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An AC motor consists of a rotor (rotating portion) with a laminated iron core containing copper bars in the slots.

By Robert Plumridge, Sciemetric Instruments Based on Scimetric's experience with customers in industries such as automotive, off-highway and medical, this article discusses the top considerations to ensure operators are in fact testing the part and not the seal.

By Leroy Spence, EU Automation If you are struggling to get over the post-holiday blues, don’t despair. Sit back, relax and read all about some of the industrial technologies you can look forward to that will change the face of manufacturing in 2017.

Electromechanical switches have their place in the modern plant, but a digital upgrade could pay off in many applications

By Marc Kaplan, Tempered Networks Today’s most widely accepted methods of cyber security can’t possibly keep pace with the exponentially expanding Internet of Things (IOT) and increased intelligence abilities of hackers worldwide.

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com In today’s industrial world, one of the the most annoying hindrances to effective system integration is the lack of interoperability between products from different vendors. Yet, efforts are being made to close this gap in the industry.

By Jason Andersen, Stratus Technologies How can industrial enterprises overcome organizational barriers and begin building the foundation for the IIoT enterprise they envision? This article identifies some best practices that will keep you on solid ground today and well into the IIoT future.

Technical focus on the problem of providing simple tuning rules for a two-degree-of-freedom (2-DoF) PID controller with robustness considerations.

Internet of Things Market (Technologies - Zigbee, Bluetooth Low Energy, Near Field Communication, Wi-Fi, and RFID; Applications - Media, Manufacturing, Medical and Healthcare, Consumer Application, and Energy Management) - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2016 - 2024

A thermowell is a closed-end tube that surrounds the measuring junction of a thermocouple.

By Anthony Borges, PINpoint Information Systems With the advent of advanced automation techniques, the IIoT and Industry 4.0 concepts, the question remains the same; what is the optimal method to eliminate or mitigate defective products made by human or machine?

By Adrian Swindells, Director, Distec The rise of the internet of things (IoT) has driven a need for cross-compatible equipment. This article explores how businesses can keep the cost of IoT implementation to a minimum.

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com The Dell EMC World 2016, in October, was a thought-provoking experience, where Dell set forth their bright vision of the automation industry's connected future.

Developing & maintaining competent process operators is critical to business performance in the process industries.

The time it takes the sheet to go from the diebolt actuators to the thickness gauge that transverses the sheet is the transportation delay

By Peter Martin, Schneider Electric Process Automation Connected products are expected to approach 30 billion by 2020, with utilities, telecommunications and manufacturing as the top three verticals using IoT. The revolution is that finally companies have the real opportunity to move from managing their business to actually controlling it.

The first half of 2017 saw ISA offer many different training and education programs.

By Nathan Hedrick, Endress+Hauser Several instrument manufacturers offer various types of “smart instruments,” and their approaches vary. This article covers how Endress+Hauser flow sensors with Heartbeat Technology provide the kind of information needed to implement smart pumping.

By Daniel Crum, Owl Computing Technologies, Inc. The US Department of Homeland Security, in conjunction with the FBI and NSA, has released recommended best practices that any organization can use to help secure their ICS communications. This article discusses these practices

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com The convergence of IT and OT is one of the more fascinating trends that has spawned many discussions throughout the industrial space., but does it sound the death knell for Manufacturing Execution Systems?