Resources for Smart Manufacturing & Industry 4.0

Webinar: Designing Solutions for the Edge: Driving Industrial Innovation

  • Webinar

In this webinar, we will address these trends, the surge in edge computing and uncover how you can drive value by partnering with Dell Technologies OEM Embedded & Edge Solutions. We can help you design, deliver and support customized industrial Edge solutions and a secure supply chain – all from one trusted and sustainable tier 1 vendor. 

Webinar: Next-Gen Technologies Enabling Connected Manufacturing

  • Webinar

Hear from a panel of experts how manufacturers are transforming and how industrial solution builders can keep them ready for the era of new industrial revolution.

A Snapshot of Digital Transformation Progress

  • White Paper

To develop insight about how organizations are keeping up with the changes and transformations taking place throughout the industrial sector, the Digital Transformation Council and ARC Advisory Group, in conjunction with ISA and Automation.com, conducted a survey of industrial companies. This white paper summarizes the results of the survey.

How to Grow Your Business with Collaborative Automation

  • White Paper

Collaborative automation has become a versatile,cost-effective, and user-friendly technology that allows businesses of almost any size (and any level of technical expertise) to increase productivity, improve quality, and respond more nimbly to changing customer demands.

Enabling Digital Transformation with IoT Performance and Properties Measurement

  • White Paper

Written for all IIoT stakeholders, the white paper explains why measuring the efficiency and efficacy of industrial digital transformation solutions across industries is essential.

Automation 2020: Industrial Cybersecurity

  • Ebook

In this edition of AUTOMATION 2020 from Automation.com, find out how to bolster business resiliency in the face of cyberthreats, how to protect against threats to industrial control systems, the latest on USB port intrusion threats, the next big step in EtherNet/ IP security, and more.

Webinar: Empowering Power for the Digital Age

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This webinar explores the need to distribute power to the edge, the rewards of doing so, and how power supply digital architectures are evolving to reduce costs and to empower the Industrial Internet of Things.

Webinar: Securing Industrial Environments With OT Endpoint Management

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Join us on May 28th to learn a practical approach to applying many of the same best practice IT principles into the OT environment and hear a real-world example of an operator bringing the appropriate skills, technology and processes to enable similar endpoint risk management to OT as to IT.

IIoT Extends the Operational Excellence Value Chain

  • Webinar

Join this webinar to see what becomes possible when you take control and connect the entire value chain for reduced risk, improved on-time delivery and greater customer satisfaction.

IIoT At Work – Planning For The Next Installation

  • Webinar

The audience will receive a comprehensive review of the challenges and solutions for the next IIoT deployment.

InTech Digital Magazine August 2022

  • Ebook

Brought to you by ISA’s Smart Manufacturing & IIoT Technical Division, this Special Edition of InTech Magazine highlights Industry 4.0 and the Smart Factory.

Webinar: Engineering Solutions for OT Cybersecurity

  • Webinar

In this webinar, we dig into engineering solutions to industrial control system cyber risk, especially the emerging field of network engineering: designing networks to eliminate entirely the most important classes of cyber-attacks.

Automation 2022 Volume 3: IIoT and Industry 4.0

  • Ebook

​Look inside this edition of AUTOMATION 2022: IIoT and Industry 4.0 for ways to enhance condition monitoring using vibration transmitters and programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Explore energy harvesting and motion sensing with the “Wiegand effect.” Learn how to use modular 5G cells to enable real-time communications.

White Paper: OT/IT Convergence by Data

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In the past few years, the convergence of OT and IT has moved from curiosity to necessity in just about every industrial sector. Demands for improved efficiency brought on by the possibilities of Industrial IoT and Industry 4.0 are compelling management to find better ways to extract value from OT data.

Ebook: Getting Started with Industrial Edge Computing

  • Ebook

From PLCs and PACs to edge automation, beginning the digital transformation journey begins with knowing the best technologies to apply. As edge computing evolves, adopting these basic tools and strategies can future-proof your industrial control system. Download the Ebook to learn more.

White Paper: Industry's First Digital Twin Readiness Guide

  • White Paper

This Readiness Guide provides the foundation, the necessary steps, and the path for each utility to achieve those essential insights that lead to an efficient and optimized utility.

Webinar: OT Network Security Challenges in Enterprise Environments

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The Ukraine Russian conflict has sadly and tragically highlighted the importance and criticality of our OT, IT and IoT environments.

White Paper: Building a Data-Driven Culture for Smart Manufacturing

  • White Paper

This report examines the importance of data to the digital transformation of manufacturing and the ways the right tools and a data-driven culture can enable predictive maintenance.

Real-Time Data: Unified Environment Enables Multi-purpose Digital Twins·

  • Ebook

Whether you are in the process or discrete industry, a vendor or end-user, FDT empowers the business and operational workforce with a unified environment offering data-driven business models enabling IIoT and Industry 4.0 applications.

Automation 2022: IIoT & Industry 4.0

  • Ebook

Today’s factories already have the equipment and tools they need to operate, but operating at peak efficiency is another matter entirely. This edition of AUTOMATION 2022 focuses on seemingly small changes that can lead to big results.

Advancing Automation: The value IIoT brings to industrial and manufacturing enterprises

  • Ebook

Whether your interest is process control, manufacturing, energy conservation, or just to see the latest in IIoT innovation, this eBook has a trove of information for you to peruse in a convenient digital format, so your organization can remain on the cutting edge of its industry.

Linking the Oil and Gas Industry to Improve Cybersecurity (LOGIIC)

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The Science and Technology Directorate's (S&T) Linking the Oil and Gas Industry to Improve Cybersecurity (LOGIIC) project is an ongoing collaboration of oil and natural gas companies and the DHS S&T. Formed in 2004, this project facilitates cooperative research, development, testing and evaluation procedures to improve cybersecurity in petroleum industry digital control systems.

6th Annual State of Smart Manufacturing Report

  • White Paper

Participants in a recent global survey of nearly 300 manufacturers recognized the importance of smart manufacturing for agile decision making, process automation and greater efficiency. This study from Plex Systems, in collaboration with Hanover Research, explores how manufacturers can use technology to address today’s challenges and take advantage of long-term opportunities.

2020 Industrial Automation Salary Survey

  • White Paper

Conducted in Fall 2020, the Automation.com 2020 salary survey reflects the early effects of pandemic-related economic upheavals for engineering, business and technical professionals in manufacturing and industry.

Automation 2021: IIoT & Industry 4.0

  • Ebook

Industry 4.0 is getting real, and technology is moving fast to support new applications that include the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). You’ll find the latest tools and techniques in this edition of AUTOMATION 2021. Discover how new value is being created by fusing OT field data with new digital technologies including the cloud, artificial intelligence, and digital twins.

Webinar: Deploy Flexible Cloud-based Automation Solutions, Fast and Easy

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In this webcast, you will hear from SOAP Engineering, who will illustrate how they have developed a hosted service on the ICONICS Suite that allows for rapid deployment to oil and gas customers.

Actions from Insights: Making the Most of Data in Manufacturing

  • White Paper

This special report from Smart Industry features expert perspective from OSIsoft principals and partners on a range of topics in the world of digital manufacturing—from smart strategies to evolving processes to operating your plant as an innovation hub.

URGENT11 and CDPwn - One Year Later: Unpatched, Unprepared, Unprotected

  • Webinar

Join Ben Seri, VP of Research, and Chris Dobrec, VP, Product Marketing at Armis, as they share new information and levels of exposure, demonstrate how these devices can be exploited, and how you can mitigate risk for your organization.

Information Technology and Operations Technology: Beyond Convergence

  • White Paper

The whitepaper outlines why organizations need to move beyond IT/OT convergence to ensure full integration—for enterprise security.

Automation 2020: IIoT and Industry 4.0

  • Ebook

In this edition of AUTOMATION 2020, you’ll discover how to leverage standardized IIoT ecosystems, as well as how to design fault tolerant IIoT. You’ll learn how dynamic digital twins can be even more beneficial than static digital twins, and discover how smart instruments feed data analytics.

Webinar: From the Office to the Field--Cybersecurity Effectiveness for IT and OT

  • Webinar

Industrial organizations manage expensive and sophisticated equipment at their plants–and the systems that run the machinery are increasingly being connected to the internet. The cybersecurity implications of this trend are substantial, including possible threats to physical safety, and in some cases, national security.

Virtual Digital Transformation in Deepwater Production Conference

  • Webinar

The International Society of Automation’s (ISA) single-track event looks at how technology can accelerate the facilities design process while improving safety and efficiency.