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Industrial security teams are absorbing alert loads that process engineers would never accept for operators, and the cost shows up in sleep and judgment before it shows up in incidents.

Mouser expands its offerings to provide thousands of Banner products that are critical to designing, upfitting, optimizing, and maintaining smart automation facilities.

Training completion does not equate to readiness for a specific emergency. Actions required during hazardous material releases must be detailed, responsibilities defined, and competence verified.

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Physical AI is transforming industrial automation, from autonomous robots to machine vision. Discover why reliable edge AI hardware, real-time processing, multi-sensor connectivity, and thermal stability are essential for real-world deployment.

Lights out machining gets the headlines. But today, we’re exploring how automation’s biggest impact often happens with the lights on. Explore how the right solution can increase capacity, reduce scrap, and help skilled machinists focus on higher-value work.

By digitizing instrumentation signals at or near the process and transmitting multiple measurements over a single communications link, Remote I/O helps facilities improve installation efficiency, simplify maintenance, and accommodate future expansion without extensive modifications to existing control infrastructure.

How to develop an OT cybersecurity roadmap to transition to PQC algorithms designed to resist quantum-computer-enabled decryption.

WAGO marries the craft of brewing with modern automation to help create the perfect beer.

New 36,000-square-foot center will prepare students and workers for careers in HVAC, electrical, industrial maintenance and other manufacturing trades.

This article explores how a resilient software foundation and a microkernel architecture can isolate critical workloads, contain faults, and support lifecycle cybersecurity. It highlights how foundational platforms such as QNX can enable secure and safe software-defined industrial modernization approaches that are essential in building and managing resilient systems throughout the systems lifecycle.

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.

Emerson is to automate a production facility that will help the Netherlands meet the EU sustainable aviation fuel mandate.

Learn about the benefits and risks of low-code on the plant floor, applications for cybersecurity in United States water systems, the future of interoperability and more in this month’s topical roundup!

The expanded facility strengthens customer partnerships and supports growth across Australia and New Zealand.

The delivery of technology will strengthen reliable low-carbon power generation and energy security in Romania.

Fieldbus connectivity improves installation, uptime and performance in hydrogen, chemical and refining applications.

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. 

Does the workforce available at the time of a problem match the response your organization expects?