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Certified DTMs establish interoperability criteria for IIoT and I4.0 applications.

When we introduced Xcelerator–an integrated portfolio of engineering software, services and an application development platform that brings together the industry’s broadest and deepest technologies available to make our industrial customers’ digital transformation goals a reality–we blurred the boundaries between engineering domains to help our customers speed digital transformation.

Reasons to replace a DCS can include an increased failure rate, a higher incidence of off-spec product, accelerating maintenance costs, a lack of legacy DCS expertise, capacity limitations, an inability to interface with contemporary systems and more.

Whether you’re a production department supervisor at an automotive manufacturer, machine tool builder, contract manufacturer or job shop, the question is always the same, though the answers are distinctly different. The question is, of course: How do we begin the journey towards the digital factory, which is surely on the horizon for all of us?

The best defense against nation state APTs is to incorporate layers, using several technology barriers within each layer. Employ independent and highly secure monitoring tools that aren’t vulnerable to the same cyberthreats and your critical OT systems will be much more secure.

Food plants make extensive lab based quality measurements to ensure product quality. Coriolis flowmeters can make some of these measurements in real time, saving time and money. From January 2021 InTech Focus.

Claudia Jarret, US country manager at EU Automation, explains that if manufacturers want to emerge stronger from the COVID-19 crisis, they mustn’t overlook the importance of reskilling their workforce for maximum economic recovery.

Personalized online instrumentation portals ease information exchange, reduce specification and ordering errors, and ensure access to updated documentation.

AVEVA earns distinction and market leadership through demonstrated technology success and customer commitment.

Process plants can use digital tools to break down silos, avoiding needless cost and waste.

Ravi Gopinath, chief cloud officer and chief product officer at AVEVA, discusses the benefits of integrating IIoT and why it’s here to stay.

Smart buildings promise automated control of the buildings' operations, along with integrated technology for human-machine interactions. Such functionality requires multiple sensors, to which printed/flexible electronics are very well suited due to their low weight and thin-film form factor.

The OPC UA FLC (Field Level Communication) initiative revolutionizes industrial communications to achieve integrated manufacturing business operations from sensor to enterprise and cloud.

Claudia Jarrett, US country manager at industrial parts supplier EU Automation, shares some current blockchain applications and discusses how blockchain can streamline and improve manufacturing.

Here, Claudia Jarrett, US country manager of industrial parts supplier EU Automation, explains why Industry 4.0 technology proves crucial in managing these new, ad hoc refrigeration systems.

In 2021, we’ll see factories, food-service operators, and transportation companies get more out of the sensor networks and remote wireless monitoring capabilities they quickly adopted this year—and we’ll see more companies in these industries add remote sensor systems to stay competitive. But the biggest IIoT-related gains in 2021 may not be the ones that typically make tech news headlines.

In this article, I want to highlight a trend recently uncovered by the Nozomi Networks labs team regarding new misuse of the DNS protocol. This phenomenon is already impacting corporate networks; plus, it opens the door to significant threats in the future. We urge security teams to gain an understanding of this new threat intelligence and centrally monitor their networks for traffic related to DNS resolvers susceptible of misuse.

Companies faced with challenges of recovering from pandemic and economic disruption benefit from digital technologies and metrics that show progress toward short- and long-term goals.

Deloitte recently reported in a survey on AI adoption in manufacturing that 93% of companies believe AI will be a pivotal technology to drive growth and innovation in the sector. However, the vast majority of manufacturing companies have to overcome a lot of barriers that impede digital transformation and AI initiatives.

Automation.com, June 2011 By Alex Bryce, Pilz Automation Technology Safety gates, protective covers and machine guards prevent hazards associated with moving parts. However, the correct functioning of a safeguard can only be guaranteed by using the appropriate sensor technology.