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The newly updated Fourth Edition of A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge is the only officially authorized book covering ISA’s body of knowledge core competencies. This revised guide provides an overview of important automation concepts and processes, while also describing the technical skills required to implement them in today’s industrial environment.

The goal isn’t to automate everything that can be automated. It’s to make deliberate investments that leave the operation safer, more reliable and more productive than it was before. 

Electric vehicles and battery manufacturing; aerospace and defense; semiconductors; life sciences; and the decarbonization of heavy industry account for a significant share of the country’s largest industrial investments.

KUKA Robotics will highlight its advanced automation solutions for various packaging operations and food manufacturing applications at Pack Expo 2026 from Oct. 18-21 in Chicago.

As automation continues to expand across manufacturing and intralogistics, the ability to understand and optimize material flow at a system level becomes increasingly critical and an effective differentiator.

The challenge is not about adopting high voltage, but about making the best use of it.

New capabilities in tire manufacturing automation, robotic painting, precision fluid application, surface treatment, and specialized manufacturing processes expand MCRI’s ability to support more operations throughout the plant.

European industry is losing its competitive edge not because it lacks technology, but because of a productivity gap, slow scaling and the rising cost of decision-making.

Rainer Brehm will lead the newly established Automation unit beginning Oct. 1, 2026.

“Adding an external axis transport layer to a 6-axis cobot opens new avenues for productivity, innovation and profitability for our customers,” said Emily Kern, president of Regal Rexnord’s Linear Motion Division.

Okuma will showcase a comprehensive offering for the metalworking industry featuring new CNC machine tools, a CNC control, a robust line of automation systems, intelligent manufacturing technologies and new world-class services.

Wistron Corporation celebrated the grand opening of its D1 AI smart facility in Fort Worth, Texas, the site where the first NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip was built and mass-produced in the United States.

Middleware became a control system, and it did so without inheriting any of the discipline we spent seventy years wrapping around control systems.

The target of the automation is no longer a task. It's the discovery and automation of processes themselves.

ORECA adopts Siemens’ Simcenter STAR-CCM+ and Simcenter Optistruct to enhance computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and composite optimization workflows.

The 42-mile Dune Express conveyor showcases advanced industrial engineering, heavy-duty reliability and large-scale logistics innovation.

This year was the best attended Automate ever with more than 50,000 registrants.

Feintool officially inaugurated its first production facility in India, located in the industrial hub of Pune.

The consumer products plant will be equipped with modern manufacturing systems and production equipment and employ a range of manufacturing, operations and administrative staff.

While IT and OT must collaborate and integrate each other's respective best practices, they also must accommodate different approaches, objectives and business requirements.