Through automation, we organize energy, water, production, safety, quality, data and decision-making. We connect physical ...

The concept of software-defined automation involves decoupling hardware from software, enabling virtualization, ...

Plant automation has historically been the responsibility of the control system engineer—you know, the instrumentation guy, the DCS guy, the PLC and HMI guy. Interfaces were straightforward with ...

Ensures safe, stable, and optimized refinery operations through design, configuration, maintenance, and governance of control, safety, and automation systems.

UL’s Dr Eoin Hinchy talks about the past, present and future of industrial automation, and how trends such as AI and mechatronics are making their mark. In order to understand just how far industrial ...

Cooling OEMs answer that question with a PLC, not an IT department. If you are a controls engineer or an OEM product ...

Students can come to automation from a variety of backgrounds and academic programs. It is sometimes difficult for you to find programs that concentrate on automation as a career or specialty. This ...

The financial situation of the average automation engineer got a nice boost in 2018. As the salary of the average automation professional rose for the fifth consecutive year, our salary survey found ...

Certification programs like those offered by Cisco and Juniper Networks can help network engineers document their proficiency in network automation. Modern networks require more dynamic changes than ...

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