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Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis finds that because of COVID-19, the proliferation of machine-to-machine (M2M) devices will decrease during 2020.

The International Society of Automation (ISA) shares 5 articles about IIoT from July 2020.

Reducing time-to-first-value enables plant and manufacturing executives who believe in the potential of operational AI to prove their intuition quickly and with much less risk.

Even with the influence of COVID-19, the potential market size for solid-state batteries is expected to grow to over $6 billion by 2030, according to IDTechEx's report.

Learn from an interview with Jouni Aro of Prosys OPC how developers and end users alike can get started using OPC UA. Jouni shares information about off-the-shelf products, software development toolkits, open source options, training and support, as well as product certification.

OPC Days 2020, a virtual event held June 22- 25, provided the latest information about OPC UA (Open Platform Communications United Architecture), the protocol-agnostic framework for the Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 initiatives.

Automation professionals from the ISA Mentor Program address a question they received: 'Why are engineers so against derivative action?'

OT cybersecurity is not as simple as merging strategies and expectations from IT environments over to the industrial control system (ICS) environment.

Decentralization is becoming favorable across a range of industries and applications.

Cobots hold the promise of increasing the efficiency and quality of human work, bringing greater reliability, consistency and precision to a variety of manufacturing and assembly operations. However, do these potential benefits hold true for all users?

In project development that involves industrial machine learning, some common mistakes have been observed.

Without close coordination, segmentation in the ICS network is not possible. Here's why industrial operations should segment the OT way.

An ISA Fellow describes his family history in mining, engineering, and aviation while speculating about the future of industrial automation.

While the economic implications of COVID-19 threated to shadow the Great Depression, Harel Boren, CEO and co-founder of Inspekto, explains why Autonomous Machine Vision (AMV) could be the new New Deal.

Automation professionals are critical to successfully selecting and applying these technologies and guiding management to maximize their productivity. This role will continue and expand, as more companies look to make informed productive technological investments and implementation decisions to yield profitable results.

By Bill Lydon Open system options continue to emerge from nontraditional suppliers and standards groups, and this is a trend that I expect will accelerate and enable multivendor interoperability at all levels of the system architecture.

Both wired and wireless networks have been undergoing a significant evolution during the past decade, enabling greater opportunities to those who leverage the advancements in the next one.

There is an increasing recognition that an integrated cybersecurity approach is required for an entire manufacturing and production company. Many manufacturing companies are realizing with the integration of IT, OT, automation and other functions that designating one leader responsible for all cybersecurity for the company is most effective.

The ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance (ISAGCA) shares 5 articles about automation cybersecurity from July 2020.

By Bill Lydon Time synchronization and accelerate the continued integration of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) groups. This trend has been facilitating changes in organizational structures, and the creation, in many cases, of integrated IT/OT groups.