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The IoT Impact on Business Models: What Should Manufacturers Do First?
The availability of many new technologies has provided the building blocks for dramatic changes in the manufacturing industry. Is your business model set to keep up? -
United States Infrastructure Receives D+ Grade in Recent Report: A Rallying Cry for Automation Professionals
ISA has technology needed to solve infrastructure security challenges, such as the world's only industrial cybersecurity standard, ISA99/IEC62443. -
AutoQuiz: How Do You Assess Peak Performance for an Operating Unit?
Cost sheets show the best periods of operation, and data historians explain the conditions and relationships. -
Solving the 7 Most Common Tank Gauging Problems to Improve Safety
By Ulf Johannesson, Emerson Many terminals and tank farms struggle with tank gauging because they use outdated equipment. However, modern tank gauging systems can solve these issues -
Identifying Cyber Security Pitfalls in Manufacturing
By Jonathan Wilkins, EU Automation With new strains of ransomware and other vulnerabilities created every week, what should manufacturers look out for in new year? -
The Automation of Access and Its Impact on Manufacturing
By Dean Wiech, Tools4ever One of the primary issues that employees in manufacturing facilities encounter, regardless of if they are front office or plant floor, is the number of user names and passwords they need to remember. -
Compliance of the Victim: ARC Industry Forum Highlights an Industry in Transition
By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com There is an common adage that has survived the ages: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Automation system users are expressing frustrations with existing systems and the lack of modern and open technology. -
Robust SDRE Filter Design for Nonlinear Uncertain Systems
Remedy for effects of modeling uncertainty, measurement noise & input disturbance on performance of the standard state-dependent Riccati equation filter, -
ARC Forum Wrap Up: Finding the Balance Between Connectivity and Security
By Cory Fogg, Automation.com The February 6-9 event provided an atmosphere buzzing over the potential that the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and connected technology are bringing to today’s industry. -
AutoQuiz: How to Define the Flow Characteristic for a Valve
A linear flow characteristic is when flow capacity or (Cv) increases linearly with valve travel. Flow is directly proportional to valve travel. -
Hispanic Workforce Growth in Automation Requires New Communication Leadership
By Thomas R. Cutler The Hispanic share of the labor force is expected to increase more than that of any other demographic group, because of both overall population growth (from higher births and increased immigration) and higher labor force participation rates. -
Webinar Recording: Beginner's Guide to Vacuum Control
Understanding fundamental principles & limitations of process equipment is key to developing a proper control system for separation of multiple batch components by vacuum stripping. -
Bringing Data Visualization to the Forefront in Fastening Operations
By Anthony Borges, PINpoint Information Systems Patterns, trends and associations that might go undetected in text based information can be understood easier with manufacturing execution software that puts data visualization forefront. -
What Does a Good Machine Sound Like? A look at 3DSignals’ Predictive Maintenance Efforts
By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com You know that feeling when you walk past a machine, and something just doesn’t quite sound right? This article discusses the use of audio analysis sensors and deep learning technology to predict equipment problems and generate alerts for preventative maintenance actions. -
Primer: Electromagnetic Flowmeters Simple to Operate, High Accuracy
Electromagnetic flowmeters, aka magmeters, have become one of the most common flow metering technologies over the past 50 years. -
AutoQuiz: How to Detect a Fault in a Safety System
A proof test on a system may reveal faults that would otherwise not be mentioned by internal diagnostic measures and is therefore correct. -
Zero Unplanned Downtime – A Dream or Reality?
By Leroy Spence, EU Automation Predictive analytics is not quite magic, but it could make a world of difference for companies who want to improve efficiency. This article discusses how manufacturers can use predictive analytics to manage assets and minimise downtime. -
Webinar Recording: How Machine Learning is Advancing Predictive Maintenance in Manufacturing
Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning have significantly accelerated the application of predictive maintenance on the plant floor. -
Scalable MES Can Increase Speed to Smart Manufacturing
By Greg Schmidt, Rockwell Automation Manufacturing execution systems (MES) can help companies better understand their operations and get more out of their workforce, equipment and materials. However, traditional MES is often an all-in, enterprise-wide investment. -
The New Era of Automation Architectures: What does it mean for users?
By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com The application of revolutionary new concepts and technologies, including the Internet of Things (IoT), sensor advances, embedded controllers, and improving technology, are rapidly changing automation architectures.
