Recent advances in the internet of things (IoT) have resulted in an explosion of new products and applications for automation, including smart homes and cities, autonomous vehicles, fastening ...

In May, a 61-year-old man was working on an Alaska oilfield when he was killed by a front-end loader. Sadly, tragic incidents like this are all too common in the oil and gas industry, which is known ...

Automation enables tasks to be completed identically every time, producing parts with tighter tolerances and higher overall quality, delivering quantifiable value beyond labor metrics. Services like ...

Over the past few decades, various control disciplines like process, batch, motion and discrete control have been consolidated into a single, common automation architecture. This integration has ...

A common sense look at the regulatory framework of machine safety, best practices and practical solutions to ensuring a safe machine and workplace. The basics of safe automation will be reviewed.

According to a new doctoral dissertation, automation will provide help, but at the same time new technologies require careful implementation.

With all the reports of the death of RPA, we believe it is time to introduce a new term to encompass the automation efforts within an organization: Enterprise Automation Architecture (EAA). Since RPA ...