The basics of industrial automation, smart factory, and Industry 4.0. The importance of power and connectivity in smart factories. The outcome of applying the lessons learned. Automation does not a ...

Industrial automation technologies have made manufacturing processes increasingly more efficient. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are commonly used in industrial automation, and many of these ...

Monitoring takes the form of sensors and intelligent devices connected to a digital processor. These monitored values are used for computing and then controlling some sort of real-world action. Many ...

Although factories and processing plants around the world are progressively adopting more automation to improve production, quality and efficiency, these efforts remain largely old-school, using ...

In my previous article “What Manufacturers Need to Know about Software-Defined Automation”, I discussed how Software-defined automation (SDA) is changing the nature of industrial automation, with a ...

Software & Services Segment Gaining Rapid Traction: The industrial automation software and services market is witnessing accelerated adoption, fueled by smart manufacturing solutions, AI-driven ...

What if a single group of technologies could improve the speed, reliability, and flexibility of your factory operations without requiring expensive or esoteric equipment? Such technologies do exist: ...