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How can we facilitate efforts to take advantage of the remarkable increases in the capabilities and opportunities in today’s PID controllers?

Yokogawa's survey highlights that the number of manufacturers moving forward with industrial autonomy is clearly increasing and that there is a high awareness of the expected benefits on environmental sustainability.

A successful collaboration between IT and OT hinges on a couple of conditions–the operational network must have the security and manageability capabilities of IT run networks, and IT tools, in turn, must adapt to the operational networks' unique industrial features.

Nokia announced it is partnering with OIV, a leading provider of national strategic communications infrastructure in Croatia, to deliver a 5G private wireless network solution that will enhance operational efficiency and enable new capabilities at AD Plastik’s automotive component manufacturing facility in Croatia.

Terminal blocks, connectors/cordsets, and interface modules connect electrical and control panels to the outside world. To ensure that the electrical interfaces between panels and field wiring perform reliably for the long haul, panel designers need to consider the best connectivity options. This article was originally published in the December 2021 issue of InTech magazine.

The Germany-based robotics company Magazino won technology group ZF as a customer for a pilot project with the SOTO robot.

ARC Advisory Group is proud to announce the first edition of its Digital Transformation Top 25 special report.

Gartner predicts that by 2024 hyperautomation—a business approach of automating as many processes as possible—will help organizations reduce operational costs by 30%. Successful execution of hyperautomation promises increased efficiency and reduced costs, but what are the barriers to pulling it off?

Global leaders in AI will provide expertise on how to effectively implement AI in industrial processes.

The new Association for Advancing Automation (A3) report shows $2 billion in sales (39,708 units) in 2021–up 28% over 2020 and 14% ahead of previous high in 2017.

The industrial software company receives technical validation for Industrial DataOps solution and readies go-to-market with AWS.

Growth in R&D spending by over 200 of the world’s largest electrical, machinery and medical equipment companies has been on the rise since mid-2020, according to new research conducted by Capital Economics and Accenture.

Mary Ramsey understood that organizations need to periodically recalibrate based on member and industry needs, and she has done a great job of collaborating with staff and member volunteers to craft clear definitions of ISA guiding principles. This article was originally published in the December 2021 issue of InTech magazine.

Yokogawa announces that it has been selected by ExxonMobil as the system integrator for the first field trial of an Open Process Automation* (OPA) system designed to operate an entire production facility.

IDTechEx has recently released “Mobile Robotics in Logistics, Warehousing and Delivery 2022-2042," a market research report exploring the technical, regulatory and market factors that are shaping the emerging industry around logistics mobile robotics.

Although the list of considerations to evaluate when planning the design for a secure OPC UA architecture is considerably longer than what is discussed here, these offer a starting point to drive a conversation within your organization to ensure a system that meets the unique requirements of your project.

One Network's Leading Control Tower will be deployed on its Digital Supply Chain Network to deliver multi-tier visibility, collaboration and execution capabilities, to accelerate HPE's digital transformation.

SEMI and the American Semiconductor Academy (ASA) Initiative today announced a partnership to build a comprehensive workforce development program designed to close the microelectronics industry’s widening talent gap.

Together with the network technology supplier Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom has extended its campus network portfolio.

Pushing the capabilities of sealing technology for hydraulics, Trelleborg’s focus has been on enhancing performance while making fluid power applications more sustainable.

Major IoT vendors including AWS, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, SAP and SIEMENS leverage secure, standardized information exchange in edge-to-cloud applications based on OPC UA.

Comau is teaming up with Mullen on the build out of an automotive body shop at Mullen’s AMEC manufacturing facility in Tunica, MS. Total expansion plans for AMEC include 1.2 million sq ft of body shop, paint shop and general assembly.

ITTIA DB SQL is targeted to those building embedded systems that need real-time-fresh process and management data.

A worksheet that calculates control valve installed gain can be part of any control valve selection process. This article was originally published in the December 2021 issue of InTech magazine.

VITA has announced that Dean Holman has accepted the position as VITA's president and executive director effective Feb. 1, 2022.

When automation is fused with intelligent technology like artificial intelligence (AI), it can be more effective.

Protect smart manufacturing and IIoT systems using a security framework that presents information in matrices arranged by attack stages.

As the first camera manufacturer in the member group, Basler supports the platform in bringing together the fields of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) and establishing 5G in the industrial sector.

Recognizing a demand in the marketplace for thermoplastic to thermosetting elastomer bonded multicomponent solutions, Trelleborg Sealing Solutions invested in a Multicomponent Development Center to solve the issue of bonding these types of materials to each other.

A revolution is afoot, and investments in Decision Intelligence help shore up predictive analytics efforts, introduce a prescriptive simulation capacity, and empower executives to make optimal operational, tactical and strategic decisions.

We are now seeing the awareness and utilization of RPA expand into traditionally non-IT domains, promoting exponential growth of RPA across the organization.

UiPath, a leading robotic process automation (RPA) software company, announced it has become a Builder sponsor of The Smart Factory @ Wichita, a new Industry 4.0 immersive experience center by Deloitte.

The measurement and analysis of sound is a powerful diagnostic tool in noise reduction programs.

Mobile Industrial Robots experienced a 42% increase in sales in 2021 over 2020. December alone was a record month for the company, with close to 300 robots shipped, which is more than any previous month.

Universal Robots, the Danish producer of collaborative robots, has reported record annual revenue of USD 311M, 41% up on 2020 and 23% up on pre-pandemic results in 2019.

EGAT has moved forward with its policy of using clean energy and reducing carbon dioxide emissions with smart technology by deploying Siemens' SICAM Microgrid Control and Photovoltaic Plant Control.

Continuous-process industries are at an inflection point regarding what they can do with automation, making now an ideal time to address inefficiencies and hazards. This feature was originally published in the December 2021 issue of InTech magazine.

North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted $3.92 billion in billings worldwide in December 2021 (three-month moving average basis), according to the December Equipment Market Data Subscription Billings Report.

More than 100 companies from partner country Portugal have already registered for Hannover Messe 2022.

Has the industrial automation industry matured enough to avoid a standards war like the 1990s “Fieldbus wars?"

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Aramco allowing the two companies to explore potential opportunities for seeding and localizing semiconductor chip manufacturing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, promoting growth in the industrial digital business domain.

Address challenges to quality operational data by paying attention to four key data aspects. This feature was originally published in the December 2021 issue of InTech magazine.

The new facility will increase manufacturing capacity for large-volume products.

This feature explores the key strategies driving success in manufacturing environments that represent the vanguard of smart manufacturing/industry 4.0.

The AWS IoT TwinMaker provides a comprehensive set of tools and services to federate, model and make use of data from any source including sensors, controllers, video, drawings, 3-D models, ERP, logistics and energy to create digital twins leveraging existing and new data sources.

Somfy’s TaHoma Gateway has been selected as a Gold winner by Product Magazine’s MVP Awards in the Connected Home category for 2021.

Comau has developed and deployed an automated e-drive assembly line for Geely Automobile Holdings at its Geely Veremt plant in Ningbo (China), for the end-to-end assembly of the electric motor, gearbox and inverter.

The Xcelerator provides the ability to work in a collaborative and connected way, significantly reducing cycle times across each digital thread.

NEMA President and CEO Debra Phillips issued a statement in response to the White House's urging Congress to pass legislation—the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA)—to strengthen U.S. research, development, and manufacturing for critical supply chains, including semiconductors.