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Are Industrial Protocols Going the Way of AppleTalk, DecNet & Netware?

  • September 18, 2018
  • Feature

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com The industrial automation industry has a reputation and history of being behind the technology adoption curve. With an prganizational need for reliability and system availability, the key question is: When is a new technology reliable enough that the benefits outweigh the risk?

Position Sensor Technology Comparison for Hydraulic Cylinder Feedback

  • September 17, 2018
  • News

By Edward E. Herceg, Alliance Sensors Group The strengths and weaknesses of magnetostrictive, variable resistance, and variable inductance sensors are examined in this white paper, along with a chart for feature-by-feature comparisons.

HANNOVER MESSE announces "Integrated Industry – Industrial Intelligence" theme for 2019 event

  • September 17, 2018
  • News

The theme of HANNOVER MESSE 2019 underlines the growing importance of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the production and energy industries, including such areas as energy efficiency and use and autonomous production processes as well as challenges in terms of interfaces, protocols and security.

ABB to highlight ABB Ability solutions at CEPSI 2018 in Malaysia

  • September 17, 2018
  • News

Highlights from ABB’s showcase include solutions that can enable digitalization and enhance the grid, in line with this year’s conference theme, “Re-imagining utility of the future.”

Seeq to sponsor Ignition Community Conference

  • September 17, 2018
  • News

The ICC is hosted by Inductive Automation for partners and customers of the Ignition SCADA system.

Rockwell Automation announces support for Energy Observer expedition

  • September 17, 2018
  • News

To help ensure 24-hour energy autonomy throughout its global expedition, the Energy Observer uses a combination of intermittent renewable energy: solar panels, wind turbines, lithium-ion batteries and a hydrogen production system.

Rockwell Automation helps ECT integrate process control for shale gas producer

  • September 7, 2018
  • Case Study

ECT was tasked with developing a turbomachinery control system for two trains, each with three parallel compressors. Because the operations will be expected to run continuously for years at a time, a redundant architecture was essential to ensure a backup system would take over and reduce the likelihood of downtime should a failure occur.

Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) Vision: Unifying Business & Industrial Automation

  • September 5, 2018
  • Feature

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) was envisioned to create single network to meet all requirements including audio, vision, and data with guaranteed speed and determinism for all applications.

Beckhoff Automation announces opening of Quebec office

  • August 31, 2018
  • News

The Laval office establishes an automation solution center for Beckhoff customers in Quebec, located conveniently within driving distance from downtown Montreal and Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.

Rockwell Automation to present on smart manufacturing at PACK EXPO

  • August 31, 2018
  • News

This year, Rockwell Automation will conduct a series of presentations and demonstrations for end users, machine and equipment builders in packaging and related industries to share the most recent innovations in independent cart technology, analytics and network security.