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By Tom Craven, RRAMAC Connected Systems Downtime is expensive to both equipment manufacturers and end-users, and amounts to losses greater than the costs of repair. Thanks to connected machines, manufacturers are beginning to leverage the power of “big data” to avoid failures and gather intimate knowledge about what causes failures in order to prevent breakdown and hemorrhaging costs.

By Pat McLaughlin, Boulting Technology Switchboards generally have relatively long lives and can last anywhere between 25 and 40 years. Here’s what companies should keep in mind when choosing a switchboard.

MRRSE presents this most up-to-date research on "Test Automation Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2016 - 2024"

MRRSE announces addition of new report" IT Robotic Automation Market (RPA Tools and RPA Services) - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2014 - 2020 "to its database

By Preston Futrell, NexDefense ICS network monitoring can help maintain the reliability of mission critical equipment. It does so by providing real-time visibility of misconfigurations, remote connections operating improperly and incorrect commands unintentionally introduced by simple human error.

Chris Jones, Managing Director at Micro-Epsilon UK, outlines the 10 most important factors to consider before purchasing a non-contact displacement measurement sensor.

By Barak Perelman, Indegy The emergence of cyber-threats is forcing industrial sectors to take a long, hard look at how they protect their control systems. This article discusses how best to ensure that your ICS networks remain secure.

By Tom Finan, Ark Network Security Solutions What’s needed is a method to accelerate compliance with ISA’s automation standards, one that ensures that achieved compliance actually enhances an entity’s security posture. Imagine if organizations could obtain automated, continuous, and real-time awareness about whether their chosen control solutions are working and making them safer.

By Kapil Venkatachalam, Technology Crossover Ventures While manufacturing software vendors want their customers to focus on the technological bells and whistles of the future, many manufacturers are still grappling with the clunky and highly customized systems they’ve relied on for the past 20 years.

By Rick Delgado, Freelance Technology Commentator As robots become more prevalent and capable, they’ll likely require bigger investments from organizations seeking to utilize them. Could that lead to robots being equipped with self-defense capabilities?

By Jonathan Wilkins, EU Automation Technology is advancing at a phenomenal pace and now, many industrial components are becoming obsolete in as little as three years. As the worlds of engineering and IT continue to band together, this article discusses what this combination means for manufacturing.

By Graham Mackrell, Harmonics Drive UK Robots are still mainly used in industry and they have only just been permitted to operate outside a robot cell, but the robotics revolution is in full swing. This article explores what a robotic future really looks like.

When it comes to machine safety, we regularly hear plant personnel worry safety procedures and controls will affect their line’s productivity. It’s a legitimate concern, but it’s also a myth that safety procedures will ultimately hinder plant efficiency.

Migrating or updating your control system is necessary and inevitable once it has reached the end of its life. Migration only replicates your current system. You will be struck with the same problems just on an updated control platform. Why replicate your current system when you can enhance it with new and better technology? What good is migration without modernization?

By Bruce Kraemer, IEEE Standards Association The car of the near future will be transformed from an isolated island of glass and steel to a fully interconnected node in the Internet of Things (IoT). Information and communications technologies are rapidly transforming vehicles and the roles they play in our daily lives.

By Chris Jones, Micro-Epsilon UK Although red laser triangulation displacement sensors have been in use for more than 20 years, blue laser versions are also now available. Before selecting which colour to use, it is important to understand which type performs best on which target materials.

By Rob Honeycutt, co-founder, SafeRack Implementation of effective fall prevention and protection technologies can go a long way in improving worker safety.

By Alan Grau, Icon Labs Securing IoT devices is a complex task. OEMs can reduce development cost and time to market by utilizing a security framework that provides key security features. The cost, time and complexity of developing a solution from scratch, or of integrating disparate open source solutions, far outweighs the cost of using a commercial solution.

By Punya Prakash and David Zaucha, Texas Instruments To date, the implementations of EtherCAT slave node have largely been dominated by hardware intensive solutions used to perform on-the-fly real-time processing and synchronization. Recent advances in technology have created programmable system-on-a-chip (SoC) devices that offer very tangible equipment costs savings, versatility and longer life cycles to industrial systems users.

By Joy Weiss, Dust Networks Wireless sensor networks must meet a high bar for smart, security and reliable wire-free operation over many years. These stringent requirements can be met with existing and emerging wireless mesh networks standards.