stages of exploration and development, namely the Pine Grove gold property in Nevada and the Oro Cruz gold property in California. -
North American Commercial Vehicle Show 2019 opens online registration
NACV Show 2019 will take place at the Georgia World Congress Center from Oct. 28-31. NACV Show 2019 exhibition space is predicted to exceed NACV Show 2017 event space by 60 percent. -
How Maintenance Managers Can Maximize Asset Performance with Automation and Control System Tools
Learn how maintenance managers use automation and control systems to manage the increasingly complex facilties, equipment and buildings -
TT Electronics announces acquisition of Power Partners
This acquisition supports TT’s global growth strategy, to expand its focus on design-led technology solutions and value-added complementary products. -
ABB Customer World Wrap-Up: ABB positioning for industrial digitalization
By Bill Lydon, Automation.com Traditional automation suppliers are clearly positioning themselves, through investments or partnerships, to supply the software and hardware for manufacturing customers to be able to achieve the higher productivity and profitability promised through Industrial Digitization/Industry 4.0. -
Siemens announces launch of "Fast Ramp-Up Challenge" competition
Prototypes will be tested at the ARENA2036 innovation factory in mid-October. As part of the "Fast Ramp-Up Challenge" competition, production cells from several companies are to be set up within two days using MindSphere, the open cloud-based operating system for the Internet of Things (IoT) from Siemens. -
Improving Manufacturing Productivity with Autonomous Machine Vision
By Nir Zamir, Inspekto Having a happy workforce may be the first step to improving productivity, but proper tools and advanced technologies will take productivity significantly further, particularly for industrial manufacturers. This article explains how manufacturers can improve productivity with Autonomous Machine Vision systems. -
E.ON Energy acquires TUM energy technology from BayPAT
The TUM technology is based on optimizing the steam extraction of cogeneration plants equipped with gas turbines, enabling to achieve higher overall efficiencies and increasing the flexibility of the power plant. -
Cambashi announces launch of Industrial IoT Charter Program
The IoT Charter Program began as a result of a Cambashi study of the industrial IoT market in 2016, which concluded that there was not a reliable or authoritative source for segmentation, size or growth estimates. -
Development of a Hybrid Controller for Renewable Energy and Automotive Applications [technical]
Research focus on development of a hybrid controller for a two-interleaved boost converter dedicated to renewable energy and automotive applications.


