Learning Objectives Digital transformation needs to be about empowering the worker and giving them the tools to succeed. A centralized knowledge repository collects all the data and observations from other team members and provides the information needed for their jobs. A centralized knowledge repository collects all the data and observations from other team members and […]

Focusing digital transformation on people can help process manufacturers enhance knowledge transfer and empower workers.

Companies need to ask fundamental questions about where they stand with OT cybersecurity in the short- and long-term to improve their position.

污水处理案例研究跟踪早期的成功,including accuracy and reliability

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies have the potential to improve user benefits through diagnostics, prognostics and predictive maintenance.

In a positive example of collaboration to encourage manufacturing growth, Harting announced a $6 million expansion inside existing Elgin, Ill., facility. Community colleges, government officials, and various organizations worked with Harting and encouraged that growth in four ways.

eGuide: Adding industrial toughness and reliability to Ethernet Today, automation control systems are expected to provide greater operational visibility of manufacturing processes throughout the organization, from field sites to the control room, so as to reduce the cost of operations, maximize return, and ensure operator safety. However, manufacturers who try to deploy an […]

Optimize Automation with Lifecycle Management Global pressures and decreased time-to-market challenge manufacturers to embrace lean concepts and optimize automation with lifecycle management. In this Control Engineering eGuide learn how to create value with re-use; gain productivity with lean automation and connectivity, and optimize panel design and construction. Click here to register and download the […]

理解机器eGuide Thi安全指导方针s eGuide illustrates how machine safety is serious business and should be at the forefront of any machine builder’s design process. Register below for this eGuide exploring safety, summarizing the key steps necessary to lower risk, and highlighting how integrated safety components can simplify machine design. Click […]

eGuide: Wireless Reliability in Harsh Environments Wireless failures at home or in the office will be an inconvenience until a replacement device is installed. Wireless network failures in industrial applications, however, jeopardize the safety of onsite personnel and damage expensive machinery/equipment. In this Control Engineering eGuide learn how to increase device reliability […]

2013 rank Company name 2012 rank* Ownership type Total grossrevenue ($ US) Total SIrevenue ($ US) Total SIrevenue(%) Location(country) Web address 1 M+W Automation Pvt $3,500,000,000 $150,000,000 4% Germany www.mwgroup.net 2 Wood Group Mustang ** 1 Pub $102,000,000 $95,000,000 93% U.S. www.mustangeng.com 3 Maverick Technologies ** 3 Pvt $80,000,000 $64,800,000 81% U.S. www.mavtechglobal.com 4 […]

2015 Engineers’ Choice Awards: Spotlight on Innovation Best automation, control, and instrumentation products in 26 categories. The 28th annual Control Engineering Engineers’ Choice Awards shines a light on 26 categories of control, instrumentation, and automation products, revealing the best of those introduced in 2014 as chosen by you, Control Engineering’s print and digital audience. Review […]

2016 Engineers’ Choice Awards: Spotlight on innovation Best automation, control, and instrumentation products in 27 categories. The 29th annual Control Engineering Engineers’ Choice Awards shines a light on 27 categories of control, instrumentation, and automation products, revealing the best of those introduced in 2015 as chosen by you, Control Engineering’s print and digital audience. Review […]

2013 Engineers’ Choice Awards: Spotlight on Innovation Best automation, control, and instrumentation products in 29 categories. The 26th annual Control Engineering Engineers’ Choice Awards shines a light on 29 categories of control, instrumentation, and automation products, revealing the best of those introduced in 2012 as chosen by you, Control Engineering’s print and digital audience. Review […]

2014 Engineers’ Choice Awards: Spotlight on Innovation Best automation, control, and instrumentation products in 23 categories. The 27th annual Control Engineering Engineers’ Choice Awards shines a light on 23 categories of control, instrumentation, and automation products, revealing the best of those introduced in 2013 as chosen by you, Control Engineering’s print and digital audience. Review […]

SAP and Endress+Hauser will intensify their cooperation in the development of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications for the process industry by integrating Endress+Hauser field instruments as digital twins into the SAP cloud platform.

Mobile devices with human-machine interface software can be used in the context of the worker’s location and work that needs to be performed. Contextual HMIs allow workers to increase efficiencies and improves worker safety and security.

Microprecision Electronics' MP700 series of sealed limit switches are available with an M12 connector that is integrated directly into the housing for easy and flexible interfacing to a bus interconnect box.

Production of oil and natural gas in the U.S. and Canada is increasing. The vast majority of these hydrocarbons will be shipped across the continent via a dense network of pipelines. The integrity of this network, however, is threatened, not only by mechanical failures, but also by targeted cyber attacks.

Roboteq's FBL2360 is a controller capable of simultaneously driving two brushless dc motors up to 60 A each at up to 60V and is designed to be used with automatic guided vehicles (AGVs), warehouse automation robots, or any other high power brushless motor control application.

Schneider Electric's 2015 Global Automation Conference in Dallas, Tex. is designed to help automation professionals through workshops and collaborative sessions. The event, April 27 to May 1, will have workshops that will have specific focuses on a number of industries including chemical and pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, power, mining and metals, and hybrid process with a specific focus on the food and beverage and the water and wastewater industries.

The CubeShade by Intertec is a process instrumentation sunshade designed to shield equipment from solar radiation as well as corrosion from salt and common petrochemicals.

Roboteq's XDC2230 smart motor controller is capable of directly driving two dc motors up to 120 A each and the controller's two channels can be operated independently or combined to set the direction and rotation of an automated guided vehicle (AGV).

Application Update: An automated guided vehicle (AGV) can be built with as little as two components: a magnetic guide sensor and a dual-channel motor controller.

The MGS1600C by Roboteq is a magnetic guide sensor capable of detecting and reporting the position of a magnetic field along its horizontal axis for mobile robot navigation.