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Go into the instrumentation cabinets of almost any process plant built before the 2000s and you'll find that most of it still works exactly as it did thirty or forty years ago. So, the question isn't really whether that old infrastructure still does its job. It's whether it can keep up with what plants are now being asked to do with their data. 

Human-in-the-loop AI helps industrial organizations amplify human expertise, preserve institutional knowledge, and make smarter decisions.

KEYENCE BT-A600 handheld computers ensure compatibility with the Plex UX manufacturing platform while enhancing scanning performance.

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.

Magnetic flow meters have proven to excel in challenging applications. This Q&A with Cheng Vue, Global Product Manager at Emerson, covers how the company is innovating with magnetic flow meters that are more intelligent, trustworthy, and easier to use.

The article sets three conditions that qualify a task, names six places to start, and argues that the real question is not which model you subscribe to but whether your software platform can give one structured access to its own engineering model.

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.

Factories generate enormous quantities of sensor data, yet most of it is never translated into timely operational decisions, leaving significant production capacity unrealized. The next industrial advantage will belong to companies and countries that build infrastructure capable of interpreting this data in real time and using it to improve factory operations.

America’s manufacturing expansion faces not only a labor shortage but a loss of institutional knowledge as experienced workers retire. Factories must capture human decisions alongside machine data to create a sovereign knowledge repository that helps future workers diagnose problems, act faster, and avoid repeating mistakes.

For plants weighing modernization against budget and downtime constraints, extracting existing HART data is one of the lowest-disruption steps available.

As the link between cloud networks and devices (mobile phones, tablets, notebooks) results in more complex devices under test (DUT), the need for radio frequency test equipment will only intensify.

The catalogue is divided into six categories: General Purpose, Electrical & Industrial, Fibre Optics, RF & Microwave, Communications and Broadcast.

Free webinar series, ABC's of Portable Oscilloscopes, makes it easy to understand how to capture and analyze waveforms using a portable storage oscilloscope, such as the Fluke ScopeMeter.

Taiwan-based Escort Instruments is a supplier of low-cost test and measurement instruments.

The LXI Consortium announced that a survey of its member manufacturers shows that annual sales of LXI-equipped test and measurement equipment now exceeds $200 million.

Unlike traditional oscilloscopes and PC-based digitizers that have a fixed resolution for all sample rates, the NI PXI-5922 is a flexible-resolution digitizer with which engineers can trade sample rate for resolution through software. For example, at 15 MS/s, the module delivers 16 bits of resolution; by reducing the sample rate to 500 kS/s or less through a software call, the same module (without any hardware changes) delivers 24 bits of resolution.