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Understanding the different needs of ICS and IT system security leads to cooperation and collaboration between historically disconnected camps

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By Bill Lydon, Editor According to a recent survey, automation users want and deserve more from an automation controller. Albert Rooyakkers, CTO of Bedrock Automation, explains why they went back to the drawing board to design and develop this new, innovative automation controller.

To control the concentration of key components, relatively inexpensive inline measurements can be used under the right conditions to provide concentration measurements

By Greg Goodwin, LNS Research A trend that is causing waves and innovative ways of doing things today with Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) software is mobile technology. So what are the current attitudes on mobile capabilities? Here are four ways mobile capabilities are helping manufacturers transform their operations and IT landscapes today.

This paper deals with the problem of forbidden states in discrete event systems based on Petri net models. So, a method is presented to prevent the system from entering these states by constructing a

By Bill Lewins, Rockwell Automation Designing and implementing a network that addresses all process control concerns can be a difficult for any application, but brownfield projects are especially challenging. Fortunately, there are ways to ease this transition.

By Rainer Schmidt, Harting PROFINET is an independent, proprietary system, which is primarily used for communication between PROFINET components. If PROFINET wants to seamlessly communicate right into the SAP level, it runs into the structured cabling which the IT infrastructure of the company uses.

Enterprise asset management is a way of thinking, a discipline, and ultimately a culture that increases equipment life and production uptime.

By Shiva Bissessar How secure is our Critical Infrastructure from Cyber Security risks? Dr. Sanjay Bahadoorsingh updates the challenges and opportunities in the Smart Grid.

By Bill Lydon, Editor A company called Tempered Networks has developed an interesting, alternative approach to cyber-protection architecture for industrial control systems. The architecture goes beyond a software only solution and includes both hardware and firmware components to create a secure industrial automation network.

How graphics development results in an HMI that can enable operators to proactively identify problems and respond quickly.

Simple online inferential measurements of cell growth rate, crystal growth rate, and chemical reaction rate are possible using conventional online measurements of flow and temperature.

Successful level instrument design starts with an uderstanding of the application & strengths & weaknesses of the available level measurement technologies.

By Gary Frank, Westfalia Technologies As technology continues to become more sophisticated every day, companies are able to run leaner and more powerful operations. However, from manufacturing assembly lines to service industries, more and more professions are being replaced by machines and devices that eclipse the capabilities of humans.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in many respects is the progression of distributed computing. The fundamental components of an automation (or other) system are sensors; they are the “eyes, ears, and fingers” of any system. If the concepts of IIoT are to succeed, we need more effective, powerful sensors.

New automation professional describes how to achieve success in the industry.

By Steve Hughes, REO Industry 4.0 will ultimately represent a significant change in manufacturing and industry. In the long run, the sophisticated software implanted in factory equipment could help machines self-regulate and make more autonomous decisions.

Adaptive Backstepping Sliding Mode Control of Flexible Ball Screw Drives

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