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Silicon Valley Robotics Awards SICK Champion Award and Innovation Award as Part of Good Robot Industry Awards Program
- News
The Silicon Valley Robotics (SVR) group awarded SICK two honors as a part of the SVR’s inaugural Good Robot Industry Awards.

Virtual Power Systems Forms Strategic Advisory Council
- News
Industry leaders to provide guidance on global implementation of software-defined power.

Smart Building Opportunities for Printed Sensors
- by Matthew Dyson
- Feature
Smart buildings promise automated control of the buildings' operations, along with integrated technology for human-machine interactions. Such functionality requires multiple sensors, to which printed/flexible electronics are very well suited due to their low weight and thin-film form factor.

Unlocking the Benefits of the IIoT in the US
- by Ravi Gopinath
- Feature
Ravi Gopinath, chief cloud officer and chief product officer at AVEVA, discusses the benefits of integrating IIoT and why it’s here to stay.

OPC UA FLC (Field Level Communication) Enables Integrated Manufacturing Business
- by Bill Lydon
- Feature
The OPC UA FLC (Field Level Communication) initiative revolutionizes industrial communications to achieve integrated manufacturing business operations from sensor to enterprise and cloud.

Netwrix and Stealthbits Merge to Address the Growing Demand for Sensitive Data Protection
- News
Two cybersecurity companies join forces to offer data security and privacy solutions to organizations of any size and in any region around the world.

Meeting Medical Needs with Condition-based Monitoring
- by Brian Imrie
- Feature
Brian Imrie, managing director of adi Facilities Engineering, evaluates how technology has played a key role within the pharmaceutical maintenance strategy, and what changes are set to make a successful stay into the future.

Graybar Acquires Shingle & Gibb Automation
- News
Graybar, a leading distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products and provider of related supply chain management and logistics services, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Shingle & Gibb Automation.

TASI Product Integrity Doubles India Operations with More Growth to Come
- News
Partner companies quickly outgrew first combined office on customer demand.

Robotics, Automation & Smart Revolution Drive UVC Disinfection Products Market Growth
- News
Global UVC disinfection products continue to make deep inroads in the lucrative food & beverages sector, with investments in robots growing in 2020, according to a new study by an ESOMAR certified market research and consulting company.