Video Demo: New app, SmartGlance

See below a product demo (no Sound) of SmartGlance, a real-time business monitoring service. Click here to read more about SmartGlance

Oct 11th, 2010

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Manufacturing in the Metaverse

The emerging metaverse continuum will transform how people interact with each other and with business data. Find out how this might impact industrial and manufacturing operations.

Enabling Human-Centric Manufacturing through Digital Operations

While discussion about AI and smart manufacturing abound, they are less common in practice. TilliT’s James Balzary shares some tips on how companies can begin applying digital technology to their operations.

How SaaS and MaaS Impact Industry

From lowering barriers to entry to changing capex and opex strategies, software and machines as-a-service are changing the business of technology and manufacturing.

Private 5G for Industrial Environments

Following major deployments by TCL Manufacturing, Volkswagen, and British Sugar, 5G is continuing to gain steam.

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Managing Network Security on Your Plant Floor

A safe and secure network is paramount to ensuring a company’s ability to thrive in today’s digital age. Simply making the change from an unmanaged switch to a lean managed industrial switch could be the key to saving you from a cyber-attack.

4 Hardware Trends Driving the Evolution in Warehouse Automation

4 Hardware Trends Driving the Evolution in Warehouse Automation

As the market for warehouse automation grows, hardware will play an important role in the next generation of technological advancements. Take a closer look at four hardware trends worth watching.

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Answering the Top 7 Questions About Profinet

We get a lot of questions here at PI North America from end users, distributors, system integrators, and device vendors. Here are our answers to the questions we get asked most.

Connecting Cloud-Based Quality Control to the Edge

Intrinsics Imaging’s AI-powered vision system uses edge I/O to integrate cloud analytics into process controls.

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Effective Instrument Commissioning for Seamless Project Startups

Finishing a major automation project on time and on budget depends on putting the best digital tools in the hands of highly skilled people.

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IT-OT Convergence Has Always Been The Path Forward

Long before Industry 4.0 and cloud-connected architectures became possible, innovators championed PC-based technologies for industrial automation.

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Siemens Transitions to Become a Tech Company

A shift in focus toward delivering all its software as a service—and how that software drives specific hardware capabilities—underlies Siemens new vision of itself as a tech company.

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Field Device Integration Eases Equipment Installation

Now part of Emerson’s AMS Device Manager, the Field Device Integration (FDI) standard provides a unified framework for installing and configuring field devices.

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Digital Twin Applications by Small Companies

Applications of Siemens digital twin technologies by two startups—Saildrone and Nemo’s Garden—demonstrate how the delivery of advanced automation technologies as a service are expanding opportunities for new and established manufacturing operations.

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Digital Twins Can Help Turn Manufacturing Data Into Insight

See how digital twins are creating real-time virtual representations of physical systems that not only bring data together from multiple sources, but also unify and contextualize that data.

How Do You Stack Up in Automation?

While you may not be able to make the leap from PLC to ERP integration all at once, beginning the journey toward OT/IT Integration is now more important than ever before.

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Water Treatment Plant Monitoring via the Cloud

Nishihara Environment Co. in collaboration with Nissin Systems Co. have developed an integrated product and service solution called N-Share to improve access to process data in water purification and sewage treatment plants.

Artificial Intelligence Framework Addresses End User Concerns

The Industrial Internet Consortium releases a framework providing guidance on the development, training, documentation, communication, integration, deployment, and operation of artificial intelligence-enabled Industrial Internet of Things systems.

Insights on Industry’s Digital Transformation Leaders

ARC Advisory Group highlights the focus and strategies of 25 industrial companies successfully making the digital transformation.

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The Benefits of Edge Computing

Use the networked, intelligent, self-controlling, self-optimizing, and resource-efficient production of the Industrial Internet to protect your operations from increased international competition.

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Process Control Communication: More Than Just APL

Ethernet-APL接收大量的关注for its ability to bring Ethernet-based communications and power to devices in hazardous zones. But a physical layer and some data do not make a complete solution.

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The Forecast for Battery-Powered Energy Harvesting is Sunny

一个意图l-world example of power generation demonstrates how the combined use of energy harvesting and industrial grade rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries can increase return on investment.

How to Implement Analytics and Stay in Control of Your Big Data

Applying analytics tools in the same engineering platform as the controller, motion control, and HMI can lead to more successful Internet of Things implementations and boost competitive advantages.

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Flexible, Low-Cost Water Monitoring with Edge I/O

Remote I/O over MQTT helps Rust Automation deploy affordable remote monitoring in a challenging environment.

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An Employer-Educator Model for Filling IIoT Roles

Improving workforce development outcomes and closing the skills gap depends on how well institutions and industries can work together. An interview with educators at Patrick & Henry Community College conducted by Festo.

How Does a Digital Twin Work in Practice?

Learn how digital twins can be used to represent pieces of equipment as well as entire plant floor operations, the specific value provided by a digital twin to improve production operations, and what industry segments are using this technology most.

Tales From the Edge

Modern edge environments pack a compute, storage, and connectivity punch to fuel data-driven insights and smart automation.

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How Connected Worker Technology Helps Address Industry Labor Issues

From delivering specific work instructions and logging activities to integrating with existing business and operations systems, connected frontline worker platforms are transforming the industrial workplace.

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Digital Twins for Discrete Manufacturing Applications

Discover how the implementation of the digital twin is contributing to an immediate and significant impact on how companies implement technologies that enable smart manufacturing.

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The Evolving Smart Manufacturing Supply Chain

See how manufacturers who adopt Smart Manufacturing methods also gain a strategic competitive advantage in the marketplace.

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比较云平台供工业使用

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud account for 80% of the global cloud market. Which one is right for your operations?

Why the MQTT Protocol is So Popular

This first installment in a four-part series on key industrial network technologies explains how an ultra lightweight data transfer protocol became a widely used data gathering tool for Internet of Things applications.

GE Digital's Proficy Orchestration Hub

New Software Connects ERP and PLM Data to MES

GE Digital’s new Proficy Orchestration Hub connects and transforms disparate manufacturing product data into production-ready formats.