Conventional wisdom is that there’s not much to selecting an industrial enclosure. Yet the last likely item chosen for an industrial control system turns out to have an outsized impact as a simple ...

But not every business process is a good fit for automation, so it's incumbent upon companies to determine which processes are best suited to automation and which ones are best handled by humans. How ...

IEC 61131-3, along with PLCopen extensions and support\, provides software standards essential for efficiently achieving competitive manufacturing—including implementing Industry 4.0, Industrial ...

ABB YuMi cobots in operation at SUS Corp.’s manufacturing facility. Headquartered in Shizuoka, Japan, SUS Corporation (SUS) is an aluminum profile manufacturer. With operations in 16 countries, the ...

Automation takes mechanization one step further. While mechanization replaces manual labor with machines, automation replaces human guidance with controls hardware, computers, and programming (PCs, ...

Automation is often spoken of, but it may not always be obvious what it really looks like in practice. Over human history, the use of tools and machines has had clear benefits, and automation ...

Supply chain disruptions, once sporadic and localised, have surged in frequency and severity in recent years. Manufacturers are facing ever-increasing challenges from natural disasters, geopolitical ...

Spanning a wall in a separate area is a large automatic storage and retrieval system that feeds multiple lasers and stores ...

When people talk about automation in paving, I've noticed that the conversation usually veers toward extremes. Either we’re moments away from handing over the job to machines, or we’re still decades ...