Nearly a dozen industrial Ethernet networks have appeared in the past 10 years. However, they vary considerably, with several so far removed from the standard that they shouldn't even carry the ...

Red Lion, a manufacturer of technologies that help industrial organizations access, connect and visualize data, launched N-Tron Series NT5000 Gigabit Managed Layer 2 Ethernet switches. Not all ...

AW: What are the risk of open source software in automation today and what is Weidmüller doing to mitigate these risks? Crawford: Just because hackers can't see the source code [in a proprietary ...

Since the first industrial robot, Unimate, was installed at a GM plant in the 1950s, industrial automation has been associated with big businesses running huge operations that involve massive ...

Get practical explanations of key IT technologies, such as MQTT, containers and DevOps specifically from an operations technology perspective to help OT professionals understand concepts that are ...

In the AUTOMATION 2021 Special Report released this month, Automation.com’s Bill Lydon identifies the “digitalization dozen—12 trends manifesting the manufacturing digital revolution.” From edge ...

In the second installment of this “Empowering Innovation Together, Engineering Big Ideas” series, Grant Imahara interviews Arduino co-founder Massimo Banzi, a champion in the open-source culture.

The nation has previously given companies tax breaks of between 3 and 7 percent for buying industrial automation equipment, like robots. Now, it plans to decrease those benefits by 2 percent.