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  • Thumbnail for Five Keys to Powering Remote Wireless Devices

    Five Keys to Powering Remote Wireless Devices

    Consider environment, energy demands, self-discharge rate and energy density when selecting batteries for remote wireless devices. This feature originally appeared in the ebook Automation 2022: IIoT and Industry 4.0 (Volume 3).
    By: Tadiran Batteries, Sol Jacobs
    15 July, 2022 | 5 minutes
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    Digital Safeguarding: Protecting Industrial Control Systems

    This article will delve into sophisticated strategies for protecting ICS from emerging cyber threats, focusing on real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and rapid response mechanisms.
    By: Nahla Davies
    12 October, 2023 | 6 minutes
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    Biden’s Critical and Emerging Technologies: Areas to Watch

    In February 2022, the White House issued an updated list of critical and emerging technologies that the Office of Science and Technology Policy, National Science and Technology Council, and National Security Council have identified as being important for US national security.
    By: IDTechEx
    23 February, 2022 | 5 minutes
  • Thumbnail for OEM Hacks for Mitigating Labor Shortages, Lowering Costs and Accelerating Time to Market

    OEM Hacks for Mitigating Labor Shortages, Lowering Costs and Accelerating Time to Market

    To succeed in an age of continuous disruption and a shrinking workforce, organizations need to use data to automate optimization.
    By: Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc., Rob Ruber
    27 July, 2023 | 6 minutes
    Sponsored By Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.
  • Thumbnail for Integrated Plant Performance Management as a Means to Improve Profitability

    Integrated Plant Performance Management as a Means to Improve Profitability

    By Yasunori Kobayashi, Yokogawa In today's competitive environment, process industry companies need to balance multiple objectives including safety, profitability and delivering value to customers. However, these objectives are often conflicting goals not aligned across departments, plants, or enterprise boundaries.
    By: Yokogawa Corporation of America
    20 August, 2018 | 5 minutes
  • Thumbnail for Robotic Process Automation: Human Touch Still Required

    Robotic Process Automation: Human Touch Still Required

    By Jack Wilson, Optimum Consultancy Services RPA allows a robot to observe human-initiated actions between multiple data sources and technologies on a User Interface, memorize the actions and corresponding sequences, and replicate.
    By: Optimum Consultancy Services
    01 May, 2019 | 5 minutes
  • Thumbnail for Bright Machines to Become a Public Company via Merger with SCVX

    Bright Machines to Become a Public Company via Merger with SCVX

    Bright Machines, an industry leader in intelligent, software-defined manufacturing, and SCVX (NYSE: SCVX), a special purpose acquisition company, announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement that will result in Bright Machines becoming a publicly listed company.
    19 May, 2021 | 6 minutes
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    What are Considerations in Combining Process Control and Safety Systems?

    From Greg McMillan and the ISA Mentor Program team.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    14 March, 2023 | 6 minutes
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    ODVA 2020 General Meeting Focuses on Industrial Digitalization

    By Bill Lydon, Automation.com One of the last automation events to occur before the coronavirus shut down business gatherings around the world was the ODVA 20th Annual Meeting of Members in Palm Harbor, Florida, USA on March 5, 2020. More than 120 industry professionals attended to focus on supporting industrial digitalization through the association’s device connectivity technologies, which include the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) and the network adaptations of CIP: EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, ControlNet and CompoNet.
    By: Bill Lydon
    24 March, 2020 | 5 minutes
  • Thumbnail for ServiceNow’s Latest Now Platform Release Helps Businesses Workflow the Biggest Challenges of the Hybrid Work Era

    ServiceNow’s Latest Now Platform Release Helps Businesses Workflow the Biggest Challenges of the Hybrid Work Era

    The Now Platform Rome release empowers organizations like City of Santa Monica, Deloitte, DnB Bank, Kiwibank, Mercedes‑Benz and SnapNurse to help reduce employee fatigue, accelerate automation across the enterprise, and make work, work better, no matter where it happens.
    16 September, 2021
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    Workforce Interconnectivity Is Here: Retiring Manual Logs and Paper Workbooks From the Factory Floor

    Let's discuss how the next stage of manufacturing success hinges on worker and tool interconnectivity.
    By: Wayne Slater
    02 February, 2026 | 5 minutes
  • Thumbnail for How Demand Planning Transforms Supply Chain Efficiency

    How Demand Planning Transforms Supply Chain Efficiency

    In 2026, demand planning goes beyond simply estimating sales figures. It is a strategic approach designed to align your company’s production with market demands.
    By: Adrian Wood
    20 March, 2026 | 5 minutes
  • Thumbnail for ODVA General Meeting Focuses on Industrial Digitalization

    ODVA General Meeting Focuses on Industrial Digitalization

    By Bill Lydon More than 120 industry professionals from more than 50 companies attended to focus on supporting industrial digitalization through the association’s device connectivity technologies, which include the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) and the network adaptations of CIP: EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, ControlNet and CompoNet.
    By: Bill Lydon
    30 April, 2020 | 5 minutes
  • Thumbnail for Tension in Industrial Automation: Open Systems and the User's Dilemma

    Tension in Industrial Automation: Open Systems and the User's Dilemma

    By Bill Lydon, Automation.com Suppliers either adapt with technology, or they lose customers and die. This is true in every industry. The industrial and process automation industries will be no exception.
    By: Bill Lydon
    08 May, 2019 | 6 minutes
  • SMC’s MHF2 Low Profile Air Gripper is 1/3 the Height of Conventional Air Grippers

    By: SMC Corporation of America
    18 August, 2004 | 1 minutes
  • Norgren announces Compressed Air Program

    Compressed air management program includes plant-wide analysis, real-time process control and pneumatic system design in a single integrated solution.
    17 September, 2008 | 2 minutes
  • Thumbnail for EXAIR releases 303SS Air Jets

    EXAIR releases 303SS Air Jets

    These 1/8 NPT Stainless Steel Air Jets replace open tubes and pipe nipples on parts cleaning, drying and cooling operations. With temperature rated up to 400°F, they will produce up to 1.25 pounds of force upon a target.
    05 June, 2018
  • Thumbnail for AutomationDirect adds pneumatic air cylinders

    AutomationDirect adds pneumatic air cylinders

    AutomationDirect extended its NITRA pneumatic product line to include a series of stainless steel, round body, non-repairable cylinders.
    By: Automation Direct, AutomationDirect
    24 August, 2009
    Sponsored By AutomationDirect
  • Rexroth releases compressed air brochure

    “Energy Efficiency in Pneumatics” provides three main areas of energy cost savings to lower the cost of compressed air.
    By: Bosch Rexroth
    28 October, 2008 | 1 minute
  • Thumbnail for Festo announces acquisition of Fabco-Air

    Festo announces acquisition of Fabco-Air

    Fabco-Air’s NPT pneumatic cylinders are applied by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) on new machinery and systems as well as replacement components in the Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) market.
    By: Festo Corporation
    27 September, 2018 | 1 minute
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