Innovative Engineering Solutions Contribute to COVID-19 Medical Protection

By Bill Lydon
Many organizations in the manufacturing industry have shifted assets in order to innovate and produce solutions that are contributing to the protection of medical personnel on the front lines of the COVID-19 fight. In this article, we highlight two of these innovative engineering solutions that are keeping these crucial personnel safe

Guide to Improving Temperature Measurement Accuracy

You may be unsure whether accuracy is important for your particular application, or whether improving accuracy will make enough of a difference in your process results to justify the cost and effort. This article from the InTech FOCUS May 2020 edition, can help. 

4 Measures Organizations Can Take to Protect OT Systems from Ransomware Attacks

By James McQuiggan
Ransomware is no longer a hit and run type of attack. The criminals are utilizing phishing and other social engineering techniques to gain access to the IT network and pivoting through to the OT networks to copy and exfiltrate the data. It’s only a matter of time before criminal organizations are able to gain access to more OT facilities and organizations.

IBASE Technology collaborates with National Chiayi University to build smart agriculture control room system

The collected agricultural production data and fertilizer management data are fed to a remote monitoring system using big data analysis technology to explore the most suitable agricultural production conditions and the best decision-making plan in visually creating a smart agriculture integration framework.

FDT Group releases FDT 3.0 – FDT IIoT Server (FITS) standard

The FDT 3.0 standard is intended to accelerate the evolutionary journey into the Fourth Industrial Revolution by enabling an ecosystem of FDT-based solutions to meet demands for IIoT and Industrie 4.0 applications.

PHD, Inc. announces Aurelio Banda as Chief Executive Officer

As President and CEO, Banda will oversee all activities and operations of PHD, Inc. leading the global organization by leveraging his 30 years of experience in the industrial automation industry. Banda has a background in technology leadership, business management, finance, operations, strategic development, and market strategy.

TRACO Power introduces TRV 1M series of DC/DC converter

• TRACO Power North America, Inc.

Aetina announces AN110-XNX edge AI computer

Siemens introduces SIMATIC Real Time Locating Systems

• Siemens

Otto Mation Comic Caption Contest - May 2020

Submit a caption for this month's Otto Mation Comic. If your caption is selected as the winner, we will send you a newly-designed Automation.com & Otto Mation mug.

Otto Mation Comic Caption Contest - February 2020

Otto Mation is moving to the new Automation.com website! As we enhance our site, Otto still wants you to enhance his comics with your captions. If your caption is selected as the winner, we will send you a newly-designed Automation.com & Otto Mation mug.

Otto Mation Comic Caption Contest - January 2020

The winning caption for this comic caption contest was submitted by Frank K, in Pennsylvania. Congratulations, Frank!