Automation World speaks with Ken Crawford of Weidmüller USA about the company’s use of open systems in its new u-OS technologies and how it can benefit OEM and end-user operations. The u-control 2000 ...

Why automation without operational alignment increases risk, not agility - Automation in cybersecurity is everywhere. Alerts ...

It’s long been known that a reactive approach to industrial control system maintenance is not an ideal strategy. Working from a reactive stance, in which problems are corrected as they occur, results ...

Whilst this is appropriate for the understanding of product flows and resource use in a complex system, it is not how automation systems work. Emulation models are used to test and debug high- and low ...

Servo systems can be demanding for designers to specify compared with other technologies. Even once the mechanical considerations are addressed, the following are needed: power distribution to all ...

The Western Michigan University building automation system is a programmed intelligent control system that regulates the mechanical systems in a building, such as environmental control systems, ...

These include Human Machine Interfaces (HMI), Distribution Control Systems (DCS), and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) devices for monitoring various parameters, setting production ...

Power plants were among the leaders in implementing distributed control systems (DCSs), starting in the 1980s with systems based on mini-computers and continuing through the turn of the century.

Shawn Maynard One fairly recent attractive attribute of some unattended automation systems is the ability to be controlled remotely by a web-based mobile device. The interface and how deep it can ...

From top to bottom, Control4's EA-1, EA-3 and EA-5. Control4. Control4 is best known for its whole-home automation services, but its newest offering is a single box that promises to smarten up ...

I spent $100,000 on automation but I can take the products with me, perhaps? But then how would you control the lights, HVAC, shades, etc…? These weren’t good buyers for that house, but they are real ...