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Honeywell Launches Digitized Workforce Management Suite of Solutions to Support Health Compliance and Remote Operations
Honewell's digitized workforce management suite incorporates elevated body temperature detection, digitized site entry compliance check, digitized workforce management, worker safety monitoring, and remote collaboration capabilities.
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Sanitization monitoring system for workstations
Banner Engineering's Clean Workspace Monitoring System establishes scheduled workspace sanitizing as an integral part of the return-to-work process.
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Open Standards Mean More Options for Industrial Automation
By Bill Lydon
Open system options continue to emerge from nontraditional suppliers and standards groups, and this is a trend that I expect will accelerate and enable multivendor interoperability at all levels of the system architecture.
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Honeywell Launches Digitized Workforce Management Suite of Solutions to Support Health Compliance and Remote Operations
Honewell's digitized workforce management suite incorporates elevated body temperature detection, digitized site entry compliance check, digitized workforce management, worker safety monitoring, and remote collaboration capabilities.
Sanitization monitoring system for workstations
Banner Engineering's Clean Workspace Monitoring System establishes scheduled workspace sanitizing as an integral part of the return-to-work process.
Open Standards Mean More Options for Industrial Automation
By Bill Lydon
Open system options continue to emerge from nontraditional suppliers and standards groups, and this is a trend that I expect will accelerate and enable multivendor interoperability at all levels of the system architecture.
Worldwide Blossoming of Country-Centric Open Manufacturing Initiatives
By Bill Lydon
The impact of open manufacturing initiatives continues to be a worldwide affair. These initiatives continue to grow as industry recognizes the need to modernize and the Industry 4.0 movement (called “Industrie 4.0” in Germany, its country of origin) continues to accelerate.
PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) publishes OPC UA specification for PROFINET
This specification describes a standardized OPC UA object model for PROFINET devices which enables PROFINET devices from a wide variety of different manufacturers to transfer device data to asset management systems in a standardized way, for example. Standardization makes information collection significantly easier for tool manufacturers, regardless of the manufacturer, but this is just the beginning of PI’s vertical integration strategy.
NCCoE announces 10 technology collaborators for Protecting Information and System Integrity in Industrial Control System Environments project
These collaborators will work with the NCCoE project team to provide a practical solution to help manufacturers protect their industrial control system(s) (ICS) from data integrity attacks.
IFR Report: How nations invest in robotics research
What are the targets of the officially driven government research funding programs and what can we learn from these findings? This has been researched by the International Federations of Robotics and published in the new paper “World Robotics R&D Programs” by IFR.
FDT Group releases FDT 3.0 – FDT IIoT Server (FITS) standard
The FDT 3.0 standard is intended to accelerate the evolutionary journey into the Fourth Industrial Revolution by enabling an ecosystem of FDT-based solutions to meet demands for IIoT and Industrie 4.0 applications.
The Missing ‘Industry 4.0/Digitalization’ Link – Open Programming Standard Conformance & Certification
By Bill Lydon
Achieving the benefits of digitalization requires organizations to leverage Industry 4.0 and IoT (Internet of Things) concepts, technology, and architecture with open standards.
FDT Group and ODVA announce addition of FDT 3.0 support to Common Industrial Protocol
FDT and ODVA share a common core mission that includes advancing open, interoperable information and communication exchange for the industrial automation marketplace.
Prosys OPC announces acceptance as member of Open Industry 4.0 Alliance
The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance, which was launched at that time, currently has 55 members. In the meantime, four working groups have come together to develop concrete use cases for each of the industry segments and technologies.
SATO joins RAIN RFID Alliance
The RAIN RFID alliance aims for the advancement of IoT technologies, with specific focus on promotion of the UHF RFID standard (ISO/IEC 18000-63 and GS1’s EPC “Gen2”) through the testing, support and education of service providers and end users.
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Trend Micro Portable Security™ 3 scans for malware in your ICS without installing any software, allowing you to implement endpoint cybersecurity in critical systems where software installation is not allowed.
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Introducing the BMU and BLE2 Series: watertight, dust-resistant brushless DC motors that can be washed with water.
- Oriental Motor USA Corporation
The ELX series EtherCAT® Terminals from Beckhoff, with intrinsically safe inputs/outputs, enable direct connection of field devices in hazardous areas classified Zones 0, 1 and 2.
- Beckhoff Automation
Speed operator response and increase efficiency with a trial of GE Digital’s iFIX HMI/SCADA.
- GE Digital
For basic applications within industrial process plants, demands for simplicity in commissioning, operation and maintenance have increased. The new Proline 10 flowmeters deliver that simplicity without compromising functionality.
- Endress+Hauser, Inc.
Automation & Control Trends Analysis 2021-2022. Download this special report on the top 12 trends that are manifesting the manufacturing digital revolution.
Featured articles in this new IIoT ebook include: Bringing Your Factory to the Edge in 2021, Robotics Integrator Uses 3D Printing, How to Make a Battery Smaller and Less Expensive, and more.
Download the latest edition of InTech. Top stories include: Controller Redundancy Under the Hood, OPC UA–From Automation Pyramid to Information Network, Technology–Driven, IIoT-Enabled Asset Integrity Management, and more!
This is a comprehensive coverage of wireless control for continuous and discrete applications in the process industry.
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Learn what you need to know to make clear decisions on the timing and strategy for implementing wireless networks.
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The authors demystify the procedure of tuning control systems using basic principles and auto-tuning software.
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