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...
We have talked a lot in this space about the importance of a boundless automation vision for successfully deploying AI into the OT space. After all, AI needs loads of data, and if that data is trapped in silos, it can’t get to the data lakes, analytics applications,...
We finally got our wish. Industry 4.0 delivered a wide array of new technologies—sensors, edge devices, mobile devices, and more—that now collect, and sometimes deliver, massive amounts of data from every asset imaginable. However, that leaves a lot of organizations...
There can be little doubt that the automation industry has seen significant innovation over the last four decades, from dedicated equipment, to off the shelf components, to electronic marshalling, to virtualization. In fact, those massive innovations only scratch the...
As we talk more and more about a Boundless Automation vision for the future, one term that comes up frequently is the “edge”. After all, Boundless Automation is focused on seamless movement of contextualized data from the field, through the edge, and into the cloud....
Edge computing enables of all of your devices in remotely located sites to process data at the edge of the network – meaning it can collect and process at those remotely located places you have operational assets so it will be the main ‘hub’ for all of your sensor and other device data to go into; once it’s there it stands as your central data center – but the great part is that only the most critical data is then transmitted.
Today’s plant maintenance looks very different from a picture of just 10 or 15 years ago. The tools and strategies that reliability teams have at their disposal have expanded dramatically—from new sensing technologies to comprehensive software solutions to track and...
Modern process manufacturing organizations have to be more competitive than ever. No longer are these companies competing solely against similar businesses in their region or even world area. Today’s most profitable companies are global, and to compete, they must keep...
Process manufacturing organizations have always needed to optimize operations, but the underlying catalysts for that need have not always been static. Today, for example, optimization is very much a result of increasing globalization and the need to secure competitive...
As Claudio Fayad explains in his recent article in Processing magazine, there are many exciting changes coming as Emerson embarks on its Boundless Automation™ journey and evolves the modern control system in to a next-generation automation platform. However, what...
In the rapidly evolving landscape of the chemical industry, the adoption of edge computing and IIoT technologies is gaining momentum.
Many maintenance teams are facing a two-pronged problem these days. As their organizations expand and acquire new plants across the country or even across the globe, teams are responsible for managing an ever-increasing number of tools and software packages to manage...
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