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FeatureImproving Life for the Workforce with Automation
When workers are freed from the grind of constant loading, unloading and monitoring, they’re able to shift their focus to solving problems, refining processes and maximizing the capabilities of new technology. -
FeatureHow Generative AI Is Shaping the Manufacturing Supply Chains of the Future
While traditional AI primarily focuses on making predictions and optimizing processes based on patterns in historical data, GenAI goes a step further. -
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What's the Tipping Point to Invest in Safety?
By Reid Paquin, Aberdeen Group In December 2012, Aberdeen delved into the psyche behind the implementation of a safety program or safety technology at 169 manufacturing organizations. Here's a summary of what they learned. -
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Vision-Guided Pallet Trucks Deliver Cost-Effective Automation Solutions
Automation.com, October 2011 By Thomas R. Cutler Sophisticated 3-D machine vision technology transform industrial pallet trucks and tow tractors into robotic industrial trucks. These robotic trucks "learn" their surroundings, making them flexible, simple, and affordable for a variety of applications. -
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OPC Standards are accelerating Industrial IoT transformation
By Rohit Bhargava, Microsoft With more than 10,000 OPC products available in the marketplace today, and deployments estimated to be in the tens of millions of instances, OPC UA enables companies to get started on business transformation today. -
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US economy struggles
By P. Jason Ward, RSR Partners The US economy exhibits all of the attributes of an underpowered engine struggling to push a heavily laden truck up a long, low grade. -
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Sensors Expo Announces Program
50 sessions will be offered June 6-7, 2012, in nine tracks: MEMS, Energy Harvesting, Wireless Sensing Solutions, Sensor and System Design, Novel Approaches to Measurement & Detection, Big Data & Analytics, Mobile Sensing, Applied Sensors, and RFID/M2M. -
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Wireless Sensor Networks
Automation.com, May 2010 By Dr Peter Harrop, IDTechEx Wireless Sensor Networks are machine to machine M2M mesh networks operating like the internet in that they are self organising and self healing. -
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Bentley software to control W&WW Systems in Portugal
Águas de Portugal selected Bentley’s water software technology to streamline the operation and management of its water and wastewater systems. -
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ISA Automation Week 2013 report
The ISA Automation Week program included 24 technical sessions, organized into six educational tracks. -
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Machine Vision sales going up in Germany
The machine vision industry in Germany will grow in 2014 by ten percent minimum, exceeding the sales forecast of about 1.8 billion euros by the end of this year. -
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Why choose Absolute over Incremental Position Sensors?
By Darran Kreit, Zettlex For position sensing applications, many engineers are still specifying incremental sensors because they believe absolute versions are too complex and/or costly. This describes the two approaches and compares the relative benefits of each. -
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Technology Adoption Rates Rising
A host of potentially disruptive technologies are creating digital “Always-On” Supply Chains that will provide better efficiency, visibility and customer service across a variety of industries, while challenging companies to find the talent to manage them -
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ISA Process Control & Safety Symposium Agenda
ISA announced the training courses and preliminary technical program for its 2014 Process Control & Safety Symposium, to be held 7-9 October 2014 in Houston, Texas. -
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ZigBee Goes Green
The ZigBee Alliance says its members are joining forces and leveraging their global wireless and utility expertise to fight the predicted global energy crisis. -
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Iconics Installs Vista-Based HMI at Loudoun Water
By Andy Krapf, Loudoun Water Loudoun Water, in Louden County, Virginia, installed an Iconics Genesis64 HMI/SCADA system running under the Vista operating system and reduced their customization times by 30-40%. -
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FIRST Championship provides a showcase for STEM-gifted young people
The April 27-30 championship—which celebrates excellence in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), innovative thinking and teamwork—culminates regional qualifying competitions involving K-12 students across 39 countries into a final experience. -
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HARTING Americas concludes fiscal year with annual Media Event
This year’s event focused on a business update from the company and several key initiatives – including IIoT initiatives, a new campaign, and a special announcement from HARTING and the college.