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Supply chain issues aren't going away anytime soon. Augury CEO Saar Yoskovitz explains how "shadow factories" can help solve supply chain-related concerns.

System-integrated vibration analysis monitors the load-bearing capacity of steel structures in offshore energy production.

When organizations want to optimize plant processes, smart instrumentation provides host systems with indispensable data, which can be used for operational and maintenance insights. This feature originally appeared in the April edition of InTech magazine.

Emerson AMS Device Manager now supports FDI for HART instruments, assuring end users of multi-vendor operability.

System-integrated vibration analysis reliably monitors the load-bearing capacity of steel structures in offshore energy production.

GE Digital today announced the availability of the world’s first cloud-native operational data historian available in the AWS Marketplace, Proficy Historian for Cloud.

Members of the Open Group Open Process Automation Forum (OPAF) provided a progress update Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022 discussing progress and planned developments to achieve the goal of greater interoperability and portability in manufacturing control systems.

Life science laboratory standardization and modularization support automation and are increasing the efficiency and number of practical applications in life sciences, including drug discovery and small-batch, single-use pharmaceutical applications.

This article will outline some of the disconnects relating to performance management initiatives between the C-Suite and operations teams and shift supervisors working on the plant floor.

With cleanliness and safety at the forefront of meat, poultry, egg and other fast moving consumer goods processing, KUKA Robotics spotlighted its expansive product range of automation solutions specifically for that market sector at the International Production & Processing Expo held in Atlanta.

Yokogawa announces that it has been selected by ExxonMobil as the system integrator for the first field trial of an Open Process Automation* (OPA) system designed to operate an entire production facility.

Pushing the capabilities of sealing technology for hydraulics, Trelleborg’s focus has been on enhancing performance while making fluid power applications more sustainable.

We are now seeing the awareness and utilization of RPA expand into traditionally non-IT domains, promoting exponential growth of RPA across the organization.

UiPath, a leading robotic process automation (RPA) software company, announced it has become a Builder sponsor of The Smart Factory @ Wichita, a new Industry 4.0 immersive experience center by Deloitte.

Continuous-process industries are at an inflection point regarding what they can do with automation, making now an ideal time to address inefficiencies and hazards. This feature was originally published in the December 2021 issue of InTech magazine.

Plans are to replace the distributed control systems (DCS) at pulp mills in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada with the Valmet DNA, a single automation system for process, machine, drives and quality controls.

International Process Plants (IPP) and its affiliates announced today the acquisition of Juniper Acquisitions LLC, owner of the Juniper Specialty Products commercial-scale high-purity gas-to-liquids (GTL) wax manufacturing plant in Westlake, Louisiana.

The Coalition for Open Process Automation (COPA) hosted a 90-minute virtual broadcast discussion and first public demonstration of the COPA QuickStart system illustrating the benefits and value of Open Process Automation based on the O-PAS standard.

Digital sensing devices built on open standards can significantly expand data visibility and improve an organization’s asset management process. This article was originally published in the October 2021 issue of InTech magazine.

“In the past few years, open process automation and industry initiatives have focused on open modular, interoperable and portable solutions,” Bridget Fitzpatrick, Process Automation Authority for Wood Applied Intelligence, said during her keynote speech at the International Society of Automation (ISA) Process Industry Virtual Conference (PIC).