At the celebration marking Festo’s 50 th anniversary in the United States, Festo board member Dr. Ansgar Kriwet made what might be considered a provocative statement: “Automation is too complicated.” ...

The integration of generative AI (GenAI) into tools such as cloud-based SaaS (software-as-a-service) products are driving dynamic transformation in the industrial automation space. The emergence of ...

This was the year end-to-end process automation made its impression as a dominant theme. If you asked Jason Waldman what the most observable trend was at Automate 2023, his response would be something ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6841) announces that it has been selected by ExxonMobil as the system integrator for the first field trial of an Open Process Automation* ...

Despite a lot of change and confusion in the automation platform space, there are three things I am pretty sure are true about robotic process automation (RPA): A lot of companies find the automation ...

Rockwell Automation has added new virtualization, batch management and integrated motor control capabilities to its PlantPAx process automation system. With the latest system release, Rockwell ...

When it comes to process-control systems, reliability is crucial and failure can be costly or dangerous. A combination of good design practices, component selection, and testing can enhance ...

Though the presumption is that physical separation is needed between control and safety systems to avoid common cause failures, “effective” separation may be enough with proper analysis and the right ...

Industrial simulation and emulation are powerful but still underemployed techniques for designing, developing, and testing better automation solutions and machines. When used as a central part of a ...

Software automation in PCB assembly. Advantages and disadvantages of software automation in PCB assembly. The PCB assembly (PCBA) process is becoming more complex with evolving market trends such as ...

Owing to the rapid external changes in the corporate world because of the pandemic, businesses have been pushed into the remote work model whether they liked it or not. But thanks to the advantages of ...