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ISA’s Process Industry Conference offers a turnkey experience for gaining important foundational knowledge and training.

Receipt verification is an industrial systematic process by which a site verifies that what was specified and ordered is actually what is received.

By Darcy Simonis, ABB Food and Beverage Gourmet food or haute cuisine is expected in high-end restaurants.Recently this style of cuisine has started to feed into daily cuisine choices, with more processed foods going gourmet. This article explains how manufacturers can get on board with this new trend.

By Bill Lydon, Automation.com Effective cybersecurity continues to get more complex for today’s manufacturing and process facilities, and many organizations are stepping up with solutions intended help these facilities to close the gaps.

Pieplein leaks produce flow at locations and times associated with the leak event. The occurrence, size, location, stability, and impact are all stochastic.

High variability in dynamic characteristics of a crude oil refinery distillation column poses a challenge in manufacturing quality byproducts.

By Mark Howard, EU Automation Back in 2017, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicted that 30 percent of commercial robotic applications will be in the form of Robots as a Service (RaaS) by 2019. Was this forecast accurate? This article explains the current RaaS landscape in relation to these early projections.

By Ashley Lipman, Freelance Digital Writer Where do you need to focus when it comes to digital transformation? That’s exactly what we’ll uncover in this guide to the biggest digital transformation must-haves for 2019.

The substitution method may reveal the component that is the cause of the problem.

By Josh Eastburn, Opto 22 For process control systems, improved hardware and software options can make system operations more effective and offer new methods for end users to access and monitor equipment. Here are some of the ways that standard process automation products and practices are transitioning to encourage more agile and capable systems.

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.

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.

Every configured device added to an industrial network can act as a barrier to getting information to where it needs to be.

A database record is a single row of information in a table.

By Mark Howard, EU Automation This article explains why sourcing Eco Obsolete Technology (EOT) could keep automated processes running — without compromising on efficiency.

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.

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.

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.

Organizations that invest in a cybersecurity culture are unlikely to be a cybersecurity disaster news headline.

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.