Improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

Wireless sensor networks that collect and monitor device data from sensors and other devices – once inaccessible – can now provide valuable insights into machine performance, process inefficiencies and more.

Combining Technology to Combat Cyber Threats

Waterfall Security Solutions and FireEye formed a global partnership to provide manufacturers with a multi-layered approach to protect industrial networks.

Digital Twin Asset Management Throughout the Network

Hilscher’s release of the netIOT SAP Connector enables direct connectivity to the SAP Asset Intelligence Network, providing insight from as-planned to as-equipped.

Drones and the Packaging Industry

PACK EXPO 2017 in Las Vegas will feature an interactive display to depict the use of drones for automated package delivery.

How Adaptive Systems

Unlock Big Productivity Gains

Rexroth Adaptive Systems technology in IndraMotion MLD motion controllers provides the intelligence to apply vibration damping and avoiding control methods, which can increase throughput and extend machine life in processes where sloshing, vibration and sway cause problems.

Will Smarter Machines Cause Mass Unemployment?

The idea that manual work can be carried out by machines is already familiar; now ever-smarter machines can perform tasks done by information workers, too. What determines vulnerability to automation, experts say, is not so much whether the work concerned is manual or white-collar, but whether or not it is routine.

The Industrial Internet of Things has been heralded primarily as a way to improve operational efficiency. But in today’s environment, companies can also benefit greatly by seeing it as a tool for finding growth in unexpected opportunities.