It is becoming increasingly clear that no organization is safe from cybersecurity risk. Operational technology (OT) assets are increasingly proving to be appealing targets for malicious entities, evidenced by many high-profile attacks in recent years. Further...
Wind power is an incredibly efficient, clean source of energy—and it’s one that has been in use for a very long time. As a result, nearly everywhere around the globe it is possible to see wide open spaces dotted with wind turbines providing electricity to the grid. As...
As the use of AI spreads across nearly every aspect of human activity, the demand for more powerful, faster, and more efficient data centers continues to grow. Modern data centers, especially large-scale facilities drawing hundreds of megawatts, can now consume as...
For as little attention as it gets, hydro generation is a surprisingly important part of global power infrastructure. Many of the most critical sites around the world have been in operation for decades, reliably generating energy and supplying water management for...
Maximizing productivity and reducing waste is a never-ending challenge. Though manufacturers have been taking steps to accomplish these goals for decades, the intensity has risen in recent years as competition from global competitors has dramatically increased. There...
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software has long been a staple in process manufacturing to help companies control and monitor equipment as well as manage alarms, reports, and process adjustments. Through most of those years, the assumption has been...
The most obvious value from a digital twin comes in the project phase. Project teams often use digital twin simulation software to dramatically reduce the design and testing phases for new control solutions. Then, when the design and testing are done, forward-thinking...
Continuous manufacturing was a game-changer for the ability to deliver life-improving and life-saving biopharmaceutical treatments to patients as quickly as possible. Automation made it possible to make manufacturing significantly more efficient, helping teams to...
The industrial edge is changing. For years—maybe decades—the industrial edge has been defined as the site where operations happen. The hardware and computing systems closest to assets are critical, but they are not everything the edge can be. As Claudio Fayad explains...
In the last couple of years, software-defined control has rapidly gained a lot of attention in the marketplace. That’s no surprise. It’s set to upend the way we see and use automation in the years ahead. In a recent interview in Control Design, Emerson’s Sean Saul...
Control technologies have changed greatly over the years. Many of today’s modern industrial controllers would be almost unrecognizable when set side-by-side with controllers from decades ago. A key contributor to this shift has been digitalization. Digital...
Nothing in the past decade has created the same levels of excitement, ideation, and trepidation that we have seen with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). In reality, there have been very few technologies in the history of the world that have risen in popularity...
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