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  • How Industrial Software Can Simplify Sustainability

    How Industrial Software Can Simplify Sustainability

    George Walker, managing director of Novotek UK and Ireland, explores how industrial business leaders can simplify the process of managing energy usage and improving sustainability.
    By: George Walker
    12 November, 2020 | 2 minutes
  • Manufacturers Simplify Digital Transformation with Modular MES and ERP Systems Integration

    Manufacturers Simplify Digital Transformation with Modular MES and ERP Systems Integration

    Just as the Industrial Revolution replaced handmade production processes, integrated manufacturing and enterprise data systems must replace the manual data processes that hold manufacturers back today.
    By: Wendy Stanley
    10 November, 2020 | 3 minutes
  • Industrial Cybersecurity: PAS Optics 2020 Event

    Industrial Cybersecurity: PAS Optics 2020 Event

    The PAS OptICS 2020 virtual event explored the key operational and cybersecurity challenges facing industrial organizations as well as best practices and strategies to address them.
    By: Bill Lydon
    05 November, 2020 | 6 minutes
  • 8 Things You Didn’t Know About Gold Mining Automation

    8 Things You Didn’t Know About Gold Mining Automation

    Innovations in automation have transformed the gold mining industry by increasing efficiency, productivity and safety. As mines get increasingly deeper, grades increasingly decline and investors pressure companies to adhere to global environment, social and governance principles, such innovations are necessary for the industry to prosper.
    By: Toni Allen
    29 July, 2021 | 3 minutes
  • The Pros and Cons of the Microfactory

    The Pros and Cons of the Microfactory

    In the evolving landscape of electric vehicle manufacturing, is "giga" always better? Within this sector, a rivalry between two diametrically opposed manufacturing methods is playing out.
    By: Roger Brereton
    26 July, 2021 | 4 minutes
  • Upgrading Industry 4.0 with Edge Analytics

    Upgrading Industry 4.0 with Edge Analytics

    How can Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) edge analytics improve manufacturing efficiency?
    By: Johan Jonzon
    23 July, 2021 | 4 minutes
  • Automated Labor Management Software Finds Missing Minutes for Warehouses Under Crunch

    Automated Labor Management Software Finds Missing Minutes for Warehouses Under Crunch

    The right software can dynamically detect changes in data patterns and create best-fit forecasting models to account for multiple variables like warehouse workload, employee preferences, corporate equity rules, labor laws and regulations, and much more.
    By: Gabe Grifoni
    23 July, 2021 | 4 minutes
  • How to Prevent or Minimize Air Entrapment in Industrial Fluids

    How to Prevent or Minimize Air Entrapment in Industrial Fluids

    Air entrapment or gas bubbles are one of the most common causes of poor fluid performance and parts failure in modern fluid management. Loris Medart, a fluid dispensing engineer with more than 20 years’ experience and founder of feed systems manufacturer SR-Tek, discusses the eight most common reasons for gas entrapment and how they can be avoided or managed out of the production process.
    By: Loris Medart
    23 July, 2021 | 4 minutes
  • Connectivity & Cybersecurity Part 3 of 3: IIoT Devices

    Connectivity & Cybersecurity Part 3 of 3: IIoT Devices

    To provide cybersecurity for the many devices and connections encompassing industrial automation and IIoT systems, organizations should follow a three-pronged approach based on the right policies, technical tools, and education.
    By: Chip Coy & Marcia Gadbois
    22 July, 2021 | 12 minutes
  • How to Successfully Deploy R&D to an Outside Contractor

    How to Successfully Deploy R&D to an Outside Contractor

    Outsourcing product design and development can bring fresh perspectives to internal design teams and empower corporate R&D managers to take on new projects.
    By: Philip Remedios
    21 July, 2021 | 6 minutes
  • How to Make your Battery Smaller and Less Expensive

    How to Make your Battery Smaller and Less Expensive

    Understanding your application can help to miniaturize your battery-powered solution. This article comes from the IIoT & Industry 4.0 eBook.
    By: Sol Jacobs
    19 July, 2021 | 5 minutes
  • Tips for Choosing a 3D Vision System: The Future of Vision Systems in Manufacturing

    Tips for Choosing a 3D Vision System: The Future of Vision Systems in Manufacturing

    Nigel Smith, CEO of Shibaura Machine, formerly Toshiba Machine, partner, TM Robotics, gives three rules to live by when choosing a 3D vision system for manufacturing.
    By: Nigel Smith
    19 July, 2021 | 2 minutes
  • Open Integration, ‘Digital Chain’ May Solve IIoT Device Management Challenges

    Open Integration, ‘Digital Chain’ May Solve IIoT Device Management Challenges

    The Open Integration Partner program, initiated by Endress+Hauser, seeks on simple, fast, and manufacturer-independent integration of components and devices.
    By: Bill Lydon
    13 July, 2021 | 2 minutes
  • Specialty Chemical Production: Advantages of Batch Analytics

    Specialty Chemical Production: Advantages of Batch Analytics

    Self-service batch analytics deliver added value and stronger market position in Industry 4.0.
    By: Nick Petrosyan
    29 October, 2020 | 4 minutes
  • Strengthening Industry 4.0 Automation Security

    Strengthening Industry 4.0 Automation Security

    The scaling of efficiencies and business value from automation and the Internet of Things (IoT) over the past few years has been transformative. In factories especially, costs drop, waste decreases, and businesses can control and gain insight into their processes like never before.
    By: Daniel Browning
    22 October, 2020 | 5 minutes
  • Cybersecurity and Safety: Increasing Risks and Escalating Impacts

    Cybersecurity and Safety: Increasing Risks and Escalating Impacts

    The truth is cyber-attacks with dire consequences no longer live merely in film or the digital realm for that matter. They’ve transcended into the physical world with real, tangible impacts.
    By: Mark Baggett
    19 October, 2020 | 4 minutes
  • Envisioning the Future: Ignition Community Conference 2020

    Envisioning the Future: Ignition Community Conference 2020

    The Inductive Automation Ignition Community Conference 2020 (ICC2020) has become an important event for automation professionals, and this year’s virtual event due to the pandemic was no exception.
    By: Bill Lydon
    14 October, 2020 | 4 minutes
  • Industrial Automation in the Maker Era: Raspberry Pi Industrial Edge Platform

    Industrial Automation in the Maker Era: Raspberry Pi Industrial Edge Platform

    Sfera Labs has a vision to provide innovative technology bridging the best of the Maker World with the industrial automation market with the introduction of the Iono Pi Max.
    By: Bill Lydon
    13 October, 2020 | 4 minutes
  • Edge Computing: Chip Delivers High Performance Artificial Intelligence

    Edge Computing: Chip Delivers High Performance Artificial Intelligence

    The Hailo-8TM inference chip expands the number of industrial Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications possible for a wide range of industrial applications including optimization of production, processes, track & trace, logistics, quality, machine functions, and predictive maintenance by eliminating inherent limitations of server and cloud solutions with processing at the edge.
    By: Bill Lydon
    12 October, 2020 | 4 minutes
  • What's on the Energy Storage Market Beside Lithium-Ion Batteries?

    What's on the Energy Storage Market Beside Lithium-Ion Batteries?

    While Li-ion batteries are dominating the stationary energy storage sector, a growing number of companies are developing different technologies to be competitive in the near future and bring to the market a more competitive energy storage system.
    By: Daniele Gatti
    09 October, 2020 | 3 minutes
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