Attila Bondor offers some food for thought for engineers tasked with modernising their process control systems.
Suzanne Gill reports on the challenges facing engineers, when it comes to ensuring consistent performance and reliability of Industrial Ethernet connectivity in harsh industrial environments, and gathers advice on how these challenges might be overcome.
Accurate and reliable detection of fill levels is a key requirement in many industrial flow and level sensing applications. Non-contact capacitive sensors offer a good solution, being capable of detecting fill levels, without direct media contact.
Steve Adams highlights the important link between improving overall equipment effectiveness and mitigating the impact of rising energy costs.
Nexperia reviews evolution of the Ethernet networking technology and explains the differences between consumer and industrial Ethernet.
Fernando Velloso explains how a Software as a Service (SaaS) model can help manufacturers overcome any digital scepticism, and can also offer opportunities to improve total cost of ownership (TCO).
Philipp Ketterer discusses the importance of specifying level sensing solutions which can offer security against cyber attacks.
Melina Diaz outlines the steps required to comply with legislation designed to ensure workplaces are optimally placed to minimise the possibility of combustible dust creating an explosion risk.
Suzanne Gill finds out more about the benefits that edge computing is bringing to the operational technology environment.
The Siemens Manufacturing Karlsruhe (MF-K) plant produces key components for automated and digitalized manufacturing processes. For quality assurance and in-house 3D printing, the plant is optimising its processes by giving experts remote access to its operational technology systems, enabled by a Zero Trust approach.
Todd Mussman discusses the potential of 5G fixed wireless access within the manufacturing environment.
Claudia Homburg explains the role that level and pressure sensors can play in achieving the many stringent requirements that are placed on pharmaceutical processes.
David Barrett-Hague highlights two different areas where technology adoption can be employed to help increase the sustainability of an industrial process.
Christoph Lukasik, Head of Design and Product Development at Schubert & Salzer Control Systems, talks about the benefits and challenges for control engineers of adopting smart control valve mechanisms.
Suzanne Gill reports on the latest thinking of automation vendors, relating to cybersecurity in the OT environment.
Jackie Hu explains how the use of historical component data can help identify and remedy issues such as cracking at combined cycle power facilities. Cracking is found across many critical components – including hot reheat bypass valves and attemperators – but is often overlooked in favour of focussing on larger, more expensive downstream assets.
Stephen Hayes shares insights into how automation trends have begun to shape 2024.
Fiona Treacy explains the role that 5G has to play in accelerating efficiency in manufacturing plants.
Find out how one manufacturer has increased the efficiency of its cooling towers, which play a crucial role in the production of orange juice.
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