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By Lance Doherty, et al, Linear Technology One of the visions of the Internet of Things is to be able to measure and instrument things that have never before been measured. Applications call for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to deliver wire-like performance and yet be practical to deploy.

Which type of flowmeter measures flow by measuring volume directly?

Close collaboration between humans and robots, working as colleagues on assembly lines and in other applications, will be a large part of the future of industrial robotics. Robots will need to develop

By Bryant Bell, EMC Enterprise Content Division Virtually every company has information stored in multiple applications, here’s how to search for information across all of them simultaneously.

Smart transmitter technology can affect the future maintenance costs over a plant’s lifecycle.

If an open tube manometer indicates 6.11 inches of Hg (mercury), what is the pressure measurement?

Bill Lydon: I am convinced that collaborative robots are the highest impact automation development to improve manufacturing since the assembly line. If this development follows the cost performance trends of past developments, like PCs, we at the beginning of a new revolution.

By Marcellus Buchheit, Wibu-Systems USA The increasing reliance on IP-based manufacturing has opened the door to cyber attacks on critical systems designed to control, supervise and automate operations.

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Packaging machines must deal with high speeds, multi-axis motion control, advanced vision systems & frequent involvement of several different vendors in one installation.

By ICP DAS Smart power meters can be used to show your real time electricity consumption, help with load management and transformer monitoring, and power monitoring.

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By Bill Lydon, Editor According to IFR, more than 220,000 robots were sold globally in 2014. The automotive industry is still the strongest, followed by the electronics industry. But there are many more applications in other industries that are just starting to grow, particularly with new small, safe, and collaborative robots.

The three terms (proportional-integral-derivative) of the PID algorithm have other designations.

By David Parrish, SAP It has been said that customer service is a dying art. But there are three key areas where technology is helping service organization do more with what they have.

By Klara Steinschneider, EVT Vision systems can inspect the form and casting surface to detect scratches that indicate the form is wearing out.

Multiphase reactors offer an inherent ability to optimize excess reactant concentration by the proper use of a simple pressure or temperature control loop.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Previous standards wars resulted in higher costs for users. This same pattern could develop again with Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). But, there are some positive developments that might allow us to avoid new standard wars. Hopefully, the various “camps with agendas” will converge their approaches and standards to leverage the latest Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, big data and analytics technologies.

Using the ANSI/ISA-18.2-2009 standard for alarm management early in the DCS selection and specification stage can eliminate a number of project problems.

The circle symbol usually represents an instrument. View instrument symbols standard according to ISA S5.1.