News & Articles for Industrial Automation Professionals

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Feedforward Control Enables Flexible, Sustainable Manufacturing

Feedforward provides preemptive corrective action for production rate and grade changes enabling key PID controllers to provide consistent product quality.

By: Gregory K. McMillan

01 May, 2017 | 13 minutes
ISA Society Goes to Washington: Building America's Engineering Vision

By Paul Gruhn, ISA Society Leader Pat Gouhin (ISA CEO and Executive Director), Robert Lindeman (AAES Board member and former ISA Society President), along with Eric Cosman and Paul Gruhn (two ISA Society Leaders), attended a number of meetings in Washington D.C. in late April, discussing the future of American engineering with the government

28 April, 2017 | 3 minutes

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Rockwell to share digital automation solutions at Offshore Technology Conference

Visitors to the Rockwell Automation booth (NRG Center, Booth 847) will also learn about the latest control and safety solutions for subsea and topside, including emergency shutdown and blowout prevention.

28 April, 2017 | 1 minute
IFR Report: US automotive industry installs a new record of ~17,500 industrial robots in 2016

These are preliminary results published by the Statistical Department of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). During the same period, the number of jobs in the US automotive sector rose by 260,600 - according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

28 April, 2017 | 2 minutes
Why the Transition to IIoT will be an Evolution, Not a Revolution

By Jason Andersen, Stratus Technologies The vision of an intelligent, connected automation infrastructure has the potential to dramatically reshape how industrial enterprises operate. No wonder some are calling it the “next industrial revolution.” But the journey to realizing that vision will be strictly evolutionary.

28 April, 2017 | 4 minutes