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  • Thumbnail for Major IoT Trends to Expect in 2022

    Major IoT Trends to Expect in 2022

    Claudia Jarrett, US country manager at automation parts supplier EU Automation, explores the major IoT trends for 2022—including 5G, edge systems, machine learning and more.
    By: Claudia Jarrett
    23 February, 2022 | 4 minutes
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    NI announces release of NI Trend Watch 2018

    The report examines the technological advances propelling our future faster than ever before along with some of the biggest challenges engineers face looking ahead to 2018.
    04 October, 2017 | 1 minutes
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    Annual Industrial Automation & Control Trends Report 2022

    In Bill Lydon's 7th annual trends report, he discusses the manufacturing industry's tipping point that's providing the opportunity to pull ahead of competitors with digital transformation enabled by many ideas and technologies.
    31 August, 2022
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    Top 7 Robotics Trends & Predictions for 2022

    With the huge shift towards automation across industries all around the world as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is time to explore the effects this may have on the way business is conducted during the next twelve months. To kick off the new year, Meili Robots has compiled a list of the seven biggest trends and predictions for the robotics industry in 2022.
    06 January, 2022 | 2 minutes
  • CIMdata releases PLM Industry Review and Trends Report

    The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2015. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.
    08 June, 2016 | 2 minutes
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    The International Society of Automation's LLM Mimo Wins an Association Trends 2025 Gold TRENDY Award

    ISA has earned a 2025 Gold TRENDY Award for MimoSM, an AI-powered large language model (LLM) trained on ISA content.
    18 March, 2025 | 1 minutes
    Sponsored By International Society of Automation (ISA)
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    Eight Key Trends for the Industrial IoT

    Antaira has identified eight key trends making their way through networked factories that have embraced the principles of IIoT. Evolution is the natural course for technology, and the IIoT is no exception.
    By: Henry Martel
    08 July, 2022 | 6 minutes
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    Industrial IoT Trends: WSN, LPWAN & Cloud Platforms

    Wireless sensor networks (WSN), low power wide area networks (LPWAN) and cloud-based platforms are driving growth for the industrial Internet of Things (IoT)
    20 November, 2019
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    12 Months of Cyber Attacks—Lessons, Trends and Predictions

    Waterfall and ICSStrive are cooperating to analyze industrial cybersecurity incidents compiled in the new ICSStrive OT incident repository. Join us to look at what lessons, trends and predictions can be drawn from a year of attacks and consequences
    26 April, 2022
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    Five Cybersecurity Trends to Expect in 2024

    AI-powered attacks will accelerate cybercrime, and cyber insurance will be harder to get.
    By: Dirk Schrader and Ilia Sotnikov
    28 November, 2023 | 2 minutes
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    Bill Lydon's Automation & Control Trends Report 2020-2021

    Bill Lydon's Automation & Control Trends Report 2020-2021 reports on ten trends shaping the automation, control and instrumentation, and provides lists of related articles for each trend. This annual report is from Automation.com, a subsidiary of ISA--The International Society of Automation.
    15 June, 2020
  • Trend Control Systems introduces TouchView building control

    TouchView is a simplified direct digital control (DDC) system for small buildings.
    23 September, 2010
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    Current trends in RFID

    While much is written about RFID and how it will change the face of distribution, it is time to address several misconceptions about the technology and discuss the effects that recent developments have had on the discrete manufacturing sector.
    By: Helge Hornis
    05 February, 2013 | 5 minutes
  • Major Automation & Control Trends in 2012

    Automation.com, January 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Here are my thoughts on major automation and control trends in 2012. These opinions are based on a wide range of inputs from users, suppliers and industry consultants, and from attending numerous industry forums, conferences and trade shows every year.
    16 January, 2012 | 7 minutes
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    5 Marketing Automation Trends to Watch Out For

    By Anthony Coggine, Freelance Technology Writer Marketing automation uses tools like predictive analysis, artificial intelligence, and good old-fashioned algorithms and “if/then” programming to streamline marketing efforts. As marketing automation continues to grow, these are the trends to keep an eye on
    07 September, 2017 | 2 minutes
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    Robotics Technology Trends

    When it comes to robots, reality still lags science fiction. But, just because robots have not lived up to their promise in past decades does not mean that they will not arrive sooner or later. Indeed, the confluence of several advanced technologies is bringing the age of robotics ever nearer – smaller, cheaper, more practical and cost-effective.
    By: Jim Pinto
    10 February, 2003 | 6 minutes
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    Investigating the Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) Trend

    By Nigel Smith, TM Robotics Robots as a Service (RaaS) is a business model for deploying robotic automation on lease. This article examines the potential of RaaS, when compared to traditional robot purchasing.
    05 February, 2019 | 2 minutes
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    Supply Chain Trends to Look Out For in 2026

    Supply chains are in a new era in which disruption is the norm and agility defines success.
    By: Adrian Wood
    22 December, 2025 | 4 minutes
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    The Six Water Technology Trends for 2022, According to Idrica

    These trends are set to bring innovative use cases to transform the industry and ensure the sustainable management of water and its availability. Climate change and water scarcity are challenges that must be tackled urgently. The future depends on digital transformation as a way to extract value from data and turn information into business intelligence.
    19 January, 2022 | 3 minutes
  • Thumbnail for CIMdata announces release of PLM Industry Review and Trends Report

    CIMdata announces release of PLM Industry Review and Trends Report

    The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2016. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.
    27 June, 2017 | 3 minutes
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