Incremental upgrades are no longer enough. What the industry needs is to fundamentally rethink what an automation platform ...

Conventional wisdom is that there’s not much to selecting an industrial enclosure. Yet the last likely item chosen for an industrial control system turns out to have an outsized impact as a simple ...

ABB YuMi cobots in operation at SUS Corp.’s manufacturing facility. Headquartered in Shizuoka, Japan, SUS Corporation (SUS) is an aluminum profile manufacturer. With operations in 16 countries, the ...

IEC 61131-3, along with PLCopen extensions and support\, provides software standards essential for efficiently achieving competitive manufacturing—including implementing Industry 4.0, Industrial ...

Factory Automation encompasses the manufacturing and/or assembly of parts and subsystems to produce a product by passing it through a series of individual machines or work cells. Sometimes called ...

Automation takes mechanization one step further. While mechanization replaces manual labor with machines, automation replaces human guidance with controls hardware, computers, and programming (PCs, ...

Supply chain disruptions, once sporadic and localised, have surged in frequency and severity in recent years. Manufacturers are facing ever-increasing challenges from natural disasters, geopolitical ...

Economists expect that millions of American jobs are going to be replaced by automation in the coming decades. But where will those job losses take place? Which areas will be hardest hit? Much of the ...

The first hourglass — also known as the clepsammia — was invented in Alexandria, Egypt, in 150 BC. Time, from the very beginning of human existence, has been the one element of life that all of ...