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An interview with Derek Manky, Chief Security Insights and Global Threat Alliance at Fortiguard Labs.

The benefits of personalizing your own server, including custom features, accessories, and specifications.

Despite facing some real challenges along the way, fiscal year 2021 was a tremendous success for Beckhoff Automation.

The new headquarters for Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial Robots will be located at Energivej in Odense S–a few hundred meters from the current headquarters of Universal Robots.

The retired head of Instrumentation, Control & Electrical professionals within ExxonMobil Upstream makes the case for open systems development for automation projects. This feature originally appeared in the April issue of InTech magazine.

As a result of its recent partnership with S.F.H., Jorgensen Conveyor and Filtration Solutions now serves manufacturers as a single source for total metalworking chip and coolant processing systems.

Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments in the first quarter of 2022 surpassed the previous record high set in the third quarter of 2021, rising 1% quarter-over-quarter to 3,679 million square inches.

The 1H4U and Professionals4Ukraine initiatives, engineered by Luigi De Bernardini, support Ukrainian industrial system integrators by encouraging donations of time and money.

The manufacturing industry is facing a ton of pressure today. Companies need to do everything in their power to make life easier for their employees so processes and the production of goods are not slowed down.

Face-to-face roadshow features industry innovators and inspiring thought leaders showcasing the latest ways to deliver digital workspace solutions for the hybrid work era.

Microchip grows its commitment to the 8-bit PIC and AVR MCUs by releasing five new product families and over 60 new devices.

New Chicago lab provides a testing ground for institutions to explore and innovate solutions to solve their toughest challenges.

Endress+Hauser has expanded its center of competence for silicon pressure sensors in Stahnsdorf near Berlin, Germany at a cost of more than 12 million euros.

Claudia Jarrett, US country manager at automation parts supplier EU Automation, explains why Industry 4.0 and key performance indicators (KPIs) are crucial to establishing a positive working culture in manufacturing environments.

When organizations want to optimize plant processes, smart instrumentation provides host systems with indispensable data, which can be used for operational and maintenance insights. This feature originally appeared in the April edition of InTech magazine.

Malisko Engineering, Inc. uses Stratus redundant servers for both in-house and client projects, to realize high availability and easy management.

Somfy North America donated to Airbnb.org this week to help provide safe housing for people that have been displaced due to the crisis in Ukraine.

The annual ThreatLabz Report reveals phishing-as-a-service as the key source of attacks across critical industries and consumers globally.

Knowing which maintenance strategies to use will help you get the maximum return on your investment.

Endress+Hauser expanded its on-site calibration offerings by adding three additional mobile calibration rigs to the existing fleet, making a total of 19 rigs that service Endress+Hauser and third-party instrumentation including flow, pressure and temperature.

UniversalAutomation.Org has welcomed ExxonMobil as a member. ExxonMobil has been using the IEC 61499 runtime as part of an Open Process Automation test bed, having previously deployed the runtime for a successful prototype at an ExxonMobil pilot plant.

Universal Robots, the Danish producer of collaborative robots (cobots), has reported record Q1 revenue of USD 85m, 30% up on its 2021 Q1 revenue.

Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that defending America’s Cup winners, Emirates Team New Zealand, has selected Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of software for the design and development of its next racing yacht.

To gain modern computing system advantages while maintaining traditional solutions reliability, an HVAC company uses Arduino-compatible open PLC controllers. This feature originally appeared in the April issue of InTech magazine.

The CC-Link Partner Association is continuously expanding its support for automation vendors, machine builders and users in key markets around the world. The organization is addressing the growing demand for the CLPA’s open network technologies while exchanging the global knowledge gained from each application to support local partners.

A digital transformation in car production is supporting manufacturers as they transit towards sustainable manufacturing.

This leading logistics robotics company is the latest to join Pittsburgh’s technology ecosystem.

Emerson AMS Device Manager now supports FDI for HART instruments, assuring end users of multi-vendor operability.

The HARTING Technology Group staged its traditional trade press conference in the run-up to HANNOVER MESSE. After the event had taken place exclusively digitally in the last two years, this year the invited journalists could choose between participating digitally or on-site.

As asset reliability collaborators within the industrial segment, SKF and AWS are taking scalability of condition monitoring and data analysis to a new level as well as collaborating on the next generation of SKF’s condition monitoring technologies.

NEMA published Electrical Submeter—Current Sensor Accuracy ANSI/NEMA SM 31000-7-2021, a new standard that covers metrological requirements and associated testing for current sensors used with electrical energy submeters to assess accuracy.

Instrumentation engineers can save time, money and effort by applying standards and tools that centralize and automate the documentation process. This feature originally appeared in the April issue of InTech magazine.

NTT DOCOMO appreciates the scalable development environment and the advanced compiler features in IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm.

Globalization has fostered prosperity around the world, but two years of pandemic and the war in Ukraine are significantly affecting global economic growth. How will these developments influence the world economy in the medium and long term? And which technologies can meet these challenges?

Led by the food and beverage industry and despite ongoing COVID-19 supply chain disruptions, the global industrial automation market is forecast to grow through 2028.

Powered by Mangan’s Safety Lifecycle Manager (SLM) software, HIMA is offering a TÜV-certified cloud-based platform that provides digitalization of the entire functional safety lifecycle.

Booth demonstrations and special presentations will highlight the latest marine and offshore technologies that combine efficiency, safety, environmental stability and connectivity at OTC 2022 in Houston.

IFS announced its financial results for the quarter ending March 31, 2022 with annual contract value (ACV) bookings up 78% year on year and recurring revenues up a significant 45% year on year.

By learning about and building cyber-physical protection systems into modern ICS deployments, organizations can better defend their control systems from internal and external threats. This piece was originally published in the April edition of InTech magazine.

The promises of the Fourth Industrial Revolution are significant, but companies need to avoid several traps to secure the long-term outcome of their digitalization projects.

Data Center Networks (DCNs) faults are hard to debug due to its complex network and large scale.

Helping end user/operator organizations understand the typical drivers behind such cybersecurity assessments.

Automation industry’s most prestigious honor to be presented to three at Automate 2022 in Detroit on June 8 and three at Automatica in Munich June 20.

Despite facing some real challenges along the way, the 2021 financial year was a success for Beckhoff Automation.

System-integrated vibration analysis reliably monitors the load-bearing capacity of steel structures in offshore energy production.

Cincoze, a leading embedded computer brand, considers that in the current industrial manufacturing environment, increasing computing power is an important factor for driving intelligent manufacturing growth.

MESA International announces the release of a new MESA Model: A Framework for Smarter Manufacturing.

A leading global aerospace company has selected AWS as a strategic cloud provider and will use AWS’s comprehensive cloud portfolio to strengthen its digital foundations for engineering and manufacturing.

Machine vision is increasingly important for many applications, such as object classification. However, relying on conventional RGB imaging is sometimes insufficient–the input images are just too similar, regardless of algorithmic sophistication.

Are your devices ready to provide connectivity for large-scale and highly distributed applications in an increasingly interconnected world?