Kevin Parker

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System Integration September 15, 2023

The time is now for system integrators, manufacturers

CFE Media and Technology’s 2024 Global System Integrator Report will highlight the range of solutions and services available to manufacturers, goods producers.

By Kevin Parker
System Integrators May 30, 2023

What systems integrators, others should expect in the second half of 2023

An economic and labor update advises shifting performance indicators for the near future.

By Kevin Parker
System Integrators May 26, 2023

Systems integrators are not a “one size fits all” kind of market

Systems integrators (SIs) connect expertise on emergent technologies with real world experience.

By Kevin Parker
IIoT, Industrie 4.0 October 21, 2022

In tune with times, software application provider focuses on frontline workers

An interview with serial industrial IT/automation entrepreneur Augmentir’s Russ Fadel

By Kevin Parker
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IIoT, Industrie 4.0 June 16, 2022

IT/OT convergence moves automation markets forward

Cloud-native data historian expedites data migration, insights

By Kevin Parker
层次结构的控制:这图,发达an industrial setting or work environment, is used here as a model for airborne pandemic situations.
Environmental Health April 8, 2022

Layered COVID-19 controls significantly reduce risks

QuaRAD method quantifies efficacy across thousands of scenarios; rating system anticipated

By Kevin Parker
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DCS, SCADA, Controllers October 16, 2021

Address SCADA, data ops and industrial data management priorities

Arlen Nipper, co-inventor of MQTT, the publish-subscribe network protocol that has become the dominant messaging standard in IoT, outlines data management and how OT can help IT.

By Kevin Parker
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Industrial Networking October 16, 2021

Ensure industrial control system networks reliability and security

Mark Immordino, a field product training engineer for WAGO Corp., shares insights on best practices for industrial control system networks.

By Kevin Parker
Process Instrumentation and Sensors August 2, 2021

Siemens, Dow partner on process production test bed

The many uses of the digital twins in process automation

By Kevin Parker
Process Instrumentation and Sensors April 18, 2021

Instrument technician’s evolving role

Many plant-floor technicians are being asked to do more as their role evolves.

By Kevin Parker
IIoT, Industrie 4.0 May 18, 2020

How we live now

How profound an impact will the coronavirus crisis have on the technology infrastructure? It's already happening with one-third of workers logging in from home.

By Kevin Parker
IIoT, Industrie 4.0 February 29, 2020

The promise of a digital twin

Digital twins are being embraced by companies in many different ways as they realize its potential

By Kevin Parker
Predictive and Preventive Maintenance December 13, 2019

Top Plant 2019: Raymond Corp. excels as an innovator

From introducing wooden pallets to incorporating Lithium ion batteries, near-100-year-old Raymond Corp. moves the materials that define the e-commerce era.

By Kevin Parker
IIoT, Industrie 4.0 November 3, 2019

Poised to go all-in on edge

Edge computing is a mesh network of micro-data centers that process or store critical data locally while also working in concert with a central data center or cloud-storage repository.

By Kevin Parker
Oil and Gas May 4, 2019

Tales from the engineering department

Forgotten documents conceal ancient wisdom of lasting value.

By Kevin Parker
IIoT, Industrie 4.0 March 30, 2019

High-speed engine monitoring IIoT-enhanced

Analytics improve performance of remote assets.

By Kevin Parker
July 31, 2018

Capital spending increase will expose digital platform needs

Capital spending has increased in 2018 for the oil & gas industry exposing digital platform needs.

By Kevin Parker
Mechanical July 18, 2018

Facility management addressed by building technologies

安全与安全增强集成和圣andardization.

By Kevin Parker
Robotics May 5, 2018

A man who knows where he is

Autonomy for a machine or a man is never possible because we're always interacting with an environment.

By Kevin Parker
Industrial Networking March 10, 2018

Artificial intelligence in the industrial enterprise

Analytics can deliver insight as to how things are going, but artificial intelligence (AI) doesn't become a thing until you start using machine learning and semantics for insight.

By Kevin Parker
Ethernet September 10, 2017

Straight talk on industrial integration

Hybrid environment of proprietary and open-source standards will persist.

By Kevin Parker
Industrial Networking March 16, 2017

The information experience

Augmented reality presents ideas and facts in just a glance.

By Kevin Parker
Cybersecurity February 27, 2017

Current issues in industrial cybersecurity

Ransomware is as loathsome as it sounds; programmable logic controllers (PLCs) seen as likely targets.

By Kevin Parker
Wireless December 20, 2016

How IIoT happened at Hirotec

Tactical engagements support a strategy to make better use of data.

By Kevin Parker
Asset Management December 15, 2016

Next steps in IT-based automation and operations

Welcome to the CFE Media special edition, IIoT for Engineers.

By Kevin Parker