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Democratized Analytics Guides Industry 4.0
By Edwin van Dijk, TrendMiner Business outcomes can be controlled at each level of an organization by using applied analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. It's all about aligning business objectives with direct business outcomes across departments, all while growing production knowledge. -
Webinar Recording: Small Batch Manufacturing
Tips and lessons on the use of anti-reset windup limits, override control, isolation valves, smart alarms, mass flowmeters, and the enforcement of low-flow limits. -
Electromate announces Electromate Automation Fair
The event will take place at the Delta Hotels Burnaby Conference Centre in Burnaby, British Columbia. The Automation Fair is anopportunity to explore new technologies and see what's changing in the world of Automation and Motion Control. -
Delta Electronics helps enhance agile motion control for packaging company
By Bill Faber, Delta Electronics The heart of the module consists of four motion axes: two to drive nip-rolls that control the speed and tension of the operation; and two for a linear flying, stamping and engraving process. -
Schneider Electric announces investment in SE Ventures global investment fund
SEV has invested in category leaders such as AutoGrid, Claroty, Element Analytics, and Sense. They recently closed on investments with Titan AES, a novel Li-ion battery management system, and Synapticon, a motion control platform for industrial robots, and anticipate investing in 10 or more new startups annually. -
ESMERA announces second open call for European SMEs robotics applications funding
The challenges come from the areas of Manufacturing, Energy, Construction, Agriculture, Food Processing, Retail, Healthcare and Emergency Response. Until December 2nd, European SMEs can now apply to solve one or more of these challenges by developing a robotics application and receive funding of up to 200,000 Euros. -
PLCopen announces partnership with PACK EXPO Las Vegas
PLCopen joins with OMAC and the OPC Foundation at this event to show that the combined technologies and standards contribute even more to the industry. All three organizations have a focus to a different section of the production flow; however combine with their vision, standards, and activities. -
Ensuring the Free Flow of Information: Routing Approaches for Complex Industrial Networks
Every configured device added to an industrial network can act as a barrier to getting information to where it needs to be. -
AutoQuiz: What is a Database Record?
A database record is a single row of information in a table. -
Honeywell helps Mexican petrochemical company incorporate intelligent wearables to enhance training and safety
Honeywell is delivering a complete outcome-based solution that tracks specific key performance indicators and integrates hardware, software and services, and a full Wi-Fi infrastructure to support use of the solution across the plant. -
ecom announces Digital Products and Services solution
ecom's Digital Products and Services solution offers a service to project and IT managers as well as users of enterprise mobility solutions. As part of this solution, ecom delivers tablets or smartphones such as the Tab-Ex 02 or the Smart-Ex 02 directly with the customer-specific configuration secured in a container -
Siemens helps Krone establish digitalization strategy
Using solutions including the Teamcenter portfolio and NX software, Krone will launch a digitalization program that will support processes over the entire product lifecycle as well as collaborative work between departments by leveraging the broad, integrated solutions that are part of the Siemens Digital Innovation Platform. -
Honeywell helps Mexican petrochemical company incorporate intelligent wearables to enhance training and safety
Honeywell is delivering a complete outcome-based solution that tracks specific key performance indicators and integrates hardware, software and services, and a full Wi-Fi infrastructure to support use of the solution across the plant. -
Achieving Energy Efficiency Through Eco Obsolete Technology
By Mark Howard, EU Automation This article explains why sourcing Eco Obsolete Technology (EOT) could keep automated processes running — without compromising on efficiency. -
ISA Extends Reach Through Organization Partnerships
ISA sponsors professional meetings featuring exciting conference presentations throughout the year. Many other opportunities abound in training, certification, standards, and editorial. -
Sunnen Products Company announces opening of Mexican manufacturing facility
The company will move a portion of its abrasive and tooling products from its St. Louis operation to the Monterrey facility. The transition will be phased to begin by the end of 2019 and conclude by the end of 2020. -
Sensing The Rise of Vertical Farming
By Darcy Simonis, ABB Food and Beverage Vertical farming is the process of food being produced in vertically stacked layers, instead of on a single level such as in a field or greenhouse. The layers are commonly integrated into urban structures like skyscrapers, shipping containers and repurposed warehouses. -
How to Leverage Process Data to Improve Industrial Operations
Industrial and manufacturing operations data analysis is a different type of “big data” challenge than those faced in e-commerce, social media, search, or other domains. -
Valcor releases white paper on surge pressure mitigation devices
This paper presents a trade study that compares four devices: an orifice, a venturi, a flow fuse, and a flow fuse with a dashpot (slow closing). -
AVEVA helps Worley enhance materials management and training
Worley sought to help its customers find a way to streamline their materials management to create process improvements, increased efficiency, and the ability to deliver in-house training. -
Collaborative Robots Providing Amazing Automation Opportunities for Small Manufacturers
By Bill Lydon, Automation.com Amongst the many new technologies that are impacting the manufacturing industry today, collaborative robots may be the highest impact automation development that can improve manufacturing for small and medium manufacturing enterprises. -
ISA’s 2019 Process Industry Conference to shed light on issues in the energy processing and process manufacturing industries
ISA’s 2019 Process Industry Conference (PIC) is taking place 4-6 November at the Westin Houston, Memorial City. This is an event for those who wish to understand the demands and find answers to problems in energy processing and process manufacturing. -
ISA’s 2019 Process Industry Conference to shed light on issues in the energy processing and process manufacturing industries
ISA’s 2019 Process Industry Conference (PIC) is taking place 4-6 November at the Westin Houston, Memorial City. This is an event for those who wish to understand the demands and find answers to problems in energy processing and process manufacturing. -
LocatorX announces appointment Thomas "Tom" Watjen to its board of directors.
LocatorX's portfolio of tracking solutions work together to improve supply chain transparency and traceability down to the item level. Products include unique 2D bar codes, an NFC/Bluetooth-encrypted chip and an upcoming Global Resource Locator to be powered by a Solid-State Miniature Atomic Clock. -
TM Robotics helps Ralawise automate for accident reduction
Box opening robots are not as common as the more traditional six-axis or SCARA robot models. To find a robot that could perform this task effectively, Ralawise approached TM Robotics, the European, North and South American distributor of Toshiba Machine industrial robots. -
Sea Machines Robotics demonstrates autonomous systems to assist marine oil-spill response
The on-water demonstrations took place aboard the world’s first autonomous spill response vessel – a Vigor/Kvichak Marine Industries-built skimmer boat, owned by Marine Spill Response Corp. (MSRC) – before a live audience of MARAD, government, naval, international, environmental and industry representatives. -
Why Industrial Cybersecurity Needs to Start at the Top and Be Embraced by All
Organizations that invest in a cybersecurity culture are unlikely to be a cybersecurity disaster news headline. -
inVia Robotics announces Ilya Kravchenko as senior director of engineering and Lauren Ziccardi as senior director of solutions.
Kravchenko will report directly to Randolph Voorhies, co-founder and chief technology officer and Ziccardi will report directly to Lior Elazary, co-founder and chief executive officer. -
Emerson helps BP Alaska enhance process safety with wireless pressure gauges
Rosemount Wireless Pressure Gauges work to contribute to decreased personnel and environmental risk by providing visibility into well integrity without the need to physically enter the well, protecting personnel from potentially hazardous conditions. -
How to Take Control of Equipment Lifecycle Risks Before They Cause Downtime
By Dave Mayer, Rockwell Automation Running production equipment for decades comes with inherent risks, like spares shortages and technology obsolescence. And if you don’t control these risks, they’ll control you. Real-time data can help you get ahead of challenges like spares shortages and technology obsolescence. -
Mission Secure announces Don Ward as Senior Vice President of Global Services
In addition to leading MSi's global services department, Don contributes technology leadership experience with more than 20 years in cybersecurity, IT and data networking. -
port GmbH announces name change
The "port Gesellschaft für computergestützte Automation mbH" will become "port industrial automation GmbH" -
Semcon announces partnership with EDRMedeso with focus on digital twins
The partnership in digital twins was launched in June 2019 and is part of Semcon’s increased focus on digital services. The goal is to start the first project with EDRMedeso during the autumn. -
inVia Robotics announces Ilya Kravchenko as senior director of engineering and Lauren Ziccardi as senior director of solutions.
Kravchenko will report directly to Randolph Voorhies, co-founder and chief technology officer and Ziccardi will report directly to Lior Elazary, co-founder and chief executive officer. -
AutoQuiz: Characteristics of an Industrial Controller
For a direct-acting controller, the resulting output movement is in the same direction as the movement of the process variable. -
ISA publishes guidelines for optimizing HMI usability and performance
The International Society of Automation's first American National Standard on HMI, ANSI/ISA-101.01-2015, Human Machine Interfaces for Process Automation Systems, covers the philosophy, design, implementation, operation, and maintenance of HMIs for process automation systems. -
PAS Global announces Matthew Selheimer as Chief Marketing Officer
As CMO, Matthew is responsible for leading marketing globally, with specific focus on expanding awareness of the PAS value proposition and driving demand for PAS solutions to ensure safety and reliability in the face of unprecedented risk and cyber threats. -
FITS Platform Moves Asset Management to the Cloud
By FDT Group Explore how the FDT Server connects plants, people and data in new ways -
COPA-DATA's Stephen Montero to speak at SCADA Tech Summit 2019
SCADA Tech Summit is dedicated to educating operational and IT professions from the electric/TD, water & wastewater, oil & gas, telecommunications, rail/transportation and industrial automation markets about the latest developments in critical infrastructure and industrial control systems. -
Going From a Crisis to a Competition: How the US turned around its manufacturing sector
By Mark Howard, United States Country Manager, EU Automation Even though the US economy is the largest in the world by nominal GDP, it was a crisis in the manufacturing sector that prompted the US Government to act to save the industrial sector over the last decade. This article investigates how the US has turned it around. -
Kaspersky Report: Over half of ICS incidents caused by employee errors
According to the survey, digitalization of industrial networks and adoption of Industry 4.0 standards are a priority for many industrial companies. Four out of five organizations (81%) consider operational network digitalization to be an important or very important task for this year. -
FDT Server to Become Pivotal IIoT Hub
By Lee Lane, FDT Group FITS standard to release year-end empowering a comprehensive information exchange platform supporting the Fourth Industrial Revolution while preserving today’s installed base -
Festo helps Kentucky community college establish program to prepare women for manufacturing and Industry 4.0 careers
Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC), a recipient of a $2.85 million-dollar grant from the Kentucky Work Ready Skills Initiative (KWRSI), has invested in a innovation lab to prepare students for the future of work by giving them a real-world glimpse into advanced manufacturing and Industry 4.0 careers. -
Festo helps Kentucky community college establish program to prepare women for manufacturing and Industry 4.0 careers
Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC), a recipient of a $2.85 million-dollar grant from the Kentucky Work Ready Skills Initiative (KWRSI), has invested in a innovation lab to prepare students for the future of work by giving them a real-world glimpse into advanced manufacturing and Industry 4.0 careers. -
ProComSol announces creation of ProComSol Instrumentation Scholarship Program
Interested candidates should visit https://www.procomsol.com/scholarship_application which has the requirements and the application form. The deadline for submission is November 1, 2019 with the award announced on December 1, 2019. -
CIMdata releases PLM Geography Analysis report
The PLM market grew to $47.8 billion overall in 2018 (9.4% growth over 2017). For 2018, EMEA had 33.4% of the PLM market, with the Americas at 37.8%, and Asia-Pacific with 28.8%. -
Cambashi announces hire of Petra Gartzen as BIM/CAE/IoT Senior Analyst
Petra’s role is strategic to Cambashi’s business as the Cambridge UK-based firm ramps up its global research and insight into new hot market areas – including Industrial IoT/Connected Applications, Building Information Modeling (BIM) and CAE software. -
The Industrial Internet of Things Delivers on the Demand for Manufacturing ROI
Manufacturers are under increasing pressure to do more with less to improve financial results. The Industrial Internet of Things is a key solution. -
aeSolutions and SANS Institute partner to create ICS Cybersecurity Training Course
The ICS Cybersecurity for Managers course was developed specifically for managers and supervisors in the industry, particularly those who need to have a solid grasp of OT cybersecurity principles, regulations, standards and best practices but don’t have the time or the necessity to take in-depth technical courses. -
Fluid Components International (FCI) announces registration open for Product Knowledge Workshop
This workshop is designed to provide customers training on FCI thermal dispersion mass flow meters, flow switches, and level switches.