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  • Digitalization Helping Shape Market Dynamics for Soft Starters

    Digitalization Helping Shape Market Dynamics for Soft Starters

    New ARC Advisory Group research on the global Soft Starters market reveals that the leading suppliers are striving to differentiate their products through deep application knowledge and increased intelligence and connectivity.
    10 August, 2020 | 2 minutes
  • Can ISA95 Standards Apply to Industry 4.0?

    Can ISA95 Standards Apply to Industry 4.0?

    ISA95 standards define enterprise and control system integrations for manufacturers. Created for Industry 3.0, they are also relevant to Industry 4.0.
    By: Ranjan Sharma
    07 August, 2020 | 3 minutes
  • ROKLive DX Strategists Conference: Manufacturing Digitalization Keys to Success

    ROKLive DX Strategists Conference: Manufacturing Digitalization Keys to Success

    Retired Procter & Gamble VP Tony Saldana highlights the opportunities successful digitalization offers and outlines the skills, actions and mindsets manufacturing companies need to thrive during the pandemic and the Fourth Industrial Revolution Era.
    By: Bill Lydon
    06 August, 2020 | 8 minutes
  • IMAGINiT Earns Autodesk CAM Specialization

    IMAGINiT Earns Autodesk CAM Specialization

    Manufacturers turn to IMAGINiT for end-to-end computer aided manufacturing (CAM) solutions that improve quality, productivity and profitability.
    04 August, 2020 | 1 minutes
  • Siemens Digital Industries Software and CADENAS Speed Design Time, Digitalization

    Siemens Digital Industries Software and CADENAS Speed Design Time, Digitalization

    3DfindIT.com, the engineering search engine for 3D components from CADENAS, provides users with easy access to millions of CAD models from thousands of international manufacturers and a range of intuitive search methods.
    04 August, 2020 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson and MHPS Collaborate on Power Industry Digital Transformation

    Emerson and MHPS Collaborate on Power Industry Digital Transformation

    Companies to develop solutions that drive operational excellence and create cleaner, more reliable power for consumers.
    03 August, 2020 | 3 minutes
  • Accenture Continues Digital Manufacturing, Industry X.0 Expansion

    Accenture Continues Digital Manufacturing, Industry X.0 Expansion

    Accenture in Italy has completed the acquisition of Turin-based boutique systems integrator PLM Systems.
    02 August, 2020 | 2 minutes
  • 5 Recent Great Reads in IIoT

    5 Recent Great Reads in IIoT

    The International Society of Automation (ISA) shares 5 articles about IIoT from July 2020.
    By: Kara Phelps
    31 July, 2020 | 2 minutes
  • New ARC Vanguard Service Provides Company-specific Support to Speed Industrial Innovation

    New ARC Vanguard Service Provides Company-specific Support to Speed Industrial Innovation

    ARC Advisory Group announced the launch of its Vanguard Service.
    30 July, 2020 | 2 minutes
  • Cobots maximize return on investment

    Cobots maximize return on investment

    Cobots hold the promise of increasing the efficiency and quality of human work, bringing greater reliability, consistency and precision to a variety of manufacturing and assembly operations. However, do these potential benefits hold true for all users?
    By: Oliver Giertz
    22 July, 2020 | 3 minutes
  • Developing Industrial Machine Learning Projects: 3 Common Mistakes to Avoid

    Developing Industrial Machine Learning Projects: 3 Common Mistakes to Avoid

    In project development that involves industrial machine learning, some common mistakes have been observed.
    By: Luiz Rogério de Freitas Júnior
    21 July, 2020 | 4 minutes
  • DORIS, Schneider Electric, AVEVA Align to Deliver Oil and Gas Digital Twins

    DORIS, Schneider Electric, AVEVA Align to Deliver Oil and Gas Digital Twins

    DORIS Group, Schneider Electric, and AVEVA have agreed to develop a strategic partnership to deliver Digital Twin technology for the upstream oil and gas markets. These new solutions will support the goals of oil & gas organizations to improve asset performance, increase sustainability, and maximize return on capital on projects.
    20 July, 2020 | 2 minutes
  • ARC Report: Digitalization Drives Marine Automation Systems Market

    ARC Report: Digitalization Drives Marine Automation Systems Market

    The latest marine automation systems can improve vessel connectivity, enhance efficiency, and improve safety and competitiveness by reducing the number of on-board crewmembers required to operate vessels safely and in compliance with maritime laws and regulations.
    14 July, 2020 | 1 minute
  • Sophie Borgne named Engineer Powerwoman 2020

    Sophie Borgne named Engineer Powerwoman 2020

    The prize, which is usually awarded during the opening of the WomenPower career conference, became part of the digital event after the corona pandemic caused the cancellation of HANNOVER MESSE. Engineer Powerwoman 2020 marks the eighth time that Deutsche Messe is honoring a pioneer in the STEM field who through her commitment, her ideas and her work promotes technical innovation within her company.
    13 July, 2020 | 1 minute
  • Pushing Plant Computing to the Edge and to the Cloud Factories

    Pushing Plant Computing to the Edge and to the Cloud Factories

    By Bill Lydon Time synchronization and accelerate the continued integration of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) groups. This trend has been facilitating changes in organizational structures, and the creation, in many cases, of integrated IT/OT groups.
    By: Bill Lydon
    13 July, 2020 | 2 minutes
  • Festo announces Virtual Exhibition July 15 and 16

    Festo announces Virtual Exhibition July 15 and 16

    Festo is hosting a real-time visit to an exhibition booth at the First Festo Virtual Exhibition on 15th and 16th July 2020.
    12 July, 2020 | 1 minute
  • Digital Transformation Leads to Integrated Factories

    Digital Transformation Leads to Integrated Factories

    By Bill Lydon, Implementing Digital Twin concepts is quickly becoming fundamental for organizations achieve real-time integrated manufacturing.
    By: Bill Lydon
    12 July, 2020 | 2 minutes
  • Continued Evolution for Process Automation

    Continued Evolution for Process Automation

    By Bill Lydon The Process Automation industry has been heavily impacted by the influx of new technologies and, as we enter the next decade, several organizations are providing roadmaps in order to help process automation companies enable the best practices to leverage these technologies and drive competitiveness and productivity forward.
    By: Bill Lydon
    02 July, 2020 | 3 minutes
  • How Industry 4.0 Can Get Factories Running At Full Speed

    How Industry 4.0 Can Get Factories Running At Full Speed

    By Chris Turlica, MaintainX Modern factories are as sophisticated as any server farm or computer lab, and to keep them firing on all cylinders we’ll need high-tech solutions too.
    By: Chris Turlica
    30 June, 2020 | 4 minutes
  • Digitalization Driving Manufacturing to New Heights

    Digitalization Driving Manufacturing to New Heights

    By Bill Lydon Manufacturing and production companies are realizing digitalization requires structure, organizational changes, and integration of information technology (IT), operations technology (OT) and automation technology.
    By: Bill Lydon
    30 June, 2020 | 2 minutes
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