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  • 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
  • An Emerging Role for IoT in the Health Care Delivery System

    An Emerging Role for IoT in the Health Care Delivery System

    IoT plays a crucial role in remote patient monitoring systems, which have changed the nature of health care delivery during COVID-19—possibly forever.
    By: Rajabahadur V. Arcot
    23 June, 2020 | 5 minutes
  • PTC LiveWorx on Moving Digitalization from Vision to Reality

    PTC LiveWorx on Moving Digitalization from Vision to Reality

    The multi-session live event, recorded and available on demand for those who missed it, described how digitalization is a competitive imperative for manufacturing and production companies that want to thrive and survive.
    By: Bill Lydon
    18 June, 2020 | 6 minutes
  • Deutsche Messe AG announces 2020 HERMES AWARD nominees

    Deutsche Messe AG announces 2020 HERMES AWARD nominees

    Originally, the prize was to be announced at HANNOVER MESSE 2020 in April, which was cancelled due to the developments surrounding Covid-19. As a result, Deutsche Messe, together with the jury, decided to announce the winner during the HANNOVER MESSE digital event on 14 July
    11 June, 2020 | 2 minutes
  • e-Magic announces joining of Digital Twin Consortium

    e-Magic announces joining of Digital Twin Consortium

    Digital Twin Consortium is a global ecosystem of users who are accelerating the digital twin market and demonstrating the value of digital twin technology.
    03 June, 2020 | 1 minute
  • Leveraging the Digitalization Toolbox to Distance Workers in the COVID-19 Era

    Leveraging the Digitalization Toolbox to Distance Workers in the COVID-19 Era

    By Bill Lydon Running a manufacturing plant in the COVID-19 pandemic era means distancing coworkers and minimizing their interactions. Fortunately, there are a range of industrial automation solutions available that can help organizations achieve these new goals while also being consistent with digitalization investments to improve productivity.
    By: Bill Lydon
    03 June, 2020 | 5 minutes
  • Emerson Contributes to The Open Group Open Subsurface Data Universe (OSDU) Forum

    Emerson Contributes to The Open Group Open Subsurface Data Universe (OSDU) Forum

    Emerson’s contribution will improve the efficiency of reservoir modelers and reservoir engineers, and enable multi-disciplinary integrated reservoir workflows, including geomodeling and flow simulation, on top of the OSDU platform.
    02 June, 2020 | 1 minute
  • Sectigo releases Evolution of IIoT Attacks study

    Sectigo releases Evolution of IIoT Attacks study

    The study report and associated infographic chronicle the progression, variety, and growing sophistication of many of the most infamous vulnerabilities and attacks on connected devices, as well as the emerging defenses used by organizations to fight them.
    27 May, 2020 | 2 minutes
  • The Missing ‘Industry 4.0/Digitalization’ Link – Open Programming Standard Conformance & Certification

    The Missing ‘Industry 4.0/Digitalization’ Link – Open Programming Standard Conformance & Certification

    By Bill Lydon Achieving the benefits of digitalization requires organizations to leverage Industry 4.0 and IoT (Internet of Things) concepts, technology, and architecture with open standards.
    By: Bill Lydon
    27 May, 2020 | 4 minutes
  • Tesla's Virtual Power Plant: Re-Envisioning the Electric Grid

    Tesla's Virtual Power Plant: Re-Envisioning the Electric Grid

    Tesla engineers created a virtual power plant that relies on open source and digital twin technologies to ensure resiliency when using renewable energy.
    By: Kara Phelps
    26 May, 2020 | 3 minutes
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