ShopTalk | January 2017

Jan 13th, 2017

Hear Stephanie and Beth talk shop.

Our writers share insights on the interesting—and sometimes quirky—automation applications they’re covering outside the factory environment. Focus includes ahigh-tech grocery store ,a robotic rhinoceros,backyard gardening with an automation assistand a new approach togive robots the ability to dream.

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Automating Your Plant Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint

An automation roadmap identifies the key steps that help define the process of developing your automation strategy and includes a formal decision-making process on how to proceed properly.

Enabling Human-Centric Manufacturing through Digital 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.

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Emerson’s Zedi Cloud Moves to Microsoft Azure

According to Emerson, The move of Zedi Cloud to Microsoft Azure allows for easier scalability, improved safeguarding of critical business assets, and the achievement of environmental, social, and governance goals.

Iveco Reduces Worker Injuries with Wearable Exoskeletons

Vehicle manufacturer Iveco has been successfully outfitting assembly workers with Comau’s Mate exoskeleton since 2018.

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.

Implementation of a Data Pump with Ignition

A “data pump” approach to historicizing data can be advantageous in batch operations that require highly detailed records be kept.

Private 5G for Industrial Environments

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

一台机器的风险评估是什么?

Learn the details of machine risk assessments, what types of equipment require them, who's responsible for them, when to begin the process, and how to comply with machine risk assessment regulations in this episode featuring Schmersal USA's Devin Murray.

4 Questions to Ask About Industrial Cybersecurity Software

From regulatory compliance and configuration security to potential downtime impacts, Gabe Authier of Tripwire highlights the major issues to address when evaluating cybersecurity software.

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TSN Plugfest Focuses on Interoperability

Participants in Avnu Alliance’s Time-Sensitive Networking plugfest test their deployments in a collaborative environment.

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.

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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.

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The First Cloud-Native 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.

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.

Security Alert for Industrial Control Systems

U.S. Government issues warning about new cyberthreats that impact control systems and SCADA devices across industries.

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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.

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.

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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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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.

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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.

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.

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Synthetic Data and Artificial Intelligence Combine to Improve Machine Vision

通过创建合成数据从3 d CAD数据,西门子集团ns’ SynthAI helps machine vision systems be more rapidly deployed for applications ranging from quality control to robotic picking and assembly operations.

Technology makes manufacturing more efficient, but also creates vulnerabilities.

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).

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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.

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.

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.

Zero-Infrastructure Cybersecurity

Claroty Edge gives end users visibility into their industrial networks to gain a complete inventory of all managed and unmanaged assets

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Beckhoff Showcases Compact Motion Control for Mobile Applications

At Modex 2022, Beckhoff highlighted several motion control products for applications such as automated storage and retrieval systems, autonomous mobile robots, and automated guided vehicles.