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The Future of Process System Architectures – Insights from 2017 Foxboro User Group
By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com A common topic of debate revolves around how process system architectures will be shaped in the future. One architectural vision would enable a shift of focus from process efficiency control to business performance control, with increasing levels of monitoring and control. -
PROCENTEC announces training cooperation with itsme group
PROCENTEC will provide training courses for PROFIBUS and PROFINET on various itsme-locations in the Netherlands. The offer includes free product training, Troubleshooting & Maintenance training and PI International Certified Engineer and Installer courses. -
Sercos to demonstrate data benefits of Industry 4.0 at SPS IPC Drives 2017
The Industry 4.0 Demonstrator highlights how process and device data are made available both locally via the real-time bus and also via OPC UA for a range of application scenarios in a uniform and cross-manufacturer manner. -
Digging into the Details: Time Sensitive Networking (TSN)
By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) has been a hot topic at several conferences over the last 18 months. With the promise of connecting all devices in a single unifying network from sensor to enterprise, this article will explore why TSN is on the tip of everyone’s tongue. -
OPC Foundation delivers 30 OPC UA demonstration walls to Microsoft Technology Centers
These walls show the power of the Microsoft commitment to embrace the OPC UA interoperability standard as the secure solution for integration of OT and IT. -
Lenze partners with ei3 to offer IIoT-based remote analysis and maintenance services
As part of their service contract with Lenze, machine builders can collect all the data that is available inside the Lenze controllers. They can then evaluate this data and make it available to their own customers, either as an up-to-date dashboard or in the form of reports providing performance figures. -
Samsung Electronics joins the OPC Foundation
Samsung Electronics believes that the great potentials of the OPC UA framework could synergy Samsung’s effort to deploy the Industrial IoT edge platform for its manufacturing infrastructures in order to achieve the seamless interoperability aiming for the Industry 4.0. -
An Open Electronic Marshalling Solution? Finally! - Siemens Delivers
By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com Given the number of vendors that have introduced electronic marshalling products, the value of electronic marshalling is clear. With Siemens’ entry into the world of open automation solutions, the value of these solutions should become increasingly clear as well. -
Prosys OPC helps Krüger enable data integration in STAR Utility Solution
Krüger A/S provides with its STAR Utility Solution online control solutions that continuously optimize and stabilize the operation of the entire system for water and waste water. Prosys OPC developed for Krüger A/S a scalable, cloud-based solution for the data integration needs in their STAR Utility Solution platform. -
CODESYS announces CODESYS-compatible SoftPLC for open Linux device platforms
As of now, SoftPLC systems for the device platforms PFC 100 from WAGO and SIMATIC IOT2000 from Siemens are also available. Both systems are based on an open Linux operating system and are designed to work in industrial environments. -
Skkynet Cloud Systems announces OSP 2017―OPC UA Sandpit event
This international event, held in Osaka, Japan, on September 14, 2017, will showcase ten OPC UA products from leading industrial automation companies. -
Phoenix Contact announces series of PROFINET one-day training workshops
Phoenix Contact, Renesas, and Siemens will host several one-day training workshops where attendees will have the opportunity to create a PROFINET device in less than three hours with the Renesas TPS-1 -
Beckhoff to feature automation and IT convergence at Pack Expo 2017
Visitors to the Beckhoff booth will again be able to “BYOD”, using their own smartphones and tablets to connect with PC-based control demos – including a wall of IoT-enabled devices, plus articulated robot arms from Stäubli – using any mobile device with a web browser. -
Hilscher plans introduction of 'coupler' between CC-Link IE and PROFINET
With the new coupler, users can effectively achieve communication between differing parts of a line on separate networks, increasing transparency and integration. -
Opto 22 announces OptoPartners IoT Certification program
This program is designed to address a specific need as Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), or Industry 4.0 applications and projects proliferate. -
Bedrock announces free online training for Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
Initially developed to train Bedrock end users and partners in programming applications to the IEC 61131-3 standard, the software and the IDE can be used to build PLC, DCS, and SCADA RTU applications that are cryptographically authenticated to the Bedrock platform. -
Alicat announces Modbus TCP/IP compatibility to its line of flow, pressure & liquid instrumentation
The option allows PLCs running the Modbus industrial automation protocol to connect to Alicat instruments over Ethernet cable. -
Zebra Technologies Study: 2/3 of global manufacturers to adopt IIoT by 2022
Driven by globalization, intensifying competition and rising customer demand for more options and higher quality products, a connected plant floor has become a necessity. Zebra’s survey shows the number of organizations achieving a fully connected factory is expected to rise dramatically over the next five years. -
PLCopen announces PLCopen Safe Motion version 1.0
The specification “PLCopen Safe Motion” version 1.0 – official release – is now available on the PLCopen website for downloading. This new solution is based on an existing functionality as already specified in PLCopen Safety: SF_SafetyRequest. -
MAC Solutions helps deliver open PLC communication for British research effort
By introducing change management and version control software from M.A.C. Solutions for more than 400 of its programmable devices (PLCs and HMIs) at its facility in Oxfordshire, Diamond Light Source intends to minimize the risk of machine downtime caused by PLC back-up or software code errors
