Home Blog to article cp test Blog to article cp test Apr 20th, 2017 Communication TSN Plugfest Focuses on Interoperability Participants in Avnu Alliance’s Time-Sensitive Networking plugfest test their deployments in a collaborative environment. Robotics Moving Robots Into the Matrix Otto Motors uses simulation to mitigate risk when deploying a fleet of autonomous mobile robots. Analytics How OPC UA Creates Interoperability and Gives Data Context This second installment in a four-part series on key industrial network technologies explains why OPC UA continues to be recognized as the global interoperability method of choice for industrial automation technologies. Analytics 第一个进行Data Historian GE Digital stakes a claim to the world’s first cloud-native operational data historian with the release of its Proficy Historian for the Cloud on the AWS Marketplace. Control Retrofit or Upgrade: What’s Best for Your Facility? When undertaking a controls project, beginning with an installed base evaluation can help determine if a retrofit or complete upgrade will be more advantageous in the long run. Sponsored Error Detection Automation Simplified: Introducing the In-Sight 2800 See how easily the Cognex In-Sight 2800 can automate error detection. Powered by deep learning, it can solve a wide range of inspection applications quickly and easily — no programming experience required. IIoT 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. IIoT Advantages of a Smart MQTT Broker Understanding how a smart MQTT broker provides ways to aggregate data streams, keep them consistent, and distribute them securely across a complex network to ensure the success of Internet of Things projects of any size or complexity. IIoT 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. IIoT 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. IIoT 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. Sponsored LOGO! 8.3 Logic Modules LOGO! module now performs functions previously reserved for larger controllers. Users are no longer limited by the storage volume of the SD card but can now send it to the cloud. Supply Chain Management Is Continuous Optimization of an Asset Possible? Learn why detection of sub-optimality is required not only to avoid unexpected failures, but also to achieve superior performance, and how continuous asset optimization can be achieved. Cybersecurity Eliminating Data Siloes for Better Cybersecurity ServiceNow is augmenting its Now platform with asset inventory and vulnerability data from Tenable’s Tenable.ot to enable mitigation of operations level cybersecurity threats as part of user workflows. Robotics Why High-Mix, Low-Volume Manufacturers are Adopting Flexible Automation Growing demands for customization, increasing numbers of SKUs, and ongoing labor issues are leading HMLV manufacturers to adopt more easily configurable automation hardware and software. Analytics Synthetic Data and Artificial Intelligence Combine to Improve Machine Vision By creating synthetic data from 3D CAD data, Siemens’ SynthAI helps machine vision systems be more rapidly deployed for applications ranging from quality control to robotic picking and assembly operations. Home Hackers Shift Focus to Packaging and Processing Pervasive new technology increases entry points for cyber attacks. Discover cybersecurity solutions at PACK EXPO International (Oct. 23-26; McCormick Place, Chicago). Plant Maintenance Minimizing Machine Downtime with Bluetooth Gateways and Smart Sensors Using a combination of Bluetooth gateways from Cassia Networks and smart sensors from Dodge Industrial, Penn Waste provides its maintenance engineers with needed visibility into equipment operations. Take Five What is Defense-in-Depth? As more IIoT-connected equipment makes its way onto the plant floor, defense-in-depth cybersecurity strategies are supplanting perimeter-based approaches. Analytics Honeywell Expands Its Forge Software Capabilities Through a targeted focus on software-as-a-service, Honeywell Connected Enterprise is expanding its Honeywell Forge technology with the release of Connected Warehouse and updates to its Asset Performance Management software.