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I was impressed by a tour of the Valpak Manufacturing Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, hosted by Siemens, which is a great example of a company applying Industry 4.0 make to order manufacturing concepts.

By John Sestito, United Electric Controls Seven common myths surrounding switches are analyzed in this paper in conjunction with new high-tech electronic switch designs that are proven to solve historically problematic implementation in the industrial process industries, from the plant to OEM manufacturers.

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com Given the number of vendors that have introduced electronic marshalling products, the value of electronic marshalling is clear. With Siemens’ entry into the world of open automation solutions, the value of these solutions should become increasingly clear as well.

By Teddy Tzegazeab, Rosemount Proof testing safety-instrumented systems in liquid level measurement applications has traditionally relied on workers in the field. However, new technology in modern smart devices is enabling this vital task to be performed remotely.

By Paulo Jorge de Almeida, ecom Why are applications and software solutions becoming increasingly important in the industry? And, how will they enable process improvement within hazardous areas? This article aims to help provide answers to these questions.

By Paul J. Galeski, MAVERICK Technologies Due to open systems and standardization over the past few decades, ease-of-use has increased greatly. As a result, installing or upgrading an automation system today is far simpler from a purely technical standpoint than it was 20 or even 10 years ago.

By Matthew Wells, GE Digital In today’s economy, data is a valuable commodity; companies rely on it to run their businesses, be more competitive in the market, and enable increases in productivity. In order to take advantage of data, however, a business needs to connect and automate its back-end systems and processes in order to make sense of the data, identify patterns and formulate solutions.

By Lucie Villéger, PcVue Inc. Historical approaches to monitor, diagnose, maintain and control industrial and building assets must be reconsidered. A new architecture optimized for the mobile SCADA and BMS user is needed.

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com Proper pressure instrument calibration requires the coordination of a number of factors to ensure precise accuracy. Improving this pressure calibration process can really boost an instrumentation team’s productivity and overall production.

By Pierre Dufour, Honeywell For natural gas companies, there is growing pressure to deliver more energy, increase profitability and minimize financial losses. The following article describes recent developments in integrated gas metering, which are intended to meet smart metering requirements from the gas wellhead to burner tip applications.

Industrial Robotics Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2014 - 2020

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com Taking place on March 22-23, 2017 in Detroit, MI with over 2,500 manufacturing executives, engineers and enthusiasts, attendees learned about the newest technologies, while exchanging ideas with industry leaders, sharing best practices, and advancing the future of manufacturing in the United States and beyond.

The dramatic influx of connected industrial automation and manufacturing technology is providing the opportunity for manufacturing companies to drive their industries forward, while surpassing the competition. Yet with money seemingly always being tight, how does an organization manage the necessary expenses to push forward?

By Gregory Wilcox, Rockwell Automation Obstacles to adopting industrial remote access have included security concerns, insufficient connectivity and a lack of collaboration between IT and operations personnel. This article provides 8 key steps for implementing remote access in industrial operations

By Robert Glass, ABB As food manufacturing plants become more connected through the Industrial Internt of Things (IIoT), the threat of cyber-attacks and how much damage they can do, has increased. This article offers advice on how to ensure your manufacturing process is kept secure.

By Marianne Williams, Emerson This article explains how the latest generation of vibrating fork level switches feature increased health monitoring functionality, which enables maintenance to be planned and process availability to be increased

By Michael LaGrega, Siemens Data gathered by RFID readers can be a critical element in a corporation’s plans to gain increased visibility and understanding of parts, materials and other moveable assets. All of this valuable information can be integrated more easily when standards like OPC-UA with its AutoID companion are employed.

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com There is a great deal of hype around IIoT, and much of it may never be realized, but Fluke and their Accelix platform is a real-world solution which may finally deliver the tangible IIoT gains that companies have been yearning for.

Industrial Internet of Things Market is driven by advanced cloud technology, IIoT Market is growing due to need for perfect accuracy in industries, North America leads Industrial Internet of Things Market

Intelligent building management systems market is driven by rising construction sector, Power-line communications provide tremendous growth opportunities for the intelligent building management systems market