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Resources for Smart Manufacturing & Industry 4.0

Webinar: AI-based Asset Management - Fast-track Continuous Improvement

  • Webinar

This webinar, sponsored by BISTel and Automation.com, uses case studies to describe how GrandView® APM overcomes common manufacturing obstacles to achieve continuous improvement.

Eliminating Friction From Industrial IoT Initiatives

  • White Paper

In "Eliminating Friction," VP of Business Development Dave Westrom explains that the true cause of failure is the lack of getting to value quickly. After all, time is money, and the more time spent trying to launch a successful IIoT initiative, the greater likelihood it will fail.

Webinar: Industrial Robots & Racing: Open Robotics ROS 2 & NVIDIA Jetson AI Platform

  • Webinar

Join speakers from ADLINK and NVIDIA as they discuss the rise of autonomous guided vehicles for industrial applications.

Automation 2020: Cloud Engineering

  • Ebook

In this edition of AUTOMATION 2020 from automation.com, you’ll discover how these tools support digital twins for upstream oil and gas production, learn how to enable a next-generation edge-tocloud control architecture, and review cloud/edge computing projects that could apply to your facility.

Webinar: Have We Been Going About APC Monitoring All Wrong?

  • Webinar

This presentation will cover on a new approach for APC monitoring, focusing on the problem, a solution and several industrial case studies where the solution has been applied.

Edge & IoT in Manufacturing: accelerating digital adoption and making a case for ROI

  • Webinar

In this session, five industry leaders from Dell Technologies, Intel, and Siemens will discuss the opportunities and challenges in digital adoption in manufacturing, from a convergent IT and OT perspective.

Automation 2020: Control Systems

  • Ebook

In this edition of AUTOMATION 2020, you’ll learn about the promise and reality of control systems that combine such new technologies with the robustness, security, and sophistication needed for industrial applications.

How Digital Transformation and IoT Can Contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • White Paper

This paper uses a modified version of the Golden Circle, changing the original sequence to Why-What-How to approximate how organizations currently operate and thereby increase the chances of achieving the relevant UN SDG. 

Webinar: Storage Product Innovation Designed for the Edge, Core and Cloud

  • Webinar

In this webinar, Dell Technologies will share with you the latest announcements to their Industrial Automation product portfolio.

Bill Lydon's Automation & Control Trends Report 2020-2021

  • Ebook

Bill Lydon's Automation & Control Trends Report 2020-2021 reports on ten trends shaping the automation, control and instrumentation, and provides lists of related articles for each trend. This annual report is from Automation.com, a subsidiary of ISA--The International Society of Automation.  

Automation 2020: IIoT and Smart Manufacturing

  • Ebook

Formerly called Advancing Automation, this ebook series includes sponsored and curated articles from a variety of experts on the latest in smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0 topics, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

Hybrid Heuristics for High Speed Route Optimization

  • White Paper

This paper discusses the challenges faced in route planning and how existing algorithms are largely insufficient. It also discusses how the use of a hybrid heuristic method derived from the combination of straight line heuristics and real road distance metrics presents the best solution to solving the challenge of planning efficient routes at high speed for last-mile deliveries today.

Open Industry 4.0 Alliance Technical Solution Design Principles

  • White Paper

This white paper is focused on helping readers understand in detail the Open Industry 4.0 solution reference architecture framework for interoperability. It provides a dive deep into key design principles of its members defined and supported end to end solutions

The Trillion-Dollar Question for Advanced Industries: How to extract full value from technology?

  • White Paper

As data, connectivity, and processing power expand, so do opportunities for industrial companies to extract value through innovative products, services, and business models. This McKinsey study delves further into how technology delivers value to today's industry.

What's the Use of the IIoT?

  • White Paper

The IIoT connects devices with the digital world to provide data visibility. But the real value of the IIoT lies in how that data will be used by industry to realize the potential beneļ¬ ts of this connectivity.

Download White Paper

  • White Paper

This brief overview has been designed to help guide users through the basics of data loggers and how they can simplify data collection for an organization.

A Case for an Internet Code of Conduct

  • White Paper

Self-regulation or legislation does not stifle innovation at all. It steers the internet in the right direction. It is just an example, albeit a very important example, of market feedback for engineers and innovators to develop the right products.

Extending Connectivity to the Bottom of the Ocean

  • White Paper

If you have a ControlLogix PLC being used as the MCS, how can you make use of the OPC UA MDIS spec and bypass the old Modbus integration to the DCS? Softing has developed an OPC UA MDIS compliant server module that inserts into the ControlLogix chassis and creates the OPC UA provides a framework that can be used to represent field devices, for example. 

Bridging the IT/OT Divide

  • White Paper

Today’s smarter edge devices can streamline integration efforts while providing secure remote access for end users and machine builders, too

A Guide to Customized PROFINET Validation

  • White Paper

While serial bus systems will continue to play an important role in the future, solutions based on Industrial Ethernet are becoming increasingly common with Industry 4.0 applications. The focus is less on cable measurements, signal levels or signal shapes, but in the case of standards such as PROFINET, utilization and the greatest possible availability of the networks are the focus of interest.