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Learn how laser, eddy and other displacement sensors work and how they plug into IIoT PdM systems. They’re game changers on the shop floor.

Edge computing, machine learning algorithms and centralized management platforms work in tandem to ensure industrial systems keep running.

Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) manages the process control and monitoring of its 300 gathering stations, 5200 compressor stations and 150 gas processing facilities with PcVue SCADA software.

Innovations like predictive analytics, 3D printing and wearable technologies are changing the supply chain landscape as workforce shortage intensifies.

After years of limited growth, the MEMS pressure sensor market is growing due to consumer electronic applications and is expected to show a 22% CAGR.

Automation.com, January 2013 By Nuris Ismail & Reid Paquin of Aberdeen Group Unplanned downtime, inability to maintain planned production rates, safety and environmental incidences are all problems that can be traced directly to recurring equipment failure and operation mismatches in production rates and capacities.

Growth of robot sales is expected in North America, Brazil, the Republic of Korea, China, in most of all other South East Asian markets as well as in most of the Central and Eastern European markets, and in Turkey.

From 24 to 28 April 2006 a grand total of 5,175 exhibitors from 66 countries will be presenting the latest products and services for industry at the Hannover Exhibition Center. This year's HANNOVER MESSE line-up brings together ten international flagship trade fairs with a total 154,796 m² of stand bookings.

by Chip McDaniel, AutomationDirect CorrTech, a systems integrator, replaced the controls in a 1970-vintage box-making machine for Smurfit Stone Enterprises in Ravenna, Ohio. Corr-Tech removed all the control relays and wiring and reconfigured the system using AutomationDirect's DL06 PLCs. And they did it all over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

By Integration Objects Integration Objects used OPC to integrate a point to point connection infrastructure based on VMS and Unix platforms that connected all the Distributed Control Systems and other automation islands with Aramco’s PIMS (Plant Information Management System).

By: Alan Cone, Siemens Industry, Inc. The data revolution is firmly underway within today’s manufacturing industry. Those companies that capture their “big data” and leverage that analyzed data as a framework for making faster, better decisions will lead the industry in productivity and time to market.

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 following article describes how ongoing technology developments by FDT Group will help optimize industrial organizations and their maintenance departments by enabling cloud-based enterprise data access, device diagnostics, mobility applications, and the use of augmented reality in asset management and predictive maintenance programs.

The Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology uses a Cognex In-Sight Micro vision system instead of a human researcher to observe the behavior of test subjects.

By Bob Voss, Panduit Industries are rapidly adopting wireless networks because of their many benefits on the plant floor, including convenience, mobility, reduced cabling and lower labor costs compared to wired networks. Here are four steps to help plant operators establish wireless zones on the plant floor effectively.

Leveraging the global expertise of seven ISA technical divisions, the symposium is expected to draw more than 200 registrants 9-12 November 2015 in Houston, Texas USA.

Eaton will acquire electrical equipment supplier Cooper for $11.8 Billion. Eaton and Cooper will be combined under a new company incorporated in Ireland, where Cooper is incorporated today.

ABB reported increases in revenues, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), net income and cash flow in the third quarter of 2008.

Take three measurements for pH and for any other measurement that can be a probable cause of loss in process efficiency or capacity.