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By Stefan Hoppe, OPC Foundation In November 2016, the Industrie 4.0 Platform published a checklist for classifying and advertising products as Industrie 4.0 “Basic,” “Ready,” or “Full”. To comply with the “Industrie 4.0 communication” criterion, even the lowest category requires the product to be addressable over the network via TCP/UDP or IP and to integrate at least the OPC UA information model.

During a January preview for the event, over 120 journalists, including yours truly, gathered for presentations and discussions from the Hannover Messe team, and over 40 exhibitors, expanding on the topics and technologies that so many will experience

The 2014 ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls (WWAC) Symposium drew more than 170 attendees, 30 expert speakers and 27 exhibitors to Orlando, Florida, USA in early August.

Historically, expert knowledge of vibration analysis was required to start and maintain a vibration-based predictive maintenance program. This white paper describes how using intelligent sensors can alleviate the need for vibration experts.

By Greg Goodwin, LNS Research This article dives deeper into the methodology of the 2015-2016 Metrics that Matter Research study, important trends around awareness and adoption, and how manufacturers are approaching analytics today to drive new value.

The organizers of HANNOVER MESSE anticipate that the Hannover showgrounds will be booked to capacity in 2013.

By Mark Howard, Zettlex Nowhere is the trend towards non-contact sensing more evident than in position measurement. With such a bewildering array of options, it can be difficult to select the most appropriate instrument for a specific application.

By Greg Goodwin, LNS Research In a manufacturing organization, understanding what’s happening at the plant level is crucial because it’s where the rubber really hits the road. Having visibility into shop-floor operations is important for achieving several company goals, like meeting customer demands, identifying lagging assets, and reducing manufacturing costs.

By Bill Lydon, Automation.com Traditional automation suppliers are clearly positioning themselves, through investments or partnerships, to supply the software and hardware for manufacturing customers to be able to achieve the higher productivity and profitability promised through Industrial Digitization/Industry 4.0.

The circuit breakers and fuses market was valued at USD 20.75 billion in 2014, and is expected to reach USD 31.11 billion by 2021, growing at a CAGR of 6% from 2015 to 2021

By Bill Lydon, Editor There has been significant automation in petrochemical processing plants. However, it is surprising how little automation has been adopted in other parts of the oil & gas industry. This has changed over the last four years because the cost of operations is growing faster than profit margins.

E.ON Kingsnorth, a 1940MW generating facility in Kent, UK, uses Rosemount wireless transmitters to collect flow measurement data from flowmeters installed throughout the turbine hall.

Schneider Electric sales for the first quarter of 2007 totaled €3,893 million, up 22.4% from the year earlier period.

DTM provides functions such as graph display, trend display and log acquisition to visually confirm changes in sound levels and frequencies.

The latest Nozomi Networks OT/IoT Security Report finds supply chain and persistent ransomware attacks have increased security risks for enterprises worldwide.

How do you upgrade legacy equipment to accommodate digital transformation strategies for Industry 4.0?

This feature will explain how an open sharing platform is helping critical infrastructure. This feature originally appeared in the AUTOMATION 2023: Cybersecurity & Connectivity ebook published in September.

Check out the list of IIoT and digital transformation-themed features, news pieces and product postings that were posted on Automation.com in Q1 of 2024.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Some industrial automation vendors and computer technology providers are offering cloud services that include historians, analytics, and complete MES (Manufacturing Execution System). These services offer a new way to improve operations by applying more computing power. Another important trend is leveraging new, more powerful controllers within the secure automation system environment. Should you be using one or the other, or both?