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.
Industrial IoT Trends: WSN, LPWAN & Cloud Platforms
- White Paper
Wireless sensor networks (WSN), low power wide area networks (LPWAN) and cloud-based platforms are driving growth for the industrial Internet of Things (IoT)
Data Protection Best Practices
- White Paper
Protecting sensitive data created, stored and consumed by sensor-driven Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology and applications is one of the foundations of trustworthy IIoT systems.
Smart Transmitters Enable Smart Sensors
- White Paper
Instrument transmitters became smart by integrating digital technologies, paving the way for instrument sensors to acquire a similar level of intelligence. As we move into the future, digital technology will continue to provide more information from instruments.
Advancing Automation: Control Systems
- Ebook
Learn the latest from industry leaders on everything from open automation systems for packaging machines to specifying process control systems using IEC 62603 in this Control Systems edition of Advancing Automation from Automation.com.
Advancing Automation: Industrial Cybersecurity
- Ebook
In this Industrial Cybersecurity eBook from Automation.com, we focus on the latest insights and initiatives changing the landscape of cybersecurity.
Advancing Automation: IIoT and Industry 4.0
- Ebook
Explore a range of tools and techniques from some of industry’s IoT leaders in this sponsored ebook from Automation.com.
Advancing Automation: Manufacturing Software
- Ebook
Automation.com has teamed with industrial innovators to showcase efficiency and productivity technologies within manufacturing operations. IoT gateways, cloudbased MES and more are covered in this Manufacturing Software ebook.