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

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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?

There has never been a time when making secure remote connections to industrial data has been more critical.

If TCP/IP won the “protocol wars” in the ‘90s, why are you still fighting protocol battles on the plant floor today?

By region, 70% of all newly deployed robots 2023 were installed in Asia, 17% in Europe and 10% in the Americas.

IDTechEx believes that digital manufacturing can be deconstructed into two main themes: safe human-robot interaction (HRI) to achieve higher productivity and an increased level of autonomous mobility for material and goods transportation.

Energy is becoming one of the most prevailing topics to consider when we talk about the manufacturing industry, and the situation is also impacting the gearbox and geared motor market.

If 2025 taught us anything, it’s that the future of manufacturing is not just innovative; it’s safe, data-driven and interoperable.

Redwood Software has released a new industry report highlighting trends, benchmarks and readiness for AI-driven automation.

The robotics and automation industry in Germany is expected to generate total sales of €14.5 billion in 2025.

ARC says the total control valve, actuator, and positioner market in India will exceed $107 million in 2015.

Senior level discussions about the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will be the focal point for the Global Automation & Manufacturing Summit held during Industrial Automation North America 2016, from September 12–17, 2016, at McCormick Place in Chicago.

Frost & Sullivan finds that the HMI market earned revenues of $541.9 million in 2009 and estimates this to reach $819.7 million in 2016. New technologies, such as adding vision, are driving demand.

October U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $176 million, up 13.1 percent from September’s total but down 5.8 percent from October 2012.

ARC says the total distributed control systems market in Asia will exceed $6,300 million in 2016.

The continued global economic slowdown has had a severe impact on worldwide machinery production, with growth in all regions falling significantly in 2012 compared with 2011.

The building automation & control systems market in India is anticipated to grow threefold in revenue terms by 2019, at a rate of 21.7% during 2014-19.

A 10.4% growth in revenues in 2011 was overshadowed by a return to reality in 2012: the Eurozone continues to emerge from a prolonged recession and the Chinese juggernaut showed signs of slowing late in the year.